[chizhik-pyzhik]

Unfortunately and ironically this has all the marks of AI writing.

> The problem isn’t the intention—it’s the architecture. You can’t optimize one part of a child and expect the rest to unfold naturally. Learning isn’t modular. Once efficiency takes hold, it doesn’t stay in its lane. It reshapes what matters.

use of "not this — that", em dash, staccato sentences to make a point, unnecessary metaphor, etc

I stopped reading at this point.

[DHPersonal]

LLMs use em dashes because they were trained on content made by actual writers. Actual writers still exist and they still use em dashes.

[kccqzy]

Either actual writers who care about typography, or actual writers who have had their writings edited by a real editor. Or even anyone just curious enough about writing that they picked up a manual of style.

[parpfish]

i'm a frequent em-dash user. it's great for little appositive clauses because it can make the sentence feel less cluttered than commas.

but i have no idea how to type an em-dash. you just put in a double-dash/hyphen (i.e. "--") and any modern word processors will know to convert it to an em-dash for you.

I suspect that lots of writers who use this trick are getting unfairly slammed with "omg, youre an AI! no human knows how to type that character!"

[kirubakaran]

You're conveniently replying to the weakest point of the parent comment. They listed a several more reasons, and when taken together, the article reeks of LLM generated content.

[snapcaster]

You don't have a lot of experience with LLMs if this isn't immediately identifiable as ChatGPT generated

[sctb]

Of course, they certainly do. But this article is really something else! I don't care if it's written by AI or not, but it has a rhetorical style that relies much more on rhythm than on connecting the conceptual dots. Like a TED talk or a revivalist preacher.

[jihadjihad]

Cmd-F for em dash `—`:

> 72 results

It doesn't prove anything but it's a highly suggestive signature. I would hazard a guess that it would be rare for most writers to use an em dash every other sentence.

[PeeMcGee]

It happens as soon as the fourth sentence (maybe even the third):

> There was a silence at the table—not confusion, but recognition.

Then keeps happening again and again and again to the point where it would be obnoxious even if a human wrote it.

It's unbelievable to me that there's a kind of person who would publish an article about learning that is so obviously AI generated, and from a professor nonetheless. Maybe this is some sort of experiment or an ironic joke that went over my head.

[djeastm]

I also felt my AI spidey-sense tingle and just threw the article into an LLM to summarize for me.

Oh, what a world we live in.

[somebodythere]

LLM argumentative essays tend to have this "gish-gallop" energy; say a bunch of tenuously related and vaguely supported things, leave the reader wondering if it was the author who failed to connect the dots, or them

[zahlman]

Yes, so do human ones (just not the ones that filter through to you). The output is like this because the training data is like this.

[esseph]

You just described my personal writing style :(

[intended]

Yeah, this reads as AI Generated. The opening para, and several subsequent paras, have this specific flow that I associate with an LLM asked to write an essay.