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I propose that humans use Unicode U+2E3B three em dash ⸻ it is an impressively long character.
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> U+2E3B three em dash

I had to look up why this exists, and apparently it was added in Unicode 6.1 (2012) because some style guide required it, and using consecutive U+2014 em dashes isn't sufficient because that might not render as one continuous line.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10037r-longdashes.pdf


Lets just use random number of dashes.

let’s market it as “human dash”

And if it ever catches on with LLMs ⸻⸻ we just make it longer


Just write —(human)— to denote that a human wrote the dash. Just be sure to instruct your LLM to write —(LLM)— so readers know the difference.



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