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The Game of Perceived Consensus:
Imagine walking onto a game show set. Two images flash on a massive screen: a Lamborghini and a Ferrari. The host turns to you and says:
“Pick the one you think most other people will choose.”
That’s it. That’s the entire game. You don’t win the car. You don’t even get to drive it.
Every other contestant faces the same question: Which car will everyone else believe everyone else picks?
It’s a pure test of social intuition.
Not what you think.
Not even what they think.
But what you think they think others think.
This is the logic of perceived consensus. The recursive guessing game that drives virality, markets, elections, and memes.
And once you see it, you start to realize: most of the world runs on it.
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