Steven Pinker reveals how our minds simplify infinite recursive knowledge into a sense of something being public or self-evident.
As heard by us
A patient tour of how shared knowledge shapes money, religion, law, and cooperation.
Steven Pinker and Russ Roberts spend the conversation on a deceptively simple idea: common knowledge, the state where each person knows what the other knows, and knows that the other knows it too.
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When everyone knows that everyone knows, your choices start changing.
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