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LessWrong currently blocks Claude (and presumably other LLM agents from accessing articles.) I would probably be in favor of seeing this policy reversed.
Comments are mostly indexed on Google via the post-page indexes, not the commentId permalinks. Indeed, the commentId permalinks confused a bunch of the crawlers because it resulted in lots of duplicate copies of the post text, and text from other comments showing up in the search results.
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Are separate comment pages even desirable? Couldn't the comment link be replaced with the anchor link which scrolls to the relevant comment (currently "see in context")?
It’s a hotly debated topic! I think they are good because they provide a scroll-insensitive link to a piece of contend. Other people find them annoying. Maybe eventually we will find a UI solution that makes everyone happy.
