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Human Quotes by Vernor Vinge
- We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
- We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition…
- Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
- Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider…
- I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
- How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
- The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
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