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It might be more fun to see users who’s emdash usage increased after the release.
by PUSH_AX 1y ago
It might be more fun to see users who’s emdash usage increased after the release.
- Moru 1y agoMaybe the HN crowd is the wrong group for such statistics, a higher percentage here probably knows how to use their keyboard and OS.
- Bud 1y ago[dead]
- 9rx 1y agoPlus being nerdier in general. I, for one, purposely use it more often because of all the hoopla.
- firesteelrain 1y agoBurn him at the stake!
- dns_snek 1y agoI think they meant after the release of ChatGPT. If someone never used them before and now uses them all the time it might indicate that they're using ChatGPT... or it might just mean that they learned how to use them after widespread discussions about it.
- withinboredom 1y agoI use em-dashes now more than ever — mostly just to mess with people.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- perihelions 1y agoI remember participating in a small thread on how to type an em-dash, on different OS's. It was in March 2023, so before the em-dash meme had started—it was an innocent question then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598
- Moru 1y agoI missed the point of the leaderboards completely. It is to show exactly that when you get blamed for using AI to write. You can point out that you already used it in 2009 or whatever. For that it is very useful yes :-)
- montebicyclelo 1y agoAlthough note — people are likely to be infuenced by the recent prevalence of em dash to use it more in their own writing nowadays
- idiotsecant 1y agoEven more interesting is the likely increase in emdash usage by those not using an LLM, but merely imitating the writing they see subconsciously. There was a evidence that chatgpt is shifting the frequency of use of some uncommon words and phrases amongst non-users.
- sebastiennight 1y agoOh really? We should definitely delve into this.
- JdeBP 1y agoYou'll need to delve into history back quite a number of years. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439869
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- dns_snek 1y agoHN is burying my comments (thanks!) but here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073287
- akoboldfrying 1y agoAgreed. More generally any measurable feature of writing that underwent a significant change in frequency around that time would be interesting to look at. Looking at frequencies across the entire post dataset would suggest likely candidates, which individual people could then be tested against. There would be lots of confounding factors and red herrings though -- like the word "ChatGPT" itself!