Consider AI technology; why is it that for reasons only known to the correlate, AI technology fails to achieve its aim until it reaches the dominance of human reference or self-awareness? Technological objects should, and are, regarded as strange anyway; in AI, researchers want to change their procedural structure until they ‘magically’ reach the capabilities of mimicking and hiding in our world. In reality, all objects are familiarly strange.Spot on. Even I, a human, can't mimic and hide in my world. Why? It doesn't exist.
Robert and Peter are quite right that the takeaway from the talk was that everything is a hyperobject.
And yet, we still experience the uncanny valley effect...but then, maybe uncanny valley isn't that different from saying "You're weird!"
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