I was just listening to one of my podcasts - "Fear The Boot", in this case - and they got very, very badly off-topic and spent most of it talking about artificial intelligence, as there was an AI researcher/scientist (Bob Arens, though the name wasn't familiar to me previously) at the convention. I mean, he was there playing/running games, but still. Anyway. They sidetracked very briefly into the Uncanny Valley, and someone commented that it might be an evolutionary response to things like Rabies, a theory I hadn't heard before. Pretty much, if it looks like a person, and acts like a person, and talks like a person, but isn't *quite right*... The safest response is frequently to run the hell away.
Interesting.
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