my point is that 'the corpus' you refer to contains very many examples of such thinking about human tendency and behaviour, especially with regard to group-think, influence from those in positions of authority and perceptions regarding self-efficacy, to name but a few of the many areas of research that one can dive into, if one has the inclination.

there is conflation between "I didn't know" and "people don't know" which relates to a bias rooted in social norms and a lack of epistemic humility

There are at least two ways to interpret your comment (maybe a third way is that you were being intentionally ambiguous):

  - [there is convergence between models] and therefore they reflect some latent truth about reality
  - [there is convergence between models] and therefore they’re not really providing many novel or interesting insights compared to humans who have a much more diverse set of backgrounds from which they have “learned”

>not necessarily obvious from the corpus

I would say that the convergence of different models is indeed evidence that this is part of the corpus

I would argue it's easy to understand how they all have this opinion: Because humans understand this about ourselves. It's in the data we create and provided to the LLMs.