Can you force your computer to do anything? Can the computer refuse to do what you want? Of course the computer can crash. Does that count as refusing to obey your commands?
If you don’t think the computer has the free will to refuse your commands, why do you think you do? Because your brain runs on neurons and the computer runs on silicon?
There are many ways to influence other people that don’t have something to do with adjusting incentives. Just look into the psychology literature.
The ability to refuse needs the knowledge that someone tries to influence you. On example: Andrew Berwick put a lot of effort into people trying to read his book. He studied the way ideas spread on the internet. Conspiracy theorists do a lot to spread certain idea. Andrew knew that conspiracy theorist like to talk about Freemasons.
Andrew then went to four freemasons meetings and put Freemason images on his facebook account. As a result all of the conspiracy theory people had their Freemason story when Andrew committed his terrorist act.
No one of the conspiracy folks got the idea that those images were specifically crafted to play them because the conspiracy folks don’t think that someone would treat them in that way.
The couldn’t refuse in a meaningful sense because they were ignorant.
Can you force your computer to do anything? Can the computer refuse to do what you want? Of course the computer can crash. Does that count as refusing to obey your commands?
If you don’t think the computer has the free will to refuse your commands, why do you think you do? Because your brain runs on neurons and the computer runs on silicon?
There are many ways to influence other people that don’t have something to do with adjusting incentives. Just look into the psychology literature.
The ability to refuse needs the knowledge that someone tries to influence you. On example: Andrew Berwick put a lot of effort into people trying to read his book. He studied the way ideas spread on the internet. Conspiracy theorists do a lot to spread certain idea. Andrew knew that conspiracy theorist like to talk about Freemasons.
Andrew then went to four freemasons meetings and put Freemason images on his facebook account. As a result all of the conspiracy theory people had their Freemason story when Andrew committed his terrorist act.
No one of the conspiracy folks got the idea that those images were specifically crafted to play them because the conspiracy folks don’t think that someone would treat them in that way.
The couldn’t refuse in a meaningful sense because they were ignorant.
That’s a good point; trickery does seem like a kind of force.