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by MichaelZuo 964 days ago
Well first you would have to define 'agency' or 'freedom' in such a way, that excludes from its possessors, the possibility of creating new agency/freedom reducing technologies.

Which doesn't seem all that plausible philosophically or logically.

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Can you please explain your argument? I don't think I got it.
Which part don't you get?
I don't see why we should be coming up with a definition of freedom/agency in the way you have suggested. People are free to create what they want to but should be constrained in their ability to impose those on others.
How would you 'constrain' them if they are free to create technology that bypasses or remove those same constraints?
Deployment constraints. There is no need to constrain the development or research.
So then people can't have agency or freedom to bypass those 'deployment constraints' right?