Can somebody point out text books or other sources that lead to an increased understanding of how to influence more than one person (the books I know address only 1:1, or presentations)? There are books on how to run successful businesses, etc, but is there overarching knowledge that includes successful states, parties, NGOs, religions, other social groups (would also be of interest for how to best spread rationality...). In the Yvain framework: given the Moloch as a taken, what are good resources that describe how to optimally influence the Moloch with many self-interested agents and for example its inherent game-theoretic problems as long as AI is not up to the task?
Thanks Lumifer. The Prince is worth reading. However, tranferring his insights regarding princedoms to how to design and spread memeplexes in the 21st century does have its limits. Any more suggestions?
I suspect that at the more detailed level you have to be more specific—you do want to run a party or an NGO or a cult or design nerd-culture memes or what? Things become different.
Beyond the usual recommendation—go into a large B&N and browse (or chase “similar” links on Amazon) -- I can point out an interesting book about building political movements from scratch in the XXI century.
Can somebody point out text books or other sources that lead to an increased understanding of how to influence more than one person (the books I know address only 1:1, or presentations)? There are books on how to run successful businesses, etc, but is there overarching knowledge that includes successful states, parties, NGOs, religions, other social groups (would also be of interest for how to best spread rationality...). In the Yvain framework: given the Moloch as a taken, what are good resources that describe how to optimally influence the Moloch with many self-interested agents and for example its inherent game-theoretic problems as long as AI is not up to the task?
I believe the usual term for this is “politics”. This is one classic reference.
Thanks Lumifer. The Prince is worth reading. However, tranferring his insights regarding princedoms to how to design and spread memeplexes in the 21st century does have its limits. Any more suggestions?
I suspect that at the more detailed level you have to be more specific—you do want to run a party or an NGO or a cult or design nerd-culture memes or what? Things become different.
Beyond the usual recommendation—go into a large B&N and browse (or chase “similar” links on Amazon) -- I can point out an interesting book about building political movements from scratch in the XXI century.
There are actually a few others, such as Group Psychology, Marketing, Economics and Mechanism Design.
In general, I see this as a big problem that requires many different frameworks to have an effect.
Can you point out your 3-5 favorite books/frameworks?