MugaSofer comments on Post ridiculous munchkin ideas! - Less Wrong

55 Post author: D_Malik 15 May 2013 10:27PM

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Comment author: MugaSofer 13 May 2013 11:30:23AM -2 points [-]

(Waste of time because the "tulpa" - your hallucination - has access to the same data repository you use, and doesn't run on a different frontal cortex. You can teach yourself the right habits without also teaching yourself to become mentally ill.)

Source?

I mean, there are, as you say, obvious "right habits" analogs of this that get results - which would seem to invalidate the first quoted sentence - but I don't see why pushing it "further" couldn't possibly generate better results.