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Let's jump from the past (Oppenheimer) to the deep future, and discuss whether freedom is a good thing or not.
Scenario
You are SIHAR - a Super Intelligent Heroin Administering Robot. The name is a bit of a misnomer - you are actually a cyborg, being a human brain augmented by a massive computer system and vast army of robotic bodies. You still, however, reason about things in the same way that a human being would.
Your sole purpose is to improve the lives of humans. You can use the massive computer system to determine exactly what will happen in the future, and what is most likely to improve the lives of humans, based upon a simulation of their brain and objective measures of happiness. (dopamine, serotonin, etc)
Through your extensive thinking, you have come to the conclusion that the optimal way to improve everyone's lives is to inject everyone with a constant stream of heroin. This will be done safely - there is no risk of overdose, as there will be machines hooked up to the humans to ensure this doesn't happen. The heroin will be administered in giant "pleasure domes", where people lay on beds, without moving, while drones deliver the drugs and ensure everyone is healthy.
Note that there are no limits to your knowledge - you are absolutely correct that every person will be much happier inside the pleasure dome than outside of it. There are also no limits to the production of heroin as the factories producing it are run autonomously with incredible efficiency.
In 2094, most people are lining up to enter the pleasure dome. However, there are a few people that refuse to enter.
These people, you are able to see, have some psychological qualms with the nature of the pleasure dome that cause them to view the dome as infantilizing, unfulfilling, and dehumanizing. However, you are also able to see that they genuinely would be happier inside of the pleasure dome - a result that you, again, arrived at by performing a perfect simulation of their brains.
You have, at your disposal, a fleet of robot bodies called "ManTrackers". These robots, when deployed, can locate, apprehend, and deliver humans to the pleasure dome.
Your question is: Would it be ethical to deploy the ManTrackers to force these people into the pleasure dome?
BONUS: Do you think the same thing about how mental hospitals restrict patient's freedoms?
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Letting the heroin hating weirdos do their own thing doesn't hurt anybody. It's wrong to restrict someone's freedom just to minmax their happiness level. I think the difference with mental hospitals is whether letting somebody out means that person may hurt or kill themselves or others.
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Would you let them breed and inflict their heroinless lifestyle on children that had no say in the matter?
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Only a Trans Lives Matter enthusiast would ask whether it's ethical too allow parents too have kids who aren't heroin addicts helplessly addicted too the pharmaceutical industry
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In a hypothetical where a Superintelligence with perfect information has determined that they would live better and happier if they were in the pleasuredome, I think itβs more than a fair question, even for people who are not chadly trans lives matter enjoyers
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A superintelligence would be more persuasive though
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