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Vernor Vinge Quotes

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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.  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) 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!  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I’ll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) 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  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) So high, so low, so many things to know  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Poor humans; they will all die. Poor us; we will not  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Technical people don’t make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) I say, let’s learn more and then speculate  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) So much technology, so little talent  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) What we have is a data glut  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) 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  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths  (Vernor Vinge Quotes) The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before  (Vernor Vinge Quotes)
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