Concept
O’Connor & Weatherall’s central result: a community of agents who each update on evidence correctly — perfect Bayesians, no irrationality, no gullibility — can still converge on a false belief. False consensus is a property of network structure and the way evidence propagates, not of individual error. It undercuts any diagnosis that locates the problem solely in receivers being careless or stupid.
Connections
- Defined in: Selection As The Other Engine
- Discussed in: Ch 7 — Emotional Memetics As The Floor, Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine
- Supported by: Not Born Yesterday
- Evidenced by: The Misinformation Age, Not Born Yesterday
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