Modern Philosophy now goes to Western Europe rather than Philosophy. And since everything seems to go through that, nothing will reach philosophy anymore.
Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
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Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#22That's 'cause Philosophy covers it all: "Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
Or, in other terms: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hgkdl/mindblown/c1v8fy...
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#23An article[1] from the Xamuel.com's blog predates the xkcd stripe by a few days and states the sames things but with mathematics instead of philosophy. Also their's some fun with second links.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#24Ironically, it doesn't work from "Spark Plug".
Strange, it did for me yesterday.
Edit: Modern Philosophy seems to be missing the link to Philosophy, which should be there according to the edit history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modern_philosophy&...).
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#25Wow, someone just modified Modern Philosophy (now first link is Western Europe), Science and/or Knowledge pages, which makes most previously things tried by me kick into a 25 loop. I'm wondering if it's intentional.
Most things were getting stuck in a loop around "Indo-European languages" last time I checked. Someone is definitely playing silly buggers.
I was tempted to see whether I could somehow engineer an all-roads-lead-to-goatse situation, but I couldn't think of a plausible pathway.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#26You don't reach Philosophy from Philosophy.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#27It seems to take a while to search; are you querying wikipedia each step instead of a DB snapshot?
Last time I downloaded Wikipedia, it was 4.5GB. If I were to knock up this hack, I would definitely scrape pages instead.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#28An article[1] from the Xamuel.com's blog predates the xkcd stripe by a few days and states the sames things but with mathematics instead of philosophy. Also their's some fun with second links. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573038
And the version using philosophy appeared on Reddit before the comic as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/hgwbe/on_wikiped...
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#29It totally worked for me, I tried it with Sausage and Cradle of Filth. I thought it was a joke, it blew me away.
But then I found that "Osama Bin Laden" crossed "philosophers" and then ended on a loop between "reason" and "rationality".
EDIT: I just tried "Osama Bin Laden", the steps it takes seems to be using a slightly different Wikipedia than I see.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#30Also try turning off spell check or writing something significant on paper and see how well we do these days.