Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Farewell Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Kawoomba 12 January 2013 10:09AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2013 03:44:45PM 53 points [-]

It looks like Aaron Swartz may have willed all his money to Givewell. This... makes it even sadder, somehow, in ways I don't know how to describe.

His last Reddit comment was on /r/HPMOR.

Comment author: James_Miller 13 January 2013 12:45:42AM 21 points [-]

Lawrence Lessig writes that Swartz's legal troubles had caused Swartz's wealth to have been "bled dry".

Comment author: lsparrish 14 January 2013 07:09:45PM 7 points [-]

This makes me angry. Can we perhaps raise the lost money on the internet and send it to GiveWell? Aaron's tribute site has a link to them, but that's not the same as an organized campaign (specific goal, progress meter, mailing list, etc.)

Comment author: siodine 13 January 2013 03:48:37AM *  0 points [-]

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