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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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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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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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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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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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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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