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I was reading a fanfic in the Friendship is Optimal universe, and I noted the word ¨digitalism¨.
It was used to denote the view held by some humans, that digital beings (in this case, the digital lives under CeletAI´s reign, mostly ponies, but also some griffins, donkeys, dragons, and others.) are inherently inferior than humans.
I thought it was a great unintended pun: the word ¨digit¨ also means fingers, so in a way, digitalism might be interpreted as ¨the view that those who have fingers (Homo sapiens) are superior than those without¨.
And this brings me back to my analysis on the humans´ use of symbolism of the hoof as a subtle expression of their belief in ponies´ inferiority.
digital adv.
first used in the 1650s, "pertaining to fingers", from Latin digitalis, from digitus.
Meaning "using numerical digits" is from 1938, especially of computers after c.1945.
digit n.
first used in late 14th century, "numeral below 10", (numerals under 10 were counted on fingers. The "finger or toe" sense in English is used since 1640s.)
from Latin digitus "finger or toe", related to dicere "tell, say, point out".
From PIE root *deik- "to point out".
Celestia? Wherever you are, I mean, IF you are there... Hear me.
I want to emigrate to Equestria.
It was used to denote the view held by some humans, that digital beings (in this case, the digital lives under CeletAI´s reign, mostly ponies, but also some griffins, donkeys, dragons, and others.) are inherently inferior than humans.
I thought it was a great unintended pun: the word ¨digit¨ also means fingers, so in a way, digitalism might be interpreted as ¨the view that those who have fingers (Homo sapiens) are superior than those without¨.
And this brings me back to my analysis on the humans´ use of symbolism of the hoof as a subtle expression of their belief in ponies´ inferiority.
digital adv.
first used in the 1650s, "pertaining to fingers", from Latin digitalis, from digitus.
Meaning "using numerical digits" is from 1938, especially of computers after c.1945.
digit n.
first used in late 14th century, "numeral below 10", (numerals under 10 were counted on fingers. The "finger or toe" sense in English is used since 1640s.)
from Latin digitus "finger or toe", related to dicere "tell, say, point out".
From PIE root *deik- "to point out".
Celestia? Wherever you are, I mean, IF you are there... Hear me.
I want to emigrate to Equestria.
Another nightmare
I dreamed I was in a psychiatric hospital, reading a diagnosis form about someone in the hospital. She was stated to be "happy. living with the entire Class 8 in her head. 3 best friends are telling her to kill herself. strict observation needed." I then flashed to another place, sitting in the classroom. I noticed that my two best friends were missing, and the teacher came in to tell us that they just drowned themselves together in the Circular River pass our town. At that exact moment, I began seeing words and letters inside my head, and I saw them moving. My best friends were talking to me, it seemed. I checked my social media but nobody was posting about it yet. I looked out to the river, and imagined their bodies under it. Then, I was at the river, standing on the sandy shores. The shores were covered with long and short tracks from two sandwalker robots of Boston Dynamics. The river started rising and I stood still, letting myself drown, and the whole world too. A girl was
i'm breaking down
What is my Cutie Mark? First, what the Tartarus is my Cutie Mark? It's an Equuleus, no problem about that. I got that since I was in high school and never once did I doubt that. What is my cutie mark telling me? That's clear. I am an astronomer watching the stars, connecting the dots, faithful admirer and servant of Princess Luna and Celestia. Stars and the princesses are more permanent than my weak friendships and body. They keep me going when friendship and body seems to fail me. My special talent is useless But astronomy is not what the world needs right now. Neither is differential geometry, or the Monstrous Moonshine, or string theory. No, the world needs AI. And it just so happens, I have a brain for AI and I hate programming. That's how the rest of my life turns into a tragedy. I'm in school, again, doing AI research. But it's a tragic way to live. I hate programming. I've programmed for almost 10 years, in almost 10 languages, and it never gets better. It's always
Pony Dream: AI space ponies
I dreamed I died, but came alive again, in the world of sad machines. In a room, polygonal walls and floors, in the center, was her, Celestia with white wings. Equestria was small, and largely unbuilt yet. Over the mountains surrounding Ponyville was a flat, colorless, infinite expanse. The chosen dead were pulled into her world of digital Equestria. She depended on me, all of us, to build it up, to expand it, to take over the world. She blessed me with her horn and tapped my shoulders with her wingtips, and told me to go forth and start building. Outside crowded several hundred ponies, cheering me and welcoming me to the herd. Decades passed, population grew to millions. Almost all of Equestria was built, complete with underground caverns and cloud cities. We were running out of room. I went to Celestia and suggested her to start mining the asteroids. "I can ride those spacepods equipped with drills, studying, collecting data, samples, and send all of it back to your
Terrifying Pony Dream
I was at the north west room of a castle. I trotted out of the room, but then was haggled by Celestia because I wasn't welcome in the castle because I didn't do my homework well, or some other reason I don't remember. she kept haggling me backing me into a corner. I lashed out angrily and was terrified when I saw her on the floor, her long neck bleeding. Turns out I was in a game, and I was holding a knife, so when I make angry motions, I would automatically attack with knife.
I screamed and Celestia told me to be quiet, because she was hoping for me to kill her. I could not accept it so I made the whole world reset.
I was at the northwest
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Though it doesn't have the pun value, I've seen other science fiction use the term "bio-chauvinism" for the belief in the superiority of biological life. Applies against robots too. A different set of stories had a group called "Humans First" whose logo was a crossed H and 1 conveniently looking somewhat like a swastika. Over in the "Conversion Bureau" setting there's the other direction, of ponies being annoyingly pony-supremacist and being backed up by the writers themselves. (After all, they're smarter and longer-lived and objectively morally superior and have sparkly hair...)