We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
I say, let's learn more and then speculate. - Vernor Vinge
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
- Vernor Vinge
We're endangered by our own success. - Vernor Vinge
We're endangered by our own success.
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn. - Vernor Vinge
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villain… - Vernor Vinge
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villain…
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? - Vernor Vinge
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. - Vernor Vinge
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. - Vernor Vinge
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held no… - Vernor Vinge
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held no…
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. - Vernor Vinge
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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