THE VIDEO SHELF · flat earth belief
Flat Earth: A Measured Response
hbomberguy investigates the modern flat earth movement and why people come to believe it. The video treats the community with a measured, humorous tone and looks at the social causes behind the belief.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining and thoughtful look at flat earthers that frames the belief as a distrust of failing institutions.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- hbomberguy
- Topic
- flat earth belief
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I strongly recommend watching hbomberguy's video about flat earthers, "Flat Earth: A Measured Response" [VIDEO] The short summary is that flat earthers are probably seen as a rejection of established institutions (like capitalism/neoliberalism) that the (correctly) see as a major source of the problems in …
pdkl95 on Hacker News · 2020-02
In If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015)> A flat earth makes sense if you only spent 5 minutes thinking about it and have no background in or exposure to basic science. Not that I particularly want to jump to the defense of people that believe in a flat earth, but they …
pdkl95 on Hacker News · 2019-02
In Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anywayHBomberguy's "Flat Earth: A Measured Response" [0] is also an interesting look into the present-day flat earth "community". [0] [VIDEO]
dejawu on Hacker News · 2019-07
In How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
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