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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago

BeetleB 6mo ago
Please don't change your writing style just because random humbugs on the Internet associate it with an LLM.
- ButlerianJihad 6mo ago
  It may be a compliment on cogent points combined with impeccable grammar and spelling
- lozenge 6mo ago
  What 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 ago
  This is the home of the writing luminaries that can’t imagine outputting em-dashes by hand.
  - alvah 6mo ago
    where is the em-dash key on your keyboard? Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't.
    - BeetleB 6mo ago
      Many 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 ago
        Not 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 ago
        There 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 ago
        This 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!
        alvah 6mo ago
        "Sorry, you're just plain wrong" that's a bit of a leap, when I'm stating my interpretation of what the general opinion is, not how the world should be. Have you interviewed everyone? (I don't just mean the small subset of everyone who posts on HN).

Thanks for the feedback!

BeetleB 6mo ago

Please don't change your writing style just because random humbugs on the Internet associate it with an LLM.

ButlerianJihad 6mo ago
It may be a compliment on cogent points combined with impeccable grammar and spelling
lozenge 6mo ago
What 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 ago
This is the home of the writing luminaries that can’t imagine outputting em-dashes by hand.
- alvah 6mo ago
  where is the em-dash key on your keyboard? Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't.
  - BeetleB 6mo ago
    Many 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 ago
      Not 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 ago
        There 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 ago
        This 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!
        alvah 6mo ago
        "Sorry, you're just plain wrong" that's a bit of a leap, when I'm stating my interpretation of what the general opinion is, not how the world should be. Have you interviewed everyone? (I don't just mean the small subset of everyone who posts on HN).