Vernor Vinge

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A minority felt that the largest 1992 computers were within three orders of magnitude of the power of the human brain.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

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.

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.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?