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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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What we have is a data glut.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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