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The View from Hell
Personal blog · theviewfromhell.blogspot.comphilosophyscience
The View from Hell is a personal blog at theviewfromhell.blogspot.com about philosophy and science. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Homicide Rates, Suicide Rates, and Modern Medicine”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sarah Perry's The View from Hell for its essays on depression, anxiety and suicide, which cover a range of related topics and give references for further reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Old stuff. Enjoy each other and don’t create new life.
Most-linked posts?
- Homicide Rates, Suicide Rates, and Modern Medicine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-14
What Hacker News says?
The article makes an opaque reference to "the oft-quoted David Foster Wallace passage on suicide and burning buildings". Here's the actual quote from Infinite Jest for those who have not yet had seen it quoted enough to know by heart: The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not squar…
Comment linking /2011/04/elements-of-suicide.html
on “The Depression Thing”Submitted Trying to See Through: A Unified Theory of Nerddom (2012) as a story · 22 points
HN discussion> I think that suicide could have some evolutionary advantage in a group. Sounds like archives of Sarah Perry’s The View from Hell [0] may be something you’d interested in checking out. She touches upon a range of suicide-related topics and provides references for further reading. [0] http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/
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on “Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases”Submitted Why People Used to Have Children as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA large number of people who make failed suicide attempts don't try again, ... I doubt the truth of that. There are studies that suggest otherwise: http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-permanence-of... .
Comment linking /2008/08/on-permanence-of-suicidality.html
on “Researcher Sam Roweis took his own life last night. Here's one of his lectures.”Submitted Transdimensional Justice Monster (a page from Wikipedia in 2108) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mathematics of Misery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homicide Rates, Suicide Rates, and Modern Medicine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homicide Rates, Suicide Rates, and Modern Medicine (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why People Used to Have Children as a story · 1 points
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