I know that you're mocking your past-self for acting as though you weren't governed by statistics, but... gah, I'm having trouble qualifying exactly why it bothers me. I want to call it patronising but I'm not sure that's quite the right word.

I was attempting to keep in mind short inferential distances. I tried to make each thought as small a step from the next as possible. Perhaps I went too far in the other direction?

Also, thank you for the feedback.