somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that the sight of automobiles made people uneasy in the
> horse and buggy days too. I don't subscribe to the notion of "uncanny
> valley" as an inherent perception issue, but believe it to be one that of
> unfamiliarity.

  It's not necessarily due to unfamiliarity. For example, surprisingly
many people suffer from mild coulrophobia (mild in the sense that they
don't panic when near a clown, but they don't feel 100% at ease either),
and this is certainly not due to unfamiliarity.

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                                                          - Warp

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