I place a very low probability on my having genuine 'free will' but I act as if I do because if I don't it doesn't matter what I do. It also seems to me that people who accept nihilism have life outcomes that I do not desire to share and so the expected utility of acting as if I have free will is high even absent my previous argument. It's a bit of a Pascal's Wager.
Why do you define "free will" to refer to something that does not exist, when the thing which does exist - will unconstrained by circumstance or compulsion - is useful to refer to? For one, its absence is one indicator of an invalid contract.
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
ETA: It would seem that rationality quotes are no longer desired. After several days this thread stands voted into the negatives. Wolud whoever chose to to downvote this below 0 would care to express their disapproval of the regular quotes tradition more explicitly? Or perhaps they may like to browse around for some alternative posts that they could downvote instead of this one? Or, since we're in the business of quotation, they could "come on if they think they're hard enough!"