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[DC][HF] "Good Night"
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Author: u/erwgv3g34 *
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URL: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/212395/7/flashes-of-insight/good-night-572
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Score: 0
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Created: 2014-08-25T18:14:08
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u/eaglejarl [+6] *
So...the message here is that immortality sucks and it's better to die than do the thing that will make it not suck?
u/Empiricist_or_not [+4] Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm*
Seems that way, and frustratingly apparently it's rational to use anecdotal evidence to avoid examining the things that will make it not suck. Seems like an anti-rationalist anti-rational story if I ever saw one.
u/eaglejarl [+2] *
So it's not just me. Good. Not sure why this showed up here.
u/ArisKatsaris [+2] Sidebar Contender*
I think that's slightly mean-spirited towards the story: Twilight's is one perspective. Luna's was another, Cadence's a yet third. Celestia is left undecided as to how to proceed. Neither Luna nor Cadence found immortality to suck, but Twilight finds a simple end to her existence to be more tasteful than what the paths these two took -- or at least what said paths looks like from Twilight's external point of view. This was basically a story discussing transhumanist ideas, not really a "rationalist" story.
u/eaglejarl [+2] *
Well, let's examine the options:
- Twilight: decides that her life is boring and / or pointless. Prefers dying to trying anything that might change that fact.
- Cadence: decides that wireheading is the best possible use of an immortal's existence.
- Celestia: keeps doing the same thing (re-creating Equestria and its ponies over and over) instead of trying anything new.
- Luna: Transcends. Granted, this appears to be a positive outcome, or at least might be. We simply have no data -- the only thing we know is that all prior interests and attachments cease to matter. Also, the protagonist's decision should legitimately receive a greater weighting than the other characters'.
u/Zephyr1011 [+2] Potentially Unfriendly Aspiring Divinity*
And they completely ignore that intelligence enhancements might enable them to think of a solution to their problems.
u/None [+2] *
The other stories are good as well. At least two of them are about economics.
u/erwgv3g34 [+1] *
This was posted on Less Wrong today and I figured it should be posted here as well.