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We need a blog post documenting the ironic trend of people—themselves NPCs, actual human bots, just now realizing the em dash exists despite seeing it hundreds
by starfezzy 2y ago
We need a blog post documenting the ironic trend of people—themselves NPCs, actual human bots, just now realizing the em dash exists despite seeing it hundreds if not thousands of times before LLMs—flattering themselves by suggesting that anyone who understands the language at above a 5th grade level must be an LLM.
- citrus1330 2y agoYou aren't special for using em dashes, and it doesn't make someone an NPC to notice that AIs frequently make use of them.
- ogurechny 2y agoThe comment above is not about being special, it is about proper typography that is still everywhere around us: books, serious websites, anything done by real designers. Those people had to try hard to miss all of that. No, it is not “politically incorrect” to call people lacking curiosity and/or education like you see them. No, someone's personal preferences or transitory fashions are not automatically promoted to the holy reference for the whole world.
- jeroenhd 2y agoTaking knowledge of the three extra pixels that are "more correct" as some kind of indicator of intelligence is silly. Pretending you're somehow above them is just sad. Must be lonely at the top.
- MindBeams 2y agoThis thread is rampant with anti-intellectualism that deserves to be called out.