Is he a dot, or is he a speck?

Good friend Gage has been toying with a new idea: Particles:

Particles is shared memory for humans and AI agents. Each particle is one claim, plus what you need to judge it: who said it, where, when, and how confident they were. Facts, opinions, and memories are all claims, recorded the same way as particles. Particles are not edited or deleted. Particles are superseded, retracted, or disputed in the open. How much to trust it is a perspective applied at query time, never baked into the record.

In the current post-truth world, this an interesting idea: the facts we have have a relative truth based on your own viewpoint and perspective. If we give an agent knowledge/ideas/data, it doesn’t really know what truth/facts are without us telling or asserting its validity or it looking it up from other sources. The more personal our agents become for our own uses, it seems like we’ll want to ensure our agents know our own worldviews and the weights of our claims compared to the information it finds from other sources.

Maybe I’m late to the game, but seems like there’s so much thought right now going around on how to manage the context going into models at inference. Context engineering. Personal RAG.