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The current trend started when people noticed that sam altman doesn't capitalize sentences, primarily in tweets.

In longer form, I do think people should feel bad for writing like this. Like you said, capitalization has genuine utility and, without them, it makes the blog post a nightmare to read.

Case in point: even Sam doesn't write blog posts like this https://blog.samaltman.com

That trend has been around for far longer than Sam Altman's fame has. I see it more as a way to prove that the content is "authentic" and "human", although I of course can't vouch on where the author here got their inspiration from.

To paraphrase a saucy joke I read on Twitter, caring about case makes the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

if my uncle needs help i'm helping him period

Not the OP, but aside from the utility, it just reeks of "trying too hard to be cool", in an irritating manner.

I know a couple people that write like this, I think they do it because it conveys a casual and indifferent attitude on the part of the speaker. some ppl are just too cool for punctuation

this isn’t english class, you’re not earning any extra credit for dogmatically formalized prose

perhaps readers expecting you to conform to a particular style of written presentation are the entitled ones

what a disrespect for the author/typesetter to presume to dictate what is ok for tweets versus longreads :P

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