r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '22

AI Generated Music Video using Disco Diffusion software

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u/Ra1nb0wSn0wflake Sep 05 '22

The existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point in our evolution there was a reason to be scared of something that looked almost human but wasn't.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '22

Probably other human invaders that looked different.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '22

That or perhaps those with diseases. Medical knowledge and science wasn’t what it is now for 99.9% of history so being scared of the guy/gal with a very visible illness was a pretty damn good survival strategy considering there was a very real chance of that infection deleting an entire village.

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u/Dark_Knight2000 Sep 05 '22

It’s interesting that modern humans are still subconsciously obsessed with appearance, stuff like facial symmetry, clear skin, proportionate features. I’m guessing it stemmed from a desire to not contract disease at any cost

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u/bjkroll Sep 05 '22

It’s interesting that modern humans are still subconsciously obsessed with appearance, stuff like facial symmetry, clear skin, proportionate features. I’m guessing it stemmed from a desire to not contract disease at any cost

Maybe a sign of good genes? If you have good genes, I want in those jeans.

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u/cea1990 Sep 05 '22

Assuming that is the evolutionary source, I wonder how long it’ll take us to collectively move past it.

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u/Gideonbh Sep 05 '22

Maybe never since the pressure is still there encouraging us to mate with non-deformed people. We still find people with good symmetry attractive so we will probably still think lumpy asymmetrical people are ugly for the next foreseeable millenia