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

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• Vernor Vinge:

  In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algo

• Vernor Vinge:

  But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

• Vernor Vinge:

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  IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its develop

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  But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in so