Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by throwaway_aiai on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:24PM
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Why did you feel the need to use an LLM to compose this comment?
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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by lovlar on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:28PM
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English is not my native language, and I wanted to clean up the grammar.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by frikk on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:45PM
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That's a great reason. I didn't pick up on usage of AI, it reads naturally.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by umanwizard on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:16PM
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I disagree completely. It is very obviously LLM-written, and I would much rather read grammatically poor English than LLM-written text, which has a dystopian vibe and just makes me depressed.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by UncleMeat on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:01PM
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I would personally vastly rather read your thoughts in less-than-stellar grammar than AI output.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by rootusrootus on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:38PM
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We honest users of the emdash are sad at LLMs making it unwelcome.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by wjfuu32984 on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:44PM
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Most honest users of the em-dash use it in pairs.
I have never — not once — seen an LLM use it in pairs.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by tzot on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:55PM
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I always have been using em-dashes with specific spacing:
1. replacing parentheses —given that the em-dash in pairs for me mark more-relevant-to-the-main content than a parenthesized expression would— so I use the same spacing as `()`
2. replacing colon or just finishing the sentence with a subsentence— so the spacing goes like for a colon.
Probably unfounded grammatically and against any style guides, but this spacing makes sense to me.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by estebank on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:01PM
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I am pretty sure an em-dash in case 2 should not have spaces in either side.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by lostlogin on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:50PM
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Isn’t that an endash?
- versus —?
Something weird is going on, on iOS I can type either but they look the same in my comment.
Edit: Only before pressing reply. Once posted they look different.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by wjfuu32984 on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:52PM
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You're right, I had a similar issue with the form.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by majormajor on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:50PM
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Yeah, LLMs seem to use it closer to a semicolon than a set of parentheses, which seems a bit more "fancy"/"inauthentic" IMO.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b...
by rootusrootus on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:24PM
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That's a good point! I nearly always use it in pairs.