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

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As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve thei...
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
VERNOR VINGE The new radical ideas will soon be the old radical ideas.
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PRIMO LEVI There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the m...
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VERNOR VINGE Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
VERNOR VINGE IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its develope...
VERNOR VINGE Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do...
VERNOR VINGE But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in som...
VERNOR VINGE When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI proj...
VERNOR VINGE In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algor...
VERNOR VINGE The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
VERNOR VINGE The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
VERNOR VINGE I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Eart...
VERNOR VINGE And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I we...
VERNOR VINGE When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that ...
VERNOR VINGE The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of hum...
VERNOR VINGE Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
VERNOR VINGE It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
VERNOR VINGE I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profo...
VERNOR VINGE The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage...
VERNOR VINGE But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
VERNOR VINGE Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
VERNOR VINGE Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
VERNOR VINGE I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequ...
VERNOR VINGE I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
VERNOR VINGE Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
VERNOR VINGE Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only f...
VERNOR VINGE Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws,...
VERNOR VINGE Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
VERNOR VINGE He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daf...
VERNOR VINGE Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.
VERNOR VINGE Ty or Ra or Thect
VERNOR VINGE Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.
VERNOR VINGE The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
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BEN SCHNETZER Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time...
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RICHARD DOHERTY Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be fast...
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DAVID A. BEDNAR Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
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WILL POULTER Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly...
MARY BAKER EDDY There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wil...
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LEWIS J. SHERRILL We are confident the nation will forge ahead toward sustainable peace, progress, full-fledged democr...
KING GYANENDRA It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
BIBLE I will be the first to admit that the sanctity of life and the preservation of religious freedom are...
ROBERT JEFFRESS And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Expectations slow progress toward the goal.
JIM GENOVESE In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enor...
BRIAN GREENE ‎"Never take for granted these special gifts we have been given. In the parable of the talents we ...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence to...
MAX VON SYDOW He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
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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.

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