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Sometimes terror and pain are ...

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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Little fish risking everything...

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

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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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All evil and good is petty bef...

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.

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The illusion of self-awareness...

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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Note that I am not proposing t...

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

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We will soon create intelligen...

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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Within thirty years, we will h...

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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Here I had tried a straightfor...

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.

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How to explain? How to describ...

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of ...

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

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Politics is good; when it work...

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

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Sometimes the biggest disaster...

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

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Even the largest avalanche is ...

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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When people speak of creating ...

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

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The work that is truly product...

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

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The problem is not simply that...

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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The physical extinction of the...

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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IA is something that is procee...

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

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I am suggesting that we recogn...

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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