All social reality is relative to a particular society. It’s perfectly possible to have an event which acts as a fire alarm for subgroup X while not being particularly important for wider society. Thus, my question to LW users (a very small subgroup) about what sorts of things would count as their fire alarm.
I know, but I can’t see the difference between “What would cause you to believe X?” and “What’s your fire alarm for X?” Except that the latter one seems like a pretty non-central use case of the term that confuses its core meaning, where the core meaning is about something that creates common knowledge in a large group of people.
All social reality is relative to a particular society. It’s perfectly possible to have an event which acts as a fire alarm for subgroup X while not being particularly important for wider society. Thus, my question to LW users (a very small subgroup) about what sorts of things would count as their fire alarm.
I know, but I can’t see the difference between “What would cause you to believe X?” and “What’s your fire alarm for X?” Except that the latter one seems like a pretty non-central use case of the term that confuses its core meaning, where the core meaning is about something that creates common knowledge in a large group of people.
I think it’s a good question.
Sadly, I’m not sure we’ll find a ‘fire alarm’ even among ourselves either.