The magic in MLP doesn’t seem like an outcome pump. I suppose it could be set really short-term, so stuff just moving on its own is the only way it can work, but at that point it’s just omnipotence. There are things ponies can do and things they can’t do, and the difference isn’t how likely it is to happen by chance.
I suppose she might not notice this, but if there’s going to be a moral here, she ought to be wrong. She’s basing her theory on an interesting idea she’s heard, not evidence she’s seen.
The obvious experiments would be to try and see if ponies are better at things that are more likely and if the most likely result is what happens.
The crossover universe this fic is set in contains some extra items not in the standard MLP universe. One such thing is that gems can be ‘charged’ with magic, which can be released by anyone as spells, using Latin. (There’s a timey-wimey explanation behind how that came to be possible.)
That said—I’m entirely happy for her to be entirely wrong; I just want her to be wrong in the right way, if that makes sufficient sense.
The magic in MLP doesn’t seem like an outcome pump. I suppose it could be set really short-term, so stuff just moving on its own is the only way it can work, but at that point it’s just omnipotence. There are things ponies can do and things they can’t do, and the difference isn’t how likely it is to happen by chance.
I suppose she might not notice this, but if there’s going to be a moral here, she ought to be wrong. She’s basing her theory on an interesting idea she’s heard, not evidence she’s seen.
The obvious experiments would be to try and see if ponies are better at things that are more likely and if the most likely result is what happens.
The crossover universe this fic is set in contains some extra items not in the standard MLP universe. One such thing is that gems can be ‘charged’ with magic, which can be released by anyone as spells, using Latin. (There’s a timey-wimey explanation behind how that came to be possible.)
That said—I’m entirely happy for her to be entirely wrong; I just want her to be wrong in the right way, if that makes sufficient sense.