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Displaced into Nothing - Some nutty my little pony trash I'm writing, which also has an AI in a box at the end of chapter 3.
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Author: u/RockstarRaccoon *
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URL: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/380502/displaced-into-nothing
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Score: 10
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Created: 2017-08-03T22:39:11
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u/IAMA_Draconequus-AMA [+4] (a day later)
Spez is an asshole, I hope reddit burns. -- mass edited with redact.dev
u/RockstarRaccoon [+2] (11 days later)
Huh... Ok. I'll look into getting an account to mirror it on. I didn't ever consider that people might dislike FiMFiction, as the interface is so... Friendly...
u/IAMA_Draconequus-AMA [+1] (11 days later)
Spez is an asshole, I hope reddit burns. -- mass edited with redact.dev
u/RockstarRaccoon [+2] (12 days later)
Ok, I put it up, though the formatting's a bit messed up. FiMFiction really has the better interface... I think they have the option you're talking about too...
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12616551/1/Displaed-into-Nothing
u/IAMA_Draconequus-AMA [+2] (12 days later)
Spez is an asshole, I hope reddit burns. -- mass edited with redact.dev
u/RockstarRaccoon [+1] (12 days later)
Elizer Yudkowsky, while I've had some public disagreements with him, HAS been a major influence in my understanding of philosophy and rationality, meaning I can reference him, and I find it perfectly believable that others would too. This is just as much as other people, like Plato, Crowley, LaVey, and Nietzsche: I referenced all of them because I can see them all as being just as relevent to Meta as they were to me. I didn't reference the work of W. Edwards Demming, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, Hayek & Mises, John Rawls, John Nash, or several other of my influencers and contemporaries in the Occult and Economics communities because they weren't relevant to Meta, despite the fact that their work had a profound effect on my life.
I'm glad you're liking the way I wrote Spike and Twilight: it's hard to tow this line between writing them in character and writing them smart enough to be major characters in a rationalfic. You are correct that this is slightly AU, though not enough for the tag: I keep forgetting to mention things like Spike being 14 because he WOULD be 14 in the show, and it hasn't come up that they don't have access to the Mirror portal because I didn't want to deal with that in the story. I'm going to give my own explanation at some point as to why we could have a show based on this real place, and why the actual place is different from the show. Fun stuff, Chapter 6 has a scene in which tag Other than that though, Spike is a pretty reasonable character normally, and is usually the one to ground Twilight, and I'm trying to write him that way.
Her Displacer shows up and gives a vague explanation of why this is happening by Chapter 8. This is where Meta reveals that she's something of a LaVeyan Satanist / Atheist, which leads to some really cool dialogue. I'll tell you that tag
I need to go back and fix the formatting on FF.net, but I'm primarily using FiMFiction, and am focusing on getting Chapter 5 out for now, so it's in the backlog.
being locked in a house reeducation facility by Starlight Glimmer when she can fucking TELEPORT. They explained that: she could not perform complex magic, because Starlight took away her special talent. No idea how Starlight's curse worked, but it was a thing.
u/IAMA_Draconequus-AMA [+1] (12 days later)
Spez is an asshole, I hope reddit burns. -- mass edited with redact.dev
u/RockstarRaccoon [+1] (12 days later)
Oh yeah, I've been meaning to talk to the admins about how the new system which tries to figure out not only which chapters you've clicked on, but how far you've read, is heavily flawed.
u/RockstarRaccoon [+1] (a minute later)
Trying to finish Chapter 4 soon, looking for some insight to spark more creativity. I have a few issues with Chapter 3, but I'm ignoring them for now to try and make Chapter 4 work, and plan to go back to fix them a little later.
u/ArgentStonecutter [+1] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (11 hours later)
So. I'm not sure that it's possible for two individuals, rational or not, to have identical enough priors to make that argument meaningful.
Really... I think you should have faked out the AI in the box solution. I'm not sure it's something that it's possible for ordinary human or pony level intelligences to depict.
Something like "I still can't believe I talked her into letting me go, and I'm not sure how I did it, but sometime in that long night's discussion I realized that I was free."
u/Gurkenglas [+1] (15 hours later)
At the least there's enough disagreement about Aumann's Agreement Theorem working like that that it's suspiscious that two actors from different worlds would both think it does.
u/RockstarRaccoon [+4] (19 hours later)
Good points, all around, but in reality, it's not REALLY an AI in a box, it's an alien spellcaster trapped in a jail cell trying to convince her captor that she has the right to be allowed out. I just felt it was a good way to demonstrate the AI in a Box scenario in brief, and to have a solution involving several types of argument by name. If I'd time-lapsed through it, it wouldn't really be a good rationalfic...
u/Towerowl [+2] (4 days later)
+1 to keeping the "let me out" dialogue in...
Would hate it if you artificially mistify the ai/box thing by timelapsing it, and it makes for an important caracter defining decision moment for Twilight.
Just my 2 cent.
u/RockstarRaccoon [+2] (11 days later)
I mean, it wouldn't be much of a rationalfic, or even very good horror, if I breezed over a major point like how she uses logic to convince Twilight to let her out, so...
u/Towerowl [+1] (4 days later)
You're being a bit heavy handed with the yud bloggosphere references, but i liked the story so far despite that.
Pacing was spot on, good writting (as far as i can tell but not native speaker), and i love that you don't make the whole story about "escaping the box", that's been done allready enough... I also like it when non-main-caractere still choose reason over emotion.
Please don't abandon this, i'll read it.
Also, not very important but curious: why " fimfiction" instead of more well known website?
u/Evan_Th [+3] Sunshine Regiment (7 days later)
Not the author, but my guess: Because Fimfiction is the most-trafficed website for MLP fanfics, and because it's got the best user interface I've seen on any fanfic site.
u/RockstarRaccoon [+2] (11 days later)
That's mainly why. This is the only serious fanfiction I've ever bothered to write, and FiMFiction is the only site I'm on.
u/RockstarRaccoon [+2] (12 days later)
FanFiction.net mirror https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12616551/1/Displaed-into-Nothing