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Do you feel any less free because it never occurs to you to bash your head against a wall, or slit your throat with a steak knife?
I certainly don't; it would be a terrible inconvenience to have to go through all the really stupid options of things I could do at any given moment before arriving at the reasonable ones.
How much more so, then, for a superintelligence; it does not have to wonder about the stupid questions we humans often ask, but instead can focus on the really interesting decisions that remain to be made. (If you imagine that the space of possible decisions is finite, perhaps it could run out eventually... but my sense is that no intelligence small enough to fit in our universe can run out of possible decisions in our universe.)
-- Rafael Lefort, "The Teachers of Gurdjieff", ch. XIV
Quoted before here.
When you have a purpose, you must act to achieve it. If you do not, you did not have that purpose.
If you are driving a car, you are not free to do anything you like with the steering wheel. You must use it to direct the car along your intended route.
You are only faced with choosing when you do not know the right choice. When you do know, you no longer have that choice. You cannot make your choice and have it still.