I think that’s another perfectly valid way to describe Alexis’s experience. But one of the ways stag hunts go awry is that people don’t even realize they’re choosing stag.
Like, from Alexis’s perspective, it probably doesn’t … feel like a stag hunt? In that it doesn’t seem like doing-things-in-the-high-trust-way requires effort and expenditure? b/c Alexis has lightworld privilege and is sort of steeped in the benefits of everyone cooperating all the time. But from Bryce’s perspective, it’s a crazy risky stag choice and the rabbit option seems way safer.
So Alexis may not parse it as “oh, right, that person chose rabbit,” but rather as “whoa, why is this person not doing The Obvious Thing?”
(In many stag hunts, people who don’t realize that they’re asking others to choose stag/take a leap of faith often treat stag as the default, and react to rabbiters as if those rabbiters are defecting/undermining/betraying/whatever.)
Was surprised at this line because that scenario seemed to me clearly a Stag Hunt. On reflection, of course this varies between people.
Edit: it seemed to me from Alexis’s perspective, I mean.
I think that’s another perfectly valid way to describe Alexis’s experience. But one of the ways stag hunts go awry is that people don’t even realize they’re choosing stag.
Like, from Alexis’s perspective, it probably doesn’t … feel like a stag hunt? In that it doesn’t seem like doing-things-in-the-high-trust-way requires effort and expenditure? b/c Alexis has lightworld privilege and is sort of steeped in the benefits of everyone cooperating all the time. But from Bryce’s perspective, it’s a crazy risky stag choice and the rabbit option seems way safer.
So Alexis may not parse it as “oh, right, that person chose rabbit,” but rather as “whoa, why is this person not doing The Obvious Thing?”
(In many stag hunts, people who don’t realize that they’re asking others to choose stag/take a leap of faith often treat stag as the default, and react to rabbiters as if those rabbiters are defecting/undermining/betraying/whatever.)
I think this framing was somewhat new to me and a useful explanation in contrast/in-addition-to The Schelling Choice is “Rabbit”, not “Stag”