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ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 months agoHere’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.
I found a exemption:
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
Japanese language > Japonic languages
will also cause a loop.
The Help: namespace is not articles tho.
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.
Excellent! Well played.
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).
Apparently, there is a wikipedia article about this: …wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy
Started off at the page for Ham, and yep, it ended up on philosophy.
There seem to be a couple of loops where you always end up circling between the same through pages
Yeah. For example, Strongman gives a 2 page loop.
if you click the second link instead when you encounter a loop, it fixes it, though.
If this is true, then every wikipedia page will eventually lead to wikipedia of Greek. Hence, Greek best country confirmed by wikipedia?!
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
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.
turboshadowcool@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Thank you for your service o7