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More info on this? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in my own test, this isn't true. You can hit loops, e.g. the page for Russia goes to Eastern Europe wh

More info on this? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in my own test, this isn't true. You can hit loops, e.g. the page for Russia goes to Eastern Europe which goes back to Russia.

SllX 4y ago
Knowledge also forms a loop going from: Knowledge -> Procedural knowledge -> Descriptive knowledge -> Knowledge.
gibspaulding 4y ago
I just tried it from a random page and thought it was going to work when I hit "knowledge", but ended up with a loop too. I think it's more of a truism than actual provable fact.
- epicide 4y ago
  I think it might be provable that you'll eventually hit a loop. EDIT: I suppose one disproof would be the existence of articles that don't have a second link.
agweber 4y ago
'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".' Stems from https://xkcd.com/903/ https://xkcd.com/903/ alt-text. Might not be the original source, but that's where I know it from.
howenterprisey 4y ago
Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
- capableweb 4y ago
  Which, ironically, doesn't work for that page. You end up in a loop rather than getting to philosophy.
  - boomboomsubban 4y ago
    It worked for me? Either something changed in the past five minutes or one of us messed up. I did the first link as the article mentions, not the second. That could also be the issue.
    - capableweb 4y ago
      This is what I end up with: https://imgur.com/a/iz1166B https://imgur.com/a/iz1166B At "Branches of science" it links back to "Formal science". Keep in mind, you need to click on "first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link" in the article text itself.
      - boomboomsubban 4y ago
        My mistake. On my second time at "formal science," "science" was an already clicked hyperlink, and the dark blue is really close to black on my phone causing me to miss it.

More info on this? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in my own test, this isn't true. You can hit loops, e.g. the page for Russia goes to Eastern Europe which goes back to Russia.

SllX 4y ago

Knowledge also forms a loop going from: Knowledge -> Procedural knowledge -> Descriptive knowledge -> Knowledge.

gibspaulding 4y ago

I just tried it from a random page and thought it was going to work when I hit "knowledge", but ended up with a loop too. I think it's more of a truism than actual provable fact.

epicide 4y ago
I think it might be provable that you'll eventually hit a loop. EDIT: I suppose one disproof would be the existence of articles that don't have a second link.

agweber 4y ago

'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".' Stems from https://xkcd.com/903/ https://xkcd.com/903/ alt-text. Might not be the original source, but that's where I know it from.

howenterprisey 4y ago

Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

capableweb 4y ago
Which, ironically, doesn't work for that page. You end up in a loop rather than getting to philosophy.
- boomboomsubban 4y ago
  It worked for me? Either something changed in the past five minutes or one of us messed up. I did the first link as the article mentions, not the second. That could also be the issue.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    This is what I end up with: https://imgur.com/a/iz1166B https://imgur.com/a/iz1166B At "Branches of science" it links back to "Formal science". Keep in mind, you need to click on "first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link" in the article text itself.
    - boomboomsubban 4y ago
      My mistake. On my second time at "formal science," "science" was an already clicked hyperlink, and the dark blue is really close to black on my phone causing me to miss it.