I still use em dashes because my writing is not slop, and is in no danger of being dismissed as such.
I don’t use the word “delve” anymore, however.
I miss using em dashes
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Over-update”? Do you mean “overreact”?
No, I mean over-update in a Bayesian capacity. As in, they are updating their prior probability using evidence to arrive at the posterior probability.
"I don't often jargon, but when I do jargon I jargon like Chuck Norris"
Re: I miss using em dashes
#23What's wrong with em dashes? Use whatever you like.
Compose --- should produce —
For en dash it's
Compose --. produces –
Not all fonts show the difference though.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I mean over-update in a Bayesian capacity. As in, they are updating their prior probability using evidence to arrive at the posterior probability.
Huh?
See em dash in text
Think text much more likely from robot than first thought
Grug say this change too big from just one em dash
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#25I miss good typography, but in truth it demands more patience writing than I am prepared to expend, so I am in effect unwilling to put in, what I want to get out. Thats the kind of asymmetry in behaviour which got us here.
I grew up online in teletype and ADM5. To some extent, my sense of how text presents is dominated by monotype/fixed-width and em-dashes just never worked in that 7 bit world.
Two hyphens is too much. one hyphen is not enough.
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#26I don't miss the em dash. Take away my hyphen and I'll be angry; but replacing em dashes with semicolons was personal policy since high school.
Which hyphen is that?
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#28I wouldn't worry about it. A year ago the red flag du jour was "delve"; this year it's em dashes; next year it'll be something else. In any case, this is a very online topic that I assume only a vocal minority are hung up on in the first place. If you picked a random person off the street and asked for their thoughts on em dashes, you'd probably get a blank stare. Eventually, as models and their users both improve, w…
100%. I use em-dashes a decent amount and plan to continue. If someone wants to incorrectly assume it was AI writing so be it.
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#29I'm not sure why people let others change them. I keep punctuating like it's the 20th Century.
People whose ideas get heavily criticized for "being written by AI" (with most readers missing the point) have less influence and perhaps that influence matters enough to them to adapt, i.e. to "let others change them"
Re: I miss using em dashes
#30I don't miss the em dash. Take away my hyphen and I'll be angry; but replacing em dashes with semicolons was personal policy since high school.
The em is more than a synonym for semicolon.