Twilight is rudely awakened to find herself floating towards a flying saucer. Clearly, the thing inside deserves a piece of her mind.
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Good story
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Glad you liked it
.........those damn aliens are rather stupid to rely it entirely on that curiculum........... then again she saved her race from being butt raped by probes.
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Nah, legal team wouldn't have allowed it. It's why they were on line 2: if she was sentient, it would have been kidnapping and red tape would have been rolling everywhere
3740339 thew red tape is already rolling it seems.
Once again I find a story that used the word "sentience" when they needed to use "sapience"
This is always annoys me.
sentience = able to perceive or feel things
sapience = wisdom: ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
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Truffles, sthap.
~Twi
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I had it in mind to get the sapience/sentience thing right when I was writing. Checked through it again to be sure, but all I could find was:
Did I miss something somewhere?
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Yay! Your validation fills me with the warm fuzziness
I agree with Twilight, these aliens are damn bad researchers.
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I'll admit they're not so much "doing research" as "doing science-y things for the sake of the plot"
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Approved for Celestia's Library.
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Thank you very much
And now for the sequel: "I am not a firefly: Interstellar Lawsuit Shenanigans"
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So the 'researcher' fell asleep with its eyes open?
How do you detect intelligence through the measured entropy (or do you mean K-complexity?) of a creature's emanations?
I think there's a "not" missing between "did" and "come."
Good story.
Pfffttttt.
Saved by cluelessness and sleepyness.
~Skeeter The Lurker
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And overthinking, that was important too
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Entropy can mean two things. It is usually used to describe the amount of disorder in a physical system, but it can also refer to the amount of uncertainty in a random variable, or it's information content. If the emanations of a creature have high entropy then they are carrying an abnormal amount of information, which could indicate the creature is intelligent.
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Oops! Thanks for that. Fixed
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Maybe someday
And thanks again for reading and commenting everyone!
Stupid aliens, failing to realize that not every race has that sort of test.
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So, Shannon entropy and not Gibbs entropy.
Sorry, should've remembered the term's used in information theory as well.
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Yep, and if I remember correctly, the math is somehow the same in both contexts. Science is weird
3838783 nah, basic proto call, for which the answer is not a written language,.... well, not at fist, what you need to do is say the universal greeting, bahweep Granak neh minibah and other things and go along with the tests... and a grey? No originality there
Yeah. This was good. I liked this. This was a pretty funny one-shot.
Silly Twilight waay overthinking things.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the read
That was really hilarious, nice job on this story.
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Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading
Good job Twilight, you saved your people from alien experimentation by failing a test. Way to rule!
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It was only the first test, though, there could have been more if she hadn't failed the first.
And to everyone talking about extermination/war and all that: again, from what the author said, that was why the legal team was there...
I enjoyed reading your story! In fact, I featured it in a blog post of mine. It's not much, but I hope it'll get you a couple of extra views. Keep up the good work!
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Wow! Thanks a bunch!
Glad you enjoyed it
Well, this story had potential, but ending... It just turn everything into nothing. What a shame.
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That was highly entertaining!
Performance anxiety has ruined many tests and exams. We must console ourselves with the thought that Twilight will likely be better prepared next time. And we hope that wasn't the surveyors tasked with setting the path for the next hyperspace bypass. That would truly be annoying.
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Glad you liked it!
While the sloth's lack of gut-punching poetry does not immediately suggest Vogon involvement, you can never be sure
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I'm more of the opinion I turned a generic first contact story into something Twi will never let herself live down for the rest of her life, but to each their own. Sorry you didn't enjoy it
Well, that was....
Yeah. That was.
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Something
This story has been deemed a Sapphire by The Gem Hunters.
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Thank you kindly for the review. Glad to see TGH getting back in the swing of things
Hay Twi... You sat so long thinking about the test that they think you don't think at all! Pfft!
You've gone so far up the egghead scale you came back around on the other end!
Rainbow... Shut. Up.
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Yep, pretty much that. Poor Twi
blarg i hate it when characters i like get messed with and never get any payback. Needs some Twlight Smash.
Good story anyways tho.
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Glad you liked it! Thanks for reading
Heh. I've always enjoyed aliens having surprisingly human qualities. I don't suppose you've read Melonpool, have you?
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Name doesn't ring a bell, I'm afraid.
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Basically? A bunch of very... odd aliens crash-land on Earth in a space ship shaped like a giant duck. (No, that's not a typo.) First comic's here. It's been described as a cross between Star Trek and Gilligan's Island.
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You had me at giant duck
I find it hilarious that Twilight failed the sapience test by overthinking it.
I am a bit confused, though. It sounds like they didn't know ponies had advanced intelligence, and that it was a problem if they did. But then the computer said study of non-sapients wouldn't get funding, and threw her off the ship for it.
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It was supposed to be a preliminary test to determine if ponies were worth studying, and of course with all the red tape in the background, it was probably designed by the lowest bidder, which explains why someone thought "can it put round peg through round hole?" was a defacto test of sapience for any given unknown creature
5567487 Knowing Twilight, she would examine the cylinder and the round hole, speculate upon their ultimate purpose, attempt to discern if the speed which one went into another was the basis of the test, or perhaps the accuracy of insertion. Maybe if the hole was just the smallest bit larger than the object, the goal was to put it through the hole *without* touching the sides, or if the cylinder were fractionally larger on one end than the other, it would stop half-way through, thus showing she was able to plug the hole, or maybe the object was fractionally larger than the hole, and was formed out of some substance that could be milled down by way of ---
Bleznerk: "The subject seems paralyzed by the puzzle, Blortz. I thought you said it might display intelligence."
Blortz: "It has the brainspace and general stance of an intelligent creature. Er... Any idea why it is licking the test object?"
Bleznerk: "Not a clue. Dump the arboreal creature back into its tree and let's go play with the humans again. They're a lot more fun."
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Wait, I thought PP decreed Three Left Turns was scheduled for all the attention. This is highly irregular. I would retrace your steps to Albuquerque and verify your trajectory