Such database control can help organize reality and the social contract itself.
So maybe the backlash to AI isn’t about automation per se but about the fear of losing authorship over the structures that define us.
Just my two pennies. do read/listen/watch the fabulous piece @theverge.com
Our social contract databases are the machine readable versions of our intuitions.
So the issue may not be structure itself but control.
The moment experiences, identities, and relationships become legible, new questions emerge
Who defines the schema?
Who gets to edit or delete?
Who has power?
We say people don’t want to be turned into databases.
I’m not sure that’s fully true.
Humans have always sought structure to navigate complexity. Stories, identities, social roles and such are all ways of making life legible. They are, in a sense, human-readable “schemas.”
A brilliant piece by @reckless.bsky.social on the “software brain” and the flattening of human experience required to make AI work.
I agree with almost all of it. But I think there’s a deeper tension here.
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