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Vinge’s 1993 paper names Ulam as paraphrasing von Neumann, quotes Ulam’s sentence on an ‘essential singularity’ and lists Ulam’s 1958 memoir in its references. Copy claim link
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Date 1993-12 · publication Records dated 1993 → Scope and limits A naming records that the later text names the earlier; it is not agreement or influence beyond what the passage states. Vinge adds that von Neumann ‘is still thinking of normal progress, not the creation of superhuman intellect’.
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The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ NASA (VISION-21 proceedings, NASA Conference Publication 10129) · 1993-12
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Source excerpt “Stan Ulam [27] paraphrased John von Neumann as saying:” Location in source Printed p. 13 (PDF page 3), top: the paragraph that begins at the foot of p. 12 “In the 1950s there were very few who saw it”
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Source details and check notes Authors Vernor Vinge Version NASA Technical Reports Server scan of the proceedings pages, pp. 11–22; retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash both candidate searches recorded, and checked against its text layer. The pre-1996 candidate search compared pp. 14–16 with the page images. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-04-15: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-04-15. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity", in VISION-21, NASA CP-10129 (1993), pp. 11–22. Reuse Public use permitted, according to the NASA Technical Reports Server record.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, antecedent texts (research/prehistory), held at admission with the Ulam record it points to. The quotation was matched for the candidate pack and its locator corrected by a second check of another family; the same paper’s other quotations matched a fresh retrieval at admission on 2026-11-04. Reference [27], printed p. 22 (PDF page 12): ‘Ulam, S., Tribute to John von Neumann, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol 64, nr 3, part 2, May, 1958’. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
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Paraphrase Vinge adds that von Neumann even uses the term singularity, though he appears still to be thinking of normal progress, not of the creation of superhuman intellect.
Location in source Printed p. 13 (PDF page 3), after the quoted sentence
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Source details and check notes Authors Vernor Vinge Version NASA Technical Reports Server scan of the proceedings pages, pp. 11–22; retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash both candidate searches recorded, and checked against its text layer. The pre-1996 candidate search compared pp. 14–16 with the page images. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-04-15: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-04-15. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity", in VISION-21, NASA CP-10129 (1993), pp. 11–22. Reuse Public use permitted, according to the NASA Technical Reports Server record.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, antecedent texts (research/prehistory), held at admission with the Ulam record it points to. The quotation was matched for the candidate pack and its locator corrected by a second check of another family; the same paper’s other quotations matched a fresh retrieval at admission on 2026-11-04. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s: the paper’s quotation limit is reached, so this sentence, quoted in the record’s qualification, is not quoted again as evidence. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Publication of the proceedings, catalogued by NASA’s Technical Reports Server as 1 December 1993; recorded at month precision because the day may be conventional.
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