explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong
This Place · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2021–2021).
SignalTube analysis
Among 7 other explainer videos tagged Robotics, the mean is 4.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 4.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2021; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 18 minutes 24 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2020-07-27.
- Channel / speaker
- This Place
- Verified runtime
- 18m 24s
- YouTube upload date
- 2020-07-27
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2021
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Robotics. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Uncanny Valley Is WrongCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 67% | — | 18m 24s | 2020-07-27 |
| What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Usexplainer · CGP Grey | 11 | 11 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 15m 1s | 2014-08-13 |
| Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Serviceexplainer · Real Engineering | 9 | 6 | 69% | No recorded overlap | 11m 46s | 2019-01-25 |
| Drone Delivery Was Supposed to be the Future. What Went Wrong?explainer · Wendover Productions | 4 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 18m 40s | 2022-02-08 |
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 recommendation in “Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’”. Its short rationale: Argues against the existence of the uncanny valley.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion [video]”. Its short rationale: Argues uncanny valley is an artifact of mixing robot goals.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “The “Uncanny Valley” and How Artists Have Explored It”. Its short rationale: Convincing argument that the uncanny valley is not real.