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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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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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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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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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