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Either it's LLM generated, or it's written by someone who wants to be ambiguous about using LLMs.

Either way, I'm not reading it, it's a clanker or a clanker collaborationist.

I mean, how would you even write an em dash? There's no button in the keyboard for em dashes, it's not in ascii, it's just not something we write in internet text with, it's a safety watermark put into LLMs by OpenAI to help making LLM generated content identifiable as such.

If for some reason you are an em dash lover that was hurt by the LLM debacle, I'm so sorry for your loss, but look who's on your side, give the em dash a funeral and let it go.

Your argument goes as follows: “I’m incapable of it, therefore no-one is capable of it”.

Followed by, “You should abandon your preferences because I don’t share them”.

On some fields doing somethingothers are not capable is an advantage, on others it's elitism.

Language, communication, are more like the latter, communicarion benefits from everyone using a common language, except when that niche sociolect is domain specific, which an emdash isn't.

  > I mean, how would you even write an em dash?

⌥ ⇧ +

It's been seared into my muscle memory for more than a decade. I keep using it, too. It's present in the popular training sets – and then in LLM outputs – simply because it's proper punctuation.

I wrote the article.

Sorry if I like em dashes.

It's alt + 151 BTW.

"clanker"

Slang for an AI, used by a Blade Runner

> I mean, how would you even write an em dash?

With a keyboard shortcut. Just because you are incompetent, that does not mean everybody is.

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