Yvain said there are slippery slopes and identified Schelling points as a natural stopping point of them. Nonetheless, I think we should be suspicious of the slippery-slop argument because it can easily be a fully general counter argument unless it resorts to specific evidence in support.
Edit: My question is more directed at the divide you asserted between “classical rationality” and whatever alternative you think is better.
Yvain said there are slippery slopes and identified Schelling points as a natural stopping point of them. Nonetheless, I think we should be suspicious of the slippery-slop argument because it can easily be a fully general counter argument unless it resorts to specific evidence in support.
Edit: My question is more directed at the divide you asserted between “classical rationality” and whatever alternative you think is better.
Right. So
If we eat ice-cream on tuesdays now, soon the earth will be attacked by killer neopods!
is a poor slippery slope, whereas
If we eat ice-cream on tuesdays now, we’ll soon eat it every day
is not.