Inspiring essay by Venkatesh Rao on the concept of Mediocre Computing and the Realish Domain; a different way to look at what helpful AI can mean when it does not try to outperform us.
“A realish domain is one that is sufficiently open, structured, gamified and resourced that mediocre performance against artificially constructed but illegible criteria is sufficient for real-world survival, with better-than-wilderness odds.”
https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-dawn-of-mediocre-computing