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New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
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Re: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
#52I have "—" bound to AltGR/right option + "-" for a decade now and I don't intend to stop using it.
https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
I will not allow my good practices to get co-opted as AI "smoke tests".
Re: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
#53You can turn off iOS automatically converting dashes to em-dashes. It also turns off smart-quotes which when used converts any sms you send from normal GSM-7 (7-bit) encoding to utf-8 which doubles the number of sms messages you're sending in the background (even though they're stitched together to look like a single message)
To turn off Smart Punctuation: Home > Settings > General > Keyboard > Smart Punctuation > Off.
Re: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
#54I would like to formally petition that the tech world at large replace "em-dash" with "clank" in all correspondence
like bang instead of exclamation point? or dot instead of period? I like it.
even though I used to like pointing out the difference between a hyphen and a period.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
All will be fixed with real id attestation /s
Not exactly, bot farms can still be made with poor people IDs through black market. I don't know what the solution is going to be, but at some point we might forced to accept the reality that on the internet humans and AI won't be distinguishable anymore and adjust our services independently on the client being a person or a machine.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Karma aside, flooding the comments with a chosen narrative via army of bots seems like it's already happening. I suppose the bots can also do voting rings, but they don't necessarily need to.
> Karma aside, flooding the comments with a chosen narrative via army of bots seems like it's already happening. again with the conspiracy theories
> created: 83 days ago
Re: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
#57Shoutout to my English Major comrades who have been using em-dashes forever, and have had to stop so we don't sound like AI. If AI starts use the New Yorker style diaeresis (umlaut-looking thing when there are two vowels in words like coöperate) I swear I'm gonna lose it.
I'd like to see a histogram of my HN em dash usage over time. Maybe someone could get bored and visualize the 2nd order effects described here.
Re: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
#58Most people want to avoid looking like AI, ut what if you want to blend in with the robot uprising. I present ⸻ the U+2E3B dash.
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#59I’ve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. Is it possible to differentiate between a bot, and a human using AI to 'improve' the quality of their comment where some of the content might be AI written but not all? I don't think it is.
> HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. hm, the whole internet really, youtube, reddit, twitter, facebook, blog posts, food recipes, news articles, it's getting more and more obvious
I find the bigger problem with online comments are that people repeat the same comments and "jokes" over and over and over again. Sure we had those with YouTube 15 years ago when people always spammed "first!" and "who is listening in ?" but now it's gotten worse and every single comment is now just some meme (especially on Reddit) or some kind of "gotcha"...
Re: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
#60Shoutout to my English Major comrades who have been using em-dashes forever, and have had to stop so we don't sound like AI. If AI starts use the New Yorker style diaeresis (umlaut-looking thing when there are two vowels in words like coöperate) I swear I'm gonna lose it.
Agreed.
Join me in double-dash em proximates. Shows you manually typed it out with total disregard token count and technical correctness.