#manipulation #humans The Chess-Pieces Fallacy: someone (a doctrinaire theorist) is able to "arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as he can arrange the different pieces upon a chess-board" (Adam Smith) > Unlike chess pieces, human beings have their own individual preferences, values, plans and wills, all of which can conflict with and even thwart the goals of social experiments. > Because people are not inanimate objects like chess pieces, the very attempt to use them as part of some grand design can turn out to be not merely unsuccessful but counterproductive. East:: [[普通人容易受到操控]] [[Information is manipulation]] [[Manipulate others' behaviors through shaping their beliefs]]