shokwave comments on More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 01 December 2010 06:46:01AM 0 points [-]

Yes, but a world where one person in a thousand can expertly manipulate people looks ten times worse than a world where one person in ten thousand can expertly manipulate people.

Comment author: rabidchicken 01 December 2010 05:29:32PM 0 points [-]

Knowing how advertising and propaganda works does not mean you can actually use these tools in real life, especially on the level that most people interact socially. Once one in a thousand people understand the mind games which are very common today, we are not going to see a wide scale revolution, because very few people have access to millions of dollars for advertising. instead, I would expect the information to just start leaking to their friends, and before long become common knowledge even to those who never heard of the course.