Eirdicht

A bet where the digital puck will be

Eirdicht is a bet that AI will be big, it will be disruptive to humanity, and so a lot of people will need serious help to stay afloat. And to do other things too.

The instinct of technocrats is to paper over the disruptions of AI with AI-based solutions. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Until about a year ago, it was trad-coding bandaids layered over trad-coding caused pains. Before that, new layers of bureaucracy was the norm. Now we're being stifled by all of them at once.

Real people, if ever they were asked what they wanted, would not ask for any of this. Eirdicht is a guess what the true answer would be: "I just want to get by, raise my children according to my values, greet a dozen great-grandchildren, and exit stage left with a flourish. So either give me tools to help me do that or get the hell out of my way."

Everyday people will be happier with small & simple intelligence grown up around themselves than with big & complicated intelligence that was grown in a lab. Especially in the age of strong AI.

Trust matters a lot.

Eirdicht: the type of tool humanity will soon need to thrive in the shade of strong AI. A little technical; a lot philosophical.

Proto-agent: the digital half of a stupidly small and simple agentic "atom". Eirdicht's version is named Telospore.

Proto-harness: the sparse substrate a proto-agent needs to sprout. Eirdicht's version is named Eirdicht. Don't ask.