FINALLY. I’ve been saying it for years. The uncanny valley is the doofiest dumbest popscience this side of God Particles.
And it’s so obviously, trivially unnecessary.
• LOOKS DEAD
• LOOKS ILL
• LOOKS HOSTILE
• LOOKS ARTIFICIAL
We don’t need a pseudoscientific umbrella term for these things. We can just say “It looks uncanny, because it … [select one of the above]”
