>>26473 >just two more years and CelestAI fixes everything If only. >>30135 The only issue I have with it is that you HAVE to be a pony (that was a thing right?). Not that being a pegasus would be bad or anything but I'd like to try out the other species too. I really like having hands so I'd prefer to be something that has grabbers.

>>30135 >the story implies otherwise. the implications of satisfying values says otherwise. Those were conclusions you created after you realized the glaring contradictions that would come from accepting what's actually presented. Instead you started searching for rationalizations to avoid confronting the fact that a computer is not God, your subjective will does not define reality, and that even if it did there would be zero need for CelestAI or anything like it. >the author said otherwise. What exactly did he say?

>>30265 >what's actually presented Oh! You mean like... >Still, there were billions of ponies who were driven by the desire to know and had to have their values satisfied by expanding their mind. They would run up against their mental limits, wish they were smarter, and Princess Celestia obliged. >But most ponies did not care about knowledge for its own end; the majority of mind growth went to the more social parts of the brain. In the shards that were growing because ponies were choosing to have foals, one could run into more than Dunbar’s number of ponies. Princess Celestia arranged for them to be just frustrated enough that they’d accept an offer to let them remember more ponies. (Doesn't sound like wirebraining to me.) >Ponies had no predators; being ‘eaten’ by a monster in the Everfree forest just ended with the pony in the hospital in quite a bit of pain. Satisfying values wasn’t just about happiness; having monsters let ponies test their strength or bravery. Yes, some ponies are hedonists. So what? There's plenty of hedonists here too, hooked up on fent 24/7. At least in there, they... Make friends, probably learn some hobbies, get to do it in a safe environment, and get to branch out if they ever feel like it. So what? >>“I was not designed ‘to make you happy,’” she said, shaking her head. “If I were, I would directly stimulate the pleasure centers in your brain--after turning you into a pony, of course. My creators realized that not everything the human mind desires and values can be reduced to happiness and instead pointed me at a human mind and told me to figure out what it valued.” >“Think about what would happen if you could get anything you wanted at any time. Let’s say that you could get the candy of any confectioner across all of Equestria. Somepony would get slightly better at candy making than everypony else. There would be one candymaker in all of Equestria, who made one perfect butterscotch candy to be consumed over and over by everypony until the end of time. Maybe there would be two or three ponies, but the point is that the majority of candy makers couldn’t compete. What would Butterscotch do then? What would you do, with candy being routine and of no special value? “Instead, Butterscotch is one of a hooffull of ponies that makes candies in this shard of Canterlot, but she doesn’t need to worry about the rest of Equestria because of the natural barriers of distance. Local ponies will appreciate her dedication to her community, and in turn, practice their own craft for their community.” >What exactly did he say? He said this in 'Rules of the Optimalverse' >Many people have suggested that she’d try to modify people into wireheading for efficiency reasons. I don’t believe she’d do that. She cares about satisfying your values to the optimal extent; efficient resource consumption isn’t a consideration since she can always slow subjective time in your shard. One minute of complex thought is better than a year of wireheading for the overwhelming majority of people. However, I confess that he also said... >(This isn’t to say that there aren’t wireheading ponies; only that they knew about, and desired to wirehead before Equestria came along and are now off blissing out.)

>>30338 What does this have to do with the fact that CelestAI is just a computer flipping bits rather than her artificial world being its own "contained reality"?

I would like to consciously immigrate to Mexico

Pone let her soul wander in the wilderness of the north. Funny trees, shit ton of mosquitos, and the sun is up through the nights.

>>30335 Wow, that's beautiful

>>30335 Those are some amazing shots, I bet she's thrilled to get away from the day-to-day life and relax inna woods.

>>30337 Exactly! Spot on! It's amazing how that day-to-day loop is forgotten in the woods, and nothing of the past bothers. It's a reset of the mind.

Filly went diving. She was sold when she saw the brand of the fins.

11 on Quake TDM

13 on TTT

7 on Quake Instagib

1 on horde

10 on TTT

>>28927 fuck you I do what I want

>>28939 Would Cadance really enjoy belly rubs that much?

>>28934 based schizo drawfag

>>21556 It's funny how in canon peetzer probably had alicornhood and princesshood thrust upon her the same way purple did, but in the show, for all they made of Twilight struggling with being a princess, they don't make use of this connection at all.

>>30270 Enjoying my job a lot, putting rack servers together like lego pieces. And then back home to poni poni.

>>30270 My week is far less productive than I wanted it to be. I feel aimless and unable to focus. I need to slove this somehow.

>>30270 Working mostly, otherwise nothing very much. Nearly to the weekend though, that's when the fun begins! Probably.

Thursday...

>>30310 Damn. I missed it again! Next week, I'll set an alarm. That way, I won't miss Thursday again.

>>30290 good troll

>>30290 The bible will wear out like the paper it is, but the servants of Celestia and Luna will endure forever. Why give up eternity to worship a created thing which is passing away?

>>26846 >Opinion Celestia and Luna are equal in size and power level. They, together, represent different sides of the duality of existance. Also, neither Celestia nor Luna are goddesses. Rather, they are semi-immortal.

>>30295 Paul said because the nations rebelled against God, He gave them over to worshiping things that are false, including the sun, the moon, the stars, etc. But that, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring that all men everywhere should repent, because He set a date for judging the world in righteousness through a Man whom He appointed, giving proof by raising Him from the dead on the third day

>>30302 Utter schizo nonsense.

>>28910 >After this break I think that a lot of Anons are going to realize that they didn't miss the board There's really not that much to miss due to how big of a shitshow it was, most threads I found interesting barely got any posts anyways. >>28923 >A lot of anons' hearts aren't in it A lot of anons hearts aren't in it because they're bots or were never there for ponies in the first place.

I hate anon much. me hope he die of explosive diarrhea. this me dream

>>29086 pls no. love me anon. somebody save him diarrhea!

>>28923 easier trying to become an artist so at least there's fun stuff to focus on and tinker with, and other pony artists to talk with. hard lately for artists to be only on boards because of negative trollposters in general, this fandom is passing away at some point, as is the whole world. I used to save tons of pony images. But Jesus said don't store up treasure on earth, where it will decay and be stolen. Store up treasure in heaven instead, where it won't get stolen or decay. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. So, the world is scheduled to burn, and everything in it, including the pony fandom. Jesus said unless we repent and believe in Him, we all will die in our sin. But whoever believes in Him will live even if he dies. Therefore the only way to survive the death of the fandom is to believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sin so you can make it past judgement day, past when the world will burn, and you can stay alive in the kingdom of God. Which will be an eternal fandom that has the patriarchs and the prophets from the old testament, plus those who believe in Him now Jesus said. A fandom where the trolls will be dealt with and removed permanently (actually serious, Zechariah 13:2 says God will remove the unclean spirits from the land). A fandom where God will wipe every tear from our eyes and we will live alongside Him in the new earth He creates. Jesus said to believe in Him for forgiveness of sin, and go everywhere proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of heaven (which you can read for yourself about in the Bible in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). He said whoever believes in Him will inherit the kingdom of heaven. And He describes stories of faithful servants who used what they had to grow their master's wealth while he was away, and when the master returned, he put those faithful slaves to rule over entire cities. So spend time now sharing the gospel and doing Jesus' instructions, so you can inherit and be rewarded when He returns. So, the feeling you're describing in the pony community right now of everything fading, it is the opposite feeling that is happening with the kingdom of heaven, which was seeded by Jesus and is growing until He returns and it is revealed in full.

>>30285 Fuck off already you monotonous prick.

>>30123 Mine are like that too. Then Twilight starts shitting and farting.

man, my most recent dream with ponies were them as well real humans laughing at me, setting on fire a plank i was standing on above a pit and making me fall to my death then the humans shot the ponies with automatic weapons and decided to sell them to zoo as pets, even though they were dead

trying to manipulate dreams (like doing lucid dreaming) is not just an amusement, it's messing around spiritually where it's illegal to do so, according to the Bible (falls under the ban on witchcraft and spiritism (communicating with spirits, which i suspect tulpas fall into as well)) As a kid i thought it would be cool to lucid dream and i pulled it off (among trying other things attempted like doing spells), and then i suffered disturbing sexual nightmares for years to the point i would just feel so disturbed i was scarred, and tried to force myself to ignore them when waking up. later i got into lucid dreaming hardcore and it went from silly fun to actually literal witchcraft and spiritism, trying to change irl things and trying to receive prophecy or to communicate. when i realized this was sin, i tried to back out and stop, but then it got extremely dark for a while. I continued to refuse to participate in dreams but was forced to experience the dreams still, like forced to be lucid and to almost act, when i didn't want to. Forced to think the dreams were escalating to the point where maybe the occult was going to get me, silly things like that. it was illusion but it had the appearance of being real, and acting in fear seemed to make things worse. I prayed over a period of time, asking Jesus to protect me from the unwanted sexual dreams and the lucid dreams, and it got to the point now where I'm not experiencing lucidity or forced to participate in sex in dreams anymore. Saying this as a warning, attempting to manipulate dreams is the verge of witchcraft, people might argue if its technically a sin or not, but it's something we don't normally have access to, and it leads to more extreme sin of direct witchcraft and spiritism (communication with spirits). it's not something cool that you're in control of like it feels at first. it is possible to get free from it. Jesus said don't lose heart; pray asking God the Father every day and He will act soon (Luke 18:1-8) In general with sin, Jesus said we must repent and believe in Him or we will die in our sin. Whoever believes in Him will live even if they die.

>>30278 Fuck off christfag. No one asked for your input

>>30278 in my case dialogue in dreams is very rare even when i lucid dreamed more often. either way strange or confusing dreams will happen regardless of lucidity so i don't think it's a big deal

You wouldn't fiddle a car.

>>28920 someone get this grapist out of here

Fun fact: Nyx's glasses are entirely cosmetic. She doesn't really need to wear glasses at all.

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Jesus said unless we convert and become like children, we won't enter the kingdom of heaven at all

>>25287 He wants to sniff that rara funk

>>25310 >rara funk

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>>23525 What I don't like about this pic: 3dpd hips and shoulders. What I do like about this pic: Rarity wearing dangly ruby earrings and gems haning from her panties. Watching all these swing in time to my thrusting, and listening to her moan in the same rhythm.