http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/must-all-grasshoppers-die.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=must-all-grasshoppers-die Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/must-all-grasshoppers-die.php#comment-31962 johnbattelle Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:16:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6932#comment-31962 So wonderful to hear! I am very jealous…. So wonderful to hear! I am very jealous….

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/must-all-grasshoppers-die.php#comment-31960 Daina Middleton Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:37:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6932#comment-31960 John. Awesome post. Touching, deep and meaningful. The pull of the virtual world is strong. Perhaps it's why I moved to Wyoming this year -- one step closer to Earth and a place I can escape and feel Mother Earth's arms whisk me back to reality. John. Awesome post. Touching, deep and meaningful. The pull of the virtual world is strong. Perhaps it’s why I moved to Wyoming this year — one step closer to Earth and a place I can escape and feel Mother Earth’s arms whisk me back to reality.

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/must-all-grasshoppers-die.php#comment-31810 johnbattelle Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:29:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6932#comment-31810 I fear the fact that we don't understand ourselves well enough to create ourselves in our own image. We never will. I fear the fact that we don’t understand ourselves well enough to create ourselves in our own image. We never will.

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/must-all-grasshoppers-die.php#comment-31809 Tim Moynihan Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:18:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6932#comment-31809 Great post. My fear is that, as we venture into these advanced technologies, we will fail to look at life and intelligence comprehensively and will strip away important, less quantifiable, aspects of nature in our rush to mechanize. Will we, for example, be able to build an artificial intelligence that truly understands how emotionally nuanced human intelligence is or will we sacrifice things like trust, instinct, and intuition for computational efficiency? Great post. My fear is that, as we venture into these advanced technologies, we will fail to look at life and intelligence comprehensively and will strip away important, less quantifiable, aspects of nature in our rush to mechanize. Will we, for example, be able to build an artificial intelligence that truly understands how emotionally nuanced human intelligence is or will we sacrifice things like trust, instinct, and intuition for computational efficiency?

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