I don't care about Satoshi's vision to be quite honest. I am very, very tired to hear these arguments to authority.
I'm very tired of hearing "argument to authority" used as some reason why its OK to ignore the smartest person in the room.
The "guy" invented bitcoin. He knows more about it than you.
So yes anyone who doesn't have egomaniacal tendencies would not automatically dismiss Satoshi's opinion because it disagrees with their own.
To me, Satoshi's thoughts on block size limit never seemed to imply that we should consider increasing capacity by 8000 times when we haven't even maxed out the original limit (unknowns be damned).
Applying this patch will make you incompatible with other Bitcoin clients.
+1 theymos. Don't use this patch, it'll make you incompatible with the network, to your own detriment.
We can phase in a change later
if we get closer to needing it.
Let's keep block limit increases in line with realistic capacity needs, not some arbitrary application of Moore's Law.