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A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.

Drawn from what William MacAskill said

ambition
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ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

What William MacAskill actually said

  1. William MacAskill Philosopher at Oxford who co-founded Giving What We Can
    But the difference in value between the world today and that common-sense utopia might be very small compared to the difference between that common-sense utopia and the best futures we could feasibly achieve.

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