Discontinuities create schelling points.
- Discontinuities create schelling points.
- Moments when everyone can agree that something has happened, and coordinate some kind of action.
- Coordinated action is significantly more likely to succeed.
- The frog in boiling water happens because there's no discontinuous "why now"?
- People react based on the discontinuity, not the absolute value of the heat.[bi]
- Bad actors can take advantage of this to slowly turn up the heat to sweltering levels without anyone taking a stand.