Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by gradys » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

Will MacAskill[1] for his contributions to launching the effective altruism movement, which has gone on to inspire many other people to take a much more rigorous and active perspective on doing good.

[1] - Many others were involved, but I know the most about his contributions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

#12

Post by diegoperini » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

Leonard Susskind, a theoritical physicist at Stanford.

He has open, free video lectures that cover an entire 4 year cirruculum of a physics degree in his personal website called Theoritical Minimum.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

#13

Post by genie514 » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

Elon Musk

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by ArrayList » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

Dr. Michael Greger. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Greger

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by vark90 » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

diegoperini wrote: post #12

Leonard Susskind, a theoritical physicist at Stanford. He has open, free video lectures that cover an entire 4 year cirruculum of a physics degree in his personal website called Theoritical Minimum.

Yep, he has an extremely charming personality judging from his videos. Something similar is about Robert Sapolski, also from Stanford. Love watching these guys lecture. Natural born teachers.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

#16

Post by en4bz » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

Sal Khan from Khan Academy.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by JohnJamesRambo » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:26 PM UTC

genie514 wrote: post #13

Elon Musk

Positive and delusional are different things.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:26 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

#19

Post by iamroot » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

Bill Murray.

Netflix has a new release about him, named "The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man."

Highly recommended.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by Repiro » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:29 PM UTC

Jordan Peterson