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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
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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What we have is a data glut.
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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 never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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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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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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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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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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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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