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Why are you hiding your real identity? Don't you fear that in a few years programs, available to the general public, will be able to match writing patterns and identify you?
I see it more as introducing a trivial inconvenience which keeps people I know in real life generally away from my (often frank) online postings. In some sense it's just psychological, since by nature I am a very reticent person and it makes me feel like I can jot out opinions and get feedback without having to agonize over it. (That's also why I'm not necessarily comfortable directly listing out personal details which could probably be inferred/collected from what I write.)
FWIW, this is the same as my rationale. It is theoretically possible to trace Alsadius back to me-the-human, since I'm sure I've given enough identifying details to narrow down the pool of candidates to one given perfect information, but it is sufficiently difficult that I doubt anyone will actually bother.
As someone who feels the same way, forestalling that possibility/making it take effort to identify me is somewhat worth it. And there's a substantial possibility that it won't take that long from development of programs-which-can-recognize to development of programs-that-can-hide.