Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor VingeTags: pain deception manipulation terror
We're endangered by our own success.
Vernor VingeTags: success planning endangered
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Vernor VingeTags: intelligence change flexibility
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
Vernor VingeTags: reality free-will self-awareness neuroscience hormones
Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.
Vernor VingeTags: assumptions mediocrity speculation
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
Vernor VingeTags: history disasters writing-history
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Vernor VingeAll evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Vernor VingeTags: nature good-vs-evil
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
Vernor VingeTags: aliens manipulation liars conculture
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
Vernor VingeTags: technology slavery slaves technocracy
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