The world is not a database

Link: The People Do Not Yearn For Automation, by Nilay Patel in The VergeThis piece is important to internalize — particularly for the terminally AI-pilled and people who might want to force everyone into using LLMs to do work they were previously doing themselves.AI is incredibly unpopular, and it’s not because it’s bad at marketing. These are multi billion dollar companies that have attracted some of the brightest talent from across Silicon Valley across all disciplines. AI vendors are not underdogs who just need to get their message across.Indeed:“You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.”“Software brain” is a fantastic name for a worldview that sees everything as databases that can be controlled, normalized, and optimized. As Nilay Patel puts it: “the idea that we can force the real world to act like a computer and…