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Slaughterbots

Stop Autonomous Weapons · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months

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Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2018–2026).

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Among 6 other other videos tagged Robotics, the mean is 1.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.2× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 1.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.

20% of its 20 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 7 minutes 48 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2017-11-12.

Channel / speaker
Stop Autonomous Weapons
Verified runtime
7m 48s
YouTube upload date
2017-11-12
Hacker News mention years
2018–2026

SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT

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6 peers

The comparison cohort uses other other videos in Robotics. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.

VideoHN recommendersRecommendation monthsPositive label shareShared recommendersRuntimeUpload date
SlaughterbotsCurrent video4420%—7m 48s2017-11-12
Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUSTother · DUST5425%No recorded overlap7m 59s2019-10-17
Giant Robot Project, Part 1other · Jaimie Stuff33100%No recorded overlap4m 2s2007-09-05
Slaughterbotsother · Future of Life Institute2217%No recorded overlap7m 48s2017-11-13

THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS

Why Hacker News recommends it

20 mentions

Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.

reference2026-02Original HN comment ↗

The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Google Workers Seek 'Red Lines' on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.

reference2025-07Original HN comment ↗

The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.

reference2025-03Original HN comment ↗

The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons from China Let Anyone Turn Toys into Weapons of War”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.