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Comment author: signal 30 November 2015 05:55:06PM 2 points [-]

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?

Comment author: Lumifer 30 November 2015 05:58:43PM 2 points [-]

how to influence more than one person

I believe the usual term for this is "politics". This is one classic reference.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 December 2015 05:12:11PM 1 point [-]

I believe the usual term for this is "politics". This is one classic reference.

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.

Comment author: signal 02 December 2015 09:05:16AM 1 point [-]

Can you point out your 3-5 favorite books/frameworks?