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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. - Vernor Vinge
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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
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. - Vernor Vinge
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? - Vernor Vinge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. - Vernor Vinge
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. - Vernor Vinge
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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
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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. - Vernor Vinge
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. - Vernor Vinge
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. - Vernor Vinge
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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
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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
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. - Vernor Vinge
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