Given that particular misspelling of Einstein and the mention of Baez, it was nearly impossible that BrandNameThinker hadn’t heard of the crackpot index… But what’s obvious for me (and you) needn’t be obvious for someone else. (Or maybe the downvoters did get the joke but just didn’t find it funny.)
I wish I could upvote this post back into the positive.
(It seems pretty obvious to me that is a direct satire of the previous post by a similar username. What, no love for sarcasm?)
Poe’s Law, anyone?
I thought it was obvious.
Maybe I’m just spoiled by the consistently good comments on LessWrong, and don’t realize that there actually are comments that bad and cliched.
Given that particular misspelling of Einstein and the mention of Baez, it was nearly impossible that BrandNameThinker hadn’t heard of the crackpot index… But what’s obvious for me (and you) needn’t be obvious for someone else. (Or maybe the downvoters did get the joke but just didn’t find it funny.)
I had to look it up, but I definitely agree. Especially considering how quickly the karma changes reversed after I edited in that footnote.