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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!

Vernor Vinge

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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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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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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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