Over at my transhumanist blog, HumanPl.us, I've got a post up on questioning the "uncanny valley" – the idea that the more human-like robots appear, the creepier they get. (The concept also applies to CG characters in movies and video games. Abstract characters? Cuuute! More "realistic" characters? Not so much.) Interestingly, there's no research supporting [...]
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Published by January 21st, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsNew York Times profiles “modern cavemen”
Published by January 12th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAs far as diet goes, I've done a complete one-eighty in terms of beliefs and action. In college, I was a vegan. Now animal meat makes up a large part of my diet, and I can even be found, on occasion, pigging out on organ meats my friends think are absolutely gross.
Part of this [...]
