Prepping for dinner on a space station, with a slight detour
[!0.987]2022-01-07

Oh. Florence didn't give me the shirt she was wearing. She was more concerned about her own embarrassment than my wishes. That was a selfish act.

You sound happy about that.

I am. A physical uncanny valley might be the first thing people notice, but a mental uncanny valley? That would be hard to build a relationship across.

Color by George Peterson.
Uncanny valley - a special psychological effect. People perceive very positively the appearance that is most familiar to them, feel somewhat less comfortable around visually artificial objects, and perceive sharply negatively objects that are very close to the familiar, but stand out in some subtle details. This effect, in particular, serves as an obstacle to the introduction of human-identical robots