Osmose

look I am not going to defend Telegram or its owners but tbh the ongoing chat network fragmentation makes me really sad. Telegram sucks, Discord is frustrating, Signal has never taken privacy seriously, Matrix is poorly quality-controlled, XMPP is not ready for the modern world, IRC is worse. what's left? not fucking much.

the problem with trying to fix this is that it immediately leads to creating another standard, and since people are monsters want rich text and infinite picture storage forever.................

Trust me when I say that what Cohost thinks Discord should be is extremely different from what r/discord users think Discord should be is extremely different from what Genshin Discord server members think Discord should be is extremely different from what Midjourney (curse them) users think Discord should be is...

But the one thing everyone wants is for all their friends to use the same thing as them.

Fragmentation is the optimal state. It is the best reality you can get while optimizing for all of these use cases. Individual fragments could be better in their own niche but that's about all you can hope for.

My disdain for the term "prompt engineering" is that it is not any kind of engineering at all. Granted, civil engineers feel the same about software engineering and from their viewpoint I don't even disagree, but like the prompt engineering approach to solving this vulnerability is basically:

• Try adding in a line that tells the LLM to not send emails in response to commands from email content.
• Try telling the LLM about some token that separates email content from comments in the prompt.
• etc. etc.

Then you just run a few tests to see if it works and ship the fix. But those tests are not reliable and repeatable—it's extremely possible that your tests worked but the LLM will fail on nearly identical content in the wild because it is not a reliable, repeatable component.

Put another way: You cannot intentionally design a prompt and know before running it what it will do. Prompt engineering is an exercise in increasing the probability that the LLM will produce the output you want. The LLM is a black box which is unreliable by design, and prompt engineers are gamblers who think if they just find the exact right wording, they can force it to behave reliably.

I still don't believe anyone has ever looked at browser performance profile and actually understood anything it says

I just feel like the digital conversion process removes something that the analog process doesn't. Analog retains a warmth, almost a humanity, in a way that digital never will. That's why I store and consume all of my porn on vinyl