Hey I got something fun for you to try. Go to any Wikipedia page and then click on the first link you see, then keep clicking on the first link you see for all subsequent pages. More often than not, you’ll wind up on the Wikipedia page for Philosophy.
The real question is “how many clicks do you need to do to get back to the original page you started at?”.
I ended up in an infinite loop between Steamboat and Steamboat (disambiguation). Starting from the Article of the day, USS Romeo.
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I think the rule of thumb for getting to the “philosophy” page is to click the first Wikipedia link in the body of the article, not the first link you see or the top link on the webpage. The first link in the body of the Steamboat page is then “boat”, and following the procedure from there does end up at the “philosophy” page.
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This was a popular fun exercise 5-10 years ago. Glad to see it’s still relevant.
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it’s a real life 3n+1 conjecture