Is It Due to Luck or Luck and Fluke?

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"I like the stories where somebody was you know say an actor was discovered and were not for the kindness of this person or the this chance meeting with this person they wouldn't have succeeded I like that but it should threaten me a little bit to think that success is is due to luck," she says. "If you feel lucky already then it's not a threat that luck has brought you where you are because you already thought that to begin with" 'Some people really do focus on on their hard work you know and I find that to be just a bit annoying,' he adds.

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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