I can think of a couple relevant-but-not-specific areas outside the rationalist community:
Relevant to choosing or responding to an ideology: Moral Foundations and the work by Jon Haidt. The website has a link to a review paper of the subject. This work was criticized on LessWrong, but I don’t know of any better projects.
Relevant to building and keeping together a social movement is a paper about the rise of Cosimo Medici. I think the most relevant concept is multivocality:
multivocality—the fact that single actions can be interpreted coherently from multiple perspectives simultaneously, the fact that single actions can be moves in many games at once, and the fact that public and private motivations cannot be parsed.
This leads to something they call robust action, which basically means “hard to interfere with.” So my prior for successful movements is a morally multivocal ideology for hunting stag robustly.
I have always understood this to be a consequence of the Politics is the Mindkiller custom. The most relevant pieces outside the Craft and the Community on LessWrong are Raemon’s The Relationship Between the Village and the Mission, and The Schelling Choice is Rabbit, not Stag.
I can think of a couple relevant-but-not-specific areas outside the rationalist community:
Relevant to choosing or responding to an ideology: Moral Foundations and the work by Jon Haidt. The website has a link to a review paper of the subject. This work was criticized on LessWrong, but I don’t know of any better projects.
Relevant to building and keeping together a social movement is a paper about the rise of Cosimo Medici. I think the most relevant concept is multivocality:
This leads to something they call robust action, which basically means “hard to interfere with.” So my prior for successful movements is a morally multivocal ideology for hunting stag robustly.