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

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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 January 2013 06:28:37PM 33 points [-]

He seems to have been smarter than most, had more money than most, and cared more about how the world was going than most. Having a will might just have been being relatively reality-based rather than a sign of depression.

Comment author: David_Gerard 12 January 2013 10:02:05PM 7 points [-]

His online will is directly inspired by Eric S. Raymond's (whose example he links to as the good idea that inspired him), and ESR certainly isn't depressive.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2013 11:18:56AM 2 points [-]

Can you give links? (Turns out that “will” is about one of the most ungoogleable nouns out there.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 13 January 2013 12:25:55PM 2 points [-]