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  • If you don’t like tiny pockets, then why did you buy pants with tiny pockets? I seriously don’t understand the logic.

    Men’s underpants come with flies and without flies. Those without are usually cheaper. If I want a fly, I buy those with a fly. I don’t buy underpants without a fly and then complain that I didn’t get a fly.

    I believe you that pants with big pockets are hard to find and that it’s effort to buy them. But that still doesn’t add any sense to buying pants with tiny pockets.











  • Suppose the average person p0 has n acquaintances. Then a naive approach would say that each of p0’s acquaintances (call one of them p1) also has n acquaintances, leading p0 with n2 acquaintances of the second degree.

    However, in a social network, many of p1’s acquaintances are shared between p0 and p1. Let’s say that rn (1/nr≤1) of p1’s acquaintances are actually first-order acquaintances of p0. The lower limit for r is 1/n because naturally one of p1’s acquaintances is p0 themselves.

    This gives us n⋅(1−p)⋅n = n2⋅(1−p) as the number of second-degree acquaintances, if my math is mathing. Increase n for more extraverted people in the network, and increase p for more closely-knit networks.

    To model the headline X % know someone who knows, we solve 1 / [n2⋅(1−p)] ≥ x where x is X% expressed as a fraction. Plugging in n=100 and p = 1/10 (I pulled these numbers out of my ass) and X=20% we get 1 / [1002 ⋅ (1−.1))] = 1 / [ 10^4 ⋅ 0.9 ] = 1 / 900; again, if my math is mathing.

    So this headline is true if about 1 in 900 people are in a relationship with AI.