This isn’t strong enough. The more people tend to defer to a canonical perspective, the more one can control others’ actions through altering the canonical perspective.
Although, less so, to the extant that this advice...
When taking actions (e.g. making bets), use local information available only to you or a small number of others, not only canonical information. For example, when picking organizations to support, use information you have about these organizations (e.g. information about the competence of people working at this charity) even if not everyone else has this info. (For a more obvious example to illustrate the principle: if I saw Bob steal my wallet, then it’s in my interest to guard my possessions more closely around Bob than I otherwise would, even if I can’t convince everyone that Bob stole my wallet).
This isn’t strong enough. The more people tend to defer to a canonical perspective, the more one can control others’ actions through altering the canonical perspective.
Although, less so, to the extant that this advice...
…is heeded.