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Attacking the big problems (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by HonoraryMancunian to c/[email protected]
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[–] ThePyroPython 27 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Here's a fun game:

Pick any Wikipedia article. Click the first link. Keep clicking the first link. Eventually you'll end up at Philosophy and forever be in a loop going back to Philosophy.

Turns out conscious thinking and applying logical rigor is the basis for everything we perceive.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying this out.

Here's the results: Shadow King (Marvel character): success after about 10 links

Ernest Shackleton (article of the day): 10 clicks

Wikipedia (the article): 4 clicks

Church of the Holy Mother of God, Bolshiye Saly: 14 clicks

James Loren Martin: 24 clicks

Annette Ziegler: 14 clicks

Almost all of them went through Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Art. Seems like a pretty reliable rule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you for your service o7

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I found an exception:

Starting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English: Help:IPA/English > Alphabet > Letter (alphabet) > Symbol > Sign (semiotics) > Semiotics > Help:IPA/English

If you don't think the IPA link counts as "the first link", then

Starting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language: Japanese language > Japonic languages > Japanese language

will also cause a loop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Help: namespace is not articles tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If you don't count link that leads to help, then Japanese language will lead to a loop of only 2 clicks.

See the original post.

[–] ThePyroPython 4 points 9 months ago

Excellent! Well played.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

wouldn't count that stuff in the parenthesis, as it's just showing the translation of "japonic lanuages" and then the transliteration of that translation. Sometimes they'll have pronunciation or whatever in parentheses, and that shouldn't count for the same reason.

If instead of clicking on "japanese" again, you had clicked on "language family", you'd get all the way to philosophy in 8 or 9 clicks (i lost count and i'm too lazy to fix it).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Apparently, there is a wikipedia article about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

I really wish this article wouldn't link to philosophy, but it does...

[–] Wodge 6 points 9 months ago

Started off at the page for Ham, and yep, it ended up on philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There seem to be a couple of loops where you always end up circling between the same through pages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah. For example, Strongman gives a 2 page loop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

if you click the second link instead when you encounter a loop, it fixes it, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If this is true, then every wikipedia page will eventually lead to wikipedia of Greek, because the philosophy page leads to greek.

Hence, Greek best country confirmed by wikipedia?!