I think that I am probably inside the set you’d consider “target audience”, though not a central member. To me, when you say “strong no” it sounds somewhat like “if somebody misunderstands me, it’s their fault,” which I’d think is a bad reaction.
I realize that what I’m asking for could be considered SJW virtue-signaling, and I understand that one possible reaction to such a request is “ew, no, that’s not my tribe.” However, I think there’s reasons aside from signaling or counter-signaling to consider my request.
To me, one goal of a summary section like the one in question is to allow the reader to grasp the basic flavor of the argument in question without too much mental work. That might, in some cases, mean it’s worth explicitly saying things that were implicit in the unabridged original, because the quicker read might leave such implicit ideas less obvious. In particular, to me, it’s important that these “physical limitations” don’t actually remove the badness of the equilibrium, they just moderate it slightly. That flows obviously to me when reading Scott’s full original; with your summary, it’s still obvious, but in a way that breaks the flow and requires me to stop and think “there’s something left unsaid here”. In a summary section, such a break in the flow seems better avoided.
Are you saying that you, personally, were confused about whether Zvi (or Scott) does, or does not, support slavery? Is that actually something that you were unsure whether you had understood properly?
I’m reading Jameson as just saying that, from an editing standpoint, the wording was sufficiently confusing and had to stop for a few seconds to figure out that this wasn’t what Zvi was saying. Like, he didn’t believe Zvi believed it, but it nonetheless read like that for a minute.
I did a little more work to make it flow better in OP, and I’m going to let it drop there unless a bunch of other people confirm they had this same issue and it actually mattered (and with the new version).
I think that I am probably inside the set you’d consider “target audience”, though not a central member. To me, when you say “strong no” it sounds somewhat like “if somebody misunderstands me, it’s their fault,” which I’d think is a bad reaction.
I realize that what I’m asking for could be considered SJW virtue-signaling, and I understand that one possible reaction to such a request is “ew, no, that’s not my tribe.” However, I think there’s reasons aside from signaling or counter-signaling to consider my request.
To me, one goal of a summary section like the one in question is to allow the reader to grasp the basic flavor of the argument in question without too much mental work. That might, in some cases, mean it’s worth explicitly saying things that were implicit in the unabridged original, because the quicker read might leave such implicit ideas less obvious. In particular, to me, it’s important that these “physical limitations” don’t actually remove the badness of the equilibrium, they just moderate it slightly. That flows obviously to me when reading Scott’s full original; with your summary, it’s still obvious, but in a way that breaks the flow and requires me to stop and think “there’s something left unsaid here”. In a summary section, such a break in the flow seems better avoided.
Are you saying that you, personally, were confused about whether Zvi (or Scott) does, or does not, support slavery? Is that actually something that you were unsure whether you had understood properly?
I’m reading Jameson as just saying that, from an editing standpoint, the wording was sufficiently confusing and had to stop for a few seconds to figure out that this wasn’t what Zvi was saying. Like, he didn’t believe Zvi believed it, but it nonetheless read like that for a minute.
(Either way, I don’t care about it very much.)
Exactly, thank you.
I did a little more work to make it flow better in OP, and I’m going to let it drop there unless a bunch of other people confirm they had this same issue and it actually mattered (and with the new version).