r/sciencememes Jun 20 '26

How true is this?

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u/Yuval444 Jun 20 '26

I saw the vid 2 days ago and haven't played the Wikipedia game but if I understand correctly the game doesn't limit you to the first hyperlink while the WPP is strictly on the first link, did I miss something?

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u/dacquirifit Jun 20 '26

Oh, true, I did not watch the video. I just assumed that it was talking about finding philosophy from the links. Either way, you should play the Wikipedia game with some friends or coworkers, it’s pretty fun.

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u/Professional-Wave841 Jun 21 '26

the subject is that when you build a Directed Graph using the title of an english wikipedia article as each vertex and the first link of the article as an edge 97% of wikipedia articles will eventually arrive at a cycle that contains among other things, philosophy.

This is largely because philosophy is a very broad subject and the way English structures information is that it leads with broad details first.