laughs in plural

Yes. It’s called headspace. It’s a collaborative effort.

We do not have DID, but we are plural. Some of us are female, some male, some nonbinary.

Each of us identifies as our own respective gender. But what gender is a community? We submit that even groups consisting of a single gender are not considered to have a group gender. A sorority’s membership may be entirely comprised of women, but is the sorority itself considered female?

We have seen this meme many times, but this is our first time noticing the “plural inside” sticker.

Of course we own a crusty old sticker-emblazoned thinkpad that we keep running out of spite.

The gravel stabilizes the tar somewhat. But yes. And gravel washes off the roof too. And then the roof leaks the next time you get rain. They’re typically initially installed with hot asphalt and then patched with tar until the homeowner gives up and buys shingles. There’s a good reason you don’t see gravel roofs very much.

They use tar.

A tulpa is a type of supplemental consciousness capable of independent thought and with its own sense of self. It is created, intentionally or otherwise, by an existing consciousness within the same brain it comes to inhabit.

Yes, we are acutely aware that it sounds like preposterous pseudoscientific bullshit. We’re just describing the concept, not expecting you to put any stock in it. We know what community we’re commenting in.

The LLM in this example is not a tulpa. It only (poorly) mimics the appearance of independent thought and a sense of self, and runs on an external device.

They’re misidentifying that LLM as a tulpa.

We’re aware that some people use LLM output as a basis for the creation of tulpas, but this doesn’t seem to be the case here. This seems to be a person attributing independent intelligence to an LLM external to herself, not recounting her experience with an additional consciousness within her own brain.

Whether or not you consider tulpas or other forms of plurality to be genuine phenomena, this conflates two different concepts which are tangentially related at most.