It is specific to humans operating in a mathematical universe. Or, in other words most of the rationalist art that lesswrong is about does not necessarily translate to the ponyverse. We have no reason to believe Equestria and ponykind have similar overriding principles. Things like "physical laws don't have exceptions, no exceptions", "there are no irreducibly mental (=supernatural) phenomena", "Due to huge flaws in the way human brains work, billions of people CAN be wrong, and frequently are. This is the STRONGLY DOMINANT reason you shouldn't believe certain kinds of things even if someone you trust sincerely tells you to. "we here have an enormous amount of extremely strong and general evidence that excludes huge areas of hypothesis space. The question about the rationality of the believing in pinkie sense is actually even more interesting than it seems as first, here's somehting I wrote on another forum about it: Will you at least put up an disclaimer at the top of the post explaining how the show is great and actually one of the most rationality-inspiring shows out there with a brilliant fun-theory-compliant eutopia as the setting etc.
Ugh, you just HAD to make this a whole bunch of lesswrongers first impression of the show, didn't you? I've been tiptoing around mentioning it for ages planing to make a certain post abaut (still planing to, so I wont spoil it here), figures someone was going to do somehting like that.
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How would you Do Science to them (assuming their full cooperation)?ĮDIT: it occurred to me immediately after submitting that "Experimental design" would have been a better title beginning that "Rationality exercise," but assuming the RSS issues are unresolved I will not change it. The list could continue forever! What ideas do you have? You're welcome to seek out and watch the episode, and give experiments that would apply well to Pinkie Pie in particular, or just consider the idea that someone claims that their arm twitches noticeably when something is about to fall, and has used their twitchy arm to accurately predict several falling objects for you, in an uncontrolled setting. See how far away you can make something fall and still get a reaction. See if the twitches return if she is asleep. See if, say, the rest of her body starts shaking, or the thing stops falling. Once you can reliably predict and cause tail twitches, try holding her tail still. In a room next to her, drop things, and have someone else record her responses and timing. My first idea was, if Pinkie Pie's tail twitches when something falls, place Pinkie Pie in a room. She attempts (to my delight) to do Science to Pinkie Pie, however her attempts to do Science are frustratingly foiled in large part because her experiments ignore the nature of the phenomenon.Īfter watching and being frustrated by this episode, I decided that it would be more fun to come up with better experiments that would cut to the core of the issue and really investigate the subject. Twilight Sparkle is very unhappy with this "unscientific" state of affairs. Various other manifestations also exist, in excruciating detail. In episode 15, a friend of hers, Pinkie Pie, reveals a strange talent for divination: When something is about to fall, her tail twitches. The main character, Twilight Sparkle, is an avid intellectual, who is constantly reading and learning about the magic of the world. It has been entertaining for the most part, but in episode 15, I hit a problem. Recently I started watching My Little Pony: Friendship as Magic on the recommendation of numerous friends.
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