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by megiddo 98 days ago
I don't understand this em-dash crap. MS Word automatically converts dashes used for appositives into em-dashes. The world is awash with them.
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bombcar 98 days ago
People usually didn't know how to type them in comment boxes like this - either going with a simple hyphen or doing multiple dashes LaTeX-style: ---

Few people were doing replies in Word and then copying them in.

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burnt-resistor 98 days ago
It's magical / conspiracy theory thinking to believe em-dashes are somehow a perfect signal of LLM presence. There are no such watermarks. It's a mental shortcut by stupid people.
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