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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! (Vernor Vinge)
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have come to kill you.” The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. View quote
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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. View quote
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There is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt. View quote
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So high, so low, so many things to know. View quote
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Over the last few weeks, some newsgroups have been full of tales of war and battle fleets, of billions dying in the clash of species. To all such-and those living more peaceably around them-we say look out on the universe. It does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is. View quote
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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. (Vernor Vinge)
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. View quote
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. View quote
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. View quote
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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. View quote
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? View quote
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. View quote
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Vernor Vinge)
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. View quote
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. View quote
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And now each second was as long as all the time before. View quote
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We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. View quote
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