Vernor Vinge

Violent delights have violent ends "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race” (Stephen Hawking). Hawking divulges that as we approach the singularity, our own creations will render us evolutionarily obsolete. Our great developments over time are the things that have allowed us to make our own tools, languages and commerce but someday instead of creating new technology our innovations may bring us to our own demise. Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge first popularized the idea of the singularity in his 1993 essay "Technological Singularity." The singularity suggests many ideas but contains the following hypothesis, the invention of artificial intelligence will potentially trigger runaway technological growth. The resulting factor being unfathomable complications and dangers to human…

In the article, Paul Alan makes a claim that contradicts the claims made by Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge regarding “singularity” stating, “While we suppose this kind of singularity might one day occur, we don’t think it is near. In fact, we think it will be a very long time coming.” Alan lays out the article by providing the claims Kurzweil mentions in his article, and provides statements and evidence that contradicts them. He begins his article by providing the main thesis statement and claims…

narratives from an otherworldly perspective, Here they are in no particular order: Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon This work is an absolute brain bender. It’s narrator is human, but that is merely a minor detail in the intricate and compelling descriptions of alien intellects and alien cultures. The story follows the protagonist on a journey through time and space with various alien companions whose existence, beliefs, and ideas are far beyond the scope and scale of traditional tropes of science…