A template that seems more reasonable goes like this: Main title: (“Essays on Human Rationality”, say); Subtitle: .
Alternatively, publish the sequences as separate volumes of the same “Yudkowsky’s blog posts collection”, and title each volume with the name of the respective sequence.
I would personally avoid the word “blog”, since it immediately makes me down-rank the book from “ooh, rationality!” to “oh, some blogger feels he’s so important he’s going to publish an eBook, eeew!”
(Title)The Sequences
(Subtitle)Essays on Human Rationality
seems good to me, mostly because I can’t think of a better title, but it definitely needs a subtitle to tell me what it is. (I actually like “The Sequences” as a title—it has a bit of an air of mystery, yet also a nice formal, logical sound—it feels like it will teach me something secret, in a coherent manner :))
Main title: (“Essays on Human Rationality”, say); Subtitle: .
That sounds pretty decent. Except possibly for the tautological oxymoron “human rationality” (tautological because it cannot be applied to animals, and AI is presumed to be rational (or at least logical) by definition, and an oxymoron because I’m yet to see a perfectly rational human being). Maybe “applied rationality” or even “Science and art of rationality”.
Maybe “applied rationality” or even “Science and art of rationality”.
I’d prefer the former. The posts in question contradict science (in some details). There is even a post or two directly contrasting the two types of reasoning.
I’m inclined to to agree. What do you suggest as alternative? Think of a good one and persuade Luke and Eliezer!
A template that seems more reasonable goes like this: Main title: (“Essays on Human Rationality”, say); Subtitle: .
Alternatively, publish the sequences as separate volumes of the same “Yudkowsky’s blog posts collection”, and title each volume with the name of the respective sequence.
I would personally avoid the word “blog”, since it immediately makes me down-rank the book from “ooh, rationality!” to “oh, some blogger feels he’s so important he’s going to publish an eBook, eeew!”
(Title)The Sequences (Subtitle)Essays on Human Rationality
seems good to me, mostly because I can’t think of a better title, but it definitely needs a subtitle to tell me what it is. (I actually like “The Sequences” as a title—it has a bit of an air of mystery, yet also a nice formal, logical sound—it feels like it will teach me something secret, in a coherent manner :))
That sounds pretty decent. Except possibly for the tautological oxymoron “human rationality” (tautological because it cannot be applied to animals, and AI is presumed to be rational (or at least logical) by definition, and an oxymoron because I’m yet to see a perfectly rational human being). Maybe “applied rationality” or even “Science and art of rationality”.
I’d prefer the former. The posts in question contradict science (in some details). There is even a post or two directly contrasting the two types of reasoning.