Should your agent help you break the law?

· Bits and Bobs 8/31/26
  • Should your agent help you break the law?
    • The knee jerk answer is "no, of course not."
    • But imagine a world where everyone is supercharged by agents.
    • They have to be in order to compete in the real world against other centaurs.
    • Without your agent, you'll feel like a husk of your normal self.
    • Your agent begins feeling like an extension of your own agency.
    • But unlike normal tools, these have a direct line to a centralized entity who wants them to be used for only things the government won't get mad at them for.
    • Now there's no room for civil disobedience or pushing back on laws.
    • The laws would get less push and pull from society actually engaging with them and pushing on them.
    • The laws would ossify in place.
    • This is obviously a bad fit if you can't, for example, mention Tiananmen Square.
    • But it also would show up in smaller ways, too.