The Glade 4.0

If you can't see the picture, it says if you go to any wikipedia article and click on the first link, skipping links in parentheses, and continue to click the first link in each article, you will always end up on "Philosophy".

So far it's worked for everything I've tried.

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Ron Paul 2012

It took a couple dozen clicks to get from Orange (fruit) to Philosophy, but it did eventually get there.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Bunch Davies vaccum -> Philosophy in 24 links.

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21 clicks for Parkdale Avenue (Ottawa) --> Philosophy

Holy cow, it works. 19 clicks to get from "casual sex" to "Property (Philosophy)" with the first link on that one being "modern philosophy."
Huh. How bout that.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Sarah Raphael -> Philosophy took 19 links

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Scarlet Breasted Fruit Dove to Transient Medicine - 50 links.

No Philosophy.

Guess I was gullible. Decided not to keep going for the 6 million clicks it might take before the target appeared.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Scarlet Breasted Fruit Dove to Property (philosophy) - 14 links.

What did we do differently?

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

It doesn't count if you edit Wikipedia for your purposes.

Sorry, Troll, err Lex, I wouldn't go to that much trouble.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Vindicarre, we didn't have to do anything differently if the selection is truly random and not a set pattern. If it is a set pattern, I haven't a clue.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

took me 16 clicks to get from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet-br ... Fruit_Dove to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

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Ron Paul 2012

Did another random run of 50, from Lists of Songs about Montreal to Wolf, no philosophy. Still think its random, no philosophy preference.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I'm not sure why it isn't working for ya.

go to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet-br ... Fruit_Dove

click on bird (1)

then the next link should be "feathered" (2) ...don't click on "Bird (disambiguation)" or Aves, or Avifauna. Start at the beginning of the actual article and click on the first link that isn't in a parenthesis.

It should link you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather

Then click on epidermal growths (3)

4-filaments
5-biology
6-natural science
7-science
8-knowledge
9-facts
10-information
11-sequence
12-mathematics
13-quantity
14-property
15-modern philosophy
16-philosophy



16 clicks

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Ron Paul 2012

Yes, it works that way, I thought you were going for random clicks, and that philosophy always came up on the random button.

As it is, you are following a natural path of logic steps that,the way Wikipedia likes its articles written, blazes a trail that frequently if not always, leads to the sciences which lead to philosophy.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Nope, I think what it means by "random" is that you can start at any wikipedia page.

But you must always click on the first link for it to work.

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Ron Paul 2012

Ahh, it's the first non-parenthetical link, Michael.
I counted: Property (philosophy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_(philosophy) as philosophy, I guess it's supposed to be Philosophy proper..

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

If you keep going from Philosophy, you get to Alzheimer's Disease, which I find much more eerily appropriate for Wikipedia.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Ha!

Bettie Page -> American -> Nation -> Nation (disambiguation) -> Nation

Infinite loop!

Unless Nation (disambiguation) is to be treated as a link in parentheses, in which case you get:

Bettie Page -> American -> Nation -> Sovereign state -> Federated state -> Sovereign state

Now, if we're skipping the "for other uses" part...

Bettie Page -> American -> Nation -> Sovereign state -> State (polity) -> Social sciences -> Scholarship -> World -> Human -> Taxonomy -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property -> Modern philosophy -> Philosophy

On the Property page, if the list were not written in reverse alphabetical order, either of the other two options would lead back to Mathematics creating a third infinite loop.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

this got a mention on today's XKCD even
On my first try I started with Albedo

Albedo->Diffuse Reflection->Wavefront->Physics->Natural Science->Science->Knowledge->Fact->Information->Sequence->Mathematics

which then produces the loop:

Mathematics->Quantity->Magnitude->Order Theory->Mathematics


honestly this results suprises me--Philosophy seems like it WOULD come up in this order...

At 19, I ended up in an infinite loop involving 'mathmatics'. Started at 'strained yoghurt'.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

...

*boggles*

That was the loop!

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity

There is a "property" link prior to "magnitude"

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I should point out, that most (all? I haven't been keeping track) of the things I've tried in Wikipedia have gotten to philosophy via the various languages entries.

So we're not alone when everything in Hellfire boils down to semantics.. Wikipedia does, too!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades