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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

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.

Vernor Vinge
Space, Understanding, Black

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

Vernor Vinge
Simple, Long, Understanding
Vernor Vinge (2007). “A Deepness in the Sky”, p.753, Macmillan

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.

Vernor Vinge
Technology, Understanding, World
Vernor Vinge (2002). “The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge”, p.44, Macmillan

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