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The sheer irony of your unwarranted pedantic critique of the usage of “next” is that all HN threaded comments, including yours, have a “next” link in their headers which clearly does NOT refer to unwritten future comments.

Not sure why I bothered responding to a troll.

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I'm reasonably sure this is not what happened, judging by my own recollection of when I have been tempted to write similar things, and my discussions with people who have written similar things. However, your story is both simple and coherent.

It's much easier to point out others' alleged irrational thinking, but the main purpose of books like this is to help you better understand your own thinking.

> It's much easier to point out others' alleged irrational thinking, but the main purpose of books like this is to help you better understand your own thinking.

That sounds right. I only can make probabilistic guesses as to what is happening in someone else's brain. By posing a question to someone else, there is some chance that person may ask it of themselves. If not today, then perhaps in future.

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