[chrisshroba]

This article contains 19 em-dashes, as well as the following direct quotes:

Not X, but dramatic Y:

- "But the missing few percent are not marginal; they are precisely the hardest items"

- "is not an engineering detail. It may be the entire problem.

- "the galaxy may be quiet not because nobody tried, but because replication is harder than arithmetic suggests."

as well as at least two other longer "not X, it's Y" type phrases.

Also, melodramatic phrasing like "Replication must outrun degradation — and degradation never sleeps."

Yes, someone could have written these manually, but these particular patterns are the things I notice most commonly in LLM outputs that I don't see in known-human writing.

[therobots927]

Thanks. You saved me some time.