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points by spike021 1 day ago | 0 comments
their humanoid robots really creep me out. I've been to a few conferences for work over the past few months and they usually have a booth and then have someone walking them around by remote control.

The conference venues have concrete flooring, so I just suddenly hear loud rhythmic thumping as these things stomp around a corner.

After the initial "huh that's a cool robot thing" thought, it really started giving me the heebeejeebees.

[–] MattDamonSpace 1 day ago
I’ve felt the same way about mannequins for years

Uncanny Valley is an evolutionary advantage, I’ve surmised

Awkward to think about why tho

[–] dvh 23 hours ago
Interesting theory. It implies existence of non-human humanoids in our distant evolutionary past where recognizing them would give us survival advantage.
[–] lifeisstillgood 23 hours ago
There would have been plenty of those - we keep finding near ancestors, neanderthalis, the hobbit one. Some say the Monkey King from chinese legend is a folk tale of a close species
[–] mitthrowaway2 1 day ago
Also because they make them all faceless and sleek and alien, like a human shaped iPhone. If they instead looked like little Gundams I think they'd be cool.

Probably too many pinch points though.