Mm, on second reading I think you’re right. “Vastly higher quality than anything we would be likely to get from the best contrarians we can find” comes across to me as having too many superlatives to be meant seriously. But “not-sarcastic” fits my model of lukeprog better.
(I was also influenced by it being at −1 when I replied. There’s probably a lesson in contrarianism to be taken from that...)
“Vastly higher quality than anything we would be likely to get from the best contrarians we can find” comes across to me as having too many superlatives to be meant seriously.
Keep in mind that we’re talking about Carl Shulman. If you know the guy it’s pretty obvious that Lukeprog was dead serious.
Mm, on second reading I think you’re right. “Vastly higher quality than anything we would be likely to get from the best contrarians we can find” comes across to me as having too many superlatives to be meant seriously. But “not-sarcastic” fits my model of lukeprog better.
(I was also influenced by it being at −1 when I replied. There’s probably a lesson in contrarianism to be taken from that...)
Keep in mind that we’re talking about Carl Shulman. If you know the guy it’s pretty obvious that Lukeprog was dead serious.