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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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"I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour."

"Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world."

"Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes."

"The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed."

"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."

"France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete."

"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."

"In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on."
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"The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."
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