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We're endangered by our own success.

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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
Endangered
Success

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So much technology, so little talent.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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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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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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