The point with akrasia was to illustrate that more than 1 volition inside 1 head isn't even rare here to begin with. The actual issue is that, of course, you aren't creating some demon out of nothing. You are re-purposing existing part of your brain, involved in the internal monologue or even mental visualization as well, making this part not integrate properly with the rest under one volition. There's literally less of your brain under your volition.
This topic is extremely retarded. This tulpa stuff resembles mental illness. Now, you wanna show off your "rationality" according to local rules of showing off your rationality, by rejecting the simple looking argument that it should be avoided like mental illness is. "Of course" it's pattern matching, "non central fallacy" and other labels that you were taught here to give to equally Bayesian reasoning when it arrives at conclusions you don't like. Here's the thing: Yeah, it is in some technical sense not mental illness. It most closely resembles one. And it is as likely to be worse as it is likely to be better*, and it's expected badness is equal to that of mental illness, and the standard line of reasoning is going to approximate utility maximization much better than this highly biased reasoning where if it is not like mental illness it must be better than mental illness, or worse, depending to which arguments pop into your head easier. In good ol caveman days, people with this reasoning fallacy, they would eat a mushroom, get awfully sick, and then eat another mushroom that looks quite similar to the first, but is a different mushroom of course, in the sense that it's not the exact same physical mushroom body, and get awfully sick, and then do it again, and die.
Let's suppose it was self inflicted involuntary convulsion fits, just to make an example where you'd not feel so much like demonstrating some sort of open mindness. Now the closest thing would have been real convulsion fits, and absent other reliable evidence either way expected badness of self inflicted convulsion fits would clearly be equal.
Also, by the way, what ever mental state you arrive at by creating a tulpa, is unlikely to be a mental state not achievable by one or the other illness.
There's literally less of your brain under your volition.
Well, yeah. The primary worry among tulpa creators is that it might get pissed at you and follow you around the house making faces.
This tulpa stuff resembles mental illness.
And what, pray tell, is the salient feature of mental illness that causes us to avoid it? Because I don't think it's the fact that we refer to them with the collection of syllables "men-tal-il-nes".
...Now, you wanna show off your "rationality" according to local rules of showing off your rationality, by r
Thus spake Eliezer:
It seems that many here might have outlandish ideas for ways of improving our lives. For instance, a recent post advocated installing really bright lights as a way to boost alertness and productivity. We should not adopt such hacks into our dogma until we're pretty sure they work; however, one way of knowing whether a crazy idea works is to try implementing it, and you may have more ideas than you're planning to implement.
So: please post all such lifehack ideas! Even if you haven't tried them, even if they seem unlikely to work. Post them separately, unless some other way would be more appropriate. If you've tried some idea and it hasn't worked, it would be useful to post that too.