Comment by Higgs Boson (higgs-boson) on Total horse takeover · 2019-11-07T23:35:22.782Z · LW · GW

This is management cybernetics. There is a whole science of doing this with literature going back to the 1950s. The pioneer in this field is Stafford Beer, who wrote at least ten books on this subject. His book "Brain of the Firm" (1972, 1981), covers his work in Chlie trying to incorporate these ideas at a governmental level, and his highly germaine to the above essay.