The Uncanny Valley: What Robot Theory Tells Us About Mitt Romney - Brian Fung - Politics - The Atlantic: "The Uncanny Valley: What Robot Theory Tells Us About Mitt Romney
JAN 31 2012, 12:14 PM ET 56
The GOP front-runner looks just enough like the perfect picture of an American president to make us uncomfortable.
Mitt Romney is the storybook presidential candidate. He's successful, good-looking and a family man, to boot. Yet one of this political season's enduring puzzles has been the former governor's consistent inability to bond with voters. It's been suggested that Romney's robotic persona may be to blame -- and perhaps the analogy isn't far off. Much as people are repulsed and disturbed by automatons that mimic humans closely but imperfectly, Romney inexplicably turns voters off despite looking like the textbook image of an American president. Roboticists call this unsettling effect "the uncanny valley" -- and Romney is stuck deep at the bottom of it."
I got this via Roger Ebert's Facebook. Interesting as hell. Explains alot. I don't think Romney is fit for the White House-but then again, that hasn't stopped Americans from voting in their own worst interests before. Stupid is as stupid does...and statistically, most people are pretty dumb.....
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JAN 31 2012, 12:14 PM ET 56
The GOP front-runner looks just enough like the perfect picture of an American president to make us uncomfortable.
Mitt Romney is the storybook presidential candidate. He's successful, good-looking and a family man, to boot. Yet one of this political season's enduring puzzles has been the former governor's consistent inability to bond with voters. It's been suggested that Romney's robotic persona may be to blame -- and perhaps the analogy isn't far off. Much as people are repulsed and disturbed by automatons that mimic humans closely but imperfectly, Romney inexplicably turns voters off despite looking like the textbook image of an American president. Roboticists call this unsettling effect "the uncanny valley" -- and Romney is stuck deep at the bottom of it."
I got this via Roger Ebert's Facebook. Interesting as hell. Explains alot. I don't think Romney is fit for the White House-but then again, that hasn't stopped Americans from voting in their own worst interests before. Stupid is as stupid does...and statistically, most people are pretty dumb.....
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