• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    My take is that there is no free will, but that this fact is irrelevant and we’re all better off just behaving as though we do.

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      2 days ago

      Why are we better off behaving that way? Under that outlook, it seems like free will is a trap to hold people accountable for things they wouldn’t actually be responsible for.

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        23 hours ago

        If you’re a complex machine whose action could be perfectly predicted (with full knowledge of everything you ever experienced) it’s still reasonable to punish you for breaking rules - the risk of punishment goes into your programming as part of the (deterministic) calculation of what action to take

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        1 day ago

        Because one of the many inputs to people’s actions, if we assume that their actions are deterministic, is their knowledge of how other people will respond, and how they have responded to similar things in the past.