Jacob Ward
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752 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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And the economics are not working for me.
It's hard.
It's well I was you
twenty years ago
And and and between the the process of wanting to be close to you know, wanting to learn that world well, wanting to be close to it, there are so many fewer job opportunities in a landscape in which everyone is in theory doing it themselves through AI than there were when you had like institutions.
you know, making this stuff possible.
Again, like you could work as an assistant
set designer on your way to being, you know, trying to be a a movie director.
And now the expectation is everyone's supposed to just be a movie director from the outset and nobody and and the number of people who are going to survive in that landscape economically is so much smaller than the number of people that are going to be able to make a a go of it and maybe s remain a set designer their whole lives, but can still make a career in the industry that they've chosen.
I mean this is what
these that also these companies
Aren't exactly run by people who have who have shown enormous sensitivity and excitement about creativity.
I will stipulate creative fields.
I mean sorry, Molly, I know you and I are both equally fired up.
You go ahead.
don't
Stop It, but like I I think about Bill Gates' line, human reserve.
Like far bet for me to like I'm it is weird to be quoting Bill Gates and agreeing with him in any way, but but he he says this phrase human reserved that we're gonna reserve a certain number of human jobs and activities against the effects of automation with that, which I think is interesting.
And it's a it's a smart way of encapsulating something that I've been trying to articulate for a long time.
I just took a trip last year to
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