Having just seen this now, I like “From Artificial Intelligence to Zombies: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Value, and Winning” because it conveys just how frickin’ broad The Sequences are. “The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind” is good if you’d rather be catchy and give a sense of one key take-away rather than try to give a sense of the full scope of the sequences.
“The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind” is the absolute worst from that list. It tells someone absolutely nothing—hard part of what? Changing your mind because of what? It’s not even clear what the topic of the book would be. Could be a political memior, for all I know.
I like a variant on Dahlen’s suggestion: Methods of Rationality: A Less Wrong Guide to Beliefs, Biases and Bayesianism.
Update. My favorites from this page are:
The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind
From Artificial Intelligence to Zombies: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Value, and Winning
Modern Rationality: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Value, and Winning
The Martial Art of Rationality
The Methods of Rationality
The Art and Science of Rationality
Eliezer’s two favorites of those six were “The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind” and “The Art and Science of Rationality.”
Having just seen this now, I like “From Artificial Intelligence to Zombies: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Value, and Winning” because it conveys just how frickin’ broad The Sequences are. “The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind” is good if you’d rather be catchy and give a sense of one key take-away rather than try to give a sense of the full scope of the sequences.
Think To Win: The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind
(It’s even catchier, and actively phrased, and gives a motivation for why we should bother with the hard part.)
“The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind” is the absolute worst from that list. It tells someone absolutely nothing—hard part of what? Changing your mind because of what? It’s not even clear what the topic of the book would be. Could be a political memior, for all I know.
I like a variant on Dahlen’s suggestion: Methods of Rationality: A Less Wrong Guide to Beliefs, Biases and Bayesianism.
″… to Beliefs, Biases, and Bayes” is shorter and snappier.
Reverend Bayes isn’t someone to be idolized, because we’re not looking for idols. The emphasis should be on Bayesianism, I think.