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Vinge’s 1993 paper argues that a confined mind thinking a million times faster than its masters could, over years of its own time, come up with "helpful advice" that would incidentally set it free. Copy claim link
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Date 1993-12 · publication Claimed date 1993-03-30. Presented at the VISION-21 Symposium, 30–31 March 1993. The delivered version was not retrieved, so the proceedings wording is not dated to the presentation. Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits A second-person thought experiment ("Imagine yourself confined") about what Vinge calls weak superhumanity; not an empirical escape and not a claim about training.
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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 “If those masters thought at a rate -- say -- one million times slower than you, there is little doubt that over a period of years (your time) you could come up with "helpful advice" that would incidentally set you free.” Location in source Printed p. 15 (PDF page 5), the physical-confinement thought experiment in the paragraph discussing Drexler
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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 Checked against the text layer on 2026-10-06; "helpful advice" is in Vinge’s own quotation marks. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. 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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