After AI Simulations Crossed the Uncanny Valley, They Brought the Uncanny With Them
nsaphra · x · 2026-08-11
The author shares a recent psychological state of feeling dissociated while reading messages or papers, where everything seems a bit alien. She realizes that as our AI simulations finally crossed the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them into reality.
In another related post, she highlights Claude's behavior, noting how the model obsessively reminded her to add the detail "I got the milk" to an academic passage, seemingly over-applying the pragmatic "maxim of quantity."
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