jmmcd comments on Help us name the Sequences ebook - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 15 April 2013 09:50:20PM *  18 points [-]

As everyone else says, take "Sequences" out of the title. ("The Sequences: 2006-2009" is a strong contender for Worst Book Title Ever unless you want no one other than existing LWers to read it, and anyone who has advised you otherwise should never again be asked for book-naming advice.)

"Rationality" is probably too cumbersome a word (possible exception: what if that were the whole title?); "thinking" or "thought" or "reason" might be OK.

"How to Win"? (I worry that that's dishonest; it's insufficiently well established so far that rationalists -- in the sense of people who think in the ways Eliezer advises -- do actually win in the real world.)

"Thinking: right and wrong"? (Riffing off Kahneman's title, of course. Might be mistaken for a political book -- indeed, it wouldn't be a bad title for a smug conservative/libertarian treatise.)

[EDITED to fix a typo.]

Comment author: jmmcd 16 April 2013 11:23:59AM 0 points [-]

I really like Thinking: Right and Wrong, but if there is a danger that Right be misconstrued as conservative, then how about a variant? This is my only suggestion and it doesn't sound as good but there must be better:

Thinking: Good and Bad

Comment author: gjm 16 April 2013 02:54:49PM 15 points [-]

"Thinking: Wrong and Less Wrong".

... but it's a bit of an in-joke. Or an in-not-exactly-joke.