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Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS
Louis C.K. on Conan explains why he won't give his kids cell phones. He argues that phones keep people from sitting with sadness and being alone with their thoughts, and that kids lose empathy when they cannot see another person's reaction.
Why HN readers recommended it
Commenters bring it up in threads on phones, boredom, attention and children's screen use as a funny but resonant take.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Team Coco
- Topic
- smartphones and attention
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2021
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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It's no surprise that, when left unchecked, teenagers (whose brains actually lack some capacity for empathy) would generate extremely un-empathetic content. And it is certainly not limited to children -- adults can be just as bad or worse. This is a topic that has come …
Smudge on Hacker News · 2014-04
In A Gossip App Brought My High School to a HaltSometimes people coerce me into using services, eg development team found a cool service to manage the project issues or designers want to check out the tool to manage the assets. There's no way around it. I found password manager tools to be invaluable in …
itchynosedev on Hacker News · 2016-05
In Why I Deleted My Social Media AccountsEveryone's insane so I must be as well. Come on man. I totally agree with the OP, take personal responsibility. You raise your children not Zuck. Louis CK had great comments about this: [VIDEO]
whitepaint on Hacker News · 2021-04
In Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children [pdf]
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