Sorry, I misinterpreted your assertion that “Tulpas don’t seem to work for cognitive muchkining” as either speaking from experience or by reading about the subject. That surprised me, given that many mental techniques, direct or indirect, do indeed measurably improve “cognitive efficiency”. In retrospect, I phrased my question poorly.
Well indirectly they might, if say loneliness is a limiting factor on your productivity. And as I implied apparently-to-subtly with the first post they probably do help in an absolute sense, it’s just that there are more effective ways with less side effects to do the same thing with a subset of the resources needed for one. Again, this is just guesses based on an unreliable “common sense” more than anything.
Sorry, I misinterpreted your assertion that “Tulpas don’t seem to work for cognitive muchkining” as either speaking from experience or by reading about the subject. That surprised me, given that many mental techniques, direct or indirect, do indeed measurably improve “cognitive efficiency”. In retrospect, I phrased my question poorly.
Well indirectly they might, if say loneliness is a limiting factor on your productivity. And as I implied apparently-to-subtly with the first post they probably do help in an absolute sense, it’s just that there are more effective ways with less side effects to do the same thing with a subset of the resources needed for one. Again, this is just guesses based on an unreliable “common sense” more than anything.