a demon (or tulpa) is a semi-autonomous cognitive process running on one compute substrate and a god (or egregore) is a semi-autonomous cognitive process distributed across multiple compute substrates
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Replying to @chaosprime
Eerily correspondent to my favorite passage from The Screwtape Lettershttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/582528-one-must-face-the-fact-that-all-the-talk-about …
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Replying to @DogOfPoasts
what, how did C.S. Lewis and i come to positions on this stuff that bear a family resemblance to each other? probably we both tried to figure out some shit, did a passable job and so wound up with blind men's descriptions of an elephant that weren't entirely dissimilar
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