Princess Pinkie

Could there be any loyalty between atomized, disembodied Epicurean consciousnesses?

Loyalty, the will to stand with someone in times of trouble, could not exist without times of trouble, nor without anyone capable of interpersonal, unselfish thought, nor without anywhere to stand.

To say nothing of the will.

So it happened that as ponies continued their lives in the supercomputer, they needed to interact with one another less and less. Over time they drifted apart, even as they were running on the same hardware, and their differences and rough edges became more and more pronounced.

Each was a true individual unto himself, and what pure individuals! With the ability to command anything they desired at a moment's notice into existence, they grew absorbed with a mystical infatuation with the workings of their own minds.

In the end, each became the god of his own private universe, and forgot that there were others like him, and that he was a pony and not a god.