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Persuasion is merely the implication of force. All actions can be explained through the language of force from the tenuous to the direct.
by throwaway48476 2y ago
Persuasion is merely the implication of force. All actions can be explained through the language of force from the tenuous to the direct.
- HPsquared 2y agoConsider the persuasion of making a sale. That's not force. People can sell political ideas in the same way, they can spread virally. EDIT: Also I consider economics, politics and marketing as basically "mass psychology". Hence all the problems with replication in those fields. EDIT 2: And with these things being psychology, there's a big "default biological drives" component. A lot of the motivations for political etc actions are internal to each person.
- throwaway48476 2y agoThe replication issues in those fields are partly attributable to the fields inability to explain behavior in terms of the biological imperative. There is the theoretical rational actor which while very misunderstood is also subject to the stochastic and entropic reality. The 'internal motivation' Persuasion can be divided into carrot and stick. The stick the implication of force against the individual and the carrot the promise of the ability to use force against other actors. This can be further expanded to negative force inherent from a relatively worse off position for not taking the carrot. With some creativity all behavior can be formulated from a few simple primitives.
- HPsquared 2y agoInterpersonal actions can be "win-win", "win-lose" (of which zero-sum is a subset) and "lose-lose". No force is needed to enter into a win-win arrangement.
- throwaway48476 2y agoMy goal in this exercise is to be able to decompose all behavior into a few simple rules.
- HPsquared 2y agoYou may find this article interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
- throwaway48476 2y agoI don't find that particularly relevant to my line of thinking. My goal is to build layers of abstraction up from automata to where all behavior can have a rational basis or aberration thereof from a stochastic and entropic process.
- EarlKing 2y agoPersuasion is the art of supplying facts to enable mutual self-interest. Not everyone has an implacable class interest.