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I certainly used em dashes before 2022, and so did anyone who cares about proper typography.

• lelanthran 7mo ago
  > I certainly used em dashes before 2022, and so did anyone who cares about proper typography. Who said anything about em-dashes? There's an entire Wikipedia page documenting the tells, and only one of the 15 or so items is "extended usage of em-dashes". It's not fluff, it's actual tells. No nonsense, no BS, just tells. The key insight is...
  • xigoi 7mo ago
    I have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes.
    • lelanthran 7mo ago
      > I have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes. Yeah, but you haven't seen me do that :-) (You also haven't seen anyone on HN recently (since this year) do that either).