I think you have misunderstood something the gears to ascenscion wrote. In this sentence:
It might be worth waiting even if you (15 year old dude who is excited about a new insight) like the idea of some of these drugs
the word “you”, I think, doesn’t mean “you, the reader, reading this paragraph right now”, it means “anyone”, and in particular is gesturing toward OP’s 15-year-old son who reads LW and is keen to try a bunch of drugs.
(This use of “you” in colloquial English is rather strange. I don’t know whether any other languages do the same thing.)
I think you have misunderstood something the gears to ascenscion wrote. In this sentence:
the word “you”, I think, doesn’t mean “you, the reader, reading this paragraph right now”, it means “anyone”, and in particular is gesturing toward OP’s 15-year-old son who reads LW and is keen to try a bunch of drugs.
(This use of “you” in colloquial English is rather strange. I don’t know whether any other languages do the same thing.)
close but nope I meant each “you” to refer to exactly one person, and a different one each time.