We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us…

Vernor Vinge
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. ✨ Vernor Vinge (2010). A Fire Upon The Deep, p.145, Macmi … ▶
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. ✨ The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the … ▶
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 the creation of intelligences greater than o … ▶
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. ✨ The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Article for the VISION-21 Symposium, edoras.sdsu.edu. 1993.
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

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

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