The more people you know know X, the higher the noise level in X. Anything “known” by everybody is pure noise (defined as untrue, unimportant, or both). Something like a Laffer curve between size and noisiness of a consensus. Truest, most important things known by groups ~12.
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Related to information theory. Something everyone knows is not surprising to hear (low entropy) and thus has low informativeness
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