AI doesn't create vulnerabilities, it discovers what is already there. The safest thing we can be doing is to make them easy to see, so they can be fixed. It is only children that believe closing your eyes will make you invisible.

LLMs are just the opening act @DeleganceAI co-founder Dr. Matthew Molineaux joins @dtdannen & @jesseposner to discuss what comes next, why AI needs world models and logic, and how open-weight local inference will reshape AI: Timestamps 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 govern AI? 48:37 - Filtering the internet through agents 56:03 - Controlling AI is shorthand for controlling humans 1:01:43 - How & why decentralization builds resilience 1:06:48 - Can AI solve coordination problems? 1:16:12 - "Personal lens": Aligned local AI project 1:25:15 - Why LLMs still need logic 1:34:30 - The stack after LLMs

"As man should name all kinds of living creatures, so should they be called."

Trilogues I is live! @MaxAWebster joins @jesseposner & @dtdannen to explore why LLMs work better than they “should,” what language reveals about reality, and what AI reveals about the human mind: Timestamps 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 LLMs enough for superintelligence? 58:20 - Could AI run without us? 1:06:18 - What AI reveals about us 1:12:24 - Is there something beyond language? 1:24:03 - Why imagination makes language powerful 1:30:15 - The infinite game after AI

There are two critical aspects of the art of tokenmaxxing and failing to understand the second part is catastrophic. Whoever can consume the most tokens at the highest token ROI wins. If you leave out the ROI part, you lose.

An Open Letter to President Trump (@realDonaldTrump) on Privacy, Freedom and freeing the Samourai Bitcoin Wallet Developers. #freesamourai #pardonsamourai

"secure enclaves" are very frequently broken and should be treated as a defense in depth mechanism rather than a silver bullet for security

Silent payments aren't just about privacy. They also make addresses far more secure and usable because they enable human readable addresses: bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-…

Nested MuSig2 now has a Python reference implementation. @BeulahEvanjalin built it on secp256k1lab with tests, examples, and protocol notes—generally in a good state for review and discussion. This is the blueprint that will inform the secp256k1-based C work.

Episode 2 of Decentralizing AI is live! @jesseposner and @dtdannen discuss why AI is your birthright (if you’re American or European), private/user-controlled models, and why the next phase of AI will need more than LLMs ↓ Timestamps: 0:00 - Why AI is your birthright 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 - How names unlock understanding 1:41:00 - Why private AI matters 1:47:30 - Will superintelligence = superwisdom?

Every year, we host a handful of technical workshops that bring together top talent to solve the bottlenecks in frontier science and technology. Together with @protocollabs, we’re inviting leading researchers, engineers, cryptographers, and funders to Berlin, July 18-19, for a two-day workshop on how AI can become an engine of defense in a multipolar human-AI world. We will explore: • AI for Secure AI: Building self-improving defense systems where AI autonomously identifies vulnerabilities, generates formal proofs, red-teams, and strengthens our digital infrastructure. • AI for Private AI: Constructing confidential compute environments, scaling encrypted mechanisms for handling data, and designing infrastructure that distributes trust. • AI for Decentralized & Cooperative AI: Building decentralized intelligence ecosystems using tools in economics, game theory, and mechanism design, where AI systems cooperate, negotiate, and align. Speakers include: • @robinhanson, George Mason University • @FazlBarez , University of Oxford • @ml_sudo, Project Sovereign • @DavideCrapis, Ethereum Foundation • @NitzanShulman, Heron AI • @jesseposner , Vora • @AlexObadia, ARIA • @jsotterbach, SPRIND • @juanbenet, Protocol Labs If you’re researcher or builder in this space, apply to attend: foresight.org/events/2026-se…

Excited to release the first episode of Decentralizing AI with Jesse (@jesseposner) & Dustin (@dtdannen)! Learn about their backgrounds and explore some of the ideas that’ll shape the show, including AI, world models, workflows, the future of software, decentralization, bitcoin, and the importance of AI serving the individual rather than the interests of platforms, governments, or other actors. 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, waste fewer tokens, and improve workflow 50:50 The end of apps and the rise of personal AI interfaces 1:06:48 The stakes of AI that serves the individual

"In inconspicuousness and unascertainability, the real dictatorship of the 'they' is unfolded. We take pleasure and enjoy ourselves as they take pleasure; we read, see, and judge about literature and art as they see and judge; likewise we shrink back from the 'great mass' as they shrink back; we find 'shocking' what they find shocking. Thus the 'they' maintains itself in averageness, of that which it regards as valid and that which it does not, and of that to which it grants success and that to which it denies it. In this averageness with which it prescribes what can and may be ventured, it keeps watch over everything exceptional that thrusts itself to the fore. Every kind of priority gets noiselessly suppressed. Everything that is primordial gets glossed over as something that has long been well known. Everything gained by a struggle becomes just something to be manipulated. Every secret loses its force. Everything gets obscured, and what has been covered up gets passed off as something familiar and accessible to everyone. Everyone is the other, and no one is himself." – Heidegger

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats

Apparently these guys have never heard of CoinJoin and Payjoin.

Don’t outsource your intelligence with AI, amplify it.

You don’t actually have to choose between Claude and Codex. I use both. At the same time.

"[T]houghtless men are careless readers, and only thoughtful men are careful readers. Therefore an author who wishes to address only thoughtful men has but to write in such a way that only a very careful reader can detect the meaning of his book."