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Notes from the Uncanny Valley
by Gib
“Being dead is something you learn to live with,” reflects the narrator of NOTES FROM THE UNCANNY VALLEY, an inventive, 400-page autofiction novel read as an audiobook posing as a podcast adapted as a movie in your mind. Listen, as the clues lead our alien observer down deep into the uncanny valley, where he begins to wonder, is he living in a simulation? Is he himself artificial intelligence? Will he find the missing link between monkey and machine?
Episodes
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13. I’m a Stranger Here Myself
“If an alien force were observing Earth, would it see humans as the invasive species and send some kind of robot scarecrows to protect the habitat? Or would it further our survival by leading us away from danger? For a moment, I take a guilty solace in the latter fantasy. I imagine electric…
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12. The Night Watchman
“Maybe all black holes are intelligent civilizations that got sucked up their own assholes.” 0:00 —People call him Superboy… 01:14 —Notes on Bigfoot 05:00 —A bus ride through the snow storm 08:13 —Notes on the Fermi paradox 10:21 —The nightwatchman’s lullaby 13:14 —A cosmic prank in the park…
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11. Real Person Blues
“Sometimes you’ve gotta beat the crazy outta them.” 0:00 —Intro 00:30 —Riding the train backwards through downtown… 02:34 —Notes on Déjà vu 04:12 —The Return of the Mummy’s Shadow 09:14 —Drifting through downtown again with the soundtrack out of sync… 11:00 —Roy suggests a way to deal with Sam…
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10. The Healthy Skeptic
“This is an irony you couldn’t get away with in fiction—socially impaired programmers creating social media environments for society to socialize within. And the irony doesn’t stop there. Grandin points out that the programmers require intense concentration to look at information for long periods...
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9. My Selfie Hurts
“Having been enlisted to take a picture of the happy pair in front of the city, to serve as social media trophy and prosthetic memory, I suddenly feel the weight of my duty. Maybe this is to document a special anniversary. Perhaps it’s his birthday. After briefly familiarizing myself with the...
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8. The Way Home
“I look up at the hotel and wonder which of the fifteen stories of windows it might’ve originated from… The windows are dark and they all look the same. I can’t see into any of the rooms, though I’m certain that anyone looking out can see me.” 00:00 —Tonight on a very special episode of ……
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7. Interpreting the Interpreters
“Who is this God that keeps sending wounded messengers? Is this God deranged? Or are the codes getting scrambled in some kind of cosmic game of telephone?“ 0:00 —The Day the Sirkis Took Over 01:00 —Crow-nies in the park 03:27 —Notes on the stenographer and the sign-language interpreter 09:03...
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6. Sound Reasoning
“The real problem is that his problem is real. His screams of pain are real, making the electric ray gun as real as anything else. This is the real problem because it leads to the next problem, which is that the ray gun is not real for his neighbors… or management… or, I assume, the … Continue...
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5. The “Real” Question
“A machine has yet to officially pass such a test, and though it’s still a talking point in the dialogue about artificial intelligence, many argue that passing the Turing test doesn’t prove intelligence as much as an ability for mimicry. Which leads to the question: how much of what we call human...
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4. The Invisible Script
“It occurs to me that these poor ghost hunters have been captured on video and in that sense have already been forced into ghostly repetition.” 00:00 —Intro (“Hot enough for you?”) 01:21 —An intimate moment in the elevator… 03:01 —A page from an uncolored coloring book… 05:09 —Ghosts in the…
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3. TMI
“A street person on a street corner is screaming street words—words that aren’t words, though they come into sharper focus whenever someone walks by.” 00:00 —TMI 01:46 —A sci-fi writer and a scientist disagree about dystopias… 03:55 —TMI 05:42 —A broken TV (signs of reality at the electronics...
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2. Plato’s Cave-In
“I watch the novice robot mimicking his mentor’s demonstration of this glitchy dance from the near future of our distant past . . .“ 00:00 —Intro 00:59 —An early morning tongue bath… 03:13 —On the balcony with the Mummy and Shadow… 09:40 —Plato’s Cave-In… 18:17 —A dream of fire wood and ancient...
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1. Somewhere in the Distant Present
“My personal space has been invaded by a man looking for an invasion by an insect that practices an invasive form of procreation…” 0:00 —The bug-man… 04:15 —Do you ever suspect that the world actually did end in 2012 and we’ve simply failed to notice? … 04:56 —An elevator glitch leads to a…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
“Being dead is something you learn to live with,” reflects the narrator of NOTES FROM THE UNCANNY VALLEY, an inventive, 400-page autofiction novel read as an audiobook posing as a podcast adapted as a movie in your mind. Listen, as the clues lead our alien observer down deep into the uncanny valley, where he begins to wonder, is he living in a simulation? Is he himself artificial intelligence? Will he find the missing link between monkey and machine?
HOSTED BY
Gib
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“Being dead is something you learn to live with,” reflects the narrator of NOTES FROM THE UNCANNY VALLEY, an inventive, 400-page autofiction novel read as an audiobook posing as a podcast adapted as a movie in your mind. Listen, as the clues lead our alien observer down deep into the uncanny...
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