ryan_b comments on Optimized Propaganda with Bayesian Networks: Comment on “Articulating Lay Theories Through Graphical Models”

[ryan_b]

The thing is, “Learn the causal graph of why they think that and compute how to intervene on it to make them think something else” is a symmetric weapon—a fully general persuasive technique that doesn’t depend on whether the thing you’re trying to convince them of is true.

Is there a technical term for the difference between locally-symmetric and symmetric-under-repetition? It remains the case that the people who use the method to prevent vaccinations will have a lot more casualties on their side, which would normally be telling over time.

[Pattern]

Why deploy the method against your side?