{"id":108,"date":"2002-03-25T01:27:37","date_gmt":"2002-03-25T09:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-12-12T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T18:37:21","slug":"schelling-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Schelling points"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Scientist: Neural network ‘in-jokes’ could pass secrets<\/a><\/p>\n

This reminds me of a discussion, years ago on Extropians, of “Schelling points”: for under-constrained problems there may be a cultural preference for particular solutions. For example, if I ask you to meet me in Paris on a given day (but have no time to say more), and you’ve never been there before, you’ll go to the Eiffel Tower — but if we have previously met in Paris, you’ll go to wherever we met before. At least, that’s how I’ll bet.
\nThese are examples of Schelling points, as I (mis)understand the notion.<\/p>\n

But.
\nI know two people who have various things in common.
\nSuppose I tell each to meet the other in Chicago on a given day.
\nIf they know nothing about each other, they’ll go to some generic Chicago landmark.
\nIf I tell each that the other studied physics at UChi, they’ll go to the site of Fermi’s reactor, I guess.
\nBut if I tell Bruce only that David is a science fiction fan, and tell David only that Bruce teaches physics, they’ll probably go to two different places.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what this thought-experiment tells us, if anything. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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