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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.

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  1. 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.

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    ↗Introducing Better Futuresforethought.org

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