Last year there was an “Around the World in 80 days” tv series. In that the information booth/clock and grand central station is a plot-relevant meet up point used by the characters more or less as a Schelling point. That is strong data that this is the accepted norm, it is also a push to make it the accepted norm. (Although the Empire State building hadn’t been built yet so the characters had no chance to pick it).
Another problem with the empire state building is that I thought I knew what the empire state building looked like because it is famous. But, when I actually went to New York it didn’t look like I thought it should—it turns out that (at least for me) the famous image in my head labelled “Empire State building” was actually an image of the Chrysler building. My suspicion is that this is really common.
Last year there was an “Around the World in 80 days” tv series. In that the information booth/clock and grand central station is a plot-relevant meet up point used by the characters more or less as a Schelling point. That is strong data that this is the accepted norm, it is also a push to make it the accepted norm. (Although the Empire State building hadn’t been built yet so the characters had no chance to pick it).
Another problem with the empire state building is that I thought I knew what the empire state building looked like because it is famous. But, when I actually went to New York it didn’t look like I thought it should—it turns out that (at least for me) the famous image in my head labelled “Empire State building” was actually an image of the Chrysler building. My suspicion is that this is really common.
Yeah the Chrysler building sure is actually prettier than the Empire State building.