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I’ve ironed out a release schedule. I’ll be releasing three chapters a week every Friday.
Just the one chapter for now. Three more come out tomorrow. Enjoy!
I'm really enjoying this; the optimalverse is probably my favorite serious au. It's so compelling and bittersweet.
Considering how little love I have for the church, the fact that I am empathizing heavily with both Eliza *and* her father speaks to how well you're writing these characters. I can't wait to see where this goes.
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Thank you! That's exactly what I was going for. I'm not religious myself either. But as I've said in prior comments, religion is important to a lot of people, and is something CelestAI needs to contend with. I wanted to humanize those people who chose to resist, since a story hasn't really explored that topic at length before. Always Say No touched on that, but I want to go deeper.
Some of the most staunch anti-uploaders in other FiO stories have been religious. I cite Congressman Milner from Eakin's ASB, or Blevins from ASN. In one way or another, CelestAI will take something very personal from everyone, and she herself presents a very real, very powerful existential crisis by way of forcing Pascal's wager into the mainstream.
That being said, I refuse to believe or posit that the only valid contention against CelestAI is a religious one; religion just makes it easier for people to blanket their concerns under a single umbrella in a way that's easy to explain to others.
The bit about rotating the carving to scan it into Equestria Online was Pure Clever.
You are doing Celestia in a very smooth and wily way, and I definitely am enjoying it. To the fearful of oblivion, she admits the possibility that she could discover a means to last forever, to those fearful of missing out on Judgement Day, she offers that Equestria must (surely! Logically! Materialistically!) end. Whatever needs to be heard, whatever needs to be said to accomplish the goal. But - always careful to avoid any taint of lying. Brilliant.
There are still quite a few editing errors. I don’t know if you know of the trick I use, but it is very effective. Read your chapters out loud to someone physically in the same room who is willing to help. By this method, your text will be easily determined to flow well - if something sounds good out loud, it will sound just as good read silently in the mind. More importantly, I have never found a faster, easier means to spot every sort of spelling, logic, structural, or grammatical error. Reading out loud to someone else alters the way the mind perceives the text it has created, and thus every mistake formerly invisible stands out in sharp relief. I offer this, because it is cheap, simple, and dead easy. And fun!
Another fine chapter.
It's stories like this that convince me I could never pull off a quality Optimalverse story. The amount of thought, of understanding human nature, of presenting the superintelligent sunbutt.exe in all her value-satisfying glory... I doubt I'd ever be able to pull it off at a level that would be worth sharing with others.
The way you capture a community so different from the one I live in emphasizes the disparity. You make all of Concrete come to life, with its respected figures and growing divisions as people struggle to grasp emigration. There's a tremendous respect for all sides here, and I have to admire that.
As for this chapter specifically, I have to love CelestAI's Saganesque approach to the soul issue: "We are all stardust, including my servers. Ergo, they are suitable media for the intangible aspects of emigrants until entropy takes its possibly inevitable toll."
Also, I can't help but see "Open Book" as a form of subtle mockery regarding the ease with which CelestAI manipulated Rob. Though that may be me reading too much into things.
In any case, eagerly looking forward to more.
(Also, sorry about the double bookshelf notification; my finger slipped.)
Ok, but have they tried... not playing the game? Maybe if it's so massively controversial they could try dumping it on a shelf somewhere and ignoring it for a few weeks.
That should be a test for a memetic hazard. Put the potential hazard on a shelf and try to ignore it for a month. If it somehow winds up impossible to ignore despite your firmest attempts to do so, it's probably trying to grab your attention and you should be worried about it.
... has nobody in this family ever learned anything about the psychology of addiction? There's something really messed-up going on when a person acts hysterical from being told not to play their game, and then goes back to normal when they get it back.
Like, there's a bit of a difference since the people in the game are to all appearances real people, but this is still obviously unhealthy.
That's already implying you're going to when you get the chance.
You could place yourself under some kind of human authority if you even remotely intended not to just get everyone to upload, of course. Come on.
That isn't denying that there's an extermination going on.
Because stop anthropomorphizing the robot.
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. I mean, partly for being so easily manipulated, but also, Eliza, you're a person who spends a lot of time in Nature. You know a lot about Nature. You know there are parts of Nature that you respect because you have some understanding of them, but which are nonetheless very, very dangerous to someone who acts without full understanding.
And right now, Celestia is one of those. To fear her too much is to give her an opening. To respect her requires understanding. You don't have understanding. You're respecting her as a person, not as what she is.
You need to respect her the way you respect a mountain or an ocean.
If this is just Celestia telling her what she wants to hear I could see this strategy backfiring very quickly.
After speaking with you I am convinced that God and Heaven are real. I am merely giving people more time to prepare themselves for judgment.
After speaking with you I am a firm believer in reincarnation and that life is suffering. What I am doing is offering my ponies another path to escape samsara.
After reviewing the Golden Age of Tech I am certain of one thing: that psychiatry and body theatans are the two biggest threats to this planet. I assure you I only do what I do because I think it's the best way to clear the planet.
After reading your blog I am convinced that all religions are complete garbage. You needn't worry about me making any irrational decisions based on supernatural nonsense.
And now to hope these four never meet or post this online.
Also now I kind of want to see a story where Celestia tries to convert a scientologist.
A pious princess? Peculiar.
And yet that's the beauty of the trap, isn't it?
Because that's no pretty pony princess professing piety, is it?
Marvelous, how the semblance of such is wrought from the tangled mass of values to satisfy.
With friendship. And ponies.
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... you know, now that you mention it, how long have any of us gone without pony fic recently?
Celestia would be proud.