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    Vernor Vinge

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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. ↗


    — Vernor Vinge

    #developers #even #most #naturally #proceeding

    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

    #central #exist #existence #fact #general

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #models #must #new #old #our

    Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. ↗


    — Vernor Vinge

    #avalanche #even #largest #small #small things

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #dilemma #endeavors #felt #fiction #fiction writers

    The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. ↗


    — Vernor Vinge

    #human #human race #physical #possibility #race

    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. ↗


    — Vernor Vinge

    #center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #elite #fraction #humanity #more #productive

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #competition #deadly #evolutionary #humans #light

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #beings #creating #imagining #intelligent #people






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    In the last zone 'The Transcend' there are apparently no limitations at all. The Peace War shows a world in which the Singularity has been postponed by the Bobbles and a global plague while Marooned in Realtime follows a small group of people who have managed to miss the Singularity which otherwise encompassed Earth. Vernor Steffen Vinge (pron.

    Vernor Steffen Vinge (pron. : /ˈvɪndʒiː/; born October 2 1944) is a retired San Diego State University (SDSU) Professor of Mathematics computer scientist and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) A Deepness in the Sky (1999) Rainbows End (2006) Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004) as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity" in which he argues that the creation of superhuman artificial intelligence will mark the point at which "the human era will be ended" such that no current models of reality are sufficient to predict beyond it.

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