Stabilizer comments on Shoulds can be changed to Cans - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stabilizer 17 March 2014 10:59:30AM 1 point [-]

This is fantastic!

I think I should've (it would've been better if I had) thought more carefully about the senses in which "should" is employed. I should also have identified more circumstances under which some substitutions might help and also where they won't. My single identification of one narrow circumstance with one particular potentially useful substitution was clearly underwhelming.