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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
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What William MacAskill actually said
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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.
Where this was said
↗Introducing Better Futuresforethought.org
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