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This is stating the obvious, but it's the imperfections that make it look real - like the browning apple half. This is what will get us out of the uncanny valley for human CGI as well.

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Too smooth. And his mouth moves really unnaturally. Welcome to Uncanny Valley - population: 1 Jeff Bridges.


Sorry make that population: 2 Joan Rivers
Jeff Bridges

Too smooth. And his mouth moves really unnaturally. Welcome to Uncanny Valley - population: 1 Jeff Bridges.

Young Flynn somehow looked better in the last trailer... in this trailer, he's in the uncanny valley. It was perfectly obvious to me it was CG this time around. Close, but no cigar.

Two things:

- I hope that's not a pet

- My god, it's the uncanny valley.

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Pretty damn realistic - maybe we're coming out the other side of the uncanny valley - no wait, kill it! Kill it quickly!

Hey, hey now, don't be messing with my sex robot fantasies.>> ^dag:

Uncanny bottomless pit, with no escape. Still cool though. promote.>> ^TheGenk:
That is so deep in uncanny-valley... and kinda terrible too, which i cant call
I give em props though for the pretty fluid motion

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Uncanny bottomless pit, with no escape. Still cool though. *promote.>> ^TheGenk:

That is so deep in uncanny-valley... and kinda terrible too, which i cant call
I give em props though for the pretty fluid motion

That chick is totally bringing back the "robot" from the 80's.

As far as the uncanny valley is concerned the hands and extendo arms are worse than the face for me.

That is so deep in uncanny-valley... and kinda *terrible too, which i cant call

I give em props though for the pretty fluid motion

I don't get all the xenophobic reactions and ludditism these kinds of robots seem to bring out. Same thing with the uncanny valley... Just don't get it, nothing uncanny or creepy about androids at all to me.

Pushing the envelope of the uncanny valley. Shots in the beginning have such subtle changes that you can't make out what they are - you just get creeped out and know something must be off. Fun stuff.

Mmmm, uncanny valley.

That was very pretty but I didn't really like it for two reasons.

The graphics are a little "too good" which puts it in the uncanny valley, for me at least. And I didn't like the voice acting. That's important in a video game. This had a lot of "angry acting".

It depends on what the scientific literature says. And I believe the science is in agreement with what the doctor is doing, at least as it's presented in this video.

As when trying to determine when anything is good or bad, the relevant question is "Does this promote or hurt the long term prosperity of society?". The science says this is good for the individuals who need it, so the question is then "Does this negatively impact other people?". It could if, for example, the procedure were applied to people who the science says either do not need it or it will not work on. So there needs to be some system of checks to ensure the procedure is not abused. In the video, they said it requires a doctor's permission, the parent's permission, and court approval; that is more than enough oversight.

At first glance we may find this kind of treatment shocking. But I hypothesize that reaction is similar to our reaction when seeing humanoid robots in the uncanny valley. There is some combination of factors that we are not use to, directly or evolutionarily, seeing together--perhaps a person inflicting pain on another in a clinical unemotional way--so it produces in us a sensation that something is wrong. However, that indirect nature is actually a benefit if you compare the procedure with more commonplace methods of punishing children with pain. Whenever a person hits a child with a hand or belt or anything else, no matter how justified, he is directly teaching that child that violence and force are acceptable means of getting one's way. If the patients of the shock treatment do not perceive it as an aggressive action from another person, then all else being equal, that alone would make it superior to corporal punishment. And few(not enough) people get up in arms over corporal punishment.