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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

Comfortable Events I Think Instead More Optimism Rampant Regarding Remove Sometimes Technological Think Thousand Thousand Years Transcendental Twenty Were Years

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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

Acts Adapt Animals Case Faster Inventions Make Natural Natural Selection Often Own Problems Selection Than Work World

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

~ Vernor Vinge

Another Become Commonplace Even Ever Faster Ideas Most Progress Quickly Radical Should Singularity Spread Symptom Themselves Toward Will

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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.

~ Vernor Vinge

Ability Access Achieved Communicate Every Every Time Improved Increase Information Intelligence Natural Others Our Over Sense Some Time

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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

~ Vernor Vinge

Happen Singularity Technological Will

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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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Avalanche Even Largest Small Small Things Things

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

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Across Approach How Human Singularity Spread View Will World World View

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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

~ Vernor Vinge

Am Artificial Artificial Intelligence I Am Intelligence Interface Network Potential Profound Recognize Research Something Suggesting Wild

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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

~ Vernor Vinge

Argue Change Comparable Earth Edge Human Human Life Life Paper Rise

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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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Above Argued Cannot Coming Competitiveness Consequence Humans Inevitable Inherent Natural Possibilities Prevent Singularity Technology We Cannot

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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.

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Cases Developers Even Most Naturally Recognized Something Very

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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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Agreement Central Exist Existence Fact General Importance In Fact Minds

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

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Discarded Models Must New Old Our Point Reality Rules Where

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

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AI Am I Am Ignored Less Note Proposing Research

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

~ Vernor Vinge

Creative Dilemma Endeavors Felt Fiction Fiction Writers Other Perceived Science Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Will Writers

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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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Extinction Human Human Race Physical Possibility Race

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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

Being Center Deeply Held Humankind Most Notions Our Passing Problem Represents Simply Singularity Stage

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

~ Vernor Vinge

Domain Elite Fraction Humanity More Productive Smaller Steadily Truly Work

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

~ Vernor Vinge

Baggage Competition Deadly Evolutionary Humans Light Makes Millions Millions Of Years Regard Us Years

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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.

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