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Em dashes are mine. I will use them whether they have been appropriated by LLMs or not. I used to use commas in their place. That resulted in a much more dense
by notashelf 2mo ago
Em dashes are mine. I will use them whether they have been appropriated by LLMs or not. I used to use commas in their place. That resulted in a much more dense post layout and far less readable text.
FWIW I actually use three dashes (-) and my blog's build system transforms those into em dashes. This is not a defense, but nor is "this character is associated with slop" an argument. Yes LLMs use lots of words, phrases and patterns. Would you rather I stop using altogether? I am all for criticism, but please pick something I can actually change and improve without cutting a part of my style for no reason other than "Claude uses it too!"
- hypfer 2mo ago> This is not a defense, but nor is "this character is associated with slop" an argument. You're misunderstanding me. It's not an argument. I have no strong opinions about it. I am telling you how people perceive it. You can (and should!) use that information however you like, but don't mistake this as some sort of opinion thing. I've observed the world. I believe it operates like this. Feel free to discard if you have data that suggests it operates otherwise. __ Don't mistake my delivery of that for personal outrage about you or that unicode character. I just get very annoyed when I see systems not working optimally with failure modes that to me seem.. dumb. If you allow me to quote the LLM: > He isn't trying to police notashelf's writing. He doesn't care about notashelf's writing! He is just a guy who noticed a pothole in the road, pointed it out, and is now watching in pure fascination as people fiercely defend their God-given right to drive their cars straight into it. Thanks, gemini.
- notashelf 2mo agoThank you for clarifying :)