Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a … - Vernor Vinge

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It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Vernor Vinge

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 our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

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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.

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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

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