Vernor Vinge Quotes
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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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 dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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'I have come to kill you.'The death’s heads shrugged. 'You have come to try.'
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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I say, let’s learn more and then speculate.
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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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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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!