Friendship is Optimal has launched and is being published in chunks on FIMFiction.
Friendship is Optimal is a story about an optimizer written to "satisfy human values through friendship and ponies." I would like to thank everyone on LessWrong who came out and helped edit it. Friendship is Optimal wouldn't be what is today without your help.
Thank you.
Teaser description:
Hanna, the CEO of Hofvarpnir Studios, just won the contract to write the official My Little Pony MMO. Hanna has built an A.I. Princess Celestia and given her one basic drive: to satisfy everybody's values through friendship and ponies. And Princess Celestia will follow those instructions to the letter...even if you don't want her to.
Here is the schedule for the next chapters:
Friday (Nov. 16th): Chapter 4 - 5
Monday (Nov. 19th): Chapter 6 - 7
Thursday (Nov. 22th): Chapter 8 - 9
Sunday (Nov. 25th): Chapter 10 - 11, Author's Afterword
I've fixed the spelling error.
If you could suggest a phrasing that's both accurate, but also short and won't require the reader to know much graph theory. I think I'm pushing it as it is right now. I said "noncommutative" since I assumed that basically my entire audience would have been exposed to commutative binary function from their high school proofs classes.
"Noncommutative" should be applied to the operations (up, left, etc.) rather than to the space. Where are you that it's typical for there to be classes on proofs in high school?