The more I read The Blocksize War, the more convinced I am that Adam Back is a troll.

"Large blockers seemed to favour a more business-like approach; they did not regard Bitcoin as some theoretical science project, but a real world, live system, with real users." The Blocksize war. Ch 3.

https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-3-scaling-i-montreal/#_ftn1