A lot of it is simply that they are far more open to the idea of curiousity as having value than most people.

> cool shiny shit

You mean absurdly high compensation for very comfortable, low-stress office work? People work to feed their families, not just because working is 'cool'.

Because of the em-dash? Unfortunately, some writing hipsters created this "uh actually we were writing emdashes first, it's dramatic increase of use since llm proliferation in the 2020s shouldn't mean we can't use it!" movement. This has lead to purposeful use of emdashes to bait people to call them lllms. You can tell because the spaces around it most likely is because they had to copy and paste it from somewhere else as they (like most humans on non macs) don't actually know how to write an emdash otherwise.