I would disagree that we're better off. Well, maybe some people would be. But personally, that information has actually had the ironic effect of making me more effective at using my 'free will'. It's easier to try and be something other than what you are if you believe you think you have more control than you actually do, and that's a potentially huge waste of energy.

You do realize the hysterically funny contradiction in your comment, correct?

Yes, that was very much the point lol

Excellent. :)

I don't think disbelieving free will requires nihilism. It's not that there's unfreedom of the will, it's that the idea and its converse never made any real sense.

See?

Hard to finish.

I don't quite understand you. Can you explain what you mean by "hard to finish"?

Don't worry: you don't have any choice in the matter, and neither do I.

But you do have a choice. It's just that the choices and your decision are deterministic.