It seems to me like the underlying situation is not that all stag hunt games are played separately with the same dynamics, but that there are lots of simultaneous stag hunt games being played, such that figuring out which stags to coordinate on first is a big problem, and in some games in some cultures the coordination point really is Stag, but Rabbit in the rest of them.
If I were to opportunistically steal stuff I like a lot from my casual acquaintances, people would come down hard to defend their stag hunt in that domain. In other games I’ve noticed variation. The people I know outside the SF Bay Area maintain households that can sustain extended guest-host interactions in ways that can gradually create rich, embodied social bonds among people who don’t have hobbies or mass media consumption preferences in common, but no one puts effort into that in the Bay as far as I can tell, which seems like the Rabbit equilibrium there.
It seems to me like the underlying situation is not that all stag hunt games are played separately with the same dynamics, but that there are lots of simultaneous stag hunt games being played, such that figuring out which stags to coordinate on first is a big problem, and in some games in some cultures the coordination point really is Stag, but Rabbit in the rest of them.
If I were to opportunistically steal stuff I like a lot from my casual acquaintances, people would come down hard to defend their stag hunt in that domain. In other games I’ve noticed variation. The people I know outside the SF Bay Area maintain households that can sustain extended guest-host interactions in ways that can gradually create rich, embodied social bonds among people who don’t have hobbies or mass media consumption preferences in common, but no one puts effort into that in the Bay as far as I can tell, which seems like the Rabbit equilibrium there.
Yeah, I agree with this. Might edit the post to acknowledge this better.