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pleeppleep comments on Friendship is Optimal: A My Little Pony fanfic about an optimization process - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: iceman 08 September 2012 06:16AM

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Comment author: pleeppleep 08 November 2012 09:49:17PM 0 points [-]

I think a good deal of the creepiness comes from some combination the artificial determinism of the utopia, and the uncanny valley

Comment author: listic 09 November 2012 11:56:20AM 1 point [-]

What does uncanny valley refer to here?

Comment author: Ritalin 11 November 2012 09:21:01PM 0 points [-]

Yes, what's uncanny here?