Lumifer comments on Open Thread, November 1 - 7, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 November 2013 05:12:17PM 2 points [-]

I still don't see what you are getting at. If I treat a tulpa as a shard of my own mind, of course its desires matter, it's the desires of my own mind.

Think of having an internal dialogue with yourself. I think of tulpas as a boosted/uplifted version of a party in that internal dialogue.