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The fixed computer is also a huge factor to facilitate supervised computer use (and make it a shared experience!) with kids at home.

As much as I agree with the point of the article, I keep getting tripped up that every second sentence is "It didn't X, it Y'ed".

I think it's repeated to form a stylistic device in the second paragraph, but then the shape is interspersed so much in the rest of the text that it reads like a clumsy first write.

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Yes, this is definitely AI-generated. It's always weird that people don't even attempt to sanitize the output to look a little more human. The last pic was very nostalgic, however. It's like we have shared experiences very similar to the corner computer in the living room, complete with the stack of CDs (which will never get completely used).

I can't say whether this was machine-generated or not, but the reason LLMs use these patterns is because they're often used by humans, which is what they're trained to mimic. LLM spam has now made it annoying, but there are many people who still write like this. Asking them to change their writing patterns because LLMs have ruined it for readers is not just unfair—it's offensive. (See what I did there? Double whammy!)

Sigh. That's why I stopped using — (em dash)...

> I can't say whether this was machine-generated or not, but the reason LLMs use these patterns is because they're often used by humans, which is what they're trained to mimic.

It's definitely written by an AI. I understand that people use these same rhetoric devices but the word "mimic" is exactly right. They're not writing like humans, they're mimicking human writing in a way that feels extremely uncanny.

(Hey look, I did the thing too!)

Thank you for saying this. I use those writing devices a lot, always have since I was young. I've always said I don't write like an LLM, the LLMs are copying me. Its also a common hallmark of neurodivergent writing, and it's frustrating to frequently get dismissed for being an LLM just because of writing patterns?

I'm now having to deliberately re-word my emails and comments, spending additional time, to avoid being accused of being an LLM.

When I was a kid it would have been pretty unusual to let a kid have a TV in their room. Some parents did it, but it was never seen as appropriate. This was the 1980s to 1990s. Now we make sure everyone has much, much more than a TV on them at all time. It's a huge cultural shift in itself and has not been a healthy one.

It wasn't inappropriate, it's just that you typically didn't have multiple cable boxes. There wasn't really a reason to have a TV in a kids room if you're only getting OTA broadcasting, there wasn't much for kids other than like Saturday morning cartoons. I knew plenty of kids in the 90s with a video game console and TV in their room though. It was for games, not TV watching.

My parents certainly were of the opinion that it is inappropriate to let kids watch TV whenever they want to.

having TV in children room ≠ watching TV whenever kids want to

just because we had older TV in our children room shared with sibling in the early 90s it doesn't mean we were allowed to watch it unlimited

and it was not certainly unusual, in 90s kids could have already cheap ZX spectrum in their room which required TV, I don't really remember watching TV, but I remember playing Sim City on it

by the end of the 90s as teenager I've had my own TV with VCR so I could watch everything from record and skip ads this way, basically using ad blocker since 90s

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