Everything on Wikipedia Leads to Philosophy

[kevinwong]

Just found this website (that generated the image above): https://xefer.com/wikipedia

A theory was proposed that all Wikipedia entries will lead to Philosophy one link at a time, and it looks like someone took up the challenge. So I've used the following terms to see what comes up:- steemit, ethereum, bitcoin, dogecoin, zcash, facebook, reddit, twitter, instagram, donald trump, guilds, capitalism, anarchism, socialism, internet, currency, money.

I think this is awesome. Quite a useful tool for research, at least along philosophical lines, so to speak. For a larger image, check it out here: https://postimg.org/image/vinyahwmj/ or just generate your own. The trees are waiting!

Comments

[donkeypong]

Six degrees of separation (more or less)?

[funcooker]

My thoughts exactly!

[kevinwong]

Somebody postulated it'll take less for yoda to get to philosophy - indeed! Works for most of the star wars characters. https://postimg.org/image/i99ppbfk9/

[nigelmarkdias]

Great reminder, @kevinwong
And everything on the internet trends to Hitler.

Godwin's Law

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) is an internet adage which asserts that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1" ​​that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler.
Mike Godwin

Image & text from Wikipedia

[kevinwong]

Lol good one. I've yet to get a hitler comment though! Will wait for the day.

[pitterpatter]

I bet Yoda had fewer clicks to get to philosophy.

[kevinwong]

You got that right! only 5-6 clicks away

[heretickitten]

Aye, I've tried this myself.

It's more than just this. You can just click the first link of any article, and it leads to philosophy.

Just keep clicking, and eventually, you'll get there. But you might need to go beyond whatever is in parentheses. Not really sure.

[kevinwong]

Taken from - https://xefer.com/2011/05/wikipedia

There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use more general terms. Following that idea will eventually lead… somewhere.

Yup all that's needed is to keep on clicking :)

[heretickitten]

Oh, I guess I missed that really obvious part.
Uhhhh, how about I believe in redundancy? .... sure... >__<;;

[kevinwong]

I'm sure there are plenty =)

[lemouth]

A conspiracy! :D

[kevinwong]

philosophy's running the world!

[teamsteem]

Haha!

[norbu]

Thanks man, had never heard of this! Fascinating!

[kevinwong]

A pretty neat way to refer to stuff when getting into debates :p

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