Philisophy Rules

bacon

Well-Known Member
From the alt text of this xkcd comic

Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".
so these were my tries and it appears to be true.




 

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Id say it was more impressive if it was "within 20 hops" or something rather than just "Eventually" :p

Pornography
Sexual intercourse
Penis
vertebrates
subphylum
taxonomic rank
biological classification
organisms
biology
natural science
see [2]
 

Huung

Well-Known Member
Started at Timbuctoo, and took long enough to get there...


Timbuctoo (yes, the books, not the place)
Roger Hargreaves
English
Country
Geographical
Earth
Planet
Orbiting
Physics
Natural Science [2]
Science
Knowledge
Facts
Information
Sequence
Mathematics
Quantity
Property
Modern Philosophy
Philosophy

So 20 jumps!
 

bacon

Well-Known Member
Nope, my first try...

Kevin Bacon
Animal House
Comedy Film
Film
Recording
Capturing (data storage)

Then you get stuck in a Recording/Capturing loop.

You missed:

click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics

Kevin Bacon
Golden Globe Award
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Organization
Social group
Social cohesion
Social policy
Quality of life
International development
Concept
Cognitive
Science
... and we've been here before.
 

BiG D

Administrator
Staff member
Yeah. The trend I'm seeing here is that everything tends to end up hitting natural science... Has anyone hit philosophy via any other path?
 

Ronin Storm

Administrator
Staff member
Dungeons and Dragons
Fantasy
Genre
Literature
Fiction
Narrative
Proto-Indo-European language
Reconstructed
Proto-language
Tree model
Historical linguistics
Language family
Language
Human
Living
Biology
Natural Science
...

Okay, that didn't avoid natural science either.
 

Dragon

Well-Known Member
Pick any of the links after natural science. That should avoid natural science itself ;)
 

BiG D

Administrator
Staff member
Um... no?


  • Road
  • Thoroughfare
  • Place
  • Geography
  • Earth
  • ...will eventually lead to science and then philosophy

FROM THE HISTORY PAGE:
04:38, 28 May 2011 NEBeijing (talk | contribs) (1,983 bytes) (A taxonomy of types of thoroughfares is already included in the articles. I therefore pushed the 'highways, roads, and trails' to after the first sentence, but perhaps it should be removed altogether? I also tried to clean up the "types" some) (undo)
So it totally DID work until some asshat updated it.
 

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Telecommunication and Transmission_(telecommunications) bounce back and forth in a loop.
 

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
What day is it?

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