Very insightful! I found the section on killing papers to be a helpful reminder. As a Ph.D. student, this can be particularly challenging as your environment expects somewhat steady progress (annual reviews, advisor meetings, etc.), and you're encouraged to finish papers rather than starting over.
Very interesting topic. I also wonder why other signs of AI writing, such as negative parallelism ("It's not just X, it's Y"), are preferred by the models.
Also, I wrote a small extension that automatically replaces ChatGPT responses with em dashes with alternative punctuation marks: https://github.com/nckclrk/rm-em-dashes
This might also be of interest: https://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/