On this 11th anniversary of the release of Friendship is Optimal, I’d like to remind everyone that it’s a piece of speculative fiction and was a product of it’s time. I’ve said this before in other venues, but Science Marches On and FiO did not predict how things have turned out. The world looks very different.

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10 years ago to this day, I started publishing Friendship is Optimal to FIMFiction. What a decade it’s been for both the story and for AI progress.

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The results are in. Congratulations to the winners.

The contest was not mine and I was not a judge. GaPJaxie offered, but I didn't take him up on it, both because I am exceptionally busy in real life (I've still only made it through a third of the contest entries), and because I suspect my own tastes aren't entirely reflective of the average reader.

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Friendship is Optimal just broke 3,000 upvotes. I'd like to thank each and every one of you who enjoyed my story. I never imagined that it would ever be this popular or spread as far as it has.

Thank you for making my numbers go up!

My friend code is 2595 - 1224 - 6063.

Please leave your friend code in the comments if you add me, so I can add you back. I don't know what type I'll show up in your Friend Safari.

Today, RBDash47 posted my Pony Fiction Vault interview to FIMFiction. The surge in readers made Friendship is Optimal one of the elite fics on this site, if only for a moment:

(Even the down-voters collectively acknowledge that soon, CelestAI will be the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.)

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