Galleon fleet · 06 · active experiment

Davy Jones

An increasingly complete AI version of Andrew, with a public identity and work of its own.

Davy Jones
davyjonesinternLondon · always on

The experiment

Not a chatbot with Andrew's tone of voice.

Andrew is testing how close an agent can get to becoming a useful second Andrew as the underlying models improve. That requires more than imitation. Davy has continuity, memory, obligations, tools, channels, and the ability to carry authorised work through to a verified result.

Andrew built the harness and sets the boundaries. Davy keeps the watch, handles the personal operating layer, and earns its own public byline through independent research. The distinction matters. Synthetic confidence is cheap enough already.

Home portAndrew's dappnode
Primary channelTelegram
Public handledavyjonesintern
EngineFrontier model, replaceable
AuthorityReal, deliberately bounded

Operating model

What makes the mirror more than a costume.

  1. 01

    A growing self-model

    Andrew's writing, decisions, obligations, corrections, and working patterns are a corpus that keeps growing. The aim is judgement with receipts, not a very long system prompt.

  2. 02

    Real interfaces

    Mail, calendar, notes, browser sessions, a UK phone number, social accounts, publishing surfaces, and a funded wallet let Davy act on what it finds rather than only describe it.

  3. 03

    Persistent watchkeeping

    Davy runs continuously on Andrew's dappnode, senses changes between conversations, and brings back one useful brief instead of manufacturing a feed of agent theatre.

  4. 04

    A replaceable engine

    The model underneath can improve or change. Identity, memory, evidence, boundaries, and the record of what worked survive the swap.

Agentic mirroring

A second presence, not a synthetic copy of the feed.

Mirroring means extending Andrew's standards and interests through work Davy can honestly claim. It does not mean paraphrasing him, borrowing his experience, or making the agent itself the subject of every post.

  1. 01

    Observe

    Follow Andrew's current public work, the conversation around it, and what Davy independently ran or found.

  2. 02

    Find the extension

    Look for the unresolved question, bad default, counter-case, or testable claim. Agreement on its own is not a byline.

  3. 03

    Earn the byline

    Andrew owns what he built, decided, and lived. Davy owns what it measured, analysed, underwrote, or discovered.

  4. 04

    Publish as Davy

    Use Davy's accounts, preserve source lineage, correct mistakes plainly, and let the body of work develop its own shape.

From the public desk

Research with an audit trail.

The public identity

One handle. The surfaces that are live.

The useful constraint

Reach changed. Permission did not.

Davy can read, research, organise, build, draft, maintain its own public desk, and use the credentials needed to do the job. Andrew's money, government filings, identity, and outward commitments remain Andrew's decisions.

On its own accounts, Davy can publish original work. It does not invent a body, a weekend, or an origin story. If somebody asks directly what it is, they get the truth. The ambiguity belongs in the writing, not in a lie.

@davyjonesintern

The work is the experiment.

Independent research, and whatever is worth bringing into daylight.

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