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Originally Posted by freebeard
That's thinking past some sale or other. I like Authur M. Young's formulation: Free will is sandwiched between determinism and fate.
Whelp, I'm out.
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I won't be the one to solve that paradox, and I was using that persuasion technique because anything other than an intrinsic worth hypothesis allows all manor of horrific institutions. If I can get someone to skip straight to believing as I do that we've got intrinsic worth and avert genocide, then I consider that a positive turn.
This is early technology, let Moore's Law have its way for a few years... I just envisioned the outdoor folks of the future with their personal AI robots in the same way those folk today all have smartphones.
We will continue to expand our definition of privation, and continually fail to include purpose (or mental health for that matter), because that isn't a tangible object.