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hekkletoday at 12:03 AM4 repliesview on HN

1000 words, and 8 em-dashes, me thinks they are no longer writing the blog nobody reads.


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danadamtoday at 12:28 AM

I clicked on some random post from 2020, 19 em-dashes.

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namanyaygtoday at 12:07 AM

It's a terrible side effect of AI that regular people using em dashes in honest writing are labelled as AI.

I have a deep love for em and en dashes--you can see heavy usage in my writing that's 10 years older than chatgpt.

My love for the dashes hasn't gone, but now I use a double dash instead so I am not immediately labelled as an AI.

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jph00today at 2:09 AM

The article didn't read at all like AI-generated text.

pinkmuffineretoday at 12:26 AM

I wrote with em-dashes before it was cool, and I’m certainly not going to stop due to our robotic overlords (who I welcome wholeheartedly).