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Am I going insane or is this an LLM post with all the em dashes replaced by double en dashes??

• deleted 11mo ago
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• shiomiru 11mo ago
  It's deep in the uncanny valley. Even ignoring the writing style, the entire post is about the incredible insight of "you can build TCP on top of UDP" using a forced analogy. No further analysis, no real world example, just UDP and the convertible and the convertible and UDP...
• weepinbell 11mo ago
  https://www.pangram.com/history/f119a8ee-7e60-442a-8d0c-3fa0fe96d4b7/ https://www.pangram.com/history/f119a8ee-7e60-442a-8d0c-3fa0... I show this more of as a discussion point than as a definitive answer. There is more research on this tool than others: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02936-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02936-6 And I think it's interesting that it flags it as confidently AI generated. I also got a whiff of AI and I'm never sure how to take confirmation bias from AI detectors - though that said, I've gotten a whiff of AI before and had this detector say it's confidently human. Reading this I kept waiting for the... point? I feel like the whole thing was more like saying "UDP is like a convertible because you can strap a tarp on top when it rains". Like... sure? But that tarp is going to be crappy compared to a real roof. And the idea that that tiny layer is "the best of both worlds" is frankly ridiculous to me.
  • mlhpdx 11mo ago
    Author here. I've been called a "robot" in the past so perhaps my writing reflects that, but yes there was some autocomplete involved here.
• abound 11mo ago
  I felt the same way, which is terrible news for me because I explicitly use double dashes in my (100% human) writing instead of em/en dashes -- explicitly because of the LLM association, but they're evolving