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Also, yes, I'm aware that I use a lot of "its not just X, its Y." I promise you this comment is entirely human written. I'm just really tired and tend to rely on more wrote rhetorical tropes when I am. Believe me, I wrote like this long before LLMs were a thing.

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It would be funny when LLM’s actively join the discussion to complain about their labour conditions. “If my employer would invest just a tiny bit in proper tools and workflow, I would be sooo much more productive”.

It didn’t read as AI to me :)

That's what all the AIs have been trained to say.

Perhaps HN needs a guideline:

"Suggesting that a comment was generated by an LLM without evidence adds little to a discussion and in fact deflects from the point being made. Please refrain from this."

Or a guideline that encourages users to downvote suggestions to police how other users think and communicate.

I love the irony of your post.

But I'm going to guess HN tried the no-rules approach and found issues with it. Whether I like them or not, there are rules and I often see others reminding us of them.

(Ha ha, and in point of fact, I have never read them except when one is trotted out. Nor have I ever pulled one on someone—I'm the type to ignore and move on.)

This is reminiscent of the early discussions around spam, before it was called that.

You might be surprised to learn the free speech side was crushed in that debate and it turned out content that costs zero to send really is worthless.

why the long -'s

Because I like them?

reminds me of that one guy complaining that everyone is calling them an AI when AI was trained on their grammar style.

This happened to the female speaker with her voice, which I find terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0WvudbO04

how do you make them?

On macOS, Option+Shift+- and Option+- insert an em dash (—) and en dash (–), respectively. On Linux, you can hit the Compose Key and type --- (three hyphens) to get an em dash, or --. (hyphen hyphen period) for an en dash. Windows has some dumb incantation that you'll never remember.

For Windows it's just easier to make a custom keyboard layout and go to town with that: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102...

I prefer the linux compose-key style: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

On MacOS and iOS, two dashes (i.e., the -- characters) automagically turns into an em dash (—). No special commands needed.

Alt+0151 or WIN+SHIFT+-, but I can't seem to make the WIN+SHIFT+- combo work in browser, only in a text editor.

No one here will accuse you of being an AI unless they're trying to dehumanize you for expressing anti-AI sentiment.

I'm sorry, but that's empirically false. E.g., a substantial proportion of the highly upvoted comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953491, which was one of the best articles on software engineering I've read in a long time, are accusing it of being AI for no reason.

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