“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
Plausibly, best people who have ever lived is a much lower bar than best people who have ever lived.
but as
‘Plausibly best people who have ever lived’ is a much lower bar than ‘best people who have ever lived’.
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.
“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.