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Dude, thanks for this! I'll definitely look through these. I have been struggling with marketing the last months. I've developed a free, privacy-focused productivity app, but I don't want to sell it, myself or people for it. So I have been thinking a lot about "how can I tell people about something I've built and that I like without beeing one of those startup dudes". Maybe a few of those links can help, definitely a cool collection!

What the hell. I got so annoyed at level 5 I had to quit :D But I love the idea. It can actually teach you a lot of things about UI design.

Are you playing on mobile? It's easier on desktop

Also, I think not-great English does not prohibit you from being you, being competent. Humans have a longstanding history of communicating with limited means. It never stopped us from getting things done.

I do agree on that take. I find AI to be most useful as a sparing partner for my thought process. I also agree with the other commenter that it, of course, can also influence your thought process. We have to stay aware of that and try to stay in control of that conversation.

I very much agree with this. I had several experiences where I wanted to express something in a very particular way, told a LLM about it, and what came out was just so generic that it really wasn't authentic. It didn't represent me at all, not the morals I have, not the way I talk, not the way I want to express things. I do think more and more that authenticity and character are what we need to preserve with all power we have if we don't want the internet to become just a gateway for generic back and forth. After all, the internet was introduced so humans could connect and share.

Yeah. It's a smoothing function. Just an averaging of all of our writing. (Which, imo, makes it bland and boring.)

My favourite people, interactions, stories are all from those who are outside of that bell curve peak. I want weirdness and quirk.


There is already studies that confirm your fear, I think. They found that mainstream language is changing due to AI. Certain words get used proportionally more than before, etc. Also, if you check out some reddits, it's crazy how generic many things are. Because of AI. I do agree wholeheartedly that we need to read more. And also, that AI can also be a very cool tool for giving some people more power in a way.

The em dash in particular is being used a lot more thanks to AI. It’s become one of those tells where people start to ask if it’s AI or not.

The em dash is famous but I've noticed since (I think) December every hustler suddenly at once started using drama dots.

Like... That. Rhetorical ellipsis. Like you see in a 12 year old's fanfic.

I know one of the AIs had a style change. I think Grok. But it started using drama dots so now they are everywhere.

And unlike the em dash, _nobody_ notices. _Nobody_ sees it.


The emdash and ellipsis used to be my bread and butter.

I just hope the LLMs don’t come for parenthesis for aside comments.


I’m tempted to start using brackets instead [like this]

I'm stating it here before anyone accuses me of being an LLM that I love using fanfic drama dots and I loved them before AI started with it.

Reddit is like 99% AI bots writing fake human-looking threads

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