Blackadder, Irish Setters, Skodas, Kenny Everett, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Pittsburgh, Ian Dury, Cup Cakes... All lead to Greeks or Philosophy in but a few mouse clicks.
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I'm guessing that because Wikipedia is a knowledge base, and the origin of knowledge and western culture is Greek Philosophy?
That was my take. Nothing to do with chance and a lot to do with wells in the search space. So much Western knowledge is based on Greek thought that eventually you fall into one of the wells in the otherwise flat space.
It's a bit like starting at any real positive integer (any wiki article), repeatedly adding -1 (click first non bracketed link) and feigning surprise when you always reach 0 (Greeks). It's gonna happen, it's just a question of when.
JavaScriptDonkey wrote:
It's a bit like starting at any real positive integer (any wiki article), repeatedly adding -1 (click first non bracketed link) and feigning surprise when you always reach 0 (Greeks). It's gonna happen, it's just a question of when.
I'm seriously not taking the piss.. but can you put that in laymans? I'd love to know how it works...
Tried this three times; the first two times I got into "language", where like others I got stuck; the third did indeed get me to "Philosophy" (in eleven).
Here is another attempt at a Law, which has worked twice for me (and that is the full extent of the empirical proof):
When you compare your record/CD/music download collection with somebody else's and you find you have only one album in common - That album will be Al Stewart's "The Year of the Cat".
Keepz wrote:When you compare your record/CD/music download collection with somebody else's and you find you have only one album in common - That album will be Al Stewart's "The Year of the Cat".
It will not. Not a cat in hell's.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Keepz wrote:When you compare your record/CD/music download collection with somebody else's and you find you have only one album in common - That album will be Al Stewart's "The Year of the Cat".
It will not. Not a cat in hell's.
I have around 2,000 records and Al Stewart does not figure among them.
biffvernon wrote:Why is Al Stewart so far away from philosophy?
Irony indeed.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
