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LLM Witch Hunts are getting F'in Irritating
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- ryanschaefer 5mo ago> Is this your post? We don't fall asleep as easily for Write.as subscribers.
- frb 5mo agoWorked for me after reload
- frb 5mo agoI catch myself policing my own text and removing “LLM tells” to avoid exactly this. It is annoying as some “tells” is how I actually write and was taught what good writing is in schools and workshops. It’s also irritating that “this is LLM” is used as some kind of killer argument like everything an LLM produces is generally bad. It’s not that black and white. [ Disclaimer: I do use agents/LLMs a lot, but also still like to do, think and write for myself. ]
- johnea 5mo agoPersonally, I hate these dashes, and it has nothing to do with LLMs. If you insist on using this hyphen look-alike punctuation, at least use it correctly: with spaces around it. Otherwise, it's a hyphen. Whatever a "purpose— one" is? Written english is a space delimited language. The hyphen makes multiple words into one pseudo-word. Wherever you're using a dash, you should just use a comma, or maybe a semicolon. Or, maybe you're minimememaxxing? More nonsense in the new world...
- ghusto 5mo agoEmdash separates, hyphen concatonates, endash is the one that seems superfluous. Emdash is actually what people mean a lot of the time when they use parenthesis.
- johnea 5mo agoIf it's supposed to separate, then it should be surrounded with spaces...
- ghusto 5mo agoEither is acceptable: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-... Also, a comma is a pause — and what a wonderful thing — whilst an emdash is a tangent.
- ghusto 5mo agoWell written and proper usage of punctuation? No human could possibly write like that! No, all human beings write like 5 year olds!