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Comment by sunnybeetroot | Hacker News Reader

It is a nice read but something tells me it’s AI generated due to the frequent em dashes so I wouldn’t place all bets on it being entirely human written.

Edit: I apologies, the author has pre-gpt posts that use em dashes so likely it’s part of their writing style.

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If you use a nice enough writing tool it will do en/em and any other dash for you semi automatically anyway. Even Word does it when AutoFormat is turned on. Although it normally chooses the En-dash (U+2013) instead of the Em-dash (U+2014), this also depends on your language.

I disagreed with a _lot_ of what they said. But I really hope the author doesn't suffer the indignity of reading this comment.

I've been accused of being an LLM before — I got over it pretty quickly.

Some people just like em dashes—myself included. You can find em dashes in articles written by the author before LLMs became a thing.

This strikes me as written by someone who would bother to put in em dashes themselves.

It would be a monument to hypocrisy if this piece with this specific content were AI-generated.

Color me naive but honestly I'm pretty sure it's not, though. We all tend to be worse at distinguishing AI from human text than we think, but the text sounds genuine to me and transpires an author with a quirky personality that seems difficult to imitate by an LLM. And that could include using em dashes.

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