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We're endangered by our own success.

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
Endangered
Success

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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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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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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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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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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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