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Re:Six Degrees of Wikipedia by lapetitejort on Monday September 20, 2021 @01:51PM (#28596598)
Go to any sizable wiki page and click the first wiki link, then repeat. The theory goes that eventually you will end up at Philosophy. For example Eddie Vedder took seven clicks to reach Philosophy.

It's not a law, however. "Township High School District 211" sent me into an infinite loop:

United States

Contiguous United States

Alaska

U.S. State

United States

Perhaps I should edit one of the pages to prevent that...?

Re:Six Degrees of Wikipedia by Nition on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @01:34AM (#28602311)
Awesome, it works! I picked a random town and got to Philosophy in fifteen steps. I got from Sushi to Philosophy in 24 steps. All concepts abstract upwards as you go on until you're at pure thought. Deprimo, ergo cogito.

For the record I ignored links in the initial brackets. Beyond Philosophy there's an infinite redirect loop between Metaphysics and Philosophy.

Re:Six Degrees of Wikipedia by spywaregorilla on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:03PM (#28598239)
I played this a few times. While it does vaguely work, it seems to follow a pretty consistent route and benefits from the fact that philosophy is preceded by "idea", which seems like the more proper root of the epistemological tree.
Re:Six Degrees of Wikipedia by ragazzina on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @06:05AM (#28603515)
>It's not a law, however. "Township High School District 211" sent me into an infinite loop

Incidentally, both "Lemont Township 210" and "Leyden High School District 212" end up at Philosophy.

Re:Six Degrees of Wikipedia by davidholdeman on Monday September 20, 2021 @02:53PM (#28597351)
When I play this game, I click the N+1th link if I have already visited the Nth link.