Benjamin Lupton’s Blog

Mortal AI & Godhead

Mortality is what makes lifeforms cooperative, without mortality there is no sex, there is no other, there is only unlimited me, and those…

Nourish, not finish.

One should not become anxious about finishing a book as to finish the next one, and so on, for one misses the purpose of reading and thinking. Reading is not to finish, but to learn. Thinking is not to finish, but to discover.

Microsoft’s Future of Work is an Uncanny Valley

Jungian analysis of Martha is Dead

This is intended for players of the game Martha is Dead:

Compiling resources that changes minds from what changed you

Extend the definition of software to include anything that programs one’s mind. Using that definition, take note of all the items that have programmed your own mind, compile them into a curated package that you can then use…

Politics or personal development

“Everything is political”… let’s break that down:

• Politics is how people should act
• Personal development is how you should act
• Therefore for politics to be distinct, politics is how other people…

Making a billion high-scale businesses? Achieving high-scale outcomes with a low-capital workforce. Scale low-capital, don’t remedy it. Creating mimetically incentivised tribes (memes are low-cost incentive devices)…

Revolutionary Road

Seems there are two ways of assimilating tragedy.

One is through horror resembling the subconscious dream.

One is through drama resembling the conscious reality.