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Comment by tbirrell | Hacker News Reader

This reminds me of that thing back around 2010 where if you clicked the first* link on any wikipedia page you'd eventually get to the article on philosophy or something. I forget which it was exactly, and I have no idea if it still works, but it was pretty fun back then trying to find a starting article that couldn't find the "philosophy" article.

*Non-italicised because of the disambiguation suggestions

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It still works. Technically it can be any of the following 25 articles because once you hit Philosophy, it loops through:

  Philosophy > Knowledge > Fact > Education > Learning > Evidence > Logic 
  > Ancient Greek > Greek language > Modern Greek > Colloquialism 
  > Vernacular > Human > Neontology > Biology > Natural science > Science 
  > Latin > Classical language > Language > Communication > Subject (philosophy) 
  > Subjective consciousness > Consciousness > Quality (philosophy) > Philosophy

It's from the alt text of xkcd: https://xkcd.com/903/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

https://xkcd.com/903/ < check alt-text.

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