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Whether anyone can actually do anything about how good the future is, rather than whether it matters, is the strongest objection to prioritising it.
Drawn from what William MacAskill said
What William MacAskill actually said
- William MacAskill Philosopher at Oxford who co-founded Giving What We Can
I see this as the strongest argument against the better futures perspective, and the reason why I don’t feel confident that work on Flourishing is higher-priority than work on Surviving, rather than merely in the same ballpark.
Where this was said
↗Introducing Better Futuresforethought.org
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