Slightly-Super Persuasion Will Do

In SF this week, I met an online friend in person for the first time. We talked about super-persuasion. His take was: there is mostly an efficient market for power, and the world is reactive. Unlike software, humans adapt to new exploits or even just unexplained strange happenings. Society resists, pushes back. Unlike an instance of FreeBSD, it is not fine one minute then hacked the next.