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This is where we start to get into the darker territory of Dark Arts. Sadly, much of elite culture is downstream of this chapter too; someone pointed out to me that awareness of this might be rare among silicon valley software engineers; but sadly, it's not rare among silicon valley...

Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is worthwhile because: 1. It became so popular in 1936 and afterwards that much of elite Western culture is downstream of it. 1. So if you try using it adversarially (even accidentally e.g. you notice and instrumentally converge on tactics similar...