TECH001: AI for Activists w/ Justin Moon and Shroominic (Tech Podcast)

17 Sep 2025 · 50 min · 17 chapters

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In short

AI for activists and “freedom tech,” focusing on privacy/human-rights implications, how AI changes software creation (vibe coding, agents), and decentralized/low-connectivity communication (BitChat, Nostr integration).

Key claims

LLMs reduce the need to master “semicolons,” enabling non-experts to build useful tools; AI development is becoming more capital-intensive due to parallel agent compute; energy use for AI is increasingly accepted (and varies by geography); training centralizes compute, but inference can decentralize via specialized models and open protocols; activists can use AI to write grants faster and build rights-preserving tools; freedom networks (Bluetooth mesh + open protocols) can act as a “backstop” when internet is monitored.

Notable examples

Jack Dorsey vibe-coded an “Africa Bitcoin Institute” website in ~10 minutes at Oslo Freedom Forum; a Cashew creator used AI to translate/build a new Cashew-related Python library for ~$400 in AI compute; BitChat uses Bluetooth mesh relays (10–30m typical, ~100m outdoors) to extend range and can be onboarded into Nostr clients.

Guests

Justin Moon (Human Rights Foundation AI for Individual Rights technical advisor; Bitcoin software engineer; worked with Jack Dorsey; supports activist AI education and potential grassroots AI funding). Shroominic (Bitcoin-leading engineer; AI-focused builder; works on “Routester” concept for self-sovereign AI when answers are censored).

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Chapters

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Initial Discussion on AI and Bitcoin

0:45 to 2:14

Exploring the intersection of AI and Bitcoin, setting the stage for deeper talks.

“You're listening to Infinite Tech by the Investors Podcast Network, hosted by Preston Pish.”

Justin Moon's Experience with Jack Dorsey

2:14 to 4:15

Justin shares his experience on stage with Jack Dorsey and vibe coding.

“coding, putting on a demo for everybody.”

Freed from Programming Constraints

4:15 to 6:35

Discussion on how AI tools liberate programmers from traditional coding constraints.

“Unfortunately, my mother had the same thing.”

The Evolution of Software Development Costs

6:35 to 10:46

Analyzing how AI is changing the cost structure of software development.

“And if you do go outside of it, it's here and there to kind of.”

Energy Consumption in AI Development

10:46 to 12:10

Exploration of energy implications in AI and its relation to Bitcoin.

“to solve a problem that you're trying to go through.”

Energy Consumption in AI Development

13:06 to 13:57

Exploration of energy implications in AI and its relation to Bitcoin.

“They say every day your business is late to AI.”

Energy Consumption in AI Development

14:01 to 15:19

Exploration of energy implications in AI and its relation to Bitcoin.

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AI for Activists and the Human Rights Foundation

15:19 to 17:44

Justin Moon discusses how AI can empower activists and enhance their effectiveness.

“So Justin, you've been pioneering this idea of AI for activists, and you're working a lot with the Human Rights Foundation.”

BitChat: Revolutionary Communication Tool

17:44 to 22:02

Exploration of BitChat, an app enabling innovative communication for activists.

“started six months ago and we're just kind of getting things up and running.”

Decentralization and Open Source Technology

22:02 to 28:01

Discussion on the importance of decentralization and open-source in tech development.

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Decentralization and Open Source Technology

28:07 to 29:24

Discussion on the importance of decentralization and open-source in tech development.

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Decentralization and the Future of AI

29:24 to 39:44

Explore the implications of decentralization in AI and its effects on the industry.

“That's where I want to go next is in the decentralized nature of AI itself.”

The Complexity of AI and Human Intelligence

39:44 to 42:00

Discuss the challenges of replicating human intelligence and the architecture of AI.

“It's really hard to reason from first principles here.”

The Complexity of Humanoid Robotics

42:00 to 44:50

Explore the challenges and complexities of integrating AI into humanoid forms.

“And then you start getting into the AI that it would have to be trained on to basically pick it up.”

Potential of AI in Education

44:50 to 47:10

Discussion on how AI could transform education and personal learning experiences.

“I mean, I guess I'll give a little bit of a different answer.”

Navigating the Future of Learning

47:10 to 50:20

Examine the balance between traditional education and the customization offered by AI.

“Like, oh, I have this nice day job, so I can't do it and whatever.”

Wrap-Up and Social Media Contacts

50:20 to 51:04

Concluding thoughts and sharing of social media contacts for further engagement.

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Transcript

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0:00Justin Moon:You're listening to TIP. Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's first edition of Infinite Tech, where we bring you the latest discoveries, information, and thought-provoking conversations about AI, robotics, energy, longevity, Bitcoin, and any other abundance-producing technology. On today's show, I have two software engineers that I respect immensely to talk to you about artificial intelligence and where it's all going. The balance between large language models and their lack of privacy, how that might get resolved in the long run, what this means for human rights, and many other really important topics.

0:35My guests, Justin Moon and Shrumanik, are leading engineers in the Bitcoin space and have crossed over and started programming and using AI. I have no doubt you guys are going to really enjoy this conversation, so let's go ahead and jump right in.

0:52You're listening to Infinite Tech by the Investors Podcast Network, hosted by Preston Pish. We explore Bitcoin, AI, robotics, longevity, and other exponential technologies through a lens of abundance and sound money. Join us as we connect the breakthroughs shaping the next decade and beyond, empowering you to harness the future today. And now, here's your host, Preston Pish.

1:26hey everyone welcome to the show i am here with shrumanik and justin and i'm excited to get into this topic because wow there's a lot to cover but gentlemen welcome to the show hey thanks for

1:38Justin Moon:having us yeah thanks for having me i remember listening to this in the very early days we're just dipping your toes into Bitcoin. I feel like we might be back in the same on the AI. It's interesting that you say that because for me, when I started doing the show and I was covering Bitcoin every single week, I had a lot of people in the value investing space that were like, what in the world are you doing? Why are you covering this exclusively? And now I kind of feel a little bit like it's the same thing because I'm broadening the aperture into tech and things. So it's funny you say that, Justin, because it does feel like that.

2:12Okay. So here's where I want to start. Justin, you were on stage with Jack Dorsey in Oslo, and you guys go on stage and you're vibe coding, putting on a demo for everybody. And I was looking around on, because I've heard about this from different people in the space about what you were doing with AI. And I'm trying to find the video of it, and I can't find a video of this anywhere. So can you tell us the story of how it precipitated. How did you find yourself on stage with Jack Dorsey vibe coding in front of an audience?

2:43Justin Moon:Yeah. So this year at the Oslo Freedom Forum, which is hosted by HRF, there's obviously many, there's a main stage, big main stage with a huge concert house in Oslo. And that's where the main event is, but there's a lot of little side events. And yeah, we were at a little side event that was more focused on Bitcoin and a lot of our Bitcoin friends were there. and hrf had just announced their ai for individual rights program which i'm technical advisor for and we wanted to discuss the topic with jack because jack's a huge proponent of ai as well so i just had some marching orders hey let's uh interview jack right and so you know maybe so i had like a list of stuff uh it was actually about five minutes ten minutes before like jack comes up and he's like hey what if we just vibe code something i got my laptop right so i'm like Oh God, you know, as the interviewer, you want to be somewhat in control.

3:32Justin Moon:Yeah. No, vibe coding is no one's in control. It's pure. It's non-deterministic. You might get it. You may get something good. You may not. And so we're in a room with some movers and shakers. Then, you know, Jack pulls his laptop out, puts a hood on, some sunglasses, and we start making a website. I think it's called the Africa Bitcoin Institute. We find ways to improve the regulatory environment for Bitcoin, you know, companies for individuals. And yeah, we fired off a prompt and then I interviewed him for 10 minutes. And then right about 10 minutes from talking, all of a sudden the audience goes, whoo.

4:00Justin Moon:That's because this website just popped up. Goose, this is the coding agent that Block, Jack's company, has created. Open source coding agent. They were using, I think, anthropic models. It just spat out a beautiful working website in just 10 minutes during an interview. So it was really neat. There was a private event, a little side event, so I don't think it was recorded. Unfortunately, my mother had the same thing. She was like, oh, I'm sure I saw this video. But yeah, I think that one just is apoptical at this point. Yeah. What was the core message? I mean, I think I know what the core message was, but from your point of view, what was the core message?

4:31Justin Moon:I mean, so of course, now this has been like four or five months. So now I probably don't remember exactly what happened. I remember how I interpret it, but part of it was talking to Jack. It's like, he was actually talking to me. We were talking about this before and he's like, I was telling him how I've been using these tools. You know, I was still looking at the code and he's like, Justin, you're in jail. Oh, you're in jail. You have to free yourself from the jail of programming languages. changes you need to you know get the computer to work for you now this is a new era and that's kind of what it is it's like for developers you can kind of free yourself to some degree from having to be so microscopic and worry about the semicolon but for people who weren't programmers it's like well now you don't have to worry about that in the first place you told yourself in the past and in order to create software you need to learn where all the little semicolons go which is a horrible exercise for most normal people yeah but now you can utilize these ai tools and there's some limits obviously but you can make a great personal website you can make something to plan your garden like you can there's all kinds of tools kind of personalized software tools that you can create or you can vibe code you know a bluetooth mash chat app that is being used in protests in nepal at the moment that's what jack dorsey did because you know as i think i think that one of the interesting things is he was talking about how he spends like three hours a day doing this every morning he designs his day so he can get three hours he's always trying to push the limit of what's possible and you know that certainly opened my eyes it's like okay if he's able to do this mass public company maybe the rest of us might level up a little talk to us about that what is this three hour thing that you're saying yeah so no so i was asking jaz like how do you have time to do all this stuff he's doing all this vibe coding and it's like aren't you busy running a company and he's like yeah i just set my schedule so every morning for three hours i can play with these tools because i think this is the future of like kind of the economy right and small business and all the things that square and block exist to serve so it's my responsibility to kind of understand what the frontier is.

6:12Justin Moon:And the only way you can do it is by trying. And yeah, he also had a good message to try to figure out what it can't do, right? Like push it to the point where it fails. And that's where we're at. We're here at Learn Madeira. Shumanik and I are in Madeira at Gigi's Sovereign Engineering program. So this is like a program, it's like an idea factory for Nostra, Lightning. Now this time it's more AI focused. And that's what we're trying to do. Every day we try to get it to do really ambitious things and, you know, don't just make the website. See where the boundary is and always try to push that boundary.

6:37This idea of the semicolon for people that aren't programmers, I think what you're really saying is, you know, you get really good at a particular language of code and you master that, you know, exactly where the quote unquote semicolon goes so that you're not making mistakes, but then you really get optimized into only coding in that language. And if you do go outside of it, it's here and there to kind of.

7:01Justin Moon:And for me, the thing that's frustrating is like, I become like, I'm not natural. Some people are just naturally like their minds think like a computer, right? I've worked with a few people like that and they're great to work with, but mine's not like that. So I have to become almost a different person to be a really good programmer. I'm not good at talking to people. I'm less friendly. I'm more literal. I'm not going to be drawing in my spare time. I almost have to become a different person. And after a while, it becomes a little exhausting. So you have to turn it off. And so that's a really fun thing about these AI tools is they allow you to just stand like one level higher where you're sort of orchestrating it and you have a higher viewpoint.

7:35Justin Moon:And I find it's kind of a little more creative and a lot less, you know, it's less manual labor in a sense. Yeah. Yeah. You're able to kind of step back, see the bigger picture. And if there's a certain type of code that is more optimal for use, that is nested underneath of the larger program, you don't have to go in there and become the expert on it. You can really kind of leverage this ai expertise to do it i want to go in i have um yeah go ahead one maybe interesting by quitting story i was looking into cashew which is this like e-cash protocol and i was working on a python library and there was not really a cashew python library for the specific thing what i was trying to do so i vibe coded like a completely new library from scratch which is like kind of hard because you think like building programming libraries is like more of the thing that like senior engineer do or like really experienced engineers.

8:29Justin Moon:And with, I use like cloud for Opus, which is pretty expensive, but I could even create like really complex parts of the software within like a short amount of time. And what's also interesting, this was, I think the most amount I spent on AI. So building this library costs like 400 bucks just of AI. You can like burn through a lot of like money just by doing these things. This is a really interesting one. I want to like expand on that. And this is like one thing I think we want to reflect on. Think about what AI means. And this is a software, we're taking a little bit of a software angle, but you know, it is, that's kind of the thing that AI has been probably best at so far.

9:05Justin Moon:So an interesting thing about software thus far is that it's not capital intensive, right? Like the story of Elon Musk's career was that he started making a little thing, it's called like ZipFu, where you can make a website, right? And so what he'd do is he would leave his, he had one computer and he was like renting a dorm or something and he would leave his computer running during the day and that would serve people's websites and at night he would code the websites you know so he just reversed his sleep schedule and that took no capital to start that business because he just used repurposes existing computer and you know on a shuman extort here it's one kind of new thing about ai is it's turning software into a bit of a capital intensive endeavor right like if you want to be like we were talking about how much these things cost my approach is like you especially if you have a productive use for this stuff you should so throw as much money as you can at it because you know so So like last time this sovereign engineering ram six months ago, the top level vibe coding setup was like 20 bucks a month.

9:57Justin Moon:Now today it's 200 bucks a month. There's a new level of log max. In a year, what if it's$2 ,000 a month? Now all of a sudden it's something where it's much harder to get started in it. And maybe in five years, it's like 50 grand a month to engage in software engineering, right? So it could become more like other disciplines where if you want to build a bridge, you can't just start in your garage anymore. So that's one thing that's very interesting about this whole side coding phenomenon. Well, I think it's also about how many agents can you maybe run in parallel. In the beginning, you just like ask Chachimiti and you got one script out.

10:30Justin Moon:But now you ask the coding agent and it spins up like multiple in parallel. And then like does way more work while you're like waiting for it in the background, which costs way more computers. You know what? At the end of the day, because there's so much training involved where you're taking these massive data sets and you're training it on something, on a pattern that's very specific to solve a problem that you're trying to go through. When you go far enough upstream of that, it's energy to plow through the GPUs to come up with the pattern or the weights of said model that you're trying to train.

11:06And so it is interesting to see. And of course, as Bitcoiners, we can go back to Bitcoin kind of being that fundamental energy unit that's being exchanged, but we'll kind of leave it there. But it's a really interesting point of that transition taking place because people are trying to train their own models.

11:23Justin Moon:This has been a beautiful thing, actually. It feels like, you know, a couple of years ago on Bitcoin Twitter, for example, our group would be fighting against Silicon Valley people saying, okay, we should have more energy. Using energy is not bad. Emissions can be bad. Pollution is bad. Creating energy and consuming energy is not like a priori bad. And we would lose all these arguments. The Silicon Valley people would generally wouldn't listen to us. They wanted their green data centers at any cost. And this has totally changed, right? All these Silicon Valley companies are now, I just saw a story, Facebook's doing a huge natural gas powered AI place in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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15:12Justin Moon:Start your free trial at shopify.com slash tip. All right. So Justin, you've been pioneering this idea of AI for activists, and you're working a lot with the Human Rights Foundation. Help us understand what initiative and what you're trying to accomplish with that. Yeah. So I think pioneering might be a little, I don't know if I'd use that word myself, but Craig Vacheron and the director and Alex Gladstein, the head of strategy at HREF are really in the way I'm just kind of more supporting role, I would say, but, you know, we're, I guess, you know, zoom out. It's funny. So I'll tell a little story here.

15:47Justin Moon:When Alex first reached out to me about doing this, about the kind of helping with AI program, I had recalled AI, I pulled up his Twitter, and I searched AI, because I remember he had opined about AI. And it was always the framing, this was like five years ago, it was the framing was like, you coined this for freedom, AI is basically totalitarian, you know, communist control. So it was kind of like, it was interesting that he had this idea. And so I asked him like, you know, what the, what changed? And his answer was basically, they're already seeing kind of like with Bitcoin. Why did HRF get involved with Bitcoin?

16:15Justin Moon:Because they saw that it helped activists get money into the Ukraine. The banking system couldn't do things that Bitcoin could, right? And so that's how HRF got into Bitcoin is that they were able to do things in their democracy activism with Bitcoin that they couldn't do in any other way. And they were seeing the same thing with AI, right? You got to write a lot of grants if you're an activist, right? It's a quarter of your job. And so now all these activists found ways to write a grant four times faster, right? Using chat GPT or something like chat GPT, which had, you know, some drawbacks. And so I think that was kind of the spark.

16:44Justin Moon:I was like, okay, this is actually really helping activists be more productive in their work, right? And that's, I think, for HRF, the most important thing is to empower activists, right? To help them win at whatever their fight is, right? And so I think it grew up and I was like, so what could HRF do? And so, you know, we'd started to have quite a lot of things. We've done education initiatives. So at the Oslo Freedom Forum, I think I did like 10 hours of workshops teaching people to use JATGPT and image generation and transcription and all these different things. And we've kind of continued some of that.

17:10Justin Moon:We're starting to do some monthly kind of webinar type stuff. I think in the future, we may be funding kind of freedom, sovereign oriented AI projects, you know, grassroots AI things like you've seen HRF do in the past, holding more events to bring people together, bring activists together with technologists, together with philanthropists, stuff like that. These groups that kind of never talk to each other, right? You see a lot of that, you know, the chat, I kind of referenced it earlier, right? That's one of these things that the Bitcoiners created, they really would have never maybe even seen the need for if they hadn't been introduced to some of these activists by HRF.

17:42Justin Moon:So yeah, that's where it's at. And we just started six months ago and we're just kind of getting things up and running. But yeah, it's really exciting. And yeah, you can see an awful lot of promise here. Yeah. I think BitChats a perfect thing to kind of talk about on this particular topic, because here you have a new app that enables communication without having to go up and through the whole Wi-Fi network or internet network, you can use the vicinity of, you know, if you're in close vicinity to somebody, you can use the emission of the phone in that close proximity to have communication. And so BitChat was an application that Jack Dorsey has recently released.

18:25How much vibe coding, what's the rumors on how long this took him to put this together. And just as a reference, this is doing really well on the app store. I mean, it's gone out with quite a splash. Now it is Jack that coded it. So you get a lot of marketing kind of automatically through that. But I think the idea to the actual release to people using this and how it fits into this activist layer where you're not having to communicate over traditional landlines is pretty miraculous. So what have you heard on the inside on this particular application.

19:00Justin Moon:I have no inside info, but I would guess it was like a week or two, because there was a period there where he was trying to do once a week, you know, on the lap a week. And I think that's about right. I mean, this is kind of the, one of the downsides of Vibecoating. I was just joking with a friend who had a Vibecoated project last week and it was working really well. And now this week it's just like totally stalling. It's like, yeah, like you're pouring water into a jar and it's, oh, look at the water rise, look at the water rise. And it gets about 80 % of the way there and it just starts pouring out the side, right?

19:25Justin Moon:That's sometimes the experience of vibe coding. So, but you know, for about a week, you can oftentimes really, really do great. And I think maybe I'm not sure how involved Jack is now, but I bet there's a lot of other people who are contributors. I can just scan GitHub. I'm not participating closely. You know, he just made an iOS version because I think he has an iPhone. And then Callie, the creator of Cashew, was like, let me try to vibe code this in Android. Now I'm an Android developer, has never made an Android app. And he, similarly, as Shumanik mentioned, how he attempted with a Cashew library in the past, he was able to get it to translate it from one language to another.

19:54Justin Moon:This was historically a very difficult task because you'd have to learn two different, totally different ecosystems, ways of doing it. Each one of them would take a few months to really get intuitive at, be able to understand. And he was able to do this, I think, in about a week. So these are, I mean, both kind of shocking examples. These are the types of things, you know, I don't think any of us would have really believed a year ago, but it's slowly starting to happen. And yeah, very exciting. And as kind of a kicker on top of this, Kali, the person we're talking about that took the iOS version and turned it into an Android version.

20:24Hasn't he got the cashew basically tokenized Bitcoin, saleable Bitcoin? You're able to transact without an internet connection is what I'm reading. Through BitChat, you have to be using BitChat. So this is -

20:38Justin Moon:Yeah. So all these things I think are really interesting. You think about the things in Bitcoin that work and the ones that don't work, like BitChat and cashew and some of these other things that are like, it's not like the optimal solution always, right? If you're communicating, it's probably nice to be able to send money through the whole internet at times. Sorry, some messages through the whole internet, right? Plus the internet not to have to use Bluetooth. Or if you're transacting, sometimes it's nice to use on-chain Bitcoin, right? There are these kind of like the right way to do it, or maybe sometimes these are a credit card or something, right?

21:05Justin Moon:But the thing about interesting, like about a cash or a BitChat is that it'll always be there, right? Like you can always use that. It's like a backstop of freedom, right? It's something that kind of can't be taken away unless they take your phone, right? You can always find some mint to spin up that can help you connect you to the lightning network that will allow you to, you know, transact with other people who also trust them in. You'll always be able to use Bluetooth with other people unless all the phones go away. I think that's some of the interesting, like, similarities with some of these freedom tech projects.

21:30Justin Moon:It's something that, and, you know, Routester, which Shumanek is working on, it's kind of one of the other things where if we ever get to a world where you got a KYC and everything you do to interact with AI is super monitored, maybe something like Routester would be a way where you can say, hey, like, none of these things will answer the question I want to do. I'm doing a science thing. They all say this is for, you know, they won't let me answer the question. Maybe there will be a way where you can kind of break through that censorship and actually access kind of the self-sovereign AI through something like Roadster.

21:57Justin Moon:These are the class of things that I think are the most interesting in that freedom techniques. I want to just talk about the tech on this bit chat a little bit more because I find the technology and what he's harnessing here really interesting. So when you're talking about Bluetooth out or indoors, it's about 10 to 30 meters as far as what that transmission will give you. Outside, it's about a hundred meters. But what he's done is he's taken a mesh relay system. So if you have this app and let's say everybody around you had the app, it can then through the mesh network of all the Bluetooth out there.

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22:32So like, let's say you're at, and I'm going to really, maybe the younger generation is going to laugh at this comment. You're in a mall and you're around a lot of people or you're at a sports stadium, you're wherever, where there's a lot of population density and a lot of people with smartphones, that network is really robust and you're able to relay these messages. I'm assuming the messages are encrypted as they're going from one device to the next. And so you're able to actually extend that range really significantly. I mean, imagine you're in a city, that network is pretty robust.

23:08Justin Moon:So, I mean, think of it like the original post office, right? It's like, well, you couldn't drive a horse across the United States, but you could ride a horse 30 miles and then, you know, the veil could jump onto the next horse, right? Yeah. You kind of get anywhere. It's the same principle here. You don't drive 30 miles, you drive 30 meters, but you could, you know, we're on this little Island here. I'm pretty sure you could get a message across. It might take a day, right? It's kind of like, you're going back in time, a little bit stuff. It'll take a little bit. You're not moving at the speed of light anymore, but in a lot of circumstances, like, let's say you're trying to get the news out, right.

23:35Justin Moon:About something that's good enough, right you can get it across the city and then you can also combine these technologies right like let's say somebody is in a compromised situation they can't get to the internet they're maybe something like that they don't want to be monitored maybe they're able to hop a few times across bitchats and then someone's like okay i'll blast that out over an australian right like you could do something like that where you know it makes a few hops and then eventually it's well just publicly to that point you could make a publish to nostralian in an encrypted way and if the person on the other side has a key to unlock yeah that message wow i think there's all kinds of fun things that will be possible here and uh yeah i'm really excited to see kind of where this takes us you know i i think there'll be a kind of a continue to be a blossoming of different techniques different people try like i i have some ideas but there's sorts of things i want to try over the next couple weeks over here at sec i love it how it's also interesting to understand like it should if we for example have the situation of so the government trying to find like certain whistleblowers or like whatever where there are activists which are like publishing messages like with bitchat there's not really a way to find the origin of the message so you can hide like where you like spreading this message from in a way wow yeah and i think for people that maybe are skeptical or why this would even be important they're they're hearing it and they're saying yeah but how many people have the bitchat app and what i think they're missing is with open source, the whole open source initiative, Noster, for example.

25:02This is a version of Twitter. There's a lot of people using Noster these days, relatively speaking. It's still very early, but there's a lot of people using it. And this technology of BitChat can just be onboarded into any implementation of a client that's running Noster. And now all of a sudden, you have this ability to message over a Bluetooth mesh network, messages that would have never been. And so you get a network effect by having some type of communication, open source protocol like Noster, that as these new developments are built, they can be onboarded into that higher level network that gives you all that capability and gives you that network effect that you might not be able to get by just people downloading the BitChat app, which I find crazy fascinating.

25:48Justin Moon:Yeah. One of the other things that's really cool here is that like, you know, it's not like there's some, the way it's worked in Silicon Valley in the past is like, okay, some app comes out, it has a feature that's cool, that's useful, and you just pray that they don't blow it, right? And then sometimes you get, I don't know, it was that thing that Twitter had where it was like the five second videos that was so popular for a while and then they just blew it, right? It was just gone. I feel what that was called. But oftentimes, you know, think about all the products Google's killed, right? The cool thing about these things is like, it's all open source.

26:15Justin Moon:So like, if the creators blow it, someone else will carry the torch. Or I have some ideas about these things. One thing I could do is try to contribute to theirs, or I could just make my own little spin on it and they interoperate, right? That's kind of the beautiful thing about a protocol is like, in order to contribute to it, you don't need to just find a way to get a job at the company and jump through all these hoops and 99 % of the people in the world can't do that. You can just take what they did and try your own little spin on it. You don't have to ask them permission. You don't have, all you really need to do is to have the skill to do it.

26:46Justin Moon:And that's where kind of AI comes in, right? Like the skill to do it just kind of went down by maybe an order magnitude, right? There's all kinds of things where especially to get that proven concept, to get something that shows that your idea works or is useful, that just went down massively over the last year. So this is very exciting in terms of kind of decentralizing the development of these kind of freedom technologies, making it so it's not just five, 10 people creating these things. They kind of come from everywhere. Let's take a quick break and hear from today's sponsors. They say every day your business is late to AI.

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29:34I think this is hard for people to really kind of wrap their head around is the application of like, how do you do this? Because when you understand just the bare basics of AI, it's like, it's got the more data you feed it, the better it gets, the more informed it gets. And so you see these large language models like ChatGPT, and you know, it's just literally sucking the data out of every single human being on the planet to learn and get smarter. And so people are seeing that and they're saying, okay, so how is this going to work localized or an open source AI? How is it going to be as smart as that?

30:09How can I harness that without giving up all my data and all of my information moving forward? So I know, Shrumanik, you're kind of an expert.

30:17Justin Moon:Let me say a high level one here, and I'm basically going to try to give a softball to Shrumanik. This is how I think about it, right? So it's like, what is AI, right? There's like two big parts. There's the creation of it and the actual using of it. So the creation of AI is called training, right? And training, you need a lot of energy, you need a lot of very fancy, expensive computers, and you need a lot of data. And it's those three pieces go into training and you need some clever engineers and stuff and like that, you know, maybe that's the fourth element, right? And that's going to be hard to decentralize to the point where like you can do it in your basement.

30:47Justin Moon:I am skeptical that that will ever happen. But like, let's say a year ago, a lot of people were scared that it would centralize further, right? That one company would get the edge and then they would enter like a parabolic explosion of intelligence and they would just get further and further ahead. I would say the opposite has happened, right? A year ago, like, ChatGPT was really good, Claude was pretty good, and then maybe there are a few others, but that was about it. There were very few participants. Now, it's very unclear who has the best AI, right? Like, ChatGPT was just launched, maybe it's there, but it's not super clear.

31:20Justin Moon:Claude's also very good, Grok is very good. There's some Chinese ones that are working with a lot less money, right? Like, Kimike2, GLM, DeepSeek. There's, like the number of people at the companies at the frontier has probably tripled since last year, right? So in a sense, it is decentralizing, right? We don't have one. And it's like, you know, it's a lot better to have three options than one. If you have one option, it can be very, you can get dark quick, right? That's a single party state is like that, right? What's causing, I know with DeepSeek, they were able to reverse engineer and do it at just a fraction of the cost because they basically went to ChatGPT and were asking it certain amounts of questions and reverse engineering the training on it.

32:02But I don't know the terminology or exactly how that takes place. Can you guys walk us through what they did to be able to do that? So I think what DeetSeek did is they created a bunch of synthetic data.

32:13Justin Moon:So you're kind of creating imaginary chats that tell information. For example, you ask a certain question and a teacher explains you with detail and they explain you the reasoning steps of how you go from that knowledge to like deriving some more information out of that they create a bunch of synthetic data using chat gpt where they let chat gpt explain like really deep mathematical things or like programming things and chad db was explaining the reasoning steps that they didn't need to write it by hand but then like they could train that ai model on these reasoning steps so they kind of like extracted knowledge out of chat gpt to train it like really efficiently so they had a bot basically go ask just an endless array of questions.

32:57And then the chat GPT gave an answer to all of that. And then they just synthetically use that to continue to train it. Okay.

33:03Justin Moon:Or it could have been like every single time one of these things goes through the great firewall, going back and forth to open AI somehow the party logs everything. And it's like, okay, you're trained on this. Right. But it is like, yeah, it's about communicating with an AI. It's kind of leaking its model weights. Right. So that's one thing. It's like the intelligence and the model kind of wants to get out. If you talk to it enough, you can suck at least all the useful things out. It's like that there will be blood seen, you know, I drink your milkshake, right? I think it's one of those. So it's one of these things where there are a lot of moats and there are some moats in AI.

33:32Justin Moon:Obviously, it's so capital intensive, right? Like not everyone's going to raise a hundred billion dollars or whatever. This is an area where the moat, I'm sure Sam Altman wished them all was a lot bigger, right? Like a lot harder to pull the intelligence out of his models. So yeah, that's, I think that there's kind of a balance where it's like, well, the more useful they are, the more they're used, the more the stuff gets out of the world. Well, anybody else can kind of train on that for cheaper. I think, you know, more techniques as time goes on, people learn more techniques for doing all these things.

33:58Justin Moon:And yeah, I don't have an explanation for it. I'm very happy that it happened though, because it has, things have decentralized a lot over the last year. Justin, don't you think that that's kind of like one of the reasons why it's not going to dominate in the dark dystopian, you know, talking point that so many people had, call it three years ago, that doesn't seem to be what's playing out and that there's going to be a bunch more models because they're able to do this synthetic intelligence collection from the models that perform the best. Yeah. Part of me wonders whether we're getting close to the point where like whether kind of increased intelligence is tapering off, like at some point, maybe that'll happen.

34:34Justin Moon:Right. Like, and every point in the last couple of years, like AI after six months, it's better than I thought it would be. And this is the first time where it's not. Yeah. Right. So we did a lot of outputting here six months ago. We were paying 20 bucks a month. It was the golden days. And now here we are paying 200 bucks a month, throwing our computers against the wall. And we're not doing that. It has gotten better, but it hasn't, it hasn't done that like huge step function that has kind of stayed over six months in the past. And you know, GPT-5 was like this thing that was built up over a couple of years.

34:58Justin Moon:And when it happened, it was like, oh, really? That's kind of nice. And it seems to be like, a lot of it is like, they're switching kind of between models in the background. They don't have like one, one kind of model to end all models. It's getting awful expensive, right? if you want 20 bucks a month is easy 200 is rough 2000 is like an employee almost you know so yeah it's interesting that you say that though because i know when i had the 20 a month and then i was tinkering with someone like the deep research and i was like oh wow like i could just do this as much as i want for 200 a month and i was like that's a lot of money but then i'm like in the back of my head i'm like look at what this thing is giving you for 200 a month it's like free compared to Like if I had to hire somebody to do these things, it would be nowhere near these prices.

35:42And I think it's getting to the point where that's becoming very normalized for people to start thinking of the costs in terms of what would this cost if I went to a person and had them do some of this stuff.

35:52Justin Moon:I mean, I just thought of this now. I mean, there may be some stranded energy angle here that reminds me of Bitcoin, right? Because Grok was an interesting one. It just came out of nowhere. It was Elon. And so all the other AI companies at the time would do these green data centers and the capacity, carbon zero, and they just really bend over backwards for that. And then they would also do a lot of alignment, right? Make sure that the thing didn't misbehave. And Elon basically threw those out of the, threw them out. I'm not going to align it at all. I'll make AI boyfriends and girlfriends instead.

36:19Justin Moon:And I will, instead of having a green data center, I'm going to get a data center in Memphis and I'm going to park like 40 natural gas generators out front as the walls are being put up as we're like building this thing, like in the air. And he found an energy arb there. That's how that one came about. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the Chinese ones are a similar thing where they're just basically finding maybe they're paying a lot less for electricity than Sam Altman is, stuff like that. I think there could be some geo-arbitrage that we see in Bitcoin mining happening as well. I think this also confirms the point a bit that it's hard to decentralize the training because what Elon did, he put the most amount of GPUs you could ever find onto one single place in one single factory, which is the thing you need to train the best model so like you need to centralize all the gpus you have at one single place to get the best model which is like anti-decentralization so the person that gets the most amount of gpus to the smallest place possibly will train the best model because yeah in the end you need like the bandwidth between the gpus and like the gpus communicate with each other as soon as they get closer to each other they can communicate way faster that's interesting yeah so there's something like called a noose n-o-u-s it's like some research group and i think they have a coin so they're trying to do like a decentralized training run which is kind of neat but for me this is something where it's like what's the right amount of decentralization it's not like something you know you don't want to like decentralization is in a family it's not necessarily good right like sometimes you want to be kind of close together and had a dinner table right like you know you don't want to be on different continents so they're like but this is this is important this is for training the model so like you got the performance of i've trained the model i have the model, and then I'm expending whatever amount of de minimis energy to plow it through the model to give me my output.

38:06But what we're talking about, and I think to Shrumanik's point, is when you're training the large language model, having all those GPUs right next to each other is almost a must if you're trying to synthesize all of the data as you're trying to develop the weights for the model, which I think is very different than the utility you've built the model. Now I'm going to use it day to day for whatever tasks, right?

38:31Justin Moon:Yeah. So at the beginning, I mentioned like, there's two ways to look at AI. One is the creation of it and one is the running of it. So creating it, training, it's like there's these big centralizing effects, right? You need really fast bandwidth between them. You need a ton of electricity in one place. They are kind of getting to the point where they can spread it out a little bit, but there's just these natural scaling laws where you just want it to be big and in one place. But inference that's running the model is a totally different ball game. And so that's where I think a lot more decentralization can happen.

38:57Justin Moon:So like you've seen... I'm sorry to interrupt you, Justin, but I think this is an important conceptual talking point or philosophical talking point of where this is going to go. How big do we want these large language models to get before you start peeking out? And it makes way more sense to have a specialized model that's just medical or one that's biological or one that's physics-based. And so I think you get to a point where the large language model peaks out. And I think it maybe happens sooner rather than later. And then that GPU farm that was built, and of course, there's advancements happening on the hardware side of the house and the software side of the house to run these really large language models.

39:38But do you see a world where that peaks in the coming five or 10 years or 20 years? Does it peak, first of all, and then kind of timeline of where you think something like that would peak, and then it all gets into the smaller, more modular models that then are stitched together to give you optimal intelligence.

39:59Justin Moon:It's really hard to reason from first principles here. I mean, what do we have to compare it against? The human mind, right? The mind has many different little AIs, many different components that are stitched together. So if I had to guess, that's how AI is going to be. This is very much finger in the wind. Our examples are one of one. This is how the brain works. I'd guess AI will be, we'd be different. This is why I've kind of mentioned the cost a few times too, because we're not that far from it getting prohibitively expensive, right? Like there was a time where like spending a dollar on 10 cents on AI seemed like a lot, you know, and now we're spending 200 and it's going to get to the point where it's cost prohibitive, like another generation or two of these LLMs, it's going to be cost prohibitive to run thing on the frontier for many people, right?

40:38Justin Moon:So I think you will have more specialized ones. Like you're seeing this with medical knowledge too. Like I know there's a couple that have been very successful. One of my friends who's a doctor actually uses one of these to like kind of fact check to kind of check his reasoning against when he's diagnosing patients so i can't say that i have a prediction here because i don't know ai well enough and i don't trust the people that actually do make predictions either you know so what do you think sherman so i think we also need to think about what can the top newmans achieve if you think about maybe someone as smart as elon musk or a top engineer at opmi if we could get them like just 10 smarter like what could they potentially achieve more or like 20 % smarter.

41:16Justin Moon:If we had double the intelligence of the most intelligent engineer at OpenAI, maybe we could achieve like even more things, but we don't know it because that's like the current limit. So it's like hard to think what can we get more if we have like more intelligence. Here's an interesting stat that I just looked up while we were talking here. The human brain vision, the occipital lobe represents about 20 to 30 % of the entire cortex of neurons. Language, which is in your left hemisphere, estimated at a few percent, just language itself is a few percent of the neurons in your brain. The motor cortex, and I find this one really interesting, 70 to 80 % of the brain's neurons are dedicated to your motor control, which is in your cerebellum.

42:02So it's interesting that when we start getting into the humanoid robotics in that, where you're going to start putting these AIs into human form or into some type of modular form where they can go out, they can sense their environment, they can make decisions inside of their environment. That motor cortex for humans is encompassing 70 to 80 % of the brain's horsepower to be able to, I don't know if you guys have watched some of the conversation around how difficult it is from an engineering standpoint to make a hand and all the tendons and for it to be able to pick up a ball and throw a ball, Like how complex that is from a mechanical engineering standpoint, just designing the hand itself.

42:43And then you start getting into the AI that it would have to be trained on to basically pick it up. For humans, that, according to what I'm reading here, is an enormous part of the horsepower or the mental models that are needed in order to do it.

42:57Justin Moon:Yeah, I think the big difference to me between an AI and person right now is for me is that the person has embodied and has experience and an AI doesn't, right? And that's the big philosophical question is, can you embody an AI, right? If you give it a robot form, is it like embodied like a human is? Does it experience stuff, right? Like when I'm trying to get it to write an app, like to test my app, like it will frequently just do things that are really silly. That is silly. No person would ever do that who like, was able to open a refrigerator. Oh, you can't open a refrigerator. I forgot. And that's another one of the things is like AI is one of the huge limitations is when you talk about whether they could do a human job, right?

43:37Justin Moon:The first week of anybody at the job, they're pretty useless, right? And the second week they start to get some components of the job, but then by a month, they've picked up quite a lot, right? And they've actually learned it through experience and no AI that, I mean, no LLM can do this at all, right? Like the best thing that they can do is summarize a little bit of their learning into a text file that just gets prepended to the questions you ask it. It's totally cheating. The thing doesn't learn at all. It's the thing I'm using and the thing you're using and the thing Shrumanik is using is exactly the same.

44:06Justin Moon:It's totally stateless. It's a big question. It's like, so can you embody that and give it experience that it could actually learn? And I think maybe it could be the case that we all really undervalue how important that is to actually, you know, an intelligence. Also, maybe I wouldn't fully agree with the statistics, because I don't think we only reason in language. For example, if you think about like math, like you often have some like spatial representation in your head, which could be also happening in the part of your brain where maybe the motor part is like, when you think about like rooms and orientations or like spatial representation, so maybe like some reasoning is not happening in the language part of the brain.

44:47What's something that you guys are most excited about in this space? I mean, obviously some of the stuff we've already mentioned is beyond exciting, but is there anything that you're seeing that you're just like, wow, this is something that I can't wait for or that you're already seeing right now?

45:02Justin Moon:I think these really complex coding agents are like really exciting because as you think about in the end, like when you build software, you just want to solve the problem and there are some engineers who like just enjoy the process of writing code but mostly you have some problem in the real world and you want to solve it so you like throw one of these like insane coding agents on that problem and then you can solve it so i think like having code that like costs basically nothing or like just decreasing the amount you need to pay for like having a really complex piece of code i think that's maybe the most impact both things we have in the eye?

45:40Justin Moon:I mean, I guess I'll give a little bit of a different answer. Like one thing I'm really excited for that it seems like it hasn't really materialized yet is just being able to apply these things to education in general. Like I get two real big benefits out of these tools. One is like they write code for me. So I don't have to do that anymore as much, which is really great. But I'd probably say even better is like when I have some kind of an idea, you can learn so much by just going back and forth. and we all kind of invent workflows and you have to try to pick this up and it largely depends on how much agency you have and how creative you are and you know that's a lot of the user so to speak so i think it'll be very interesting for these things i've been able to learn a ton with these but i suspect many other people just haven't figured that out you know because you have to really put a lot of effort in up front and i think it's going to be really interesting in like i can see that being pretty transformative, especially in America, right?

46:32Justin Moon:Where Preston and I are from, the education system now is just, it's just so bad. So broke. It's just so, it's so bad. Yeah. Yeah. One of my friends was joking about how he picked up like some old education book, like a ninth grade composition book. And he's like, so I was picking up this book and of course it's for ninth graders. So I couldn't understand it. Right. You know, like, you know, the reading level they had in ninth grade a hundred years ago was higher than adults today. I'm probably not sure, but I mean, it's, it's a bit of a joke, but there's some truth to it. So I think that's something I'm pretty excited about.

47:00Justin Moon:And I think in the sort of the FreedomTech ecosystem that we're in, I've been like working in it full time, just trying to find some way to do it for like six, seven years now. And so I often have talked to people who like, we'll come to a conference and they'll have some idea. Like, oh, I have this nice day job, so I can't do it and whatever. And so you're starting to see people like this, like just at this little event we're at, there's a few people who have day jobs who are like, oh, let me just come and come and try to do it a little bit on the side. So I think you'll get a lot more of the people finding a way to contribute on Bitcoin, on Lightning, on eCash on some of these on Noster just in their spare time without having to like devote their life to it right you know I think that's very interesting I think another interesting thing is just like not having to look at a screen so much like that's okay that is one of the things I think about our modern work environments that are pretty horrible it's like a screen is not a good thing to stare at for 10 hours a day eight hours a day yeah and if we could go back to like every time I go and do something with like manual labor for like a week or something it's just I'm so much happier than staring at a screen all day right so I think that's another really interesting thing.

47:59Justin Moon:If we could move to modes of working where you don't have to just stare at this artificial screen all day, I think that would be pretty interesting as well. On the education front, the thing I'm excited about is just the customization to a person's natural interests and talents, where like today it's everybody's just force fed, oh, nope, sit down in the class with 40 and this is what you're going to learn. And five people out of the 40 even have an interest in the topic and the other ones are just looking at the clock saying, when is this going to be done. And where I think a lot of this is going is you're going to have the best instruction ever because there's no ego, there's no past experience of the teacher themselves trying to, maybe you have a teacher that loves poetry.

48:43And so they're just trying to jam the poetry down the throats of all the students. And there's three people there that love it too, but everybody else - Little Johnny likes World War II tank. That's right. And so I think that customization piece is going to be huge. And the removal of the ego of the instructor is going to be huge to most optimally help the person learn what they're naturally gifted at and what they're naturally interested in. And I can argue the other side of why that's also bad is because if you don't get enough exposure to the things that maybe you would have never tried, now you're just pigeonholing somebody because they had an early interest in something potentially, right?

49:24Justin Moon:Yeah. I feel like an AI could be much better at like, I mean, there's all kinds of things like poetry. It's like when I was a kid, it's tough to get me interested in poetry, but if you made the pitch at just the right time, like if I was trying to impress a girl or something, you made the pitch then that would be a little Shakespeare, right? Like I think that an AI might pick up on that education system. Yeah. It could be much more opportunistic than a textbook can. Yeah, you're right. So poetry is going to be taught at age, what, 13, 14 is what you're saying? Nah, that's really interesting. And because I was always, to be quite honest with you, I was always very frustrated with school.

49:58I wouldn't say I was like a great student. I just was always frustrated with having to learn things that there was a lot of things I had no interest in whatsoever. And then there's other things that I was super interested in. And I think so much of that, it's like the Montessori schools and how they really kind of lean into what the kids' interests are. I just think that education is going in that direction, like a free train. The other thing that I get really frustrated with AI is these teachers that are like, don't go near it. It's the devil. It's like Bobby Boucher. AI is the devil, Bobby, Adam Sandler movie.

50:32But I think that that's just as bad as somebody who's just telling their kid that they should only be using it. I think it's just as dangerous, but I'm sure there's a lot of opinions out there on that particular topic. But guys, thank you for making time and coming on. I have probably another 35 questions here I could hurl your way. So maybe we do it again in another quarter or so.

50:55Justin Moon:But this was - If you make it a frequent thing here, the new AI vertical you're working on, we'd love to come back. I would love to have you guys back and just kind of hear what you guys are working on. How about you guys give folks a handoff to any type of social media contact that you have, if you have one, and anything else you want to promote, like the HRF initiative would be wonderful and we'll put all of that stuff in the show notes but justin go ahead and take it first yeah i don't want to read off my whole end club on the show but you can look for justin on osster and you can search just google ai for individual rights and you'll find hrf's uh program and subscribe to the newsletter it's a lot of good content sure manik yeah and you can find me on x also on nostril and you should check out rodes because that's really interesting development in these employees.ai.

51:41We'll definitely have links to all of that in the show notes. So folks, check it out, follow these guys and check out those initiatives. Thank you so much guys for coming on the show and kicking off this tech adventure that we're on. So really appreciate it. Thank you for listening to TIP. Make sure to follow Infinite Tech on your favorite podcast app and never miss out on our episodes. To access our show notes and courses, go to theinvestorspodcast.com. This show is for entertainment purposes only. Before making any decisions, consult a professional. This show is copyrighted by the Investors Podcast Network.

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From Oslo's spotlight to global frontlines, Justin and Shroominic share how activists are harnessing AI for storytelling, translation, and rapid response while also navigating threats from authoritarian AI.

Explore the core building blocks, decentralized models, and how anyone can begin experimenting today.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

02:25 - What “vibe coding” is and why it’s a game-changer

02:43 - How a live website was built with voice commands in 8 minutes

04:26 - The core message behind the Oslo Freedom Forum AI demo

04:52 - How to start using AI today, even with zero technical skills

12:10 - What “AI for Activists” really means in practice

13:24 - Real examples of AI used for translation, response, and storytelling

15:10 - A surprising story of AI making a big impact for dissidents

21:14 - How authoritarian regimes are using AI—and how to counter them

24:04 - The foundational building blocks of modern AI

33:05 - A vision for AI’s future—empowering individuals over the state

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Nostr Account: Justin Moon.

HRF’s program: AI for Individual Rights. 

Newsletter: Financial Freedom Newsletter.

X Account: Shroominic. 

Nostr Account: Shroominic.

Related website: routstr.

Related books mentioned in the podcast.

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