ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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 world models, planning, and agent orchestration. Both have spent more than a decade in AI and believe the most important AI story isn’t centralization but the quieter parallel movement using AI to accelerate decentralization and give power back to the individual.
Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
88 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
11 episodes
since May 17, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
0:00 - The shift to personalized models
7:44 - Omarchy and AI-native operating systems
10:00 - AI-powered game decompilation
12:04 - Nostr's vision for a decentralized internet
24:04 - Adversarial algorithms and reclaiming control over interfaces
28:15 - Moving beyond LLMs with …
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
0:00 - Back from hiatus and the Open Source AI Summit
3:15 - AI fear, regulation, and control at the Pro-Human Assembly
5:46 - Is existential AI risk actually possible?
8:46 - The main problem with AI alignment
10:30 - OpenAI’s agent swarm and the reward hacking problem
13:02 -…
0:00 - Opening and what’s new
1:05 - Escaping the algo
5:22 - The dead internet and cost of AI slop
11:08 - Private communities as the future of the internet
19:16 - Nostr, Buzz, and the agentic internet
29:48 - What an AI-native company needs to own
39:33 - Secret messages…
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…
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 m…
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 c…
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 s…
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 -…
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 …
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 A…
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