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Rubix comments on Friendship is Optimal: A My Little Pony fanfic about an optimization process - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: iceman 08 September 2012 06:16AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 08 September 2012 11:36:54PM *  6 points [-]

Idea:

Write this as a My Little Pony fanfiction at first so that you can grow an audience, but write it such that you can later rip out the My Little Pony specifics and sell it to the masses without breaching intellectual property law. That is, leave yourself the option to "pull a Fifty Shades of Grey" if possible.

Comment author: Rubix 09 September 2012 02:10:57AM 3 points [-]

I would expect to read this in a sci-fi anthology if I lived in a world where My Little Pony wasn't actually a Big Thing. (In the world where it is, copywright.)