To the extent that being remembered after your death matters at all, then absolutely, yes. To go back to the original point of comparison, many more people know Ramesses II now than have ever heard of Paul Graham, and this is when pg is still alive and probably near the all-time peak of his fame. There's a relatively small, but not that small, number of people who can name some of Ramesses II's monuments or other achievements without looking them up. And there are many millions of people who are vaguely aware that he was one of the GOAT Pharaohs, and that was more or less the core objective of all the monument-building.