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What topics aren't controversial and within a short inferential distance from most people? My intuition is that this is close to the definition of "boring".
Listen to actual conversation sometime, most of it is excruciatingly boring if you think about it in terms of information. But as other posters have pointed out, most conversation is about social bonding, not exchanging information.