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Slaughterbots
Future of Life Institute · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2018–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 7 other other videos tagged AI safety, AGI & impact, the mean is 2.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.0 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
17% of its 12 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 7 minutes 48 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2017-11-13.
- Channel / speaker
- Future of Life Institute
- Verified runtime
- 7m 48s
- YouTube upload date
- 2017-11-13
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other other videos in AI safety, AGI & impact. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SlaughterbotsCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 17% | — | 7m 48s | 2017-11-13 |
| Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUSTother · DUST | 5 | 4 | 25% | No recorded overlap | 7m 59s | 2019-10-17 |
| Slaughterbotsother · Stop Autonomous Weapons | 4 | 4 | 20% | No recorded overlap | 7m 48s | 2017-11-12 |
| “I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Roomother · The New Yorker | 2 | 2 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 22m 30s | 2024-11-15 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection”. Its short rationale: Once-fictional film on autonomous drones that now seems plausible.
The archive classifies this as a critical mention in “Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority' says CEO”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Slaughterbots – if human: kill() [video]”. Its short rationale: Another Slaughterbots video worth watching on autonomous killer drones.