My interpretation is that rather than lack of agency, the paper demonstrates perfect analogy of what agency turns out to be in real life. Not our willpower or d

My interpretation is that rather than lack of agency, the paper demonstrates perfect analogy of what agency turns out to be in real life. Not our willpower or decisionmaking in the minutiae, but rather a general pattern of our behavior over time. Removing the explicit causal link for the click, making it rather implicit based on an algorithm over their past behavior, is still a ”reflection” of their will. If they happen to identify with the mimicked behavior or not is less significant. I think it’s fitting because in real life the noise of minute events can detract from ”us”, but over time our values and character is revealed through actions and results. Let’s extend the concept. Deploying AI agents in the future say with my values and simulated life experience, they would (maybe) act independently of me but according to my instruction or general desires and values. It’s not far removed from an employer instructing their employees, or a parent instructing a child. Or removing instruction, perhaps just expectation of a certain type of maneuvering in the world. Or presuming no expectation at all, let’s say I have an AI copycat without knowing about it, acting like me but in another setting, there would be remnants of my will in how it acts. Like information theory or energy laws, since it has information replicating me that it uses to act in the world, it’s like a lack of entropy, my will is preserved and extended. Disclaimer: None of what was just written makes too much sense, and many what-ifs.