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...eation sites can be cheap, a diversity of acorns of ideas. Nucleation sites are schelling points, little seeds that ideas can congregate around. For example, in an organization maybe share a meme-able document that is subtly subversive and sugge...
...r of people working on a project are familiar with it, it provides a convenient schelling point. "We're making an AI like the star trek computer" "We're making an AI like in Her" This happens for protopias… but also for (subtly) dystopian vision...
...portant thing that is too big to fail tends to get more too big to fail. It's a schelling point, a thing that everyone can agree is less risky than alternatives. The bigger it gets, the more obviously it is too big to fail, making the preferenti...
...ant knowhow, and the founder does not. A SAFE says "here's a widely agreed upon schelling point that everyone finds reasonable, no need for haggling." The more that everyone just uses a SAFE, the more that anyone who doesn't will look suspicious...
There are a number of valuable use cases that are missing not technology but a schelling point. If there were a meta platform that everyone was willing to trust nearly completely to upload their data to, then a number of simple use cases become...
...ile is too static. A file doesn't do anything. Although files do allow a stable schelling point for different applications on the system to coordinate at. An enchanted artifact balances all of these. Can be as squishy as a chat. But as it gets m...
The enabler of an ecosystem is not the technology, but the schelling point. The actual tech often looks dinky. Perhaps just a particular novel assemblage of existing components. The reason an ecosystem becomes alive is not b...
...mble them into a fabric that everyone agrees to coordinate within. An ecosystem schelling point problem, not a technical one.
...hat's powerful, but also dangerous (without protections). Files are the natural schelling point for different actors to coordinate, including in unexpected ways. The web introduced a simple rule: isolation between origin. Origins could not inter...
... change and they can time their work off of. An automatic, impossible to ignore schelling point. And when you're there waiting at the gate, you aren't just twiddling your thumbs, you're doing quality improvement work, testing, etc. That's a stag...
...n eyes, the steepest upward slope from the current position. That's the natural schelling point to coordinate around. With hill finding, the foot of the next hill could be in any direction in the fog. There is no obvious schelling point to conge...
... blanket of certainty. 2) They help coordinate across a large organization as a schelling point so everyone doesn't. have to continually relitigate everything. However, detailed plans, especially in dynamic environments, are brittle and can be b...