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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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What we have is a data glut.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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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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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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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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