explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Why Teleportation Would Kill You
CGP Grey · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2016–2020).
SignalTube analysis
Among 19 other explainer videos tagged Philosophy & ethics, the mean is 3.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2020; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- CGP Grey
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2016–2020
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Philosophy & ethics. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why Teleportation Would Kill YouCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 33% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessingexplainer · CGP Grey | 12 | 11 | 60% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Music and Life - Alan Wattsexplainer · seandulac | 11 | 11 | 63% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Do Chairs Exist?explainer · Vsauce | 6 | 6 | 67% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
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 “Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)”. Its short rationale: Cited on transporter trouble among other sources.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow”. Its short rationale: Poses what happens if you skip the vaporizing step.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal””. Its short rationale: Good look at the Ship of Theseus applied to transporters.