I want to agree, but “best people who ever lived” is a ridiculously high bar! I’d imagine that both of them would be hesitant to claim anything quite that high.
Yeah, sorry: it was obvious to me that this was the intended meaning, after I realized it could be interpreted this way. I noted it because I found the syntactic ambiguity mildly interesting/amusing.
For example, Norman Borlaug is often called “the father of the Green Revolution”, and is credited with saving a billion people worldwide from starving to death. Stanislav Petrov and Vasily Arkhipov prevented a probable nuclear war from happening.
I want to agree, but “best people who ever lived” is a ridiculously high bar! I’d imagine that both of them would be hesitant to claim anything quite that high.
“Plausibly best people who have ever lived” is a much lower bar than “best people who have ever lived”.
If you are like me, this comment will leave you perplexed. After a while, I realized that it should not be read as
but as
fwiw i instinctively read it as the 2nd, which i think is caleb’s intended reading
I was going for the second, adding some quotes to make it clearer.
Yeah, sorry: it was obvious to me that this was the intended meaning, after I realized it could be interpreted this way. I noted it because I found the syntactic ambiguity mildly interesting/amusing.
For example, Norman Borlaug is often called “the father of the Green Revolution”, and is credited with saving a billion people worldwide from starving to death. Stanislav Petrov and Vasily Arkhipov prevented a probable nuclear war from happening.