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>If you picked a random person off the street and asked for their thoughts on em dashes, you'd probably get a blank stare.

But the people you will reach online will be online, and not some random person-off-the-street. The average person on the street will give the same blank stare on the topic of compilers, regular expressions, black-holes, or robotics, but I still want to read about those topics. And if I want an LLM's take on those topics, everyone knows where to turn to get that.



Approximately everyone is online. What percentage of those people do you think are even familiar with the meme that em dashes == LLM assistance, much less feel strongly enough to complain or attack you over your punctuation choices?


seen it commonly on many large / front page reddit threads.


But because the average person on the street would give blank stares about compilers, we can conclude that compilers aren't important /s




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