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The problem is not simply tha...

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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Here I had tried a straightfo...

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

Vernor Vinge 61 quotes

Within thirty years, we will ...

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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Sometimes the biggest disaste...

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

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It was not called the Net of ...

It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

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We’re long on high principles...

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

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Once upon a time I was such a...

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

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I have argued above that we c...

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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We humans have millions of ye...

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

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But every time our ability to...

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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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was f...

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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In fact, there was general ag...

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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When I began writing science ...

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.

Vernor Vinge 61 quotes

I have argued above that we c...

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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The dilemma felt by science f...

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

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How will the approach of the ...

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

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Animals can adapt to problems...

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 is a point where our old m...

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

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Another symptom of progress t...

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

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And for all my rampant techno...

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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