[FloorEgg]

Ah, I struggle with sarcasm sometimes and I was a bit distracted while reading. I'll give it another chance.

[TSiege]

It is not sarcasm he is fleshing out this sentence earlier in the paragraph, "One of the pervasive new doctrines of Silicon Valley is that we’re in the early stages of a bifurcation event"

[jcgrillo]

Right, but in the context of this article about these wretched enfents terribles, and later when we get to the rationalist termite colony, it's clearly something to chuckle at. Like, the fact that people think this "bifurcation event" idea is real is legitimately funny.

[kerblang]

I suspect the author is struggling with their own sarcasm.