THE VIDEO SHELF · philosophical short story
The Egg - A Short Story
Kurzgesagt animates Andy Weir's short story The Egg, in which a person learns that they are every human who has ever lived. It adds music and narration to the original text.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters call it a beloved story and link the animation when threads touch on consciousness, empathy or identity.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
- Topic
- philosophical short story
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
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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Closely related, especially given the context of consciousness, one of my favorite stories: "The Egg" ( [LINK] , or if you prefer read by Kurzgesagt: [VIDEO] ).
stared on Hacker News · 2020-05
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bigmattystyles on Hacker News · 2020-08
In Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?> People aren't "gifted" with technology I used the words "humans having been gifted digital technology" as I am a marxist and I believe that all the technologies and scientific knowledge that we reverse engineer from nature is gifted to us by a higher power. …
beckman466 on Hacker News · 2021-05
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