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Omni-SciencePosted: Jul 08, 2011 - 17:00
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Ordo Ab Chao.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQHSKLXu2c&feature=relmfu

decided to post this after watching his TED talk on the decline of violence. (also I'm trolling that video so check into it for hilarity ;D)

Taken from the Wiki of the book, "The Blank Slate"

"He also argues that grounding moral values in claims about a blank slate opens them to the possibility of being overturned by future empirical discoveries; and that belief in a blank slate human nature encourages destructive social trends such as persecution of the successful and totalitarian social engineering ."

Oh gee, I wonder what examples I could find to validate that.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate

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CyborgJesusPosted: Jul 08, 2011 - 18:00
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Book is pretty good, too.

If you still want to change someone's behavior:
"Nudge" is pretty decent to get into social engineering from a perspective that acknowledges its limits.

I'd also recommend the ridiculously complex, but unmatched "Negotiation Analysis" which combines game theory, behavioral decision making, decision analysis and negotiation analysis into one intertwined theory that can be used as a normative, descriptive and prescriptive tool for individual, competitive or group decision making. It's obviously centered around negotiation analysis, but can really be applied to a multitude of scenarios. I based a lot of my models for my book on calculations I found here.

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