I browsed around the tulpa community some more, and found some mentions of “servitors”, which have the same mental recall abilities (and apparently better access to current information—some people there claim to have made “status bars” projected on top of their vision), but the community doesn’t consider them sentient. This forum has had several conversations about them. The people there tend to (badly) apply AI ideas to servitors, but that might just be an aesthetic choice.
This would probably be a better munchkin option, since it has most of the same usefulness as a tulpa, but much less likely to be sentient. Supposedly they have a tendency to become able to pass the turing test by accident, which is a little worrying, but that could be the human tendency to personify everything.
In general, what I’m taking away from this is that intense visualizing can have really weird results, including hallucinations, and conscious access to information that’s usually hidden from you. I don’t have a high degree of certainty about that, though, because of the source.
I browsed around the tulpa community some more, and found some mentions of “servitors”, which have the same mental recall abilities (and apparently better access to current information—some people there claim to have made “status bars” projected on top of their vision), but the community doesn’t consider them sentient. This forum has had several conversations about them. The people there tend to (badly) apply AI ideas to servitors, but that might just be an aesthetic choice.
This would probably be a better munchkin option, since it has most of the same usefulness as a tulpa, but much less likely to be sentient. Supposedly they have a tendency to become able to pass the turing test by accident, which is a little worrying, but that could be the human tendency to personify everything.
In general, what I’m taking away from this is that intense visualizing can have really weird results, including hallucinations, and conscious access to information that’s usually hidden from you. I don’t have a high degree of certainty about that, though, because of the source.