Jesse Posner, Dustin Dannenhauer

Decentralizing AI with Jesse & Dustin

Technology EN ↓ 8 episodes

Digging into the ideas shaping the next era of AI, and how they intersect with decentralization, self-sovereignty, and empowerment of the individual. Each episode, Jesse Posner and Dustin Dannenhauer, PhD explore the frontier of AI with topics such as open-source vs. proprietary models, world models vs. LLMs, autonomous agents, AI self-custody, vibe coding, bitcoin, Nostr, consciousness, and who actually owns the stack. Vora co-founder Jesse focuses on AI self-custody, applying bitcoin’s self-sovereignty ethos to artificial intelligence. Dustin runs Delegance AI, a research lab focused on worl...

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Jesse Posner, Dustin Dannenhauer

Episodes

Fable 5 and the Shift Beyond Models: Data, Harnesses, and Local AI 05.07.2026 2:10:46

0:00 - Opening 0:50 - HSMs for agentic payments & the security tradeoff in personal AI 8:36 - The fragility of cloud security 11:43 - Vora's compartmentalized architecture for personal AI 14:50 - Why Fable 5 feels nerfed 20:13 - Fable 5 isn't a big deal because intelligence is no longer the bottleneck (data & harnesses are) 23:38 - Local models are getting useful: Hermes Agent, Qwen 3.6, and LLM w...

The Local AI Boom and the Coming AI Underclass | 0xSero 28.06.2026 1:06:31

0:00 0xSero intro 3:00 Finding the best models for your machine ( local.ai ) 7:29 Why choosing local models is so hard 12:15 Specs that mislead users 14:15 Memory bandwidth is the real bottleneck 16:26 Qwen on cheap consumer hardware 18:13 Gemma, Strix Halo, and faster local models 20:00 How diffusion models could change speed 21:55 Fable 5 as a turning point & AI export controls 26:57 What powerf...

What New AI Models Keep Revealing: Multi-Agent Workflows, Context Limits & the End of One-Model AI 21.06.2026 1:19:36

0:00 - Opus 4.8 agent workflows 7:02 - Ultracode and long coding workflows 17:05 - Why AI gets stuck in bad patterns 24:12 - What makes AI an actual collaborator 31:33 - Why specialization will beat one big model 36:14 - The real debate behind AI jobs 43:21 - The abundance case for AI 47:31 - The political roots of AI fear 59:37 - The new human premium & what AI reveals about human value 1:03:57 -...

Claude’s Less Obvious Edge, AI Layoffs, Prompting & Consciousness 14.06.2026 1:18:59

0:00 What AI layoffs are getting wrong 5:54 The most important trait to hire for now 14:46 How AI unlocks untapped potential 22:04 Heidegger on fear & anxiety and AI’s self-help potential 31:50 Walter Benjamin and the main human job in an AI world 44:31 Why Claude feels special & how prompts create personality 50:47 Gemma 4 with vs without a system prompt 54:56 AI is still missing real planning 1:...

The AI Stack After LLMs: Local Inference, World Models, and Logic | Dr. Matthew Molineaux 07.06.2026 1:35:58

0:00 - Matt Molineaux intro 1:30 - Agents before LLMs 3:23 - Why Matt hated LLMs at first 5:34 - Why AI (and LLMs) need world models 13:05 - The problem with LLMs' nondeterminism & the case for adding logic 21:49 - How & why open-weight local models could win 25:22 - Who owns AI-generated work? 31:17 - Can governments control LLM outputs? 35:30 - Mythos and AI danger messaging 41:16 - Whose ethics...

What LLMs Reveal About Language and Reality | Trilogues I with Max Webster (Hivemind) 31.05.2026 1:32:33

0:00 - Introducing Max Webster & the first trilogue 2:32 - Is reality made of language? 8:10 - Do LLMs understand the world? 12:09 - Is language more than description? 18:51 - The hidden power of naming 25:28 - The language beneath everything 29:41 - How meaning changes life 36:57 - The limits of thinking & concepts 42:40 - The weird psychology of vibe coding & why it gets emotional 49:04 - Are LL...

AI Is Your Birthright: Open Models, Private AI, and Why LLMs Fall Short 24.05.2026 1:54:13

0:00 - Why AI is your birthright (if you're American or European) 5:00 - The fight over training data 10:29 - Was AI invented or discovered? 18:31 - Why open models matter 27:34 - Building a better AI workflow 47:44 - Why agents need world models 56:52 - Choosing the right AI & why AI needs more than LLMs 1:11:51 - Coding as discovery not execution 1:13:56 - Can the world become language? 1:28:23...

Intros, World Models, the End of Apps, and the Paramount Importance of User-Aligned AI 17.05.2026 1:11:27

Timestamps: 0:00 Podcast origins and the AI moment 3:11 Dustin’s background: AI research, bitcoin, Nostr, and decentralization 11:20 Jesse’s background: from philosophy and law to bitcoin security 17:18 Dustin’s startup (Delegance) vision and world models explained through chess 25:45 Determinism: why AI works better with structure and clear rules 34:05 Reflecting on process: how to debug better,...