| ▲ | dbacar 9 hours ago |
| "He added: "This isn't simply a story about old paper and ink. This was never just about a collectible. "This is a testament to memory, family and the unexpected ways the past finds its way back to us."
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Men going extreme in sentimental when they just sold a $9M collectible :). |
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| ▲ | sebmellen 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| He added: “This isn’t simply a blurb of words and phrases. This is not just a stock statement from an LLM. This is a testament to outsourcing, laziness and the unexpected ways technology finds ways to change every press release.” |
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| ▲ | mvkel 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | All it needed was the emdash | | |
| ▲ | mjlee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is distinct from a dash (—) and isn't quite a hyphen (‐), so I get why most people don't care. All font dependent as well to add to the fun, and my examples here render differently in the textbox and the comment! | | |
| ▲ | Macha an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I’d actually just figured out the compose binding to type it on Linux just before chatgpt got popular | |
| ▲ | plufz 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yeah it actually saddens me a little, if using good and correct typography will be avoided because of LLM. | | |
| ▲ | pardon_me an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It's already happened unfortunately. LLMs learned to write correctly from people who write correctly. Those people are now being blamed for sounding like AI, when AI actually sounds like them (and probably learned from their work without permission). To avoid they, they write differently. | |
| ▲ | Xss3 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Em dashes are still appropriate for articles, journals, scientific papers, and other academic or professional writing. In social media comments they came across as pompous even before LLMs and werent particularly appropriate for casual comments. Though to be fair some people enjoy coming across as pompous and embrace the 'better than the peasants and their lowly minus sign use' attitude. Makes them feel special or as if their writing is markedly better than those without fancy punctuation. (It isnt). Also yes, im describing two writers i know that are adamant about the em dash being 'a sign of an intellectual wtiter'...they are insufferable pricks. | | |
| ▲ | zetanor an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I would love to know what sequence of characters you normally use in place of an em-dash to express the same nuance of relationship and timing. | |
| ▲ | sgarland an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I use em dashes for the same reason that I use semicolons: it’s how I’m hearing the sentence in my head as I’m typing it. I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call a part of grammar pompous. It’d be analogous with me calling your post lazy due to its various typos — I’m not, I just found the comparison apt. | |
| ▲ | Forgeties79 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The problem to me doesn’t seem to be the em dashes but rather the multiple people around you that actively talk about “being an intellectual writer“ and how they need to signal it with their choice of punctuation. Frankly they sound ridiculous. But again, that has nothing to do with the actual punctuation itself. Writing off a writing tool because of two people you agree are ridiculous doesn’t seem like the right way to respond to their behavior. I’ve used it for literally decades for both formal and informal writing. On social media and in text messages. It is a very useful way to communicate/pace your sentences. |
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| ▲ | agravier 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I've been using it as well for a long while (though using option shift -), but I don't care what people think. I won't change my style to appease Temu Sherlocks, or anyone really. How I write doesn't change the value of the message. I invite you to join me in not giving a crap. | | |
| ▲ | mjlee 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It wasn't clear from my comment, but I absolutely don't care and I'm going to keep typing how I type. |
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| ▲ | boringg 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ive had to change how i write so that people don’t think its chat bot. Probably more a me thing but it has sadly ruined my heavy use of m dash and personal style. Small minority i know. | | |
| ▲ | adi_kurian 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wouldn't bother. Who gives a flying fuck. The only people I know talking about it aren't particularly good at writing anyway. | |
| ▲ | acheron an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | “Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.” |
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| ▲ | ccppurcell 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why this matters: <bullet point list>. | | | |
| ▲ | imiric 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You're absolutely right! |
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| ▲ | kineticdaffodil an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | latexr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminded me of an exchange I saw decades ago in some TV show or movie (I forget where it was from but it stayed with me): Person A: “We’re going to be so rich.” Person B: “How many times do I have to tell you? It’s not about the money.” Person A: “It’s about all the things we’ll be able to buy with it.” Person B: “Exactly.” |
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| ▲ | retSava an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Also, from a classic that is finally getting a sequel: Spaceballs! -We're not doing this for the money...
-... we're not?
-We're doing this for a SHITTON of money! | |
| ▲ | onionisafruit an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The Jerk? |
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| ▲ | onionisafruit an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| To them I’m sure it really is all that plus the $9M they get, but mostly the $9M. |
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| ▲ | lloydatkinson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Made me want to vomit |
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| ▲ | ls-a 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Did Silicon Valley VCs give that comic its valuation? |
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| ▲ | tacker2000 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yea, would he have said the same for some old worthless TV program magazine? |
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| ▲ | tonyhart7 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| gotta add those "values" so the bidder got worth its money |
