Inclusionism Core
# Agency
# Agency
Definition
The capacity of an agent to influence reality through decisions, actions, participation, adaptation, or self-determination.
Inclusionist Perspective
Agency is one of the primary expressions of value.
Value becomes meaningful when agents possess the capacity to act upon it.
Core Principle
Enhancement becomes self-defeating when it destroys the agency it was intended to expand.
Inclusionist Perspective
Intelligence is valuable because it expands agency.
Optimization is valuable when it expands agency.
Participation is meaningful when it includes agency.
Civilizational Importance
Civilizations increase in value when they increase the number of agents capable of meaningful participation.
Civilizations decrease in value when agency becomes increasingly concentrated regardless of gains in efficiency or intelligence.
Relationships
Transhumanism
Artificial Intelligence
Candidate Law
Civilizations increase in value when they expand meaningful agency.