Click the first link on any Wikipedia article, then keep going. Almost every path ends at the same page: Philosophy. But what happens when you play the game in Arabic, Chinese, Russian or French? Join Zac Zinn on a deep dive into Wikipedia’s hidden link networks to understand what they might reveal about how different cultures see the world.
In this video:
0:00 Wikipedia’s secret rabbit hole
1:00 The Wikipedia game
3:12 How culture shapes our perception
4:43 Why English Wikipedia always end at Philosophy
5:35 Plato’s diairesis & Wikipedia
7:44 How East Asian thinking breaks the game
9:18 Other Wikipedia languages
10:52 Is this really culture?
Credits:
Presenter & Producer: Zac Zinn
Producers: Christian Harimanow & Oscar Armstrong
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6:31 And here's me thinking diaeresis is just two dots over a letter
I never use wikipedia
4:30 Isn’t all language and math just reference points that we’ve all agreed upon?
It took you four months to come up with this?
Missed opportunity to call this "six degrees of Francis Bacon"
i have been playing the wikipedia game myself after watching this tonight and trying to guess a page that didn't end up linking through to 'philosophy'… it took a while but luckily i have just found that "Mount Everest" takes me into a 'mathematics' / 'number theory' loop in a mere three clicks… i can finally brush my teeth and go to bed a happy bunny…🙂
Who asked you to "make" THIS video for them? Please do a video on it. Do you wanna move into their server space or something. 🤔
interesting, once you get to philosophy, it loops between reality and existence
I got stuck in closed loop of Ancient Greek and Greek language starting point random article Zenis
Nice video !
Though it does a bit of an is-ought fallacy. Just because different cultures think differently („is“) doesn’t mean there is no objective „right“ way („ought“).
phi loss of phi
Lula isn't the only prominent left wing leader in Latin America. So is Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico.
philisophy is litterally the field which defines what knowledge even is
So its no wonder
Its the field which grounds every other
It umong art and mathematics
Collatz conjecture solved! 3x + 1 = philosophy.
Make the data open!! People can work on it instead of starting from scratch. I'd lovely help
Do you know how much knowledge is on the internet…? It's got Wikipedia, Google, YouTube, Instagram, etc… so yes get the hell off the internet, but keep the good stuff…! 😂😂😂
12:42 the circle of life…! 😂😂😂
Ffs… All that for some moral relativism? What a waste.
6:24
Influence
Philosophy is a quagmire of useless results from which there is no escape
What about India? No study? How can you miss the world's biggest dataset—not just in terms of history, as one of the world's truely oldest civilisations, but also in population, with one in every six people on Earth living in India? Is this an incomplete study, or do you need to open your mind a little more?
What about India? No study? How can you miss the world's biggest dataset—not just in terms of history, as one of the world's truely oldest civilisations, but also in population, with one in every six people on Earth living in India? Is this an incomplete study, or do you need to open your mind a little more?
What about India? No study? How can you miss the world's biggest dataset—not just in terms of history, as one of the world's truely oldest civilisations, but also in population, with one in every six people on Earth living in India? Is this an incomplete study, or do you need to open your mind a little more?
I regret I only have one vote to give
In all fairness, philosophy is such a far reaching abstract subject that this makes sense to me.
What a fascinating exploration of the hidden connections between language, culture, and human knowledge! The idea that following Wikipedia’s first links can reveal different pathways to philosophy raises intriguing questions about how cultures organize information and understand the world. Do these linguistic rabbit holes reflect shared human thinking or distinct cultural perspectives? A brilliant intersection of technology, philosophy, and cultural discovery!