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pleeppleep 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: pleeppleep 12 November 2012 12:39:11AM 0 points [-]

I misspoke in the first comment and was trying to correct myself. It wasn't really shallow, but it feels shallow the way its described, and that adds to the impression that the story doesn't end happily from the reader's perspective.

Comment author: Ritalin 12 November 2012 02:27:05PM 0 points [-]

I think it's just the author trying to appear " neutral" and not an out and out enthusiastic supporter of the idea. Notice that the misgivings we may feel about stuff in the story are purely emotional, and, faced with Celestia, we can't even argue for them properly.

Imagine if the Borgs or the T'au had been like her, instead of being the strawmen we were faced with?