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I'm really interested in the tradeoffs between agency and safety. Most people report they'd rather have agency over safety, but I suspect this means that lack of agency feels closer/more threatening than lack of safety. How much safety would give up before a loss of freedom?

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Asking people is gonna be weird because a) I think there’s a fish/water scenario where people replete with one don’t think about it and b) we are awash in propaganda

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right, exactly. I suspect that people are more replete with safety than agency, which is why people say they value agency more. But yea the propaganda really fuzzes it all.

4:22 AM · Jun 19, 2019