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"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."

"And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty."

"When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project."

"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."

"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."

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