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• The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

  Vernor Vinge

  Heart, Manipulation, Touched

  Vernor Vinge (2017). “The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)”, p.448, Macmillan

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• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  Vernor Vinge

  Jobs, Revenge, Law

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.428, Macmillan

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• The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

  Vernor Vinge

  Running, Self, Illusion

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.255, Macmillan

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• I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

  Vernor Vinge

  Profound, Research, Artificial Intelligence

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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.

  Vernor Vinge

  Ideas, Progress, Corny

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• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  Vernor Vinge

  Information, Natural, Increase

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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

  Pain, Deception, Levers

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.145, Macmillan

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