noid — vision #

noid is a technological bridge between hackers and their LLM(s) of choice.

No technology can convey the totality of human experience in a way that an LLM could meaningfully make decisions, be responsible for or affect the world around it beyond the scope of the model's ability to represent knowledge and access tools.

With that said, it is also true that most conventional memory systems serve to store information in such a way that is optimized for the performance of LLMs at the tasks they are assigned. There is room in the world for an application-as-organizational-system which facilitates managing knowledge in a sort of ontology graph in which the relationships between things are explicitly described and can be commented on.

When it is complete, noid will be an Electron application that hackers run locally on their machines. They will interact with it almost like a mood board with the ability to store photos and other media files like music and video files, notes and so on. Unlike a simple mood board, noid also allows for connections to be drawn between these different objects and to attach information to those connections themselves. noid is therefore distinguished from technologies like Obsidian and Logseq in that the relational information is not merely structural but also descriptive and malleable. As humans and agents interact with the board, connections may be strengthened and diminish as their relevance intensifies or fades.

Rather than treating all of the content produced by humans and agents in noid as uniform, they are distinguished from one another visually and structurally within the data. When a human hacker adds a document, an agent may record memories or other information by creating other documents and relating them to the hacker's document. Both humans and agents may add notes to the relations between documents on the board separately and may own them separately.

This is all in service of providing the human hacker with tools to organize their life and work as well as facilitate a more dynamic and expressive relationship between them and the agents they work with rather than a purely incremental and linear one.