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> (That means that Rive and Musk are genetically half-siblings.) Apropos of nothing, I'm now imagining a world with forms of address based on the natural logar
by csours 7y ago
> (That means that Rive and Musk are genetically half-siblings.)
Apropos of nothing, I'm now imagining a world with forms of address based on the natural logarithm of shared genetic material.
- golergka 7y agoI come from an old Jewish family that's supposed to come King David, and I recently met a girl who comes from another family like that (rabbinical sources describe a dozen or so families with reasonable claims to Davidic lineage). We used to joke that we're longest removed siblings ever, and now I'm curious about what that natural logarithm would actually look like.
- jandrese 7y agoIsn't this roughly how people talk about their relationship with Native American tribes? They don't do the log2 math, but they're happy to hit you with the fraction.
- somesortofsystm 7y agoCertainly, First Nation People of Australia had a language of their own for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship
- roywiggins 7y agoYou're probably thinking of "blood quantum." It's... complicated. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261/so-what-exactly-is-blood-quantum https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261...
- irrational 7y agoThere is an app that will tell you and another person with the same app how closely related you are and will show the ancestry chain between the two of you. It turns out the my wife and I are 10th cousins (common great-whatever grandparents in the 1600s). I started calling her my cousin-wife, but she didn't think it was funny, so I had to stop ;-)