Looking for alteration suggestions for the official Sequences ebook

alexvermeer

As you may have heard, the Singularity Institute is in the process of creating an official ebook version of The Sequences (specifically, Eliezer's Major Sequences written between 2006 and 2009).

Now is an opportune time to make any alterations to the contents of the Sequences. We're looking for suggestions about:

Posts to add to the Sequences. E.g., "scope insensitivity" is not currently a part of any sequence, perhaps it should be? Preferably suggest a specific location, or at least a specific sequence where you think the addition would logically go.
Posts to remove from the Sequences. Are there redundant or unnecessary posts? To call the Sequences long is a bit of an understatement.
Alternatives to "The Sequences" as a title, such as "How to be Less Wrong: The Sequences, 2006--2009."

Put separate suggestions in separate comments so that specific changes can be discussed. All suggestions will be reviewed, with final changes made by Eliezer. Next thing you know, you'll be sipping a hot mocha in your favorite chair while reading about Death Spirals on your handy e-reader.

The Sequences that will be present in the ebook:

Map and Territory
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
A Human's Guide to Words
How to Actually Change Your Mind (includes all posts from all its subsequences)
Reductionism (includes all posts from Joy in the Merely Real and Zombies)
Quantum Physics
Metaethics
Fun Theory
The Craft and the Community

As you may have heard, the Singularity Institute is in the process of creating an official ebook version of The Sequences (specifically, Eliezer's Major Sequences written between 2006 and 2009).

Now is an opportune time to make any alterations to the contents of the Sequences. We're looking for suggestions about:

Posts to add to the Sequences. E.g., "scope insensitivity" is not currently a part of any sequence, perhaps it should be? Preferably suggest a specific location, or at least a specific sequence where you think the addition would logically go.
Posts to remove from the Sequences. Are there redundant or unnecessary posts? To call the Sequences long is a bit of an understatement.
Alternatives to "The Sequences" as a title, such as "How to be Less Wrong: The Sequences, 2006--2009."

The Sequences that will be present in the ebook:

Map and Territory
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
A Human's Guide to Words
How to Actually Change Your Mind (includes all posts from all its subsequences)
Reductionism (includes all posts from Joy in the Merely Real and Zombies)
Quantum Physics
Metaethics
Fun Theory
The Craft and the Community

Maybe we could test that. Does LessWrong keep non-anonymous access logs? If so, we may be able to (approximately?) reconstruct access patterns over the weeks/months/years by unique user. We could know:

What are the first reads of newcomers?
What are typical orders of reading?
Does reading stops, when, and where?

For instance, if we find that people that start by the quantum mechanic sequence tend to leave more often than the others, then it is probably a good idea to segregate it in a separate volume. It would at least signal that the author knows this is advanced or controversial.

From Google analytics:

Google has a term for pages that people come in on: "landing pages". Basically, it can tell whether someone got to the page from clicking an external link / advertisement or by using a search engine -- or whether they clicked a link from within the same site.

"Timeless Physics" is in the 50 most popular landing pages and so is "An intuitive explanation of quantum mechanics" (though it is not a sequence). I am not seeing any pattern to the topics that people prefer in these landing pages. I can tell you ... (read more)