@michaelbyrne Most people include "Catholics" as "Christians." See e.g. the Wikipedia article for Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity#Major_denominations …
Christians have two main Schelling points: (1) allegiance to the Pope, and (2) belief in Jesus. What are Islam's Schelling points?
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@michaelbyrne Oh sorry for misreading you! Yeah I didn't mean that the Pope is a Schelling point for all Christians... -
@michaelbyrne Just that it's a powerful Schelling point that does attract of a lot of Christians (i.e. Catholics).
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@xenocide15 Good points — although belief in predestination and circumcision aren't unique to MuslimsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@KevinSimler Tangentially addressing your question - but do you consider a schelling point more a node that reduces coordination costs or - -
@jmzwar I think I'm more focused on coordination costs, i.e., coordination in the absence of central control or full communication. - 1 more reply
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@KevinSimler "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet"? Does that work, or are there other criteria needed? -
@micahtredding I don't know, actually. Clearly the Five Pillars (or just the first) are a good candidate. - 1 more reply
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@KevinSimler hooray for rationalist hipsterism. Obscure LessWrong lingo once again trumps the global zeitgeist ;) https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Schelling+point%2Cfocal+point&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CSchelling%20point%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cfocal%20point%3B%2Cc0 … -
@wamatt I was using it way before it was (LW-)cool :)
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