The Mindplex Podcast (Archive)
This is an archive for the original Mindplex Podcast, which wrapped up production in February 2025.
The Mindplex Podcast was hosted by Lisa Rein, Ben Goertzel, Grace Robot and Desdemona Robot. On this show, we pondered AGI, cutting-edge technologies and the evolution of human consciousness. We interviewed a wide variety of interesting thinkers - both human and synthetic - to investigate and better understand the complex topics of our time, so we could learn to shape technologies that will assist us in bringing about a Benevolent Singularity.
Subjects covered included: AGI, the Metaverse, Decentralized Economies, Superlongevity, Superintelligence, Nanotech and Femtotech, Psi, Psychedelics, Experimental Futuristic Art & Music, Robotics, Synthetic Biology, Quantum Computing, Consciousness, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Speculative Physics, Chaos and Complexity and anything else wildly interesting and mind-blowing.
The Mindplex Podcast (Archive)
Episode 17: Jamais Cascio on BANI (Brittle Anxious Non-linear Incomprehensible)
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In this episode, Jamais Cascio will help us understand how to use the BANI framework to process and evaluate disaster level situations in a meaningful and constructive way.
Jamais writes an article for Mindplex explaining BANI (Brittle Anxious Non-linear Incomprehensible) in greater detail here:
https://magazine.mindplex.ai/bani-and-the-participatory-panopticon/
Jamais created the BANI framework in 2018. “BANI” comes from:
Brittle;
Anxious;
Nonlinear; and
Incomprehensible.
Jamais created this framework from these four concepts to give us better language for the ways in which the world today seems to be falling apart. It’s a taxonomy of chaos to help our brains sort through the noise… without freaking out. It's the “freaking out” part we're trying to skip, so we can have productive conversations about psychologically-challenging topics.
About Jamais Cascio:
One of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, Jamais Cascio explores our environment, technology, and culture to build plausible future scenarios. As Distinguished Fellow at Institute for the Future, he created the BANI framework for understanding global chaos. He works, writes, and speaks around the world on issues facing the global future.
#ClimateRefugees #Geoengineering #BANI
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