You may also be interested in the earlier LW discussion about tulpas. Like I mentioned in the thread, they seem like an intentionally developed version of a thing that many writers have naturally—my guess would be that they use the normal circuitry that we have for emulating and predicting the behavior of other people, only they’re modelling a non-existent person and the outputs of that modeling get fed back in to be used as new input.
Edit: Still, at a glance, the 3 questions I’m asking this time, were not exactly asked in the linked discussion. So I welcome everyone to share their thoughts here.
You may also be interested in the earlier LW discussion about tulpas. Like I mentioned in the thread, they seem like an intentionally developed version of a thing that many writers have naturally—my guess would be that they use the normal circuitry that we have for emulating and predicting the behavior of other people, only they’re modelling a non-existent person and the outputs of that modeling get fed back in to be used as new input.
Oops, I didn’t see that. Thanks.
Edit: Still, at a glance, the 3 questions I’m asking this time, were not exactly asked in the linked discussion. So I welcome everyone to share their thoughts here.