NancyLebovitz comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 September 2012 01:42:38AM 4 points [-]

How sure are we that creepiness is strongly correlated with autism?

Comment author: V_V 12 September 2012 09:50:23AM *  3 points [-]

We aren't. It was my conjecture based on the fact that autistic people may have difficulties at reading and using facial expressions and body language, show unusual speech patterns (choice of topics, discourse structure, syntax, lexicon, intonation, etc.), poor motor coordination, etc. Thus, I hypothesize that they are more likely to elicit the uncanny valley effect.