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I have to imagine that one quality post worth reading would be linked in multiple places, thus would beat tens of thousands of slop articles for SEO purposes?

You'd think, but very low quality AI-generated content regularly makes it to the HN front page, so it's just a numbers game.

> I have to imagine that one quality post worth reading ...

As the Berliners say:

"Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt"

or:

"Hope is the last thing to die" (or "hope dies last" if one prefers a literal translation)