> the pace of progress is accelerating exponentially. Lots of smart people say this, but lots of other smart people say it is logarithmically. It's hard to say

> the pace of progress is accelerating exponentially. Lots of smart people say this, but lots of other smart people say it is logarithmically. It's hard to say with certainty until we are on the other side of this curve. > Requires a subscription fee of at least $20 per month, a high-performance computer, and a stable Internet connection. If you have a high-performance computer, the $20 monthly fee and the internet connection are not really required. I've been pretty blown away with what I can squeeze out of a 7900 XTX, both for text and images. I'm lucky enough to be able to also afford some subscriptions (Perplexity Pro and Kagi Ultimate), but I still find my local model useful for data that I don't want to leak to external APIs. As far as creativity goes, I think it mostly "democratizes" it in the sense that it is a new set of mediums to express creativity. New mediums are attractive to a different set of people from the old mediums that still exist, and therfore more people will be drawn to creative activities altogether.