Hello. Hi, it's the old to-do list you found tucked in a book haunting and taunting you like a creep.

Let's talk creepiness. Is this a study? This is a study? Sure it is. Did it have a name? No, it didn't. It's too niche. So listen, we very, very rarely here at ologies have to coin an ology.

Usually there's something in the literature, but in this case,

I had to do it. And it took me a while, and then I figured it out. So Serpo means to creep in Latin,

like a serpent. And this expert kind of blazed a shadowy overgrown trail to study what makes

something creepy. Why are some dolls creepy? Why does AI creep you out? How do you know if you are

creepy? When is an aversion to creepiness unfair and when is it warranted? And where does this come from in our

lineage? So we're going to get to that in just a sec. But first, thank you to the patrons at patreon.com

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