Comments on: Sisters of the surgeon’s knife: entering the uncanny valley https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John Dough https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-475263 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:58:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-475263 Shame on you neo….. Descending into the depths of trash TeeVee like that. You’re better than that crap. Aren’t you?

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474991 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:45:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474991 Paul A’Barge: Bingo.

But shhh, don’t tell anyone.

]]> By: Paul A'Barge https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474968 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:56:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474968 NeoNeo was it this one?
http://www.ktnv.com/news/local/182862851.html

]]> By: kcom https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474954 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:35:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474954 I saw a commercial for one of those Real Housewives shows, where they’re all standing left to right at different distances, and that was my immediate thought – they all look the same. Kinda weird.

P.S. Which is the opposite of fictional families on TV where all the kids and parents look different. When I see a family in real life, where all the kids share traits and you can see they’re related and you can see those traits in the parents, I’m reminded of how fake TV families are.

]]> By: MissJean https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474937 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:59:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474937 I had a similar real-life experience, Neo, in the early ’90s when I was given tickets to a charity event for something or other (as a starving student, I didn’t care as long as I was fed free food). I asked a couple of middle-aged women if they were sisters, and there was some smirking when they said, “No.” Later someone armed me told me that the women had the same plastic surgeon who did their noses and eyes. And they were bleach blondes with tans
and similar builds, too.

As for “uncanny,” I have always found it creepy when unhappily-married people choose someone who could be their unwanted spouse’s doppleganger. I can understand having a certain standard of beauty, but to choose someone whose voice, mannerisms, etc are so reminiscent of the ex (or soon-to-be-ex). Or worse, to mold the person into the ex’s look by asking her to wear her hair a certain way or something. That’s creepy to me.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474911 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:16:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474911 artfldgr: isn’t this comment of yours in agreement with what he’s saying? Isn’t he saying the closer the robots get to human the more uncanny and weird they seem?

The video I posted has a little bit about those Japanese anime-resembling ladies.

Creepy, indeed.

]]> By: artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474895 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:56:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474895 but if you think all htat is freaky, check out the women who want to look like manga…

Woman Has 10 Plastic Surgeries to Look Like Anime Girl
Read more at http://www.odditycentral.com/news/woman-has-10-plastic-surgeries-to-look-like-anime-girl.html

and this one would make a feminist go berserk

Anastasiya Shpagina, 19, displays her real-life anime look in this photo from her Facebook profile.

here is before an after
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/405167/20121115/anastasiya-shpagina-before-human-doll-surgery-what.htm

]]> By: artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474893 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:53:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474893 oh… and recently an asian man just divorced and sued his wife. why? she had plastic surgery to look like that and had an ugly baby… the surgeons knife only goes so deep… his point was she committed fraud (at what point does fake boobs, the knife, makeup, pushups, foundation gear, plastic eyelashes… constitute a lie?), and he was very unhappy… and won…

]]> By: artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474890 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:51:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474890 he was wrong. the more human they are the more we are creeped out and dislike them. like the cartoon for xmas with the train… and other robotic things…. we are ok with robots looking other than human, or animal. but the closer they get the less we like them.

]]> By: Oldflyer https://thenewneo.com/2012/12/10/sisters-of-the-surgeons-knife-entering-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-474847 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:57:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=22654#comment-474847 Guess I am a throwback, but I appreciate the look of graceful aging and the natural look in general.

Not opposed to a dab of make-up enhancement to accentuate a woman’s natural assets, and I really enjoy seeing a woman who is dressed stylishly.

However, I don’t know how the idea of rather grotesque breast sizes, and skin stretched to a ridiculous extreme became the standard for attractive. Well, one dissenting vote.

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