Ok, I am officially creeped out

[cudubh]

Ever hear of the Uncanny valley? It's a theory that holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness

Comments

[tigira]

Statler and Waldorf weren't too bad - but Kermit looked like he'd rip your throat out!

[cudubh]

Big Bird looks PISSED off! I was suprised to see that Miss Piggy was the least disturbing, but yeah, Statler and Waldorf weren't as bad.

[pierceheart]

Didn't they model Yoda's eyes on Einstein's?

[cudubh]

*shrug* don't know if that was a urban legend or not, but now I've got a mental image of Einstein having an Epic lightsaber battle with the Emperor though the halls of Princeton.

my brain goes funny every so often.

[effloresense]

I saw that yesterday. Creepy creepy.

[illusiongrl]

what does it mean that it didn't bother me at all??

[cudubh]

I guess that depends. How often do you get your oil changed since you replaced your human master?

[illusiongrl]

I don't know what you are talking about. I have blood flowing through my gears - I mean, veins, just like everyone else!

(attention, collective: the humans are onto us. Employ Strategy H immediately.)

[cudubh]

I guess it's a bit like the empathy test in "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"

[hypatia42]

yeah... didn't bother me at all. Big Bird did look angry but not creepified.