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Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive by erwald on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:03PM (#49770109)
Haha, I do actually use double dash, as I write in org-mode. I then convert that org-mode text to Markdown and copy and paste the Markdown into the Substack editor, which preserves the double dash. In case it needs to be said, the article is 100% human-written.
Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive by vikrantrathore on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:00PM (#49771214)
In some of your other writing can see use of emdash probably thats also intentional, emacs might have very special key combo for it to use unicode emdash instead of ASCII “-“. I commented about double dash (“--“) because because thats what LLM does when asked not to use emdash for writing.

“Another promising approach is to conduct on-site inspections regularly—say, every six months— to make sure chips are not just installed to fool inspectors and then removed and smuggled, as has happened before. However, conducting on-site inspections at this scale would likely require additional budget for export enforcement, or for US authorities to implement a third-party export auditor program.”

Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive by erwald on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:25AM (#49773718)
Yes, for that newsletter, where I write in my day job as a policy researcher, we use em dashes. For my personal writing (example: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/erich_grunewald), I use double dashes.