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Clearly the earlier material is more important than the later. Include stuff like "The Bottom Line," "Update Yourself Incrementally," "Think Like Reality," "Conservation of Expected Evidence," "Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points," the Fake Utility Functions sequence, &c. Also consider including the material between "But There's Still a Chance, Right?" through "0 and 1 are Not Probabilities," and "Mind Projection Fallacy" through "If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help." Ooh, and reprint the "Twelve Virtues"!
Don't mention quantum mechanics or the Singularity. Don't mention morality except for something along the lines of "Feeling Rational."
To this I would add The Simple Truth, and perhaps a few expositions of failed intuition, a la Hindsight Devalues Science. Others have already mentioned Something to Protect and Joy in the Merely Real - as the "motivation" behind rationality. Finally, Newcomb's Problem and the Regret of Rationality, or anything that clearly separates The Way from Hollywood stereotypes.
These are good suggestions, though if you are going to print "0 and 1 are Not Probabilities" (which makes a coherent argument even though I disagree with it), I would suggest also printing the post where you caution people against putting the label "probability estimate" on brown numbers.