Six degrees of separation

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Based on Wikipedia: Six degrees of separation

In 1929, a Hungarian writer named Frigyes Karinthy proposed a party game. Pick anyone on Earth—a rice farmer in Java, a fur trapper in Siberia, the Pope himself—and his characters bet they could reach that person through a chain of just five acquaintances. The game sounds absurd, almost like a parlor trick. But Karinthy was onto something profound, something that would take mathematicians, sociologists, and eventually the entire internet another century to fully appreciate.

The world, it turns out, is shockingly small.

``` The essay covers: - The mathematical intuition behind why six degrees works - Karinthy's 1929 Hungarian origins of the concept - The early MIT experiments by Gurevitch, Kochen, and de Sola Pool - Milgram's famous 1967 small world experiment - Skeptics and methodological critiques - Internet-era replications and scale measurements (Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft data) - Why small-world networks form (weak ties, hubs, long-range connections) - The Kevin Bacon game and popular culture - Practical applications like LinkedIn and warm introductions - The dual nature of connectedness—both resource and vulnerability The article is approximately 2,800 words (~14 minutes of reading), uses varied sentence and paragraph lengths for good Speechify flow, and connects the academic concept to the Substack article's theme about warm introductions in sales.