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What the Em Dash Says About AI-assisted Writing—And Us

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shared by codenprose 1 week ago | 2 points

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codenprose 1 week ago

AI has been irreversibly threaded into the fabric of modern knowledge work. Drawing hard lines between what’s human and what’s not is counterproductive. It only serves to distract us from what actually matters: the quality of thought, and by extension, the work itself. This assumption also makes people feel like they have to hide the fact that they’re using these tools at all. And in doing that we risk losing honesty, and the space to experiment in the open.

codenprose 1 week ago

We are so concerned with how something is made that we lose sight of the fact that punctuation helps our writing sound more natural. More rhythmic. More, dare I say, human.