This might be hindsight bias, but I’m pretty sure that if I were approaching this problem from the outside, and the author said “by the way, don’t use the order in which it’s presented here”, this would immediately draw my attention to the general idea of ordering procedures.
This might be hindsight bias, but I’m pretty sure that if I were approaching this problem from the outside, and the author said “by the way, don’t use the order in which it’s presented here”, this would immediately draw my attention to the general idea of ordering procedures.
The idea of finding an ordering procedure is also raised by saying that we’re seeking a Schelling point.