The general impression I got from reading a lot of the stuff that gets posted in the various tulpa communities leads me to believe it is, at its core, yet another group of people who gain status within that group by trying to impress each other with how different or special their situation is. Read almost any post where somebody is trying to describe their tulpa, and you’ll see very obvious attempts to show how unique their tulpa is or how it falls into some unprecedented category or how they created it in some special way.
None of the sources posted offer any sort of good evidence that people who claim to have tulpas have any sort of advantages. It obviously has a low value of information for an aspiring rationalist. It’s just people talking about imaginary friends. This discussion doesn’t belong here.
The general impression I got from reading a lot of the stuff that gets posted in the various tulpa communities leads me to believe it is, at its core, yet another group of people who gain status within that group by trying to impress each other with how different or special their situation is.
Used to be, when I read stories about “astral projection” I thought people were just imagining stuff really hard and then making up exaggerated stories to impress each other. Then I found out it’s basically the same thing as wake initated lucid dreaming, which is a very specific kind of weird and powerful experience that’s definitely not just “imagining things really hard”. I still think people make up stories about astral projection to impress each other, but the basic experience is nevertheless something real and unique. The same thing is probably happening with tulpas.
Read almost any post where somebody is trying to describe their tulpa, and you’ll see very obvious attempts to show how unique their tulpa is or how it falls into some unprecedented category or how they created it in some special way.
Given that tulpa are probably strongly influenced by the hosts beliefs I wouldn’t expect all tulpas to be exactly the same. I would expect most tulpa’s to be unique in some sense.
I also would expect that given the effort that involved in creating a tulpa that people do vary the protocol.
None of the sources posted offer any sort of good evidence that people who claim to have tulpas have any sort of advantages.
“Good evidence” depends on your priors. For me the evidence that exists is good enough to find the phenomena interesting and worthy of further attention.
The general impression I got from reading a lot of the stuff that gets posted in the various tulpa communities leads me to believe it is, at its core, yet another group of people who gain status within that group by trying to impress each other with how different or special their situation is. Read almost any post where somebody is trying to describe their tulpa, and you’ll see very obvious attempts to show how unique their tulpa is or how it falls into some unprecedented category or how they created it in some special way.
None of the sources posted offer any sort of good evidence that people who claim to have tulpas have any sort of advantages. It obviously has a low value of information for an aspiring rationalist. It’s just people talking about imaginary friends. This discussion doesn’t belong here.
Used to be, when I read stories about “astral projection” I thought people were just imagining stuff really hard and then making up exaggerated stories to impress each other. Then I found out it’s basically the same thing as wake initated lucid dreaming, which is a very specific kind of weird and powerful experience that’s definitely not just “imagining things really hard”. I still think people make up stories about astral projection to impress each other, but the basic experience is nevertheless something real and unique. The same thing is probably happening with tulpas.
Given that tulpa are probably strongly influenced by the hosts beliefs I wouldn’t expect all tulpas to be exactly the same. I would expect most tulpa’s to be unique in some sense.
I also would expect that given the effort that involved in creating a tulpa that people do vary the protocol.
“Good evidence” depends on your priors. For me the evidence that exists is good enough to find the phenomena interesting and worthy of further attention.