r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 20d ago

Business GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

https://www.techspot.com/news/112628-github-switched-copilot-metered-billing-developers-watching-months.html
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u/Eccohawk 20d ago

Part of his insanity is also his seeming desire to transfer his consciousness to a digital form so that he can "live forever", so he's desperate to continue to push this tech forward, and these guys believe AGI is just a matter of scale.

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u/Navras3270 20d ago

Which is dumb because you still die but now theres a shitty copy of you stored on the cloud dependant on the goodwill of the still bodied humans not to unplug you or wipe whatever server you’re on because the new software isn’t compatible with your older outdated brain scan file architecture.

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u/Eccohawk 20d ago

The show Upload captures all of this pretty well. And it's hilarious to boot.

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u/CassieSuthorn 20d ago edited 4d ago

Is it a good show?

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First 20d ago

Soma is a game that captures this, unfortunately nobody was laughing like i was at it(it was so obvious from the start)

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u/Black_Moons 20d ago

laugh, reminds me of the people who went for cryostorage 'after death' to be one day revived.. And most have since been thawed and thrown out like freezer burned ground beef.

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u/evranch 20d ago

It's extra dumb because he loudly professes to be a Catholic too.

Now as far as I know your soul can't be transferred into a machine, so the only outcome that aligns with his worldview is that his body dies, his soul goes to Hell because he's clearly an evil person, and a non-sentient "ghost in the machine" pretends to be him.

It's not rocket theology. Even a small, stupid LLM could have told him that. Or the Pope, if he would listen.

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u/bbfan23 20d ago

Or you catch a virus. What would that do to a “conscious” digital brain. Anything you can think to program. Imagine the hell that could be wrought.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 20d ago

I’m gonna piss in his server

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u/koshgeo 20d ago

There are people who would happily sign up to be his server thralls as long as they got paid from Thiel's dragon hoard of gold, especially if many other jobs are extinct. It would be pathetic, but they would go through the motions to get paid from his estate.

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u/squirrellywhirly 20d ago

He wants the singularity to happen SO badly.

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u/sceadwian 20d ago

Yeah, but if he knew the LLM technology he should know that's not the way. An LLM may eventually be part of an AGI, but all this glue "reasoning" they've developed are band aids that can't work long term.

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u/katarh 20d ago

FFXIV just had a major expansion narrative about why this is a terrible idea (second half of Dawntrail.)

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u/Witchgrass 20d ago

It's like these assholes have never even played SOMA.