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To me "we are powerless to do anything other than what we are actually going to do" is either meaningless or tautological, so I am not sure how one can disagree with it.
Well, I'm not exactly sure how either, but I suspect that if we asked a hundred randomly chosen people to agree or disagree with that statement, we'd find more disagreement than agreement. And perhaps I'm misunderstanding what Laoch means by "fatalism", but it was the first description here so I went with it.
I like the SEP phrasing better, even though it's only slightly different:
"we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do"
Feels more sensible because the tenses are not jumbled.
I can't think of a meaning one sentence has that the other one doesn't, so I'm happy to use your preferred sentence.