dlssOct 2014Recommends
If anyone is curious about the Kimmel clip, it's on youtube: ▶ this video The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.
in “We Are All Confident Idiots” · View on HN
Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2014–2022.
Jimmy Kimmel Live
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A Jimmy Kimmel segment in which interviewers at SXSW ask festival-goers about made-up bands, and many people confidently claim to know and like them.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as an illustration of the confident-idiot effect and of people pretending to know things.
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“The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.”
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3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
robocatMay 2022Cites it
Bitrot? Missing assets for video and some images (perhaps on iPadOS only?). Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News SXSW edition link: ▶ this video “Imagine that the illustration below represents a curved tube lying horizontally on a table:” [link] Paper without video links: [link]
in “We are all confident idiots (2014)” · View on HN
kelvin0Nov 2014Joke
For what it's worth, there is also a hilarious sample of the 'hipster' population in this Youtube video (Jimmy Kimmel 0:53 mark) ▶ this video Of course interviewees in this video are probably paid actors playing dumb, but boy it doesn't the stereotype ...
in “The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same” · View on HN
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