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typos mean it's more likely to have been made by a careless human.

Certainly. But in the current social environment, being seen as (mildly) careless is less bad than being seen as someone who lets an LLM write prose for them.

That's kind of sad. I miss being an OG em dash user.

i make typos constantly (seriously, check my post history). i probably have typos in my resume. i just dont know why anybody should care.

the meaning is still easily parseable. i cant imagine letting something so superficial matter

I make typos all the time as well, on stuff I am just writing off the cuff like a forum or chat message. But when it comes to something important, don't you check it over dozens of times? hundreds of times? A mere missing semicolon will make your code not compile. How could you let a superficial typo go uncorrected once you see it? How could you not see it when it's in the most obvious spot?

It suggests a certain lack of diligence; like you didn't proofread your work. What about the person that should have proofread it as a second opinion? Did this really follow a rigorous academic process at all? <- That's the first impression when the presentation is sloppy.

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