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From Zombies to Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Clearly About Truth, Morality and Winning in This And Other Worlds.
Slight rework; From AI to Zombies: Thinking Clearly About Truth, Morality and Winning in This And Other Worlds.
Even slighter rework: From AI to Zombies: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Morality, and Winning in This and Other Worlds.
I have a strong preference for the serial comma.
You also win!
That was my first thought, and it rolls off the tongue better, but the direction is wrong.
Huh? A to Z is clearly the right direction.
Alphabetically, not didactically.
From Zombies to Artificial Intelligence: Questioning what you think you already know.
You win!
Thanks. I'm happy CFAR (?) decided to build on my suggestion. My hope is to meet the Berkeley gang some day in person.
I think a title (like this one) that explicitly includes some of the topics covered is a very good idea. It hints at the fact that there are many short essays, which sounds a lot more inviting than if it were one monolithic work.
Also, this kind of title conjures up more concrete images in the potential reader's mind and seems more likely to generate interest than a more generic title. You're only going to read "The Methods of Rationality" if you're already interested in that topic. "Zombies to AI" (or "AI to Zombies") just sounds fun!
The reverse alphabetical order is deliberate?
Well, the sequences sort of build up to AI... And the acronym AI is not self-evident to the general public... Anyway, "From AI to Zombies" sounds much better, so who cares.
“From [word starting with A] to [word starting with Z]” is so cliché-y; but I'm not entirely sure whether that's a bad thing in this case.
Something in this vein is probably best. It's attention grabbing.