Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A simulation to see if you can really reach anyone in 6 steps

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlon2tvywA 

https://science.howstuffworks.com/math-concepts/six-degrees-separation.htm

https://www.hackerearth.com/blog/theory-six-degrees-of-separation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation#Computer_networks 

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/six-degrees-of-separation 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/aug/03/internet.email

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation#Films 

There is also a peculiar synchronicity aspect to this. 


Boney M. - Rasputin (Sopot Festival 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16y1AkoZkmQ 

Bobby Farrell died on the same day as Grigori Rasputin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c5yPIQ3LQI&list=RD9c5yPIQ3LQI&start_radio=1 , https://www.youtube.com/@boneym.official/videos 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Farrell , https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-57949

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268184/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Farrell#Later_years_and_death "Coincidentally, he died 94 years to the exact day and in the same city as Grigori Rasputin..."  

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8232749/Boney-M-frontman-Bobby-Farrell-died-on-same-day-as-Rasputin.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin_(song)  


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison John Lennon was killed on the birthday of Jim Morrison, December 8. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Lennon He has the same birthday as his father. 

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/102501 The Dakota was given a special designation in 1976, exactly 4 yeas before the death of John Lennon.

Designated NHL:December 81976[2]

https://web.archive.org/web/20110605222244/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceID=1244&resourceType=Building   


Bill Joy and Lisa Joy on AI

https://www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/in-bill-joys-why-the-future-doesnt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_Us

https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2 

https://medium.com/@andrewhessel/revisiting-bill-joys-why-the-future-doesn-t-need-us-in-2025-f80dbc023783 

Lisa_Joy would end up providing her own AI warning on the Westworld TV series. https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Lisa_Joy , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Joy#Career 

https://medium.com/authority-magazine/westworld-creator-lisa-joy-on-the-messages-we-should-take-from-the-peripheral-and-why-the-194617e4b239 

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a61776590/lisa-joy-and-jonathan-nolan-fallout-interview-2024/

They aren't related. Neither are Jeff Rice and Anne Rice, but they both had a thing for the modern vampire character. 

https://nightstalker.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_Rice

https://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/2015/08/jeff_rice_creator_the_night_stalker_had_an_enormous_influence_on_horror_entertainment.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Stalker_(1972_film)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/996663.The_Night_Stalker 

https://brombonesbooks.com/2019/12/22/re-reading-jeff-rices-the-night-stalker-after-45-years/  

https://monstrousbooks.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-novel

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rice_jeff 

https://www.goodreads.com/series/48265-the-night-stalker 

The Rice Vampire Synchronicity.

https://www.sublimehorror.com/books/anne-rice-making-of-a-modern-vampire/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice#Interview_with_the_Vampire 

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43564-the-vampire-chronicles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Chronicles   


H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, were not related, but still shared a connection with The_War_of_the_Worlds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds (1898)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)  


https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/konrad-zuse-and-the-z1-the-dawn-of-programmable-computing 

https://medium.com/latinxinai/is-our-universe-just-a-gigantic-computer-program-29d6a1ac38ba

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-computational-universe 

https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/zuse/ 

https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/in-the-beginning-was-the-code

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html 

https://history.computer.org/pioneers/pdfs/Z/Zuse.pdf