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    Vernor Vinge

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    Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. ↗


    — Vernor Vinge

    #human intelligence #intelligence #means #superhuman #technological

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #am #funded #i #i am #ignored

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #approach #how #human #human world #singularity

    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. ↗


    — Vernor Vinge

    #events #i #i think #instead #more

    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. ↗


    — Vernor Vinge

    #adapt #case #faster #inventions #make

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


    — Vernor Vinge

    #become #commonplace #even #ever #faster






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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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