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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 June 2012 06:47:14PM *  2 points [-]

A template that seems more reasonable goes like this: Main title: <descriptive phrase, something about rationality or decision making or even LessWrong> ("Essays on Human Rationality", say); Subtitle: <collection of blog posts, 2006-2009>.

Alternatively, publish the sequences as separate volumes of the same "Yudkowsky's blog posts collection", and title each volume with the name of the respective sequence.

Comment author: shminux 29 June 2012 09:47:36PM *  1 point [-]

Main title: <descriptive phrase, something about rationality or decision making or even LessWrong> ("Essays on Human Rationality", say); Subtitle: <collection of blog posts, 2006-2009>.

That sounds pretty decent. Except possibly for the tautological oxymoron "human rationality" (tautological because it cannot be applied to animals, and AI is presumed to be rational (or at least logical) by definition, and an oxymoron because I'm yet to see a perfectly rational human being). Maybe "applied rationality" or even "Science and art of rationality".

Comment author: wedrifid 29 June 2012 10:36:07PM 0 points [-]

Maybe "applied rationality" or even "Science and art of rationality".

I'd prefer the former. The posts in question contradict science (in some details). There is even a post or two directly contrasting the two types of reasoning.