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The use of "taboo" here is intended to match the Less Wrong usage of taboo, so the title can possibly be read:
EDIT: The above is speculation, and probably wrong in retrospect.
As opposed to Philip Tetlock's notion of a taboo tradeoff? Which is, in gist, anything that people refuse to do cost-benefit analysis about. Consider the common revulsion to setting a dollar value on a human life — or asking someone in Western society to sell their child.
I don't think the title analyzes as "(You should) taboo (the word) 'tradeoff'."
Interesting. "Taboo X" is such a familiar pattern here, I had assumed that was what it meant.
In retrospect, if that's what the title meant, it would probably have been spelled: