Common Knowledge

See also:Related Pages: Public discourse, Consensus, Inferential Distance

See also: Public discourse, Consensus

External posts: 
The Kolmogorov option by Scott Aaronson
kolmogorov complicity and-the parable of lightning by Scott Alexander

External posts:kolmogorov complicity and-the parable of lightning by Scott Alexander

Common knowledge is information that everyone knows (andand, importantly, that everyone knows that everyone knows, and so on, ad infinitum.) If information is 'common knowledge'common knowledge in a group of people, that information that can be relied and acted upon with the trust that everyone else is also coordinating around that information. This stands, in contrast, to merely publicly known information where one person cannot be sure that another person knows the information, or that another person knows that they know the information. Establishing true common knowledge is, in fact, rather hard.

See also: Public discourse

Common knowledge is information that everyone knows (and everyone knows that everyone knows, and so on, ad infinitum.) It'sIf information is 'common knowledge' in a group of people, that information that can be relied and acted upon in a group of people.with the trust that everyone else is also coordinating around that information.

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