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https://xkcd.com/214/ https://xkcd.com/214/ An interesting side note: if you repeatedly click the first link at the beginning of any wikipedia article (except

• horns13 9y ago
  I started with 'God of War (2018 video game)' and ended up at 'Philosophy'!
• hithereagain 9y ago
  If you start with Mathematics, you'll end up in a loop: Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematics. Ignoring this backlink, though, it would work: Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematical object > Abstract and concrete > Referent > Linguistics > Science > Knowledge > Fact > Verificationism > Philosophy
  • amenod 9y ago
    Also, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Internationaux_de_Strasbourg_%E2%80%93_Doubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Internationaux_de_Strasbo... (random page) you get into loop around "Languages". But if the algorithm should ignore the already visited links then it would probably work because the pages usually describe something using the higher level concepts first. The question is how much larger the pool of "always found" pages becomes.
• wdbbdw 9y ago
  Test of n = 1: ("Random article") -> Yūyūki -> 1989 in video gaming -> Golden Joystick Awards -> Video game -> Electronic game -> Game -> Play (activity) -> Psychology -> Behavior -> American English -> Variety (linguistics) -> Sociolinguistics -> Society -> Social group -> Social science -> Discipline (academia) -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Verificationism -> Philosophy That was fun!