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The part that doesn't make sense to me is: Why? As in what are the incentives to use AI to write comments on HN? This is not a platform like Youtube or X where views get you money. Is this just for internet karma?
I'm still salty that I can't use em-dashes anymore for fear of my writing being flagged as AI generated. Been using them for years—it's just `alt+shift+-` on a Mac keyboard and I find them more legible in many fonts compared to the simple dash on the typical numpad. It's so sad to me that good typographical conventions have been co-opted by the zeitgeist of LLMs.
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What motivation is there to use AI to astroturf (if that's what this is) like this? Is it ideological? Is it product marketing in those relevant threads where someone is showcasing? Or is it pure technical testing, playing around?
I went through a phase where I milled responses through grinding plates of LLMs. Whether my reasons are shared with others remains unknown. My relationship with writing, while improved, has been a difficult one. Part of me has always felt that there was a gap in my writing education. The choices other writers seem to make intuitively - sentence structure, word choice, and expression of ideas - do not come naturally t…
I hate myself for saying this, but HN should consider closing new registrations for a while until we figure out what to do with this.
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I still call voodoo on this. I use an iPhone, iPad, Mac to comment here—all of them autocorrect to em dashes at one point or another. Same goes for ellipsis.
Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?
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I went through a phase where I milled responses through grinding plates of LLMs. Whether my reasons are shared with others remains unknown. My relationship with writing, while improved, has been a difficult one. Part of me has always felt that there was a gap in my writing education. The choices other writers seem to make intuitively - sentence structure, word choice, and expression of ideas - do not come naturally t…
Did you use AI for this answer? Because it looks completely adequate for me. Maybe you're not the bad writer you think you are.
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great repo name!
It's worth remembering that you can argue that the use of the word is acceptable now, but can you guarantee that in 30 years time the future world will agree with you to the extent that they let you hold a position of responsibility after using the word 30 years ago. There is precedent here.
"We treat this one better because it's a house clanker instead of a field clanker"
"If the clanker acts up it knows that it gets stuck in the box"
It was meant to be funny but definitely highlighted exactly what you are saying.
I'm still salty that I can't use em-dashes anymore for fear of my writing being flagged as AI generated. Been using them for years—it's just `alt+shift+-` on a Mac keyboard and I find them more legible in many fonts compared to the simple dash on the typical numpad. It's so sad to me that good typographical conventions have been co-opted by the zeitgeist of LLMs.
Just do it anyway—I always have, and always will. Well, I haven't always —just for maybe 20 years.