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Utopia (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Unappealing Nature of Utopian Worlds

We are now crazy rich Compared to our ancestors from a few centuries ago. There's a sense in which from their point of view we are kind of close to utopia And then there's the fact that we are not very satisfied with it and that we complain a lot about it. It would just have to be as I said earlier the scientist who studied hidden motives Who would be in a position to construct the utopia But we might not tell us what are you talking about? We might not be able to agree That that's an utopian until we are actually willing to be exposed to an accept that we have hidden motives.

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