Vernor Vinge Quotes
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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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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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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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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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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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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all-no one’s around to write horror stories.
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The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.