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"So you know the My Little Pony episode about bayesian updating?"
"'Feeling Pinkie Keen' comes so close!"
I got into an argument recently over whether that episode was good or terrible. (I believe it is a good episode, specifically because of the broader context of the show. Fellow rationalist in question watched that episode FIRST, with no context, which is just about the worst place to do so)
Regardless, I have a heuristic about how much I am allowed to argue about My Little Pony before I should feel bad about myself, and... I felt a little bad that day.
(That day was today).
I did really hate the whole "Sometimes you just have to believe!" message. It felt almost like someone had thought MLP was becoming TOO rational and wanted to throw a bone to the Believer parents. :/
Alternative interpretation is believing something you have strong evidence of that contradicts your pre-existing theories.
My brother saw the first of the cutie mark episodes first, he was unimpressed.