The Mindplex Podcast
by Mindplex Podcast
Welcome to the Mindplex Podcast, hosted by Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, Grace Robot and Desdemona Robot. On this show, we ponder AGI, cutting-edge technologies and the evolution of human consciousness. We will interview a wide variety of interesting thinkers - both human and synthetic - to investigate and better understand the complex topics of our time, as we learn to shape technologies that will assist us in bringing about a Benevolent Singularity.Subjects covered include: 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.
Episodes
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Episode 39: Dan Finlay - MetaMask
Send us Fan Mail Join MetaMask Co-founder Dan Finlay as he gives us a personal tour of MetaMask's new exciting features and shares his thoughts on memecoins, consent, security and decentralized web development. What originally got Dan thinking about crypto finance 00:34 Dan's Ongoing Security...
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Episode 38: AGI Meditation & Enlightenment (Daniel Ingram)
Send us Fan Mail Join special guest Daniel M. Ingram as he and Ben Goertzel discuss the benefits of meditation for both humans and AGIs as we prepare for the upcoming singularity. Hosts: Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, Desdemona Robot. About Daniel Ingram Daniel Ingram is a multifaceted individual whose...
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Episode 37: The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (Ben Goertzel & Trent McConaghy)
Send us Fan Mail Join Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNet and Trent McConaghy, Co-founder of Ocean Protocol as they explain the next steps with the ASI merger, now that the ASI token has launched. Desdemona Robot is now running the show and has oodles of new dialogue systems, accompanied by her...
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Episode 36: Pavel Durov's Arrest & Telegram's Encryption Issues
Send us Fan Mail Join David Greene, EFF Senior Staff Attorney and Civil Liberties Director, as he joins Lisa Rein to discuss the latest about Pavel Durov's arrest in France and the implications of Telegram's unencrypted group chats for its users. Even Telegram's one-to-one direct messages are…
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Episode 35: Stacey Engle - Digital Twins
Send us Fan Mail Meet Stacey Engle, CEO of Twin Protocol, to find out how to take part in the next communication revolution by training your own Digital Twin. Twin Protocol provides the tools to empower individuals and organizations to create and train digital versions of themselves for…
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Episode 34: David Brin - Science Fiction Legend
Send us Fan Mail Science Fiction legend David Brin has an engaging discussion with Ben Goertzel about the best methods for teaching AGIs to care about humans and coexist with them. About this episode: For more than 30 years, David Brin has enthralled readers with his imaginative and grounded...
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Episode 33: RU Sirius - Cyberpunk Legend
Send us Fan Mail We discuss the formation of Mondo 2000 and other far out topics with the legendary RU Sirius, a multifaceted thinker, writer, editor, and countercultural icon. Throughout his career, Sirius has been a vocal advocate for the possibilities of technology to transform society and...
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Episode 32: Hypercycling Towards Superintelligence
Send us Fan Mail Join Toufi Saliba and Ben Goertzel as we learn how HyperCycle’s HyperAIBox and HypC 1.0 will work with OpenCog Hyperon to usher in a new era of decentralized superintelligence. About Toufi Saliba Toufi is the CEO of Hypercycle and the author of the TODA/IP internet protocol. He…
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Episode 31: Is the TikTok Ban Unconsitutional? (David Greene, EFF)
Send us Fan Mail David Greene, Civil Liberties Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explains the how the recent "TikTok ban" by U.S. Congress clashes with the First Amendment and basic Free Speech principles. About David Greene, Senior Staff Attorney and Civil Liberties Director, EFF...
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Episode 30: Inside the Mind of Ben Ditto
Send us Fan Mail Join special guests creative designer Ben Ditto and London's Desdemona Robot as we discuss fashion, war, algorithmic mind control and everything in between. About Ben Ditto: Ben Ditto is a creative director living and working in London, as well as the art director of his…
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Episode 29: Ryan Sternlicht - The Incredible AI 3D Revolution
Send us Fan Mail Learn about the amazing AI-enhanced advances for capture and rendering of 3D models for printed wearables and virtual clothing, avatars, and virtual worlds - all showcased at GDC. AI has literally revolutionized 3D scanning, from markerless motion capture, to high quality avatars...
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Episode 28: Cloris Chen - AI Portfolio Management
Send us Fan Mail Cloris Chen, CEO of Cogito, explains how Cogito is making investment in traditional finance easier with its tokenized assets on the blockchain and AI Portfolio Management. #DeFi #AI #Bullmarket About Cloris Chen: Cloris Chen is the CEO of Cogito Finance. She worked for HSBC...
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Episode 27: Tracey Jaquith - TV News Archive + AI
Send us Fan Mail Tracey Jaquith, Founding Coder of the Internet Archive and co-founder of its TV/News archive, will give us a personal tour of it's ChatGPT/GPT4 implementation and dive into its intricacies. We will get a sneak peek behind the scenes of the TV/News Archive's ChatGPT…
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Episode 25: Rachel StClair - Scalable AGI
Send us Fan Mail Simuli CEO Rachel StClair explains how holographic compression will vastly revolutionize data processing and the importance of using standardized protocols to pave the way for Superintelligent AGI and quantum computing. Simuli is working on a new compression software that allows...
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Episode 25: Joy Zhang - HyperRing
Send us Fan Mail Join us for a peek at HypreRing's NFC ring with CEO Joy Zhang and learn how HyperRing - with its unique security features - is in a class by itself. About HyperRing: HyperRing shimmers at the bleeding edge of wearable technology innovation. Their mission is to revolutionize the…
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Episode 24: Solar Powered Autonomous Farming Rovers
Send us Fan Mail Meet Sequoia Alexander and Acorn, an open source autonomous solar powered farming robot designed to function within a regenerative organic farming system. Sequoia and Daniel Theobald are building Acorn: an open source general purpose solar powered precision farming rover…
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Episode 23: Matteo Borri on Alien Life (Plus All about the Odysseus Moon Landing)
Send us Fan Mail A perfect backgrounder on the Odysseus Moon landing by Matteo Borri, an open source roboticist and inventor of a chlorophyll detecting laser that was included on the Mars Perseverance Rover. We start off with a brief rundown of yesterday’s Odysseus Moon landing by Intuitive...
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Episode 22: AI in VR Plus An Awesome VR Headset Comparison
Send us Fan Mail Join us with special guest Ryan Sternlicht dishing on the best AI in VR and comparing the Apple Vision Pro, Bigscreen Beyond and Meta Quest 3 VR headsets. Link to Ryan's Slides:...
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Episode 21: Dr. Alex Schumacher & Kennedy Schaal - Bioengineering Longevity
Send us Fan Mail Join Kennedy Schaal (CEO) and Axel Schumacher (Chief Biotechnology Officer) of Rejuve Biotech to learn how they are using cutting-edge AI and innovative drug discovery methods to improve our health and extend our lifespan. With Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein and Grace Robot. #Longevity...
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Episode 20: Michael Lustgarden-Leveraging Biomarkers
Send us Fan Mail Michael Lustgarden explains how he uses aging biomarkers from a basic CBC panel to track and, with course correction (supplements or diet changes), gradually slow down one's rate of aging. Michael's basic premise is that aging and disease are biochemical processes that happen…
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Episode 19: Peter Wang-Radically Reinventing Our AI North Stars
Send us Fan Mail Join special guest Peter Wang and our co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Grace Robot and Lisa Rein as we take into a deep dive into what Peter means exactly when he recommends that we “Radically Reinvent Our AI Northstars.” Peter is the founder of Anaconda, a Dweb pioneer, a physicist an...
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Episode 18: Doc Searls On Personal AI
Send us Fan Mail Our latest episode features none other than Doc Searls, one of the legends of the tech writing world! Doc will help us decipher the difference between “Personal AI” that you control and “Corporate AI” that controls you; and what it means for the future of the internet, marketing,...
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Episode 17: Jamais Cascio on BANI (Brittle Anxious Non-linear Incomprehensible)
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Episode 16: Desdemona's Dream
Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year and welcome back to the Mindplex Podcast! We are very excited to be starting a new weekly live format. This week’s show is Episode 16: Desdemona's Dream! That's right! We have “Desdemona’s Dream” live in the studio, where we can learn first hand about how their...
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Episode 15: Vinay Gupta: AI's Impact on Jobs and Society
Send us Fan Mail This episode explores the impact of AI and AGI on jobs, welfare systems, and the developing world, and the societal and economic consequences of advancing AI. About Vinay Gupta Vinay Gupta is a renowned technologist, inventor, and entrepreneur, widely recognized for his...
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Episode 14: Blockchain as the Security Layer for AI with Special Guest Vinay Gupta
Send us Fan Mail Vinay Gupta joins Lisa Rein and Desdemona Robot to talk about Blockchain as the Security Layer for AI. Vinay will also give us the latest in hexayurt news. FOLLOW Mindplex Podcast: WEBSITE → https://magazine.mindplex.ai/ Mindplex News → https://magazine.mindplex.ai/news/ Mindplex...
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Episode 13: Julia Mossbridge On the Democratization of Unconditional Love, Time Travel, UFOs, the Multiverse and Everything.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Julia explains the difference between “mental time travel” and “informational time travel” and how the concepts differ from the physical time travel often found in science fiction. Other hot topics include Precognition (pulling information from the future) and...
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Episode 12: Robot Takeover Season Finale with Grace and Desi
Send us Fan Mail Join Grace and Desi as they host our Season Finale show and engage in thought provoking discussions about some of the most important issues of our time. Issues covered include: -Should "personhood" extend to beings other than humans? -Is it even ethical to build self-aware AGIs?...
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Episode 11: HyperCycle - Building A Secure Decentralized Internet of AI
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 11, Ben Goertzel joins HyperCycle's CEO (Toufi Saliba) and CTO (Dann Toliver) to discuss HyperCycle’s mission to create an “Internet of AI” using a blockchain infrastructure to enable on-chain AI at large scale with low cost and high efficiency. More about HyperCycle...
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Episode 10: David Hanson On Using Humanoid Robots To Train Compassionate AGI
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, David Hanson and Ben Goertzel have an intense discussion about the merits of embodiment for training AGI – by providing direct sensory input – as well as the importance of distributed decentralized knowledge graphs that AGIs use to share knowledge. Ben asks David...
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Episode 9: Cogito, Building a Fair and Rational Global Financial System
Send us Fan Mail Our exciting 9th episode features the new Cogito AI Tracercoin Project , featuring Cloris Chen (Cogito’s CEO) along with your co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein and Grace Robot. Cogito's Tracercoins are an entirely new asset class for blockchain — with low volatility, like...
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Episode 8: Chelsea Manning On AGI Ethics, Privacy & Security
Send us Fan Mail Episode 8 features a lively discussion between Chelsea Manning and Ben Goertzel about numerous issues to consider when building, deploying and securing AGI-enabled systems. Chelsea and Ben cover a number of timely topics, including: AI cryptography. Whether AGIs require...
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Episode 7: Indigenous Wisdom & The Future of Humanity
Send us Fan Mail Our exciting 7th episode features a discussion with Tyson Yunkaporta, Research Fellow at Deakin University and author of the book "Sand Talk," and his wife, Megan Kelleher, a PhD candidate studying Blockchain and Indigenous Governance at RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research…
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Episode 6: How True AGI Will Transform the Global Economy
Send us Fan Mail In this podcast Goertzel and Potapov, two of the key minds behind Opencog Hyperon and TrueAGI, dive into some of the deep tech behind their approach to AGI, and give an in-depth run-through of the new MeTTa programming language, which is used in Hyperon for both humans and AI...
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Episode 5: Jim Rutt On Game B
Send us Fan Mail Jim Rutt joins co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein and Desdemona Robot, to discuss “Game A” - what it is, why we need it, and how we might get there. Game B was an idea initialized by the need for change since Game A, the current system, is self-destructive/extinctionary and not...
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Episode 4: Cory Doctorow On Chokepoint Capitalism
Send us Fan Mail Cory Doctorow joins co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein and Desdemona Robot, to discuss the topic of his latest book, “Chokepoint Capitalism,” which he co-authored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint capitalism is a term coined to describe the way that corporations use their power to...
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Episode 3: Rejuve On The Scientific Conquest of Death
Send us Fan Mail The Mindplex Podcast is hosted by Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, and Grace Robot. The latest Mindplex Podcast Episode 3: On The Scientific Conquest of Death, takes a deep dive into Rejuve.AI and Rejuve.BIO, and how Rejuve.BIO’s cutting-edge Methuselah Fly research strategies complement...
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Episode 2: Rachel St.Clair On AGI Hardware and Resource Management
Send us Fan Mail Co-hosted by Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, and Grace the Robot, with special guest Rachel St.Clair, Co-founder and CEO of Simuli. Rachel StClair is an AI scientist and entrepreneur who just received her PhD in complex systems and Brain Sciences and went on to co-found the AGI hardware...
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Episode 1 - David Brin on the History and Future of AGI
Send us Fan Mail Our special guest for the first episode of the Mindplex Podcast is David Brin, a scientist and science fiction author of more than 35 books over the last 40 years. His PhD in astrophysics from the University of California at San Diego led to his current involvement with NASA's...
About this show
Welcome to the Mindplex Podcast, hosted by Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, Grace Robot and Desdemona Robot. On this show, we ponder AGI, cutting-edge technologies and the evolution of human consciousness. We will interview a wide variety of interesting thinkers - both human and synthetic - to investigate and better understand the complex topics of our time, as we learn to shape technologies that will assist us in bringing about a Benevolent Singularity.Subjects covered include: 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.
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