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How will the approach of the S...

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

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But if the technological Singu...

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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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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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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And for all my rampant technol...

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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I say, let's learn more and th...

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

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Hexapodia as the key insight.....

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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It was not called the Net of a...

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

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Well, what do you know,' Pham...

Well, what do you know,' Pham said. 'Butterflies in jackboots.

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Effective translation of natur...

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

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All his life he had lived by t...

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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The heart of manipulation is t...

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

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I have come to kill you.'The ...

I have come to kill you.'The death's heads shrugged. 'You have come to try.

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If there be only hours, at lea...

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was fl...

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 agr...

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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So much technology, so little ...

So much technology, so little talent.

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He claimed that nearby gun thu...

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

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What we have is a data glut....

What we have is a data glut.

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Life is a green madness just n...

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

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