2020-12-29

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2020-12-29 05:20 pm

schelling points

You have to meet a stranger in New York, on a given day. You cannot coordinate place and time between you in advance. Where do you meet?

The answer involves something called a "focal point" or Schelling point (after the person who developed the theory), and looking it up leads to some very interesting ideas on coordination without cooperation.