I do not have any experience with tulpas, but my impression of giving one’s models the feel of agency is that one should be very careful:
There are many people who perceive the world as being full of ghosts, spirits, demons, …, while others (and science) do not encounter such entities. I think that perceiving one’s mental models themselves as agentic is a large part of this difference (as such models can self-reinforce by triggering strong emotions)
If I model tulpas as a supercharged version of modelling other people (where the tulpa may be experienced as anything from ‘part of self’ to ‘discomfortingly other’) - then I would expect that creating a tulpa does not directly increase one’s abilities but might be helpful by circumventing motivational hurdles or diversifying one’s approach to problems. Also, Dark Arts of Rationality seems related.
I do not have any experience with tulpas, but my impression of giving one’s models the feel of agency is that one should be very careful:
There are many people who perceive the world as being full of ghosts, spirits, demons, …, while others (and science) do not encounter such entities. I think that perceiving one’s mental models themselves as agentic is a large part of this difference (as such models can self-reinforce by triggering strong emotions)
If I model tulpas as a supercharged version of modelling other people (where the tulpa may be experienced as anything from ‘part of self’ to ‘discomfortingly other’) - then I would expect that creating a tulpa does not directly increase one’s abilities but might be helpful by circumventing motivational hurdles or diversifying one’s approach to problems. Also, Dark Arts of Rationality seems related.
Edit: I just read Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves, which seems like a healthy attempt at this