In this episode we sit down with writer Jasmine Sun to talk about:

• Why beauty and craftsmanship—not AI—are the real story of our time
• Democratic beauty: why everyday public spaces used to lift the human spirit (and why they don’t now)
• The “paradox of abundance”: why AI makes the best better and the average worse
• How David actually writes with AI (hint: it involves Theo Von)
• Why David decided to end Write of Passage
• New York vs. LA vs. SF: the unspoken culture war over AI in publishing and entertainment
• Personalization vs. prose: why he’ll start with deep research before a book
• Why David's bullish on spirit-lifting, live performance and theater in an AI-saturated world
• … and more

Whoa Vol. 2

This episode is part of a limited series of ten in-depth conversations put together by sublime.app with some of our favorite thinkers and creatives where we explore how artificial intelligence is changing and challenging creative work.

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