Hans Rosling
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Hans Rosling is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 04, 2021 and August 17, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as ""Hans Rosling was a world health economist""; “I think ‘Hans Rosling’ is another one, like a second-in-command”. It most often appears alongside A.I.M., Aerocar, Alexander the Great.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 04, 2021
- Last seen: August 17, 2023
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
"Hans Rosling was a world health economist and an indefatigable campaigner for a deeper understanding of the world’s state of development. He is famous for his TED talks and the Gapminder web site. He classifies the wealthiness of the world’s population into four levels:
“So ‘Max Roser’ is just - I didn’t start the site. I was looking up econ development statistics on there a few years ago, and I something seemed off, they listed the GDP per capita of Mongolia in 2004 as being $5,820, but all my other sources were saying it was more like $5400 or so. I couldn’t reconcile it, so I wrote them an email asking if they’d made a mistake. A few days later, these people in robes show up at my door. They told me I had caught the last Max Roser in a mistake, so now by ancient tradition I was the new Max Roser. Apparently it’s not even a given name, it’s a Rosicrucian title - I think ‘Hans Rosling’ is another one, like a second-in-command. It’s like the Dread Pirate Roberts in that one book. I tried to tell them no - I was working for Google at the time - but they were very insistent. They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. So now I’m Max Roser and I run Our World In Data. It’s an okay life, I guess.”