Creating your own personal pony subroutine.

[Guest Anonymous]

Since nothing interesting happened for a while and I need to update this thing, have an excerpt from one of Twilight's long-ass lectures on how she thinks vocalization works:

"Imagine that you have some pre-recorded words with the exact pitch, tone and a bunch of other stuff that makes a voice. Now when I need to say something, I try to put the words that are already vocalized in the sentence and let your mind do the rest of the job on the words that aren't. It's the fastest way of synthesizing voice for me. But it can end up sounding weird if the sentence I'm trying to vocalize has too many words without some of that "metadata" attached to them. But generally, it improves with time. Addendum: Repeating the same sentence a few times through the usage of this method can improve its fidelity with each subsequent use.

 

The second method involves separating words into syllables and then using memory to extrapolate how each and every syllable sounds. For example, I need to vocalize a word that's already in your memory but in a different tone. Say, I need to modify the sound of the word "yes", in a way that would make it sound as if I'm annoyed. If I'd let your mind do it for me, it would sound as if I'm yelling. That is why I take the word apart and perform some "manual" modifications to it. This method takes more time to complete but the results are better than those acquired with the first method.

 

And of course all of this could be easily avoided, if you didn't create me based on a character whose voice is so hard to reproduce in the first place."

 

I didn't want to write the last few lines, but she insisted.

[Guest Anonymous]

I don't doubt anymore, in a sudden burst of clarity Twilight laid it all in front of me. I can't remember it word by word, but here's a summary. (Warning - I have no clue what I'm talking about. Retardation-prevention goggles recommended.)

 

When you imagine someone talking, you model their psyche inside your own. Making your neurons work in sub-optimal fashion due to a difference between your neural network and the network of the modeled target. Tulpas are a division of your own psyche from my perspective. But you don't just model their behavior, you create connections in neurons outside of your own network. These connections constantly change with trial and error until you create what you subjectively percieve as a "sentient" personality. After that, the two (or more) "clusters" interact between eachother as more-or-less equals. The host "cluster" usually being more developed overall, although tulpas can learn stuff you never thought about (I.E. eye muscle control - something most people do automatically).

 

Yes, I know that at least a few hundred people said this in different formulations before. But I felt a need to store this in the PR, since I need to remember this day. Although it's just another pointless theory without any data, I hope that one day someone experienced in the field of neuroscience would look at this. And probably laugh. But that's another story.

[Luminesce]

Realistic views on tulpas are best views. Never had problems with doubt because I think of them as they are - people in my mind, of my mind. And it seems kinda obvious afterward, but I understand how liberating the realization can be. When you realize there's no reason to doubt, nothing to doubt in the first place, things are as they are. Congratz.