Konkvistador comments on Utopian hope versus reality - Less Wrong
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Actually they do, in order for us to consider the benefits of living like that to outweighs the costs, it has to match some of our values. There is still some overlap between a Medieval peasant and the modern world, this is why we can imagine a fraction of them preferring this existence.
Our world does. Our values do not. I would consider a world full of happy paperclip maximizers a utopia. Their values in no way match my own.