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Nirmal Bhansali's avatar

Quite idealistic. Haha, I get where you're coming from. And I agree with it too. This is how I would also want to take decisions.

But there's a certain presumption of ambition here. What about people who are not as ambitious? What about people who want a quiet life? Whose basis of existence isn't the delta of utility? I'm not looking to add value to wherever I go, for example. What then?

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Divyanshu Dembi's avatar

True. The assumption is that you value things like progress, benefit to humanity etc. In many ways this is a post adjacent to Effective Altruism philosophy. But yes, for someone who is outside the matrix of impact and influence, the unit of analysis is just themselves.

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