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This is so ai-written it is hard to take serious. You figured out the trick to making tall skinny things stable? Weight or a wide base?
by Novosell 6mo ago
This is so ai-written it is hard to take serious. You figured out the trick to making tall skinny things stable? Weight or a wide base?
- wespiser_2018 6mo agoI did not write this with AI. The "trick" was finding a weight that would work, which needed to be purchased for cheap and installed easily.
- randlet 6mo agoI assumed it was AI too "All of this happened over text—not an organized workflow system, but good enough to handle a weekend’s worth of work, one weekend at a time. For a moment, the business worked. In reality, this was the easy part." And "The logo was the Boston Celtics logo. The problem? It’s not a minimal, modern logo; it’s a detailed, hand-drawn image from 1946." have a pretty AI like cadence. edit: No shade to OP....I'm glad it's not AI, but I'm sad my default is assuming AI now :/
- wespiser_2018 6mo agoThanks for the feedback!
- BeetleB 6mo agoPlease don't change your writing style just because random humbugs on the Internet associate it with an LLM.
- ButlerianJihad 6mo agoIt may be a compliment on cogent points combined with impeccable grammar and spelling
- lozenge 6mo agoWhat is writing if not a way to be perceived by others. Ideally not perceived as an LLM! I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there.
- BeetleB 6mo ago> I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there. I think that's a convenient post hoc justification. I could as easily say the LLM wrote it that way because that's how people actually write.
- keybored 6mo agoThis is the home of the writing luminaries that can’t imagine outputting em-dashes by hand.
- alvah 6mo agowhere is the em-dash key on your keyboard? Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't.
- BeetleB 6mo agoMany editing tools support double or triple hyphen that convert automatically to em dashes. On Android it's trivial to write an em dash (easier than say the percent symbol). I even have a plug-in that converts some hyphens to em dashes on my blog. Rendering judgment on someone who published something on their own site without knowing their stack reflects more on you than him.
- alvah 6mo agoNot the point, and no it doesn't. 99% of anything published since ChatGPT launched, that contains em-dashes, is suspected AI slop. Very few writers will make the extra effort to manually insert an em-dash - in fact hardly any writers even know how to or where it should be used. I am merely stating how people now view em-dashes, not how I wish things were.
- BeetleB 6mo agoThere was another submission just a few days ago that analyzed em dashes in HN comments pre and post LLMs. The amount of em dashes has not even doubled (i.e. a comment with an em-dash is still more likely to have been written by a human than an LLM). Sorry, you're just plain wrong.
- ssl-3 6mo agoThis whole conversation has lead me to finally configure a Compose key for my Linux desktop. I used to most-often write the em-dash as two juxtaposed dashes, which was kind of half-assed. But now, I've repurposed the otherwise-disused right-hand Windows key to be Compose. So I thus get go full-assed with them — at least at home. Thanks!
- ssl-3 6mo agoPeople have been writing comparative statements with punctuation for as long as we've had things to compare and written language to punctuate. Your bot detector is broken.
- Novosell 6mo agoThat's not what you wrote in the post though, and an actual human adult would never call that a "trick".