ClaimsSteven Pinker

“A Schelling point is a choice that people make to coordinate that has no intrinsic value other than the fact that everyone else knows that it exists.”

Steven Pinker 24 September 2025 Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment (Conversations with Tyler) archived copy

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A Schelling point is a choice that people make to coordinate that has no intrinsic value other than the fact that everyone else knows that…

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Steven Pinker, “A Schelling point is a choice that people make to coordinate that has no intrinsic value other than the fact that everyone else knows that…” (said 24 September 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_34d0d1400a57, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_34d0d1400a57

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