"Soft Targets" as Schelling Points

eli+ at gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu eli+ at gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Mon Jul 29 16:33:56 PDT 1996


Tim May writes:
>The connection should be clear, but in case it is not: many soft targets
>are Schelling points for terrorist actions.

I see no coordination problem here.  Schelling points are a useful
concept when you have several actors, each of whom benefits from
making the same choice as the others.  Here, I think you want to say
"soft targets are easy to attack".

--
   Eli Brandt
   eli+ at cs.cmu.edu






More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list