Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014)
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Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532404 - Dec 2021 (80 comments)
Suppose I marry someone 17 years my junior, who's dad is 90 and her mom is 30 years his junior, and suppose I already had a son with a different woman who's mother had her young and her mother also had her young. I could have a kid who's grandfather is the same age as his sibling's great grandfather. I would guess these sorts of complications magnify over time, and they need not even be that complex. When you only consider your ancestors from nth generation to be from the same generation of people you get a good, clean linear look at the geometric growth of ancestors going back, but when you include disparate ages into the mix you get a much messier picture which counterintuitively decreases the validity of the idea that we are all descended from everyone in the world at around the year 1200. You start to see how ethnicities form and merge and continue for a long time or not, you get a sense that it is cultural norms that are either conducive or destructive to their continuation, you can see how our habits and cultural norms breed us.
> Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes rule.[1]
I know it doesn't mean we're all 'blood brothers' but it's useful when discussing the 'small world' phenomenon.
I suppose since friendship is difficult to define, it can probably be restated to "has had a 1:1 conversation with" or something similar.
Those paths connects me to almost every world leader from the 1980's onwards.
What you'll quickly find is that some people have 1:1 conversations with a lot of people, and relatively "unimportant" politicians in particular do so both with "regular people" and all the other parliamentary members including the "important" ones, and there are many nexuses like that where once you find a connection to one it's a massive shortcut for a surprising proportion of the world.
As a relatively small YouTuber (50K subs), I have never really spoken to giant YouTubers with millions of subscribers.
But I have spoken to many medium sized YouTubers (100K-1M subs), who are speaking to those giant YouTubers as well as to me.
I don't know MrBeast, but I know a guy who has personally worked with him on videos.
One person can speak to a lot of imporant people throughout their career. You just have to meet them.
Isn't this the point of this "six degrees" thing?
My thoughts are a bit different, a bit tangential, but there's an overlap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061439
Thanks again !
Eg https://www.evogeneao.com/en/explore/tree-of-life-explorer#h...
The last herring I ate was roughly a 120 millionth cousin, 61 million times removed.
https://xkcd.com/2608/ (Really, every gathering is a family reunion.)
We also believe that people stay fundamentally the same after death as they were in life, so someone who would have rejected the truth (and baptism) in life would likely do the same after death. Again a bit oversimplified but that's the basic idea.
I agree, and in that sense the biggest beneficiaries of baptism for the dead are those who never had a chance to accept or reject it at all in mortal life. Though for those who had a chance in life and rejected it it's still technically possible to accept it in the next life. It's complicated, just like everything.
>If I'm the same person after death as in life, then both versions of me are going to make decisions based on evidence, so my decision would naturally change.
I mean you could be right, but scripture would suggest otherwise and that having faith (or not) isn't really about physical evidence or logic.
Luke 16:27-31
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi...
(Yes, the LDS archives did help him some, but the real treasure trove was in the files of a previously unknown cousin living back east.)
That's to say, be cautious about relying only on the names without ruling out other persons who shares it.
The truth. How often do you think of your great-great grandparents? I have a photo of them hanging on my wall. I see their image everyday, but I know it’s only 2 of the 16 I had. I know nothing of the other 14.
That sounds completely wrong to me. Aren't most genes the same across all human beings?
Minor quibble but this assumption fails to take in account pedigree collapse.
It is one of the reasons why 90% of human genetic diversity is within groups and only 10% is between groups.
This being Finnish, one of the most isolated groups in Europe, what differs between me and someone also from Finnish descent is a similar quantity as what differs from say an indigenous Australian.
Humans are freakishly homogeneous compared to most species, with chimpanzees living on different sides of a river having more genetic diversity that the entirety of the human population.
Obviously historical low numbers of individuals at some point accounts for a lot of that, but cross deme gene flow even in fairly low rates is part why it is still true.
Here is a fairly accessible explanation of the above.
While I don't know if you are familiar with this, many people have the infinite population models in their head and the more realistic finite case can be counterintuitive.
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/natural-se...
Can you clarify what this means? I’ve heard it a bunch and I can imagine scenarios that this statement could describe. But also, a naive interpretation doesn’t make any sense.