The psychology of coordination and common… : DASH Story 2017-05-07
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I had an interesting conversation about common knowledge over lunch with some coworkers, though none of us knew the concept by name. It led to us trying to draw diagrams of knowing, knowing that someone knows, knowing that knowing that knowing that something knows, etc., trying to find a diagram that accounted for fully common knowledge without invoking infinity directly. The fact that we (a bunch of nerds) were all stumped by something that seemed so simple, was interesting. Separately, I read some of Pinker's books and decided to browse around his webpage. I was excited to see a paper on the subject that had previously piqued my interest, and I was even more excited to see that I could read the paper without a journal subscription. Thanks!
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