Keeping up with the latest magical research coming out of Canterlot Academy, Sunburst finds something interesting and decides to try it himself. After Starlight sees what it can do, she comes up with ever more ambitious ideas for how to improve it.
They have no idea what they're doing.
Thank you to SparklingTwilight for editing.
Cover composited with HAL 9000 and vectors appropriated from davidsfire and Chrzanek97
Inspired by the work of AI safety researcher/advocate/communicator Robert Miles (featured several times on Computerphile) and by the research paper Concrete Problems in AI Safety by Amodei et al..
Chapters (3)
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- Soon: "(Delightful Portal music plays) I'm making a note here... huge success."
- Oh no! Sunburst and Starlight--you have no idea what you may have unleashed!
…hrm.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
First, chess. Then, the world!
And now the pegasi and earth ponies will want PegVAC and EarVAC.
It (the term) works!
Ha! As a programmer ourself, when Sunburst described it being unresponsive we immediately thought "infinite loop caused by feedback parameterization error or state tree malfunction". Been there, done that, overflowed the stack.
Takes the right kind of nerd...
Yes, that's one way to dramatize an otherwise dry succession of interactions. Simply changing how it's described adds more character and a sense of intent. Fun!
Oh. Was thinking it was going to Markov-chain some nonsense, but perhaps a recitation of indexed results is still better than could be hoped for from throwing an algorithm at the wall. 💆
No joke, we pulled a honest to goodness moth out of a server just this week. Seems high performance memory doesn't like to be touched by bugs...
Reminds me of that one episode of Star Trek voyager.
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Ahahaha! Now after reading it all the way through, I can vividly see Harry and Tom trying to get the backup EMH running. Except here, they’re not trying to get a pony out of doing medical work, lol