The medieval philosopher Buridan reportedly constructed a thought experiment to support his view that human behavior was determined rather than “free”—hence rational agents couldn’t choose between two equally good alternatives.

Just an historical nitpick: this contradicts the wiki article on Buridan's ass, which reports that it was used to satirize Buridan's moral deterministic philosophy, but that the paradox itself (including the ass) goes back further than Aristotle (i.e. Aristotle mentions it in such a way that the reader is expected to be familiar with it).