Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as an illustration of the confident-idiot effect and of people pretending to know things.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2014 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends dlss · 2014-10 · on “We Are All Confident Idiots”
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.
Cites robocat · 2022-05 · on “We are all confident idiots (2014)”
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]