It serves people well to mostly build towards a good future rather than getting distracted by the shape of utopia, but having a vision of where we want to go can be helpful for both motivation and as a north star for guiding our efforts.

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Opening Vision

Utopiography: What would you like it to be like?

plex: A large proportion of my value structure is pointed at other people's. I would like many different utopias to flourish. I think that the universe is very big and has room for many of the different things that humans could unfold into. And I would like to see it filled with a diverse garden of different mind spaces, different cultures and recombinations and extrapolations of what we had become.

Utopiography: Is your preferred version of that largely [...]

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Outline:

(00:30 ) Opening Vision

(02:24 ) Escaping Moloch

(05:16 ) The Transition Period

(08:17 ) Interventions and technology

(12:17 ) The Jerusalem Problem

(15:56 ) Space travel

(17:23 ) Meaning in Paradise

(23:07 ) Heat Death - The Universes Final Boss

(32:20 ) Is Eternity Too Much?

(42:53 ) Life in Utopia

(48:11 ) Suffering and Choice

(50:51 ) Population Ethics and Vast but Finite Resources

(56:29 ) Moral Patients and Suffering

(01:16:40 ) A Beautiful Tomorrow

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First published:

October 22nd, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/smJGKKrEejdg43mmi/utopiography-interview

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.