I had a hard time parsing “you should_you maximize your preferences, but of course you should_me maximize my preferences.” Can someone break that down without jargon and/or explain how the “should_x” jargon works?
I think the difficulty is that in English “You” is used for “A hypothetical person”. In German they use the word “Man” which is completely distinct from “Du”. It might be easier to parse as “Man should_Raemon maximize Raemon’s preferences, but of course man should_Matt maximize Matt’s preferences.”
On the jargon itself, Should_X means “Should, as X would understand it”.
I think it’s better phrased by putting Man in all instances of Raemon.
Also: \ is the escape character on LW, so if you want to type an actual asterisk or underscore (or \ itself), instead of using it for formatting purposes, put a \ in front of it. This way they will not be interpreted as marking lists, italics, or bold.
I had a hard time parsing “you should_you maximize your preferences, but of course you should_me maximize my preferences.” Can someone break that down without jargon and/or explain how the “should_x” jargon works?
I think the difficulty is that in English “You” is used for “A hypothetical person”. In German they use the word “Man” which is completely distinct from “Du”. It might be easier to parse as “Man should_Raemon maximize Raemon’s preferences, but of course man should_Matt maximize Matt’s preferences.”
On the jargon itself, Should_X means “Should, as X would understand it”.
“Man” is the generalization of the personal subject. You can translate it with “one”.
I think it’s better phrased by putting Man in all instances of Raemon.
Also: \ is the escape character on LW, so if you want to type an actual asterisk or underscore (or \ itself), instead of using it for formatting purposes, put a \ in front of it. This way they will not be interpreted as marking lists, italics, or bold.
Hang on, is that Raemon’s preferences we’re talking about or.…