Similarly, I’ve seen people complain when someone said at a CFAR alumni reunion, “I declare the Schelling location for xyz activity to be abc place.”
I find this to be a perfectly valid (if tongue-in-cheek) usage of the term. Sure, that location wasn’t the Schelling point for that activity before, but the act of declaring it to be makes it so!
Once that statement has been made and everyone has heard it, no further coordination is required for that location to be the default location for that activity. It is the Schelling point from now on.
Similarly, I’ve seen people complain when someone said at a CFAR alumni reunion, “I declare the Schelling location for xyz activity to be abc place.”
I find this to be a perfectly valid (if tongue-in-cheek) usage of the term. Sure, that location wasn’t the Schelling point for that activity before, but the act of declaring it to be makes it so!
Once that statement has been made and everyone has heard it, no further coordination is required for that location to be the default location for that activity. It is the Schelling point from now on.
I’ve heard this type of speech named “enactive” (to go along with the more common denotative aka descriptive, normative aka prescriptive, imperative).