Philosophy & Ethics Videos Hacker News Recommends

documentary#32

Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]

Farm Transparency Project

“this documentary made me re-evaluate my diet.”

10 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

lecture#39

Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"

Harvard University

“Two lecture series I always recommend, and feel like everyone should watch”

11 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

explainer#82

We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing

CGP Grey

“CGP gray's videos on YouTube are maybe the most concise and fun to watch materials I've seen on the subject.”

12 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

documentary#103

Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton

“This doc is eye-opening”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

explainer#128

Music and Life - Alan Watts

seandulac

“You haven't been failing, you've been dancing.”

11 HN recommenders · 2010–2022

other#286

The Egg - A Short Story

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“The Egg is one of my life long favorite histories.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

explainer#366

The Machinery Of Freedom: Illustrated summary

bitbutter

“it's an illustrated talk by David D. Friedman, explaining how police, courts and other things would exist and work in a world without government”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2020

lecture#386

Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction

John Vervaeke’s Lectern

“this series has it all.”

6 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#422

Toward Rational, Authentic Food Choices | Melanie Joy | TEDxMünchen

TEDx Talks

“This TED talk from Dr. Melanie Joy is a good introduction to Carnism”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

other#431

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

carlsagandotcom

“Puts everything in perspective, and makes everything feel insignificant”

5 HN recommenders · 2011–2026

interview#446

Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]

withDefiance

“For anyone who hasn't watched the actual, full video of the debate, you should do so.”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

explainer#469

Optimistic Nihilism

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“I highly recommend it, as they explain these concepts very well in a short 6min video.”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

explainer#584

Do Chairs Exist?

Vsauce

“it's basically an entertaining, whirlwind tour of the philosophy of categorizing and labeling things”

6 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

lecture#801

College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"

College of DuPage

“I suggest the people working on those features watch Neil Postman's "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

explainer#830

A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“There is a video [0] I love that explains an argument for this well.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

interview#833

Richard Feynman on Pseudoscience

Jacob Edward

“it's very hard to know something and you have to be really careful that you've done the work and aren't just deluding yourself”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

lecture#872

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal

Michael Sugrue

“have watched this lecture multiple times (each time I was going through some bad things in my life) and it helped me tremendously.”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#905

This Is Water by David Foster Wallace Full Speech

Joe Mita

“I highly recommend a 23 minute investment in David Foster Wallace's”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

explainer#1044

Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“A good counter-argument to commonly cited objections to biological immortality”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

lecture#1094

If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution

“I discovered him with the excellent Royal Institution talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

interview#1294

Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage

Det Kgl. Bibliotek

“I think Slavoj Žižek and Paul Holdengräber on "Surveillance and whistleblowers" is worth a watch.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

commentary#1404

I'm Allowed to Rob You!

Larken Rose

“Here's all you need to know about the Constitution”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

talk#1539

Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system

Dani Dögenigt

“If you want to know where the metaphor of philosophy as an operating system comes from”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

talk#1546

Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution

“I highly recommend this Royal Institute talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

comedy#1608

Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride

Bill Hicks

“Whenever I find myself feeling like you do right now, I watch this video from Bill Hicks”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

interview#1615

Richard Feynman Magnets

nebulajr

“Richard Feynman explaining magnets is one of the best layman explainers”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

commentary#1662

Slavoj Žižek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)

Christian G

“it finally clicked after hearing Zizek talk about it.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#1730

THIS IS WATER! by David Foster Wallace

The Actualization Agent

“suggest you watch David Foster Wallace's "This is Water," and when you're done, please watch it again.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

interview#1754

The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)

UW Video

“Here's my favorite talk on the subject given by Chomsky, highly recommend a listen”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1755

RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

Royal Society of Arts

“well worth a watch (10 minutes) and approachable by those without philosophical backgrounds”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2022

talk#1892

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

CraftHub Events

“Bryan Cantrill (DTrace etc) has a good talk on ethics in software engineering[0].”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

documentary#1899

The Trolley Problem in Real Life

Vsauce

“The video is well worth a watch”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

talk#1987

Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019

SXSW

“He's taking the hacker's perspective and exploring if the simulation would be hackable from inside.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

comedy#2052

07/27/1978

lasagnacat

“I love this deep absurd analysis of a single Garfield comic.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#2061

The psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo

TED

“Here's Zimbardo's TED talk on what makes people do evil”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

talk#2153

Violence | Slavoj Žižek | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

“when it comes to discussing ideology, he's doing the best outreach bar none.”

4 HN recommenders · 2010–2022

explainer#2194

Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia

Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy

“I think this guy does a great job of explaining it through the analogy of the Fallout videogame series”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

lecture#2195

OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney

52 Living Ideas

“It shows the thinking method behind the OODA Loop--Evolutionary Epistemology”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

interview#2207

Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment”

Hoover Institution

“There is a Peter Robinson interview about the essay that can serve as a good primer[1].”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#2227

Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

Joscha Bach

“stuff like talks by Joscha Bach on C3”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#2366

Brave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self

Intelligence Squared

“this debate between will self and adam gopnik on 'brave new world' vs '1984' is really good if anybody has 1.5 hours to indulge.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

interview#2388

The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger

Rebel Wisdom

“It may change the way you think about people that question the narrative.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

lecture#2421

Noam Chomsky - "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"

Andy80o

“Chomsky's surprisingly insightful thinking on the limits of human knowledge, and the consequences”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

lecture#2456

Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil

Jeffrey Kaplan

“I think the video is the best short exposition but you could try reading the paper the video is about”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

commentary#2568

Geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe

kunc

“this short clip [1] of Zizek explaining the geography that separates Central Europe from the Balkans is one of the best things on YT”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#2586

Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky

TheAnimalHolocaust

“the logical inconsistencies become very apparent”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2016

talk#2590

David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

TED

“it's a very tight talk and you should start from the beginning”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#2619

David Deutsch on Optimism

Royal Society of Arts

“I encourage everyone pessimistic about our future to learn about David Deutsch's infinite optimism”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022