Vernor Vinge Quotes
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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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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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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