alt Hacker NewsAn em dash looks like this
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You're not using that, neither in the past from what I can tell, nor in this comment.
You're just using a hyphen/minus instead of a colon, that's not an llm-ism
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I like to use a lazy variant -- it's not a double dash, or a weirdly written plus, it's a an em-dash that says "I don't even have this key on my keyboard, are you actually using alt-codes or what am I missing?". Not with a shout or a whisper, but with the quiet courage of just being -- but not an incomplete representation of a whole, but rather the fullness of that very distillation of honest, simple pragmatism. Not less, just different.
The above isn't slop. It's shit though!
In fact, I'd say it's a dead giveaway for "human impersonating AI impersonating humans". Using the hyphen as an em dash screams
Actually, in an ancient and venerable markup language that's still in wide use in certain not-unimportant communities:
- = hyphen
-- = n-dash
--- = m-dash