think i've realized why people are concerned about sounding like an LLM it's because they use LLMs and don't want to be caught doing so
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oh LLMs commonly produce em dashes? i wouldn't know i don't read that shit
@hipsterelectron You're missing out—I've found em-dashes to be excellent for reducing the number of parentheses in my writings (because I digress so much (ADHD)).
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@hipsterelectron "You avoid em dashes because you want to avoid sounding like an LLM, I avoid em dashes because I've no idea what key combination generates them. We are not the same"
@jsbarretto GOT EM
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@jsbarretto i have a super insane workflow for them which is searching through the emacs unicode char description buffer and then enabling char-fold search so i can type a hyphen and match an em dash when i need to copy/paste it later
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@jsbarretto i have a super insane workflow for them which is searching through the emacs unicode char description buffer and then enabling char-fold search so i can type a hyphen and match an em dash when i need to copy/paste it later
@jsbarretto should really not be doing this but i find it extremely amusing
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@hipsterelectron "You avoid em dashes because you want to avoid sounding like an LLM, I avoid em dashes because I've no idea what key combination generates them. We are not the same"
@jsbarretto @hipsterelectron
I avoid because emdashes because the bible prefers commas for long sentences: they're far less intrusive -
@amy yes it's a way to pathologize autistic grammar conventions and is intended to cause infighting as autistic people are also far more likely to reject LLM usage
@hipsterelectron I'll fight anyone
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@hipsterelectron I'll fight anyone
️@hipsterelectron this was humor
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@jsbarretto @hipsterelectron
I avoid because emdashes because the bible prefers commas for long sentences: they're far less intrusive@moses_izumi @jsbarretto commas are occasionally seen as grammatically incorrect for the kind of pauses achieved by an em dash or semicolon but this is changing and will likely become fully accepted in less than a century
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@hipsterelectron this was humor
@amy it doesn't have to be we could fight right now
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@hipsterelectron You're missing out—I've found em-dashes to be excellent for reducing the number of parentheses in my writings (because I digress so much (ADHD)).
@vtrlx i use em dashes frequently although i'm not sure reducing the number of parentheses is really an appropriate system of measurement as opposed to reducing the nesting of clauses more generally which unfortunately the full stop is really most appropriate to perform
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@jsbarretto @hipsterelectron
I avoid because emdashes because the bible prefers commas for long sentences: they're far less intrusive@moses_izumi @hipsterelectron I hear the followers of Lisp use parentheses and spend all day talking about how their clauses can be arbitrarily nested.
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@hipsterelectron "You avoid em dashes because you want to avoid sounding like an LLM, I avoid em dashes because I've no idea what key combination generates them. We are not the same"
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