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There really wasn’t that many and this did not have the voice of written-by-an-LLM to me

And they’re not em-dashes -- they’re double hyphens.

This is unneedfully obtuse. Double hyphens are a stand-in for em dashes in most contexts.

I think the context here is that em dashes are usually generated verbatim from LLMs? I haven't seen them generate a lot of double hyphens; I suppose the post could be laundering them to double dashes, but if you're gonna try to hide LLM prose just drop them entirely? [please correct me if I'm wrong and double dashes are also an LLM tell - genuinely don't know]

My comment was trying to point on the inanity of calling out "so many em-dashes" on a post where it doesn't seem that obvious it was LLM generated. I added some of my own inanity with my remark about them being double-dashes, even though some people undoubtedly find-and-replace the em-dashes in their LLM-generated content something else to try and make it appear more authentic.

But perhaps the best approach would have been to down-vote and move on.

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