>>/12358/
> is that it's sort of like a short assigned dissertation, examiners deliberately setting new, somewhat random and creative challenges for potential entrants to try and solve. If I'm honest, I also like the idea of this interpretation, I'm biased on it; it would also make Twilight's background with Spike potentially unique and a happy coincidence, which I like as an idea.

As cool as having several dozen dragon assistants would be runing around and as Season 1 kino it would be to have the dragon's own reproduction dependent on the ponies I think I might prefer this as well. Plus or minus my partial temptation of Twilight Sparkle being Spike's mother somehow by creating life in the egg. Though I suppose those could coexist.


 >>/12359/
> how many ponies actually saw Rainbow Dash directly causing the sonic rainboom, and how many saw just the sonic rainboom? 

> but at least theoretically it could either be something which can also occur as a freak accident of nature 

> MAYBE the spectators and even the bullies were for the most part convinced/convinced themselves that it was all a big coincidence. 

Actually, now that I think about it:
> Rainbow Dash does a Sonic Rainboom

 but most don't see her.
> Even among those that do, they may not believe a filly pulled that off.

> Bullies lie to themselves enough to dismiss it.

> Especially if nearly everyone doubted her. 

> Rainbow Dash is a braggart after all. 

Yeah, that might work after all. 

> Whoops, forgot the name field... Old habits die hard, as they say.

Hey, not as bad as:
 >>/12411/
 >>/12412/
I'm the BO anon.
 >>/12413/
Now I'm Bridge.
 >>/12414/
Now I'm just anon (often don't post with JS enabled, which is what got me that time). 


 >>/12361/
> though for my part I think it would be a shame to use any AI at all. I'm interested in what you have to say, not some computer, and even if it's just an editor, editing has a much bigger impact on what's said than many people realize. 

I'll be upfront in saying that I am afraid of AI robbing me of my voice, my skills, and what it means to be human  by the outsourcing of our creativity and all of its messy imperfections and sincerity to a machine that speaks with it's own voice, and style. I don't hate the components themselves; the pursuit of AI art, agentic assistants, and automation of certain tasks is helpful/might be a worthy ends unto themselves but it's all happening too fast and in a bad way (all controlled by a handful of companies with lots of compute.) So, my thoughts on this is less chatGPT and more like running the leanest and somewhat stupid LLM that I can get on the best CPU I have as a glorified spell checker that would catch obvious grammatical mistakes but not change whole sentences (it's "there, not they're").