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The kind of freedom you mention is not a reason why they are superior in some absolute way.

It's a factor which, in the real world today, makes them better for some purposes and worse for others.

There are reasonable but unproven conjectures that this kind of freedom could become the most important factor over time, but the existence of conjectures doesn't demonstrate any inherent superiority.



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