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Benjamin Yeoh
Personal blog · thendobetter.com · on HN as benyeoheconomicsculture
Benjamin Yeoh writes Then Do Better, a personal blog at thendobetter.com about economics and culture. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for essays and interviews on philosophy and long-run human progress. Comments cite an essay arguing that today is the best time to be born and an interview with philosopher Larry Temkin.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Benjamin Yeoh. Ben Yeoh's website. Investing. Sustainability. Arts. Food. Theatre.
What Hacker News says?
> I wouldn't want them to have to grow up in this terrible day and age. Today is very clearly the best time to be born, so much so that I'd argue if you could choose to have kids in an older time period or today, it's borderline abusive to choose the past. Medicine/immunization, child mortality rates, human rights, ... https://www.thendobetter.com/investing/2018/6/7/the-best-tim...
Comment linking /investing/2018/6/7/the-best-time-to-be-born-is-now
on “Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?”Submitted Leopold Aschenbrenner: existential risk and German culture as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThank you. It appears Larry Temkin was the philosopher I didn't know I was looking for Good interview here: https://www.thendobetter.com/arts/2022/7/24/larry-temkin-tra...
Comment linking /arts/2022/7/24/larry-temkin-transitivity-critiques-of-effective-altruism-international-aid-pluralism-podcast
on “Nothing Personal: How Ideas Made Derek Parfit”Submitted Aella: Escort girl economics, rationalism, homeschool, polling, losing faith as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jonathan Wolff: philospher on valuing life, society of equal, moral cost-benefit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to think about individual shareholder activism, an activist journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview, what it was like to run a London hospice as Covid struck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Innovation studies, small teams vs. large, future remote work, Matt Clancy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anton Howes on innovation history, improving mindset, progress studies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hedge fund manager on sustainable investing, carbon, divestment, stakeholder cap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile comms, why blog, and blogging for comms/dev as a startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted UK govt epidemiologist on Covid advice now, living with endemic disease as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microgrant Programme, up to 1k for positive impact as a story · 1 points
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