Notices by Xe :verified: (cadey@pony.social), page 4

broke: making twilight sparkle do your homework and have her cite sources.

Woke: make a God tulpa whose sources can be "I am the source"

Okay so the context here was this Twitter thread (threadreader version) where the OP/pastor details their creation of a "God tulpa", or something to help the voice of God live through them so that it's more convenient as you navigate a secular lifestyle.

"But I can only do that because I’ve approached learning to hear God with… let’s not say obsession, but with intention. Because 3 hours a day isn’t crazy! It’s on the extreme end of reasonable. I stayed in college, did all the normal person things; I just had a intense hobby."

This sounds a lot like the old process for tulpamancy, specifically way back in the FAQ_Man / Irish_ hour counting eras of understanding. Specifically, the biggest number from that era is the claim that you need 100 hours of effort to make a tulpa.

In the thread, the pastor cites 1000 hours:

"1) You need 1000 hours of intentional prayer to hear Gods voice well; and"

"2) the first hour of prayer every day doesn’t count towards that goal. For the first hour, you’re just shaking the dust off; all the good stuff comes after."

Yeeeeeep that really does sound like those older tulpamancy guides, namely:

"This all took me a total of 130 hours: over the course of 2.5 months, 2-3 hours a day 5 days a week."
[...]
"Your intervals of tulpaforcing (this is the umbrella term for sitting down and visualizing / creating your tulpa) should be no less than a half hour or else you won't get into the deep phase of concentration needed to really be productive."

This lead me to xeet the following tweets:

"Man, wasn't tulpamancy said to take only 100 hours at first? How are we in a world where talking to god takes more effort than summoning a twilight sparkle tulpa to help you with your math homework."

"There was an argument made to me that it takes pastors 1000 hours of training due to the technique and framework being better in the tulpamancy side of things, but I don't know if it's 99+% reduction in time spent good."

"I mean yeah the modern method of tulpamancy has refined all the hard edges down a lot through simple axioms like:

"Yeah she can hear you and think for herself, you'll learn to hear her soon enough"

This has drastically reduced the time-to-first-word in most newcomers."

Whereas with older FAQ_Man methods or likely the prayer method that the OP of the thread is using, it probably takes that long for the other presence to assert itself unambiguously enough to be consciously noticeable.

This takes a while, turns out the ego is strong, etc.

I mean, this is coming from someone who had such a godform in their youth due to over-literal interpretation of the statement "form a personal relationship with God" so take this all as you will.

The kinda insidious part about such godforms is that they end up keeping people trapped in the faith even after they want to start leaving. It's hard to deny God's existence when He follows your every step for very understandable reasons.

The most amusing part was this reply:

"Yeah, the relationship paradigm is a good one. How do you build a good relationship? Time and attention. What you do with that time and attention varies across relationships, but the time and attention—they remain the same."

That combination of time and attention is basically what makes the endogenic plural process happen my dude. Writers get it too.

Hell, in his autobiography "I am Spock", Lenoard Nimoy said that Spock had "taken on a life of his own" as a result of the kind of acting that Nimoy was doing in order to portray the character better. I bet that was some kind of plurality too!

Make whatever conclusions you want from this post.

ß still looks like a "B" to me

Malware is just software that does something the user doesn't want it to. A good example is Microsoft Windows.

How is cohost already insolvent lol

the old internet is dying, the new internet struggles to be born, now is the time of monsters

If YouTube falls, I think we're officially entering a new era of internet.

fucking hell, gfycat too?

I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.

Experimenting with a new font for the site:

The solution is always more elegant when you understand the problem

Weaponizing hyperfocus: Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale

https://tailscale.dev/blog/weaponizing-hyperfocus

This is a little history of the DevRel team at @tailscale and how working on it has let me transmute a part of myself that I hated into an asset.

#devrel

🥺: the best sudo replacement

https://xeiaso.net/blog/🥺

#infosec #sudo #rust

You don't have to engage with people on the Internet

https://xeiaso.net/blog/lesson-online-feedback