Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.

Charles Murray
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The day that artificial intelligence is not only in our computers but in our society, the meaning of meaning will change. The world will be meaningless without human meaning, and it won’t matter if people have free will. The point is, we need to act like we believe free will exists, because otherwise it doesn’t.

Source: Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 19602010

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