Silas comments on The Fear of Common Knowledge - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 July 2008 09:48AM

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Comment author: Silas 09 July 2008 04:56:53PM 3 points [-]

How does this apply to religion? Is there e.g. a situation in which everyone knows that the tenets of the religion are false, and knows that everyone else knows they're false, but if this becomes common knowledge, the bond between the people breaks apart?