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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:13 pm

Upthorn wrote:I agree with this. I suspect that it probably evolved pretty early as a part of the disgust response that helps many animals avoid infectious diseases?

This is one of the most prominent theories posited, yeah. Most of the theories are thoroughly boring explanations, it's really just a question of which one. We may not find out exactly why due to the difficulty in testing subjective "canniness", but It Is A Thing; it's just that it's played up, in same manner as, say, déja vu.

In any case, no one's claiming that that the existence of the Uncanny Valley means it's something exclusive to humans and only humans.

In general I find that mental phenomena or things commonly thought of as typically human, are often present in varying degrees throughout the higher mammals/mammals in general.
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Re: Science!

Postby IGNORE ME » Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:01 pm

Pretty sure different-colored folk fit into the Uncanny Valley for some people. It's just an extension of that lizard brain tendency to see a ape you don't recognize as one of Your Apes and start beating your chest, and like every lizard brain tendency, some people have it more than others (by nature and by nurture combined).

You can tell it's just robo-racism and not some kind of demiurge by the fact that that creepiness uuuuusually goes away after a while if you spend some time with whatever it is that's triggering it, unless it happens to be showing excessive teeth (just a no-no in any situation). Players will eventually attune to Mass Effect Andromeda's face rendering even if it never stops looking like a jittering slice of balogna stapled to a T-800 endoskull.

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Re: Science!

Postby Büge » Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:43 pm

I guess that's true. I got used to the doughy faces in Oblivion, after all.
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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:44 pm

Brentai wrote:Players will eventually attune to Mass Effect Andromeda's face rendering even if it never stops looking like a jittering slice of balogna stapled to a T-800 endoskull.

Well, some of us anyway.
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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:41 pm

YES IT IS

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Re: Science!

Postby Büge » Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:18 pm

100-year-old box of photographic negatives discovered in a block of ice in Antarctica

Unfortunately it doesn't give any hints as to who might be The Thing.
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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:23 pm

Oh man, they're from the ass-end of the Endurance expedition. That's wild.

I am nerding out SO HARD right now.
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Re: Science!

Postby nosimpleway » Tue Feb 08, 2022 8:40 pm

looks pretty sus

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Re: Science!

Postby atog » Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:12 pm

Looks like a blurry pic of Gene Simmons was faded over an image of a starburst
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Re: Science!

Postby atog » Wed Mar 09, 2022 1:26 pm

Mongrel wrote:Oh man, they're from the ass-end of the Endurance expedition. That's wild.

I am nerding out SO HARD right now.


And wait for it...


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Wreck of the Endurance found in the Weddell Sea
The Weddell Sea is pretty much permanently covered in thick sea-ice, the same sea-ice that ruptured the hull of Endurance. Getting near the presumed sinking location is hard enough, never mind being able to conduct a search. But herein also lies part of the success of the FMHT project. This past month has seen the lowest extent of Antarctic sea-ice ever recorded during the satellite era, which stretches back to the 1970s. The conditions were unexpectedly favourable.


Kind of sad that the reason we're able to get this close to it is because, well, we're boiling the ice away.
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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:17 pm

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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:21 pm



I like how most of the comments are just other scientists coming in with their own Lazy Geoff stories.
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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:59 pm

The Dunning-Kruger Effect not only does not exist, but is actually nothing more than a statistical artifact created by accidentally falling into the trap of creating a mathematical tautology

Or as the critique states.
The irony is that the situation is actually reversed. In their seminal paper, Dunning and Kruger are the ones broadcasting their (statistical) incompetence by conflating autocorrelation for a psychological effect. In this light, the paper’s title may still be appropriate. It’s just that it was the authors (not the test subjects) who were ‘unskilled and unaware of it’.
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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:30 pm

This is all taxonomy, really.

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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:00 pm

Older article, but still relevant (a prof I know is still using it as an excellent summary of the current situation for students): The carbon costs of digital consumption.
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Re: Science!

Postby Thad » Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:10 pm

Scentific American: Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID
The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says


That's not going to surprise anybody who knows anything about US healthcare, but nice to see the receipts.

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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:25 pm

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Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:59 pm

Not a new development, but I'd never seen this particular application before.



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