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Syria's chemical attack may be on hold, but the crisis continues
Late Monday night, the White House released a statement warning of "potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children."
This marked the first time since the conflict began in 2011 that Syrian civil society, and the larger international community, received such a preemptive warning. The announcement was made around 4:00 AM local time in Syria, which is around the same time that the Syrian forces launched their chemical attacks in the past.
As soon as the announcement was made, my organization, the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), started calling our medical personnel and field hospitals to alert them and ensure that they were prepared for another unlawful chemical attack against the people of Syria and that they had the necessary antidote and protection gears.
"I only have the protocol book of what I, theoretically, should use," one of our medical directors in besieged East Ghouta told me. "If an attack takes place in Ghouta, I only have expired antidotes to use. And by the way, just like in 2013, we, the medical staff cannot protect ourselves from the nerve gas while we are helping the victims. We simply do not have protection garments."
The leaders of the international community are in fact stuck at the 2013 agreement, and still act as if it was a great success. Meanwhile, Syrian civilians face forced displacement, destruction of infrastructure, terrorism, violence, and reckless, conflicting military agendas.
"As you know," he continued, "they have been removing any meaningful medication from the very limited number of convoys that entered Ghouta over the last three years. When we asked for atropine, the antidote, the UN office in Damascus refused to even discuss it."
In August 2013, around 2:30 AM local time in Syria EST, Sarin gas was used on the residents of East Ghouta, killing more than 1,300 people, many of whom were children, while they slept in their beds. Following the attack, the Damascus-based UN investigation team was tasked with investigating if it was a chemical attack. However, the team was never given the mandate of attributing the attack.
A few months later, in October 2013, East Ghouta was subjected to a siege by the regime and its allies. Today, about 400,000 people, including 95,000 children, are currently trapped with no access to adequate medical care, medical supplies, food, and vitamins. People have resorted to using expired medication and eating a diet consisting of primarily vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, and lettuce. The siege has intensified over the years, and with the forced displacement of the surrounding cities and areas, a complete and suffocating siege has been reinforced.
The "kneel or starve to death" tactic of the Syrian regime has been used throughout Syria to force people to comply and surrender. Once an agricultural area, East Ghouta had many farms and was able to generate its own produce and other products.
Now, during the harvest season, the regime will allow a large amount of these vegetables to enter East Ghouta at a very low price, limiting the ability of farmers to sell their produce and increasing the loans that the farmers have to pay back. This has caused the local economy to collapse. Yet, the siege gets tougher and tougher.
Since 2013, a very limited number of convoys were allowed in. Medical supplies were removed from the convoys. Patients with cancer, diabetes, and renal failure were denied supplies, evacuation, and the necessary medical care. Besieged patients with renal failure are at risk of death two times higher than the ones who are not under siege, according to a study released by SAMS.
The UN leadership was clear about describing the crisis. Two weeks ago, Mr. Jan Egeland, commenting on the blocked aid and how this is the longest period of time without access by ground to any besieged area, said "It is unacceptable that we do have trucks ready, courageous humanitarian workers eager to go, even in a great danger," he said. The last convoy that was allowed in earlier this month was attacked before getting into the besieged area; no investigation took place to identify the perpetrators.
Instead of forcing de-escalation to protect civilians, the U.S. and Russia agreed to a "better" deal in 2013. Syria's large stockpile of chemical weapons was supposedly destroyed in order to provide for better international security. Yet for the Syrians, innocent civilians continue to be brutally killed and starved to death. The international community has stopped counting once the death toll in Syria's seven-year conflict has reached half a million.
In April 2017, my organization led the medical response to a series of multiple chemical attacks, including the attack on Khan Sheikhon that garnered more international attention than the previous chemical attacks. While the use of nerve gas again by the Syrian government shocked much of the world, it didn't surprise Syrian civil society, who for years had been trying to call the world's attention to this threat, but whose cries were repeatedly ignored.
Now, civil society has to face another grim fate: forced displacement, destruction of civilian infrastructure, terrorism, violence, and reckless, conflicting military agendas to dominate Syria's future and the future of its people.
The leaders of the international community are in fact stuck at the 2013 agreement, and still act as if it was a great success and a way to score points.
The White House statement Monday might have aborted another chemical attack on civilians, but it clearly stated that chemical weapons were still in Syria and being utilized.
Unfortunately, world leaders continue to address only the parts that fit their political agendas.
How can we expect to improve international security while blood continues to be shed without accountability? How can we expect to reduce displacement while civilian infrastructures are being constantly targeted and destroyed? How can we expect to address people's basic humanitarian needs while the economy of war continues to be fueled by paralyzing and manipulating humanitarian operations?
Monday's announcement might have deterred an attack, but the reality still remains that the current approach will not solve the problem. The crisis in Syria and in the region requires leadership - leadership that addresses the root cause of the problem, leadership that supports the needs of the civil society, and leadership that takes meaningful, principled actions to de-escalate the crisis and challenge the status quo.
"You can always ask, but they [international community] will only kick the can down the road," one of my colleagues in Ghouta told me yesterday. It's time for the world to listen and act.


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A standard tactic in politics is to dehumanize the opposition. Those who disagree are painted as extreme abstractions, and it becomes easy to forget that enemies remain persons. Contentious topics, with their increasingly strident debate, frequently devolve into the harshest depersonalizations.
Abortion is such a topic. The rhetoric is pure polarized abstraction. But as Vanderleun shows, abortion is intensely—and essentially—personal:
It seems to me that if the issue remains, or is contained, as an abstract notion (What would you do if...) then "choice" -- given the agnostic temper of the times -- remains paramount. In the abstract. we'd all like to be given a choice and not a mandate -- from the state, from God, from our society, or from ourselves. We'd all like to go through life doing what we want, when we want, with no consequences. You know - "No judgments, man," "Hey, no blame, Dude," "No problem. It's all good." Alas, abortion is not an abstract procedure or some harmless gedankenexperiment, although many of the more virulent Pro-Choice people would like it to be thought of in that way.
My own experience has been that when you are confronted with the abortion issue after having nurtured a child, abortion is no longer an abstraction -- i.e. "Resolved, all women should be able to control their bodies without interference" -- but becomes more concrete -- i.e. "Resolved, all women should be able to control their bodies without interference including ending a life within them at will."
It seems to me that (absent the usual banal disclaimers involving crime, rape, incest, danger to the mother, etc.) the abortion issue splits between those who base their position on the abstract notion of choice, and those with more concrete experience -- parents. This is not to say that those with children who remain pro-choice are caught in an abstraction, quite the opposite. I place them in the latter camp. It is to say that, no matter where they stand on the issue, the opinion of people with children has more standing, to me at least, than those without children. Parents have, to use an expression not without irony, "Real skin in the game."
You must read the whole thing.
No matter where you stand on the issue, it seems important to remember that abortion is never joyful. Those who choose life do not avoid suffering. Those who choose otherwise are not free from pain. By every definition, abortion involves at least one human. And in a most trying circumstance, that human deserves compassion.

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This weekend sees the European Splatoon 2 community wage a messy war in their latest localised splatfest. During a holiday where our American friends gorge themselves upon all sorts of goodies, Europe's squid kids will be food fightin' too.
As we reported earlier in the week, this weekend's (somewhat odd) topic concerns eating behaviours and the concept of "the best bit". When you approach food such as an ice cream sundae, or a fine patisserie product, do you eat "the best bit" first, or save it as the final mouthful of the meal? Look, I'm just passing on the info.
Queen of the World Pearl is all about wolfing down the goodies, while her more cutesy buddy Marina is more likely to leave the cherry/strawberry/truffle to one side, a little treat to polish off a lovely dessert. The splatfest begins tomorrow, November 24 at 14:00 BST until the same time on November 25. Good luck!
Splatoon 2 is available now on Nintendo Switch.
🦑 SPLATFEST INK-COMING! 🦑— Nintendo UK VS (@NintendoUKVS) November 16, 2018
Do you eat the yummiest part of your meal right away, or do you always save the best 'til last? Are you an impatient eater or a flavour savourer?
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Tokyo Tourist Map ( Click the map to enlarge it! )
Tokyo has a vast array of sights, but the first items on the agenda of most visitors are the temples of Asakusa, the gardens of the Imperial Palace (in Chiyoda) and the Meiji Shrine. Tokyo has many commercial centres for shopping, eating and simply wandering around for experiencing the modern Japanese urban phenomenon. Each of these areas have unique characteristics, such as dazzling Shinjuku, youthful Shibuya and upmarket Ginza. These areas are bustling throughout the day, but they really come into life in the evenings.
If you're looking for a viewing platform, the Tokyo Tower is the best known but a rather overpriced, not to say uninspiring, choice. The highest spot in Tokyo is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building (in effect, Tokyo's City Hall) in Shinjuku. Its twin towers have viewing platforms that are absolutely free, and offer a great view over Tokyo and beyond. However, the best option would probably be from the World Trade Center Building (10:00-20:00, or 21:00 in July and August, 620 Yen) at JR Hamamatsucho station which, although not as high, offers stunning views of Tokyo Tower and the waterfront due to its excellent location, especially at dusk. A recent addition to the viewing platforms around Tokyo is Tokyo City View in Roppongi Hills, Roppongi-admission is a steep 1500 Yen, but includes admission to the Mori Art Museum. Another good option, if you don't mind traffic noise and smell, is the Rainbow Bridge at Odaiba, whose pedestrian walkways are free. The night-time view across Tokyo Bay is impressive but the walkways close at 8:00PM. Also, on a clear day, the Bunkyo Civic Center (next to the Tokyo Dome) offers an iconic view of Shinjuku against Mt. Fuji (especially great at sunset), also free.
The city is dotted with museums, large and small, which center on every possible interest from pens to antique clocks to traditional and modern arts. Many of the largest museums are clustered around Ueno. At 500 Yen to 1,000 Yen or more, entrance fees can add up quickly.
Riding Sky Bus Tokyo, an open-top double-decker operated by Hinomaru Limousine (every hour between 10AM and 6PM), is a good option to take a quick tour around the city center. The 45 minutes bus ride on the "T-01 course" will take you around the Imperial Palace via Ginza and Marunouchi district, showing the highlight of Tokyo's shopping and business center. The fare is 1,500 Yen for adults of 12 years old and over, and 700 Yen for children between 4 and 11 years old. You can borrow a multi-language voice guide system free of charge upon purchasing a ticket, subject to stock availability. Four other bus courses are offered, including a night trip to Odaiba, but those trips are conducted in Japanese with no foreign language guidance.


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Nintendo LAN USB Adapter Close-Up February 21, 2018Posted by Maniac in Site Videos.
Since the release of the Wii, Nintendo has offered internet access by WiFi for their new game consoles. This was at the expense of offering a wired Ethernet port, something that Sony's and Microsoft's game consoles still include.
While less convenient, wired connections are faster than wireless ones, and for long time multiplayer gamers like myself nothing beats a local match. In fact, wired LAN connections are required for consoles playing in an accredited professional tournament for a game like Pokken Tournament.
Let's take a closer look at this thing shall we… in glorious 4K!
The adapter may look old and its manual may have been printed for the Wii console, but Nintendo assures all customers it will natively support the Nintendo Wii, the Wii U and even the Nintendo Switch Dock.
The adapter is not sold in stores, and the best option consumers have to get a first-party product is to buy it directly from Nintendo. If you live in the US or Canada you can get it here.
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Copy is critical on your organic and sponsored listings in the search engines as well as on your ultimate landing pages. It is important on the SERPs because this is what drives tons of "free" organic or paid traffic to your landing page. It is important on the landing page in order to convert well.
One reason search engine optimization (SEO) is so effective is that it can produce higher conversion rates than paid search. This was confirmed in the MarketingSherpa Search Marketing Benchmark Guide (2000-2006), showing average conversion rates of 4.2 percent for SEO and 3.6 percent for PPC.
However, having a good balance of organic and paid search listings in the major search engines will bring you increased traffic and contribute to your marketing effectiveness. To go beyond the clicks and achieve maximum effectiveness, we recommend optimizing your landing pages to the specific objective of your campaign. Landing page selection and creation are vital to the success of both paid search and organic search marketing campaigns.
Landing Page Selection
The conversion rates for an identical keyword phrase can vary radically depending on what type of landing page a search results link leads to. How do you decide if it should be a category landing page or product landing page? The only way to tell is to create different versions and test.
For instance, you could test a single product page versus one that shows multiple products within the same category. Where you could test both pages, A/B split testing is your ideal option, but in instances when time and expense are factors, a sequential test can sometimes suffice. To conduct a sequential test, put up Version A of your landing page for one week, and then replace it with Version B for a week, ensuring that you get enough traffic for reliable results. Note differences in such metrics as unique visitors, sales and conversion rates.
It is important to keep in mind that such tests may not be reliable because they are prone to validity errors from extraneous influences. While a sequential test is more vulnerable to validity errors than the A/B test, it can still offer valuable insights on the relative performance of the two pages. If the results are close and raise doubt, you should verify with an A/B test. When conducting a sequential test, make it brief, control external factors and limit changes unrelated to the test.
Landing Pages for Organic Links
In the early days, most organic links went to the home page. Many of these pages were too general and poorly designed to encourage conversions, resulting in a high bounce rate (users leaving a site after visiting the original page of entry). Since then, most marketers have learned to make their landing pages compelling, targeted and attractive enough to retain visitors.
Savvy marketers have also learned to optimize all the important pages within a site for their target keyword phrases, bringing visitors to specific landing pages based on the search query. To improve your organic landing pages, you need to know why users visit specific pages. You can infer user intent through the search terms used. Start off by identifying the top keyword phrases driving search engine traffic to your site using web analytics such as our PathMaps tool or your web logs and your own site search. Identify the pages used as entry points.
Analyze the keyword phrases to infer the users' goals. Then, check your pages to ensure the copy meets those goals. Modify pages that fail to address your visitors' goals by including stronger copy, better navigation and relevant links to additional information. Ensure that your call-to-action and product links are relevant, concisely written and prominently displayed.
Landing Pages for Paid Search
Every paid search ad needs its own specific landing page because each click costs you money. Therefore, you want to deliver precise, complete information to enhance conversions.
For starters, your landing page must focus sharply on the product or service advertised. Don't include any hyperlinks or other distractions. Prospects coming to your landing page have prequalified themselves. They either want more information or are ready to buy. Be sure to use your keyword phrase on the page. If the term is "Buy Brand X," have a prominently placed button or link that reads, "Buy Brand X now." Design the page with a one-track mind, providing prospects with key benefits and perhaps a few features attractively presented. Don't put anything on the landing page that diverts attention.
Every landing page must be customized; thus, you will need a different landing page for each keyword group. Even if you are promoting complementary products, do not use the same landing page for both. Create a new landing page for each and every product or product group, sending prospects to individually designed landing pages.
Many prospects are just looking for information. They are commonly comparing products or prices. You should provide detailed product information, convincing them that your product is the ideal solution to their quest.
Your call-to-action must tell prospects exactly what you want them to do. If you want them to buy your product, scatter multiple calls-to-action in strategic places within your copy, telling them how to do it ("Click here to buy Brand X now"). If you want them to contact you by phone, list your phone number and provide instructions ("Call us Monday-Friday from 8-5 EST at 1-800-500-2000"). Repeat the number in bold text throughout your copy and again at the end. But be wary of spamming the page. Repetition of your call-to-action only works if you don't annoy the visitor.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Use graphics to sell your product or service. Well-illustrated product pictures sell, as do pictures of satisfied customers or an attractive, welcoming salesperson. Use pictures judiciously to create a sense of well-being and trust. And to avoid FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) that scares off would-be buyers, be sure to strategically place "trust" comments, testimonials and seals along the way. Too many visitors leave because though they like the product, they are not sure that you can be trusted to deliver and service their accounts. Trust is a must or your sale is a bust.
Test your landing pages until you find a clear winner. When testing, send an identical ad to each landing page, comparing the conversion rates for each page. Other A/B comparisons might include copy length, layout, image size, call-to-action and pricing.
Good Landing Pages Pay Dividends
Your investment and efforts in optimizing your landing pages will pay big dividends in the form of higher profits and revenues. Don't make the mistake of overlooking the testing and fine-tuning of your landing pages to maximize campaign results.
And remember, organic SEO requires that landing pages be properly integrated into your site and sitemap, or that you exclude search engine robots from indexing unconnected pages.
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Gospel: Mt 6:1-6, 16-18
Jesus said to his disciples, "Be careful not to make a show of your good deeds before people. If you do so, you do not gain anything from your Father in heaven. When you give something to the poor, do not have it trumpeted before you, as do those who want to be noticed in the synagogues and in the streets, in order to be praised by people. I assure you, they have their reward.
"If you give something to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that our gift remains really secret. Your Father, who sees what is kept secret, will reward you.
"When you pray, do not be like those who want to be noticed. They love to stand and pray in the synagogues or on street corners, in order to be seen by everyone. I assure you, they have their reward. When you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is with you in secret; and your Father who sees what is kept secret will re ward you.
"When you fast, do not put on a miserable face, as do the hypocrites. They put on a gloomy face, so that people can see they are fasting. I tell you this: they have been paid in full already. When you fast, wash your face and make yourself look cheerful, because you are not fasting for appearances or for people, but for your Father, who sees beyond appearances. And your Father, who sees what is kept secret, will reward you."
Return to the Lord
"Hiram sa Diyos ang aking buhay" is a title of a beautiful song that reminds us of a fundamental truth. The period of "LENT" is a good time to remember this truth. When, therefore, we receive the ashes today the priest tells us "Remember man that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Life has been "lent" to us, and we are one day to return that life to the Author of all Life, God!
When we do return that "hiram na buhay" we have to return it with "interest," that is, with "value added" in the form of good we have done. In our Judaic tradition that takes the form of our classic Lenten practices–prayer, almsgiving, and sacrifice. This Lenten season is precisely a season of grace because with these Lenten practices we make God central of our lives, we remember the poor, and we make atonement for our sins.
May this season of grace be truly for us all the occasion for a "pagbabalik loob sa Diyos" as we spend more time, not in shopping but in praying, more time spending for the poor and the needy than for our own comfort and leisure, and more time fasting rather than feasting!


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Episode 1657 – On this Saturday show, listener Brent Budgor joins Vinnie to talk humorous Twitter advice, Brent's lifestyle and bike collection, Vinnie's cycling origin story, and… Read On & Hear The Podcast →
Fat Adapted Survival & Sexism in Elite Sports – Episode 1279
: Episode 1279 – Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk Eat Happy, podcast reviews, sexism in elite sports, fat adapted survival, the pay-to-attend school scandal, and more… Read On & Hear The Podcast →
Angriest Trainer 268: Dr. William Lagakos and David Genecand
Vinnie and Anna talk to Dr. William Lagakos about fat adaption, lessons on mitochondria, the definition of a calorie, and the distinctions between different kinds of calories…. Read On & Hear The Podcast →
Angriest Trainer 234: The Great Andrew Weaver and Fruitarian Michael Arnstein
Vinnie and Anna welcome the Reverend Andrew Weaver of the Ironman Year One Podcast and Doughboy to Ironman on the show, then they talk to The Fruitarian… Read On & Hear The Podcast →
Angriest Trainer 55: The Grant Peterson Interview
Vinnie interviews Grant Peterson, founder of Rivendell Bicycle Works and author of Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike.
Angriest Trainer 47: Lance Armstrong, George Hood & Vote Yes on Prop 37
Vinnie weighs in on Lance Armstrong. Planking record holder George Hood makes an appearance. Reminder to Californians to vote YES on Prop 37.
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The global war on plastic waste keeps roaring on, and this Spring marked yet another victory. With mayoral approval, Capri's local government banned single-use plastics from the island, including plastic straws.
This tiny Mediterranean island joins other world-famous beachfront destinations that gave plastic the boot. With Capri banning items like plastic straws, the island's visitors will soon get a taste of a plastic-free lifestyle. At atOkStraw Paper Straws, we're elated to hear Capri say arriederci to single use plastics in favor for ecofriendly alternatives like paper straws!
Capri's Plastic Waste Problem
Located off the coast of Naples, Italy, Capri is legendary destination for international tourists and movie stars alike. Cliffside villages, designer boutiques and a sea cave adorn this Mediterranean gem. However, lurking beneath this beguiling surface lies a serious problem.
Capri hosts 2.3 million tourists every year, and every one of them leaves their plastic waste behind. With a population equivalent to Chicago visiting this tiny island every year, Capri is struggling to manage this plastic waste. As a result, Mayor Giovanni De Martino just approved a ban on all-single use plastics from the island.
For a Sustainable Capritian Future
Capri's single-use plastics ban covers plastic straws, water bottles, bags, cutlery, and stirrers. From now on, all single-use materials on Capri Island must be biodegradable. Otherwise, violators of the single-use plastics ban face fines of up to €500. Although the ban took effect on 1 May, Capri's government gave local businesses a 90 days to comply
While it's great to hear Capri reject single-use plastics, they would still be covered by another plastics ban. Capri is part of the European Union, which already pledged to phase out single-use plastics in all countries by 2021. Nevertheless, we at OkStraw Paper Straws believe Capri made the right decision to ban single-use plastics.
Paper Straws for Capri Island
We at OkStraw Paper Straws share much in common with Capri's residents. Much like Capri, our hometown San Diego is a world-famous destination. Likewise, hosting millions of visitors means we both have to deal with plastic waste. So rather than worry about dealing with plastic waste, why not do away with it? We think so, and that's why San Diego banned single-use plastics.
Thanks to innovative companies like OkStraw Paper Straws, single-use plastic alternatives are here better than ever. OkStraw's paper straws are fully biodegradable, making them compliant with Capri's single-use plastics ban. OkStraw paper straws degrade naturally, and never contain harmful chemicals. Once an OkStraw Paper Straw does its job, it returns to the planet that bore it. On the island today, back to nature tomorrow, OkStraw's paper straws are Capri's newest ecotourists.
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Kids | Belt | Bucking Bull | Jayden
- A young rodeo cowkid's look isn't complete without the right western belt.
- Removable, silver- & gold-tone belt buckle
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Our Nocona Bucking Bull leather belt is perfect for the rodeo star in the making! Dark brown leather belt is embossed with lighter brown, western story-telling designs. Decorative, silver-tone buckle features scrollwork border; gold-tone cowboy on bucking bull atop raised waffle pattern ground. Kids' bull rider belt measures 1 1/4" wide.


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Topic: Clock probleme with ADI 4 and fireface
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i'm using an external A/D converter (lavry blue) wich send AES to my ADI 4 wich send adat to my rme fireface 800.
I tried to use lavry like master . I tried to use fireface like master. i tried to use word clock cable .
But whathever i do , when i record a hand clap, split the signal an send it one to the fireface preamp and the other into the lavry, i saw a little time delay on the time line .
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South Korea To Buy Tons of Cambodian Mangos Next Year
Republic of Korea has promised to develop systematic processing of Cambodian mangos for export to the country, starting next year.
Outgoing Ambassador of the Republic of Korea H.E. Kim Weon-jin shared the good news during a farewell meeting with Senate President Samdech Vibol Sena Pheakdei Say Chhum at the Senate Palace here in Phnom Penh yesterday.
According to H.E. Ambassador, a technical team from South Korea will establish technical skill training centre to capacitate Cambodian workers to grow standard mangos to import into his country.
The rollout of the commitment, he added, will happen in the soon-to-come 2018, and tons of mangos will be needed.
Samdech Say Chhum expressed his appreciation of the intention and looked forward to seeing it happen.
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Help us name the Sequences ebookpost by lukeprog · 2013-04-15T19:59:13.969Z · score: 14 (15 votes) · LW · GW · Legacy · 149 comments
Quantum Computing Since Democritus got me thinking that we may want a more riveting title for The Sequences, 2006-2009 ebook we're preparing for release (like the FtIE ebook). Maybe it could be something like [Really Catchy Title]: The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006-2009.
The reason for "2006–2009" is that Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners will be its own ebook, and future Yudkowskian LW sequences (if there are any) won't be included either.
Example options:
- The Craft of Rationality: The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006–2009
- The Art of Rationality: The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006–2009
- Becoming Less Wrong: The Sequences, 2006–2009
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My motley collection of thoughts upon reading this (please note that, wherever I say "you" or "your" in this post, I'm referring to the whole committee that is working on this ebook, not to you, lukeprog, in particular):
It's a difficult book to name, chiefly because the sequences themselves don't really have a narrow common thread; eliminating bias and making use of scientific advances don't qualify as narrow enough, many others are trying to do that these days. (But then again, I didn't read them in an orderly fashion, or enough times, to be able to identify the common thread if there is one more specific than that. If there is one, by all means, play on that.)
Absolutely no mention of anything such as The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006-2009. This belongs in a blurb or in an introduction to the book. You probably think that, by using that in a title, you're telling readers the following: the contents of this book were originally published as sequences of blog posts on the website lesswrong.com, from 2006 to 2009. But you're not. This information can be conveyed in a sentence such as that one, but it cannot be conveyed in a short title, given that readers are unfamiliar with the terms. There isn't really a way for them to guess from a quick glance at the title that "Less Wrong" means "the website "LessWrong.com" or that "the Sequences" mean "several series of blog posts around which the LessWrong community was formed", or what all of that has to do with them.
And even so -- is that the first thing you wish to tell your readers? What happened to the contents of the book before they were made into a book...? And in a form which is basically incomprehensible to them? While giving little insight into the content itself? And do you really, honestly think that you're not doing the material a disservice by telling the readers that it was first published on some guy's blog, before they know anything else about the book (i.e. how it distinguishes itself from ordinary blog posts)? If the first association is with something as low-status as a blog, then that's gonna be the lowest common denominator -- you're gonna have to work up from that, which is harder than working up from the expectation of an average pop-sci book. (Thankfully for you, though, the readers won't be able to draw those inferences; see the paragraph above.)
The rest of the suggestions -- The Craft of Rationality, The Art of Rationality, Becoming Less Wrong -- they're not technically bad, but... they're -- they're weak. They're not distinguishable. The authors out there that are trying to establish themselves as the masters of the "art/craft" of something are a dime a dozen. Sure, probably LWers are probably the most eager bunch to claim "the art of rationality" for themselves, or at least this is what a quick internet search told me, but the connection isn't immediately established in the minds of the readers.
Careful about any unflattering allusions to the reader's intelligence. They can be taken well if presented in a humorous/witty form, but you have to make believable promises that the book will help readers overcome them. Also (and this is directed mainly towards the rest of the commenters), everything that suggests that the book is meant to drill the "correct" ideas into your head, rather than teach you how to develop good thinking practices on your own, is a no-no.
How come Eliezer hasn't come up with a good, catchy title yet? I've just gone over the titles of the blog posts included in the sequences, and those ones are very good, very appropriate as chapter/subchapter titles. He's good at this titling business. Surely he could think up something witty for the one title to rule them all?
No suggestions from me just yet. I need to think this through better.
Absolutely no mention of anything such as The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006-2009. This belongs in a blurb or in an introduction to the book.
Agree. Would like to emphasize even more. Taking in that title with fresh eyes, it sounds perhaps like part N of a multi-volume autobiographical series written by a musician trying to make less shitty music.
I'm not kidding.
If I imagine that I haven't spent almost a year on this website, and maybe I've even been told about it or saw the front page but didn't really dive into the community, and saw that book on a library shelf somewhere. What would happen? Or if someone told me it was a great book that I should read, but only told me the title?
Obviously, I'd think it's about something obscure, a book only for "insiders" who already know what the book is talking about. Would I want to pick it up? Not really.
Please, focus on the contents and the message, rather than the history behind the book. No one cares about the history behind a book before they've at least read it, unless it's Gandhi's secret unrevealed memoirs or something.
My long overdue title suggestion: Rationality 2.0: A Less Wrong Guide to Beliefs, Biases and Bayesianism
Overall: I followed the title-subtitle format which seems very popular these days for pop-sci books. I tried to go for something broad enough to hint at the diversity of the material contained within the Sequences without giving the impression that the book is about anything and everything. 2.0 is nice and trendy and appeals to techies (who tend to gravitate towards such content). The general tone of the title is hopefully catchy and playful enough to appeal to a wide audience that would otherwise get intimidated by very formal, technical vocabulary.
Why "Rationality"? Because the most common word we use to refer to ourselves is "rationalist" and we refer to the totality of LW-specific memes as "rationality". However, including the word "rationalist" rather than "rationality" in the title might make people mentally associate the book with the sort of rationalism that opposes empiricism.
Why "Rationality 2.0"? Because many posts in the Sequences distinguish between Traditional Rationality and Bayesianism, and because we generally think of LW philosophy as improving on the traditional concept of rationality. It's bold enough to assert meaningful innovation, but not arrogant enough to not even allow the possibility of a 3.0.
Why "A Less Wrong Guide"? This one's probably the weakest part of the title. I chose it because it explicitly named the community in which the contents of the book originated, in a context that more or less rendered the meaning of "less wrong" relevant. The problematic aspect of it is that it carries the hidden implication that there have been several other, more wrong guides to "Beliefs, Biases, and Bayesianism". The word "guide" is there because the Sequences serve as didactic material to many.
Why "Beliefs, Biases and Bayesianism"? Because it has a nice alliterative ring to it, and because I think it captures the thematic core of Less Wrong. Besides, ennumerations are what you use to convey thematical breadth when you have a very limited word count; 3 listed items generally do the job. (You don't need 10 listed items.) It's ordered from the most common word to the least common. I had this in mind for the primary title, but I thought it might be better to relocate the phrase to the subtitle because "Bayesianism" doesn't immediately tell the average reader what the book might be about, which is the main function of a primary title.
Anyway, while I'm not completely assured that this is the best possible title for the Sequences out of all imaginable ones (although I think it is out of all the titles I've thought up so far), I can confidently say that this is how much you need to think about any given title for a work so important. Maybe even more. Every single word needs to be pondered carefully.
everything that suggests that the book is meant to drill the "correct" ideas into your head, rather than teach you how to develop good thinking practices on your own, is a no-no.
So how about:
Mysterious Answers To Mysterious Questions: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know, About Things Most People Never Even Question
500 Mindbending Daily Essays on Truth, Beauty, Science, Reasoning, Intelligence, Bias, Optimization, Wisdom, and Ethics, And How You, Yes YOU, Can Become Smarter, Stronger-willed, And Maybe, Just Maybe Save The World
(Replacing the "500" with an appropriate number, of course.)
Why not call the e-book "The Methods of Rationality"?
Or maybe something that is clearly not HPMoR, but clearly connected to it.
I like "Methods of Rationality", it's short and to the point, and thus it makes sense for people who are unfamiliar with HPMoR.
This creates a risk of confusion if people hear about the the awesome HP fan fiction "Methods of Rationality", Google it, and come away disappointed when the first hit they run into isn't fan fiction at all. (Or vice versa.)
What happens if at the top of the book it says "If you're looking for the awesome HP fan fiction "Methods of Rationality", go HERE"? (Ditto on HPMoR chapters?) Sounds like you might get some free cross-advertising that way, as well as a common brand across products.
Assuming, of course, that you want the common branding.
Another alternative: HPMOR could be renamed. The early chapters might have been explicit in the methods of rationality, cognitive biases, etc., but it has since then developed into a full-fledged story, and only tangentially related to rationality by way of certain characters. (Or maybe that's just me?)
Why should the term "the sequences" even be in the title? What does it tell an uninformed reader? Does it have any useful meaning for anyone who hasn't already read them? (Why are they even called that, anyway? I mean... I guess it's just that it was a sequence of blog posts?) In what way is "The Sequences" or "[Some title]: the Sequences" better than "The Blog Posts" or "The Diary Entries"?
I like the sound of it more if it doesnt include 'sequences' or anything like that at all. For example instead of:
Becoming Less Wrong: The Sequences, 2006–2009
Just have it as Becoming Less Wrong or Becoming Less Wrong: Something Catchier.
Becoming Less Wrong: The Art of Debugging Yourself
Becoming Less Wrong seems to be the best option so far.
Just so it's near the top:
'The Methods of Rationality' ties in with HPMoR, and sounds amazing. To me.
'Methods of Rationality' hadn't been proposed at the time. I agree, it's pretty good. Perhaps:
Title: The Methods of Rationality
Subtitle: How to Become Less Wrong/Becoming Less Wrong
The Title:Subtitle format seems to be popular.
(However, as noted elsewhere, confusion with HPMOR may be a a bug rather than a feature )
I think the increased publicity of both would outweigh any bugs. Showing all HPMoR readers a book on how to be Harry? Showing all MoR:BLW readers a fiction about magic, using everything they've now learned!
Becoming Less Wrong seems to be the best option so far.
Becoming Less Wrong: The Art of Debugging Yourself
Just have it as Becoming Less Wrong or Becoming Less Wrong: Something Catchier.
These won't work for the same reason "Winning" wouldn't be used.
They rely on the idea that people are actively hunting for ways to be more rational, but this just isn't true, which means that the "Wrong" isn't going to mean what you're hoping it'll mean. Odds are the people who pick this book up are in middle of a relationship, or something interesting happened at work, or they're thinking about how to do a school assignment. In other words, everything they know about life is telling them that they're doing alright, or rather, that they personally aren't doing wrongly. They'll decide "This book must be for somebody else, I've got all my things together", or possibly "Things are going bad right now, but I'm working to fix it, so I don't need a book telling me to change my attitude" and set it down. The point of the book was improve their decision making thinking, not fix their attitude, but the title didn't convey that properly, so misunderstandings were had.
"Wrong", like "Winning", has a completely different context outside the Less Wrong community. It's more closely associated with vitriol, bad guys and good guys, guilt, righteous resentment, arguments. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that those feelings are the real concept of "Wrongness", and it's only in this community that an exotic sort of quale became substituted.
And this is why market research on non-LWers is important. I don't think that popular usage of 'wrong' is so totally divorced from the usage here, although it may not be the only usage of the word. Ultimately, however, the best way to determine that is to ask some people.
Don't know if this is where it comes from, but I always thought of "sequences" as an elaboration on the idea of rationality as a martial art; the term has some significance in theatrical swordplay, and it could also be compared to the Japanese kata.
If they're editing this so much it's a single cohesive work, that's a huge amount of work. If they're not, then the subtitle should be something like "Essays 2006-2009" or "Blog posts 2006-2009" to make it clear that it's not.
I suspect the name Sequences came from Levels of Organization In General Intelligence, where "sequiturs", "belief consequents", and "thought sequences" are used to describe high level, serial ordered thoughts in human brains (like an internal spoken narrative or train of thought) and how those thought sequences are generated in support of goal-directed behavior.
Eliezer's first post on Overcoming Bias was, as far as I know, The Martial Art of Rationality. I think that title works well to set the tone.
One objection is that the information is a bit removed from actual instrumental rationality (of the sort CFAR is meant to provide). It's like reading about muscle function and reflexes instead of reading a karate book (which is still not learning karate). Some of the stuff is actionable, but my overall impression is that much work is needed to make it so by the reader for the bulk of it.
Dropping Martial will lower the claim to reasonable levels IMO.
OTOH, "The Art of Rationality" just sounds... generic.
It would sound a little bit too crackpottish to me as the title of a book. (Not sure why.)
I don't think asking people already on LW is a good technique for getting a title that will likely attract new people. We would likely reference terms that only make sense to those who have already read them (indeed a lot of the suggestions so far are rationalist shibboleths/applause lights/puns, which are fun for us but unhelpful). And we know al the evidence about how bad people in general are at simulating other very different minds unless they have particular expertise.
Very few people here likely have the relevant expertise in marketing. Have you considered asking an outside specialist? A good title and marketing can make an orders of magnitude difference in impact (with the obvious implications for spreading ideas better).
My guess is that asking LWers actually is a good way to generate title ideas, because we already know what the book is about; then Luke can go try a bunch of them on non-LWers and figure out which ones don't turn off everyone else.
I think asking LessWrong is a great idea, because it makes us feel more involved and invested in the end product, and drums up interest in and anticipation for the project. The bad idea is taking LessWrongers' responses seriously.
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.]
Thinking: Right and Wrong
is great.
To my ear (eye), "Thinking: Right and Wrong" sounds like a pretentious high school logic textbook. The effect is more schoolmarmy than bold, confrontational, or crisp. Most of our target audience won't get the pun, and even many of those who do may be turned off by the suggestion that this Eliezer guy knows the One True Right Way to Think. I'm not saying that's a reasonable response; I'm saying it's an unreasonable enough one that the people inclined to have it are probably in more desperate need of the contents of this eBook than are the Kahneman fanboys and fangirls.
I like "Thinking, Right and Wrong".
Since it's an ebook, I suggest a set of hashtags or summary keywords that trigger the responses for people to look up themselves, such as "rationality, heuristics, biases, artificial intelligence."
Another suggestion: "Thinking 001"
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
Will it contain non-Eliezer content, e.g. Diseased Thinking, or Ugh Fields? Bikeshedding, I know, but those are some mighty fine posts.
Okay, anywho, thinking hat on.
Answering Confusing Questions
Making New Mistakes
Understanding the Void
(People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment. - Miyamoto Musashi)
The Use of Maps
Rationality and Contentment in a Suboptimal World
Already in Reality
If Snow is White, That's Okay
The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind
Upvote for The Hard Part is Actually Changing your Mind.
Some of these would be better for chapter titles or something.
Will it contain non-Eliezer content, e.g. Diseased Thinking, or Ugh Fields?
No, this ebook is only Eliezer's content.
"The Use of Maps" sounds kooky, IMO.
"The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind"... could we just say "changing your mind"?
Rationality: How to Become Less Wrong.
One of those syllables is unnecessary. Try Rationality: How to Be Less Wrong.
The Sequences: How to Become Less Wrong
I'm actually in favor of keeping "The Sequences" in the title. "Rationality" is unfortunately a vague term for most people, and might even turn off some. There are several routes other than "catchy" - for ascetic purposes it's okay to be a little esoteric. The Sequences sounds like part of something mysterious and important. Plus it fits nicely with Eliezer Yudkowski's Bayesian Conspiracy motif.
I really dislike "The Sequences: How to become Less Wrong." The problem I have with it is that I think it misrepresents what one of titular sequences actually is. The impression I receive is that this book offers some step by step instructions, known as the Mysterious and Capitalized "Sequences" that will improve your life and make you a better person.
...ok so maybe it's not that far off but the point I'm trying to make here is: A book that advertises itself that way doesn't sound legitimate. It gives me an impression of belonging to the "self-help book" category, which has a fairly bad reputation. If I saw a book with that title in a book store, I'd probably smirk at it and move on. Whereas I think that beginning the title with "Rationality" gives it a more scientific air. And I ah e to imagine that the idea here is that the cover of the book should reflect the contents as usefully as possible.
The Bayesian Conspiracy
The Bayesian Conspiracy: How to Become Less Wrong
Or some other suggested title with The Bayesian Conspiracy added/substituted?
The Sequence-Less Conspiracy: How to Become Bayesian-Wrong?
We need to enable the old steam-powered Permutation-Machine!
It's over by the hand-cranked Von Neumann Machine.
Ah, besides the Lego Turing Machine. A perfect replica ... apart from the whole infinite tape thing, that's gotta be a Lego marketing gimmick. I'd say they are apparently easy to build, but then again, the A-Team can build anything.
Is it helpful for the phrase "The Sequences" to appear in the title? My sense is that anyone who's already familiar enough with the Sequences to know what it means isn't going to need that phrase to be interested in the book, and that the phrase doesn't add much value for someone who's never heard of the Sequences before. It's sort of a weird word that doesn't immediately suggest anything about rationality.
The only people for whom it would add value would be those who (1) have at least sort of heard of the Sequences and are somewhat interested; (2) need to know that this ebook is about the Sequences to decide to read it; and (3) wouldn't understand that this was the Sequences ebook without that word in the title. I doubt that's a very large class, so my initial sense is that it's not necessary in the actual title. But then, that's just what occurred to me in the last 10 minutes, and the people who have thought about this more carefully may well have other reasons.
Update. My favorites from this page are:
- The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind
- From Artificial Intelligence to Zombies: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Value, and Winning
- Modern Rationality: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Value, and Winning
- The Martial Art of Rationality
- The Methods of Rationality
- The Art and Science of Rationality
Eliezer's two favorites of those six were "The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind" and "The Art and Science of Rationality."
Having just seen this now, I like "From Artificial Intelligence to Zombies: Thinking Clearly about Truth, Value, and Winning" because it conveys just how frickin' broad The Sequences are. "The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind" is good if you'd rather be catchy and give a sense of one key take-away rather than try to give a sense of the full scope of the sequences.
"The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind" is the absolute worst from that list. It tells someone absolutely nothing -- hard part of what? Changing your mind because of what? It's not even clear what the topic of the book would be. Could be a political memior, for all I know.
I like a variant on Dahlen's suggestion: Methods of Rationality: A Less Wrong Guide to Beliefs, Biases and Bayesianism.
"... to Beliefs, Biases, and Bayes" is shorter and snappier.
Reverend Bayes isn't someone to be idolized, because we're not looking for idols. The emphasis should be on Bayesianism, I think.
Untangling the Knot: A Users Guide to the Human Mind
Your Brain, an Owner's Manual
Less than One, Greater than Zero: The Sequences, 2006–2009
Approximating Omega (badly, of course)
Sharpening the Mace
Uncountable Infinite Shades of Grey (my apologies)
Stop Tripping Yourself: A Users Guide to the Human Mind
Marshaling the Mind: An Introduction to the Informed Art of Rationality
Motes and Meaning: The Less Wrong Archives
Of Motes and Meaning
Theory, in Practice
Thinking, in Practice
Thinking in Circles:Avoiding the Known Bugs in Human Reasoning.
Many of these are good
I like the first two especially.
I like the first two especially.
I like them as titles... for a somewhat different book focussed more on actual human psychology.
There already is a book called The Owner's Manual for the Brain.
EDIT: fixed typo.
"Becoming Less Wrong" would normally be a good title, but unfortunately, there already exists a community of people who call themselves "Less Wrong". This changes the meaning of the title from "Acquiring good critical thinking skills" to "One of us... One of us...". Thus, I'd recommend against it.
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.
From Zombies to Artificial Intelligence: Questioning what you think you already know.
Something in this vein is probably best. It's attention grabbing.
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!
From Zombies to Artificial Intelligence:
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.
How to Be Less Wrong
I like this one. Also Your Guide to Becoming Less Wrong feels nice and friendly and accessible.
If anything, I think "How to Be Less Wrong" is too good of a title for this. "The Methods of Rationality" isn't an inherently very good title, its only real advantage being that it draws a lot more HPMoR people into the fold. Those people will be relatively nerdy and Internet-friendly and are familiar with (and fond of) a lot of Eliezer's idiosyncrasies and jargon, so it makes sense to have the extant Sequences (qua 'The Methods of Rationality') be the version of the book we want them to get.
But, really, a giant pack of EY posts isn't a very good introduction for the general public, or even for the more intelligent and capable portion of the general public, to rationality. There's enough content within LessWrong to make a truly superb book along those lines, with a bit of minor supplementation and a lot of editing and reorganizing. And if we published such a book (both as a book book and as an e-book), the more simple and accessible title 'How to Be Less Wrong' (or something along those lines) would sell better, while leading a lot of people toward the lesswrong.com domain. (And since these people would be less Internet-happy and Yudkowsky-happy than the HPMoR crowd, this brand name continuity would be a lot more integral to getting them to visit the site and join the LW community and keep progressing in their personal cultivation.)
So I think those two titles are both good, and should be attached to independent projects:
The Methods of Rationality is a more exhaustive (but much less polished and lay-accessible) dump of existing writings, targeted in large part at Internety people just outside our horizon (most obviously, HPMoR folks).
How to Be Less Wrong is a much shorter, jargon-freer, more polished book, this time for general consumption. The kind of thing I'd mass-purchase to give to every non-rationalist I know and recruit them in one fell swoop to the Bayesian Conspiracy.
A third project might be a sequel to HLW that goes into the more advanced and challenging topics that are good for high-level rationality, but not really needed for greatly improving the average smart person's effectiveness. (Most of the quantum stuff is probably too high-level even for the latter project.)
The problem with the current Sequences as an enchiridion or bible for aspiring rationalists is that it's too uneven; it freely appeals to very advanced jargon and prerequisites in the course of explaining incredibly simple concepts that, if it weren't for the unnecessary reliance on quantumy and philosophytastic examples, could be absorbed and put to good use by a random person on the street. Since this is a very large project that would take a lot of work and time, and the end product would probably differ a lot from the current Sequences, it makes sense to just publish what we have now with a mediocre but effective title (MoR), then start thinking about cannibalizing and enhancing the best content for much more targeted rationality initiatives.
Feels like lots of the titles people suggest here are for some sort of quirky paperback self-help bestseller. You want to be one of those weighty, widely discussed New York Times bestsellers. These seem to me like the kind of titles you want to emulate:
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Brainstorms
- Brainchildren
- How the Mind Works
- The Emperor's New Mind
- Metamagical Themas
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Titles that others have used in the past that I don't recommend:
- How to Write, Think and Speak Correctly :)
Modern Rationality: Dissolving Mysteries{, Mysticism,} and Mistakes
Human Rationality: How to Think Clearly and Get What You Want
I second some people's claim that "rationality" can be a double-edged sword in the title, even people who might be interested in the book may have negative connotations. It would fit better in the subtitle, something like:
Think Like Reality: The Art of Being Rational
There is disagreement about using the word "Sequences". I think it would be nice to remove it from the book's official title, but to keep it with small letters at the bottom of the cover. You know, something mysterious, something for insiders.
Some of the suggested names are great and could be successful (they should be tested on non-LW readers), but sometimes they sound too generic. I mean, anyone could (and some already did) write a book about "Thinking" or "Rationality" or "Mistakes" etc. There is nothing LW-specific about that.
But calling the ebook, for example, "The Craft of Rationality", and having the mysterious "The Sequences, 2006-2009" at the bottom of the page would allow us to refer this book to others as "The Sequences" book, which would make it different from dozens of other rationality-related books.
Some of the suggested names are great and could be successful (they should be tested on non-LW readers), but sometimes they sound too generic.
Exactly - I just assumed Luke at al would do market research, but please remember that this site is not necessarily representative of who you want the title to influence (LWers will probably be buying the book, but I doubt many will do so on the basis of the title.)
Drop the dates in the title. They just make the book seem old and outdated.
The Elements of Rationality.
Having only read a few of The Sequences, I may not be the best suited, though I may have the perk of having an immersion level similar to those who also have not read The Sequences, and thus be able to come up with a title that more closely appeals to that mindset. Since you're going to be competing with self help gurus in a genre about better living through better thinking, how about "The Key to Success: It's not just Confidence". I wouldn't discard making reference to some mathematical concept in the title. A contrast like that is aesthetically pleasing in some ways, and in other ways it can be intriguing enough for people to try reading the summaries, like "Bayesian Rationality: Better Living Through Better Thinking". From there, you could make reference to some amazing things like the German Tank Problem, and hammer home the implications that the reader could also do amazing things. Failing that, here's some swings in the dark.
Thinking about Thinking about Thinking
The [Theory and Practice of] Not Making Mistakes
[Instinct]: A Voluntary Action
Mind over Matter, Mind over Mind
Legend: [Word or Phrase] could be {Alternative Word or Phrase, Alternative Word or Phrase, ...}
[Theory and Practice of] could be {Art of, Skillset for, Tools for, Key to, Path of}
[Instinct] could be {Motivation, Gut Feeling,}
I like something with 'rationality' and 'less wrong' in it. I don't think it's helpful to have 'the sequences' in the title if an aim to to have non less-wrongers pick it up.
What are the odds of a physical book? Would make a great gift, and gifting an ebook still seems weird. I'm still undecided about whether I like my books made out of dead trees or not.
I disagree with including the word 'rationality'. It has pretty poisoned connotations for much the same reasons as 'singularity' does. Spock is basically the lay stereotype for rationality, and I don't think we want to hit that particular button.
As far as physical books go, it's fairly straightforward to turn ebooks into dead tree books. Basically the hardest part is getting a good cover for it. Making a dead-tree mass-produced version is only really a good idea if it makes economic sense to distribute. I think the minimum economically viable offer is small enough that it can be done, but that's more special-ordered books rather than mass-market.
Also, who is the target audience and what are the plans for reaching it? I don't think there are many people who are willing to invest time AND money into a book like this while still not having read the sequences (available freely on the web, and also in all kinds of e-book formats).
For the two use cases I imagine at the moment:
giving it as a gift as an introduction to rationalist stuff feels better with a physical book indeed. Yes, there is a difference between buying an e-book for yourself and downloading the same stuff for free, especially in terms of motivation to actually read it, but on the receiving end e-books still might feel like being sent long pdf-s with a label "you should definitely read this", in addition to the e-book gifting weirdness (I might be wrong, I never did such a thing before).
buying it for yourself, to be able to put it on your bookshelf. Obviously, also much harder to do with an e-book.
(I usually prefer e-books to dead-tree versions, but then I had nothing against reading the Sequences on the web either.)
Reading them on the web is difficult because of organizational issues. The medium can be an issue too (I generally avoid reading long texts on my computer because of eye issues; I buy hard copies/Kindle editions or print instead).
More information on the target audience would be good, though.
No physical book planned. It would be a very expensive endeavour. The PDF version is close to 2500 pages ;)
I think there are vanity presses that will print on-demand as people order, without a large (or any) upfront payment. From there it's just a matter of whether people want the books enough to pay the high price.
For example, there's lulu.com. (This is not a recommendation as I have no experience publishing through them; it's just the first name that came to mind.) You can upload a PDF and cover images, choose paper size / type, binding, etc. and publish. They also offer ISBNs and publishing through Amazon.
Their pricing calculator is here. I think you can set any price you want for the book, as long as it's above the manfacturing cost (and there'll be shipping charges for customers).
Some examples I ran up:
2500 pages in 4 volumes means 625 pages/volume. (Lulu.com specifies a maximum of 740 pages per book.) I don't know the page size which comes to 2500 pages, though.
- 625 pages,paperback binding, A5 page size: $18.38 ($73.52 for full set)
- Ditto, A4 size (I doubt the PDF uses such large pages though): $23.10 ($92.4 for full set)
- Hardcover, US trade size (6" x 9"): $27.35 ($109.4 for full set). May be worthwhile since the volumes are large that paperback might fall apart after a few years.
- "Publisher grade" paper, which is of lower quality, paperback, "digest" size (5.5" x 8.5"): $12.08 ($48.32 for full set)
- Volume discount is relatively low. 10 cop/ries gives no discount. 100 copies discounts the per-copy cost from $18.38 to $16.54. 300 copies, $14.70 ($58.8 for full set). So group buying will help but not by much.
Personally I would be willing to pay between 75 and 110 $ to buy a nice hardcover four-volume set, as a gift for someone who doesn't like ebooks.
I would pay one of these prices for my own set. I'm a little unsatisfied with note-taking and highlighting on ebooks and would love a physical copy to annotate and wear out.
I think there are vanity presses that will print on-demand as people order, without a large (or any) upfront payment.
Including Amazon, by way of Ingram. I would actually suggest making this available as a Kindle book (or books) as well, although in that event I would recommend setting the ebook price close to the print price as a quality/value signal. The money can benefit MIRI or CFAR, and as long as the print+ebook offered via Amazon is a different edition than the one offered free, there should probably not be any problem with Amazon's pricing rule oddities.
The plan is to create a PDF, .epub, and .mobi version—just like the Facing the Intelligence Explosion eBook—and make it available on our site, as well as through Amazon and iBooks.
As for pricing we want it to be accessible, so it will either be free or very inexpensive.
it will either be free or very inexpensive.
Amazon (rather wisely IMO) has minimum pricing requirements for ebooks, though at the moment that'd be $2.99 for books of this size.
However, from a signaling perspective it's better to have a pricey book that a few people buy and the rest steal, than to have a book that looks too cheap to be of actual value. People also are less likely to read a cheaper book in the first place (even if they bought it) or to apply the ideas therein, since if the author/publisher didn't think it was that valuable, why should they?
Do you plan on enforcing copyright on the extant ebook versions of the sequences?
Using a print on demand (POD) service is an interesting idea. The print quality of POD is lower then offset printing, so I'd be concerned that people might be disappointed in the quality, especially if they payed close to $100 for the full set.
We'll ponder this, but no promises . . .
Becoming Less Wrong: Accurate Maps and Winning strategies
or something else that explores the dichotomy between epistemic and instrumental rationality might be a good idea. After all the distinction is quite important (arguably one of the first things that people should learn about rationality as a whole) and largely unnoticed by the general population. In fact if the title is something like Rationality: Accurate Maps and Winning strategies (or equivalent), the first lesson (that rationality is both about having accurate maps and about winning) can be learned from the title (especially perhaps if there is a brief explanation of the title in the preface).
If 'Sequences' is in the title at all it should probably be of the form "Sequences on . . ." rather than just "The Sequences".
- Bringing Thinking Forward
- Rationality in Prominence
- {Sequences} {On} Resolving Confusion
- {Applied/Practical} Rationality
- Applied Epistemology
- {Actually/Really} Changing Your Mind
- Incremental {Correctness/Reason}
- Relinquishing {Falsehood/Beliefs}
- Celebrating {Reason/Correction}
- Taking No Side {At All}
- On No Side {At All}
- Equable Reason
- Word and Referent
- Living in the Real
I also like (from other posts):
- The Art and Science of Rationality (The Art and Science of Reasoning)
- Making New Mistakes
- The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind
- Less Than One, Greater Than Zero: A Beginner's Guide to Thinking
- Theory, In Practice
And I agree with asking Eliezer to try coming up with something, given that he seems to have a knack for it.
What's the current progress on this?
Any word on a final conclusion?
The Craft of Rationality: The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006–2009
The Art of Rationality: The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006–2009
Why not "The Art and Craft of"? (Too cliché-y?)
(ETA: If I had to pick only one of "craft" or "art" I'd pick the latter -- it helps counteract the Vulcanian connotations of "rationality" IMO.)
I would personally prefer The Way, but it's probably too vague.
Magic Bucket Level, There is a Spoon and The Actual Park all sound too much like band names.
How about The First Virtue is Curiosity?
I don't like these very much as titles, but I strongly endorse them as band names (perhaps in the spirit of Wizard Rock)
Here's some more (some of which I actually like):
- What Do I Think I Know?
- What Do You Expect?
- Some Useful Ideas
- Entangled With the World
- Dragons Versus Zebras
- Living Under Uncertainty
- I Want to Become Stronger
- Real Explanations
- Only Compress
- How, Oh How?
- More is Possible
- The Cognonomicon
- How I Built Goddess and What She Did When I Let Her Out of the Box
(Edited to add bullets, I will never understand how carriage returns work on this site)
The Space of Possible Minds
I like this. It sounds ambitious and intriguing, and touches on many of the themes in the Sequences. Surprised to see it so downvoted.
Methods of Mastery
Reflections on Reason and Rationality
Less alliteratively...
Getting it Right on the Forty Second Try
The Science and Art of Rationality
The Art and Science of Rationality
Why not something catchy? The sequences often had extremely catchy titles (eg "An Alien God"). "Becoming Less Wrong" is pretty good, but it doesn't have enough pizzazz. How'sabout something like:
- "If you're reading this, Phase One of my master plan is already complete" (yes, stolen from a T-shirt, but rather appropriate) or
- "The world is mad, you don't have to be"
or some variety of the 'rationality is applied winning' meme:
- "On Winning"
- "Winning - Theory and Practice"
Maybe a take on defeating Azathoth?
- "Kill a God - Become an Agent"
- "Wresting Control of Yourself from Evolution's Grasp"
At any rate, the Memetic Hazard sign should be somewhere on the cover. :)
Azathoth Shrugged
The word "Winning" has its association with specific situations and not with the LW context in the mind of a prospective reader, who would wonder why they ought to care about winning competitions and fights. The second and last one are both pretty good though.
I like the general point about something catchy with pizzazz. "Being Less Wrong" is my favorite so far, but it could probably be improved on. "Winning: Theory and Practice" is also pretty good, though I wonder whether there's too much of an association between "winning" and Charlie Sheen. Maybe that's a silly concern, but we wouldn't want anyone to think this was just a joking reference to that.
The Way of Bayes
Getting What You Want
Future Thought
Man's Final Invention
Intelligence: Evolved, Explained, Engineered
Friendly AI: Engineering God
Thinking is a Skill
The Science of Wisdom
The Art of Reason
The Case for Reason
I Will Teach You to be Smart
Reason for 21st Century Humans
The Dawn Age
If I can just throw another one out there, "Better Living Through Clever Thinking"?
How do you know what you know?
Stop, question, think!
Is there any chance there will be a corresponding print book -- perhaps if the ebook does well? I still greatly prefer reading on dead tree.
Predictably Rational: Taking Hold of the Forces that Shape Our Decisions
Update: The Science of Reason
You Can't Think: Debugging Your Brain
Debugging Your Brain
Debug Your Brain [pollid:450]
Debug Your Mind [pollid:451]
Brain Dynamics - Fix Your Mind
How to Think: A Primer
How to Think: A [Beginner's/Novice's] Primer
How about just Debugging Your Brain? It sounds catchier than the longer version.
How about Debugging Your Mind? This isn't a book about biochemistry.
A Thinker's Book on Rationality: How to Be Less Wrong
Let's Talk about Rationality: Topics that Will Make You Less Wrong
Thinking the Right Way: How to Be Less Wrong
Being Rational: How to Think about and Win at Life
Through Rational Lens: Treatise of a Career Rationalist
Calling it the Sequences would only make Less Wrong laughable and support those who argue the people here are out of touch with reality. Do not call it the Sequences.
I Can Make You Less Wrong In Thirty Days Or Less
Why You Are Wrong and What You Can Do About It.
You Are Wrong and You Can Change That
Who Is Least Wrong?
I think that a big fraction of the audience that the title can change from 'pass' to 'read' will respond with interest to a challenge, so telling them that they are wrong will get them to take second look.
Also, consider using the name of one of the sequences: Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, The Map and the Territory, and Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners are all catchy and intriguing, while indicating or alluding to the subject.
Layperson's Epistemological Sciences Survey Which is Reasonably Optimal as a Normative Guide.
In the beginning there was Yudkowsky: The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006-2009.
Rationality: The Sequences, 2006–2009
The Yudkowsky Sequences on Rationality, 2006-2009 (inspired by the Feynman lectures on Physics)
"Remedial Rationality"
Most of what we learn here is stuff everyone should really know, but somehow they didn't teach us in kindergarten.
Also, framing it as "recovering towards the norm" is less likely to make people defensive.
Well, there's a nice site dedicated to Elon Musk, http://shitelonsays.com/
You can start from there. :-)


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David Epstein, a senior member of the Southern Methodist law faculty (as well as the former dean at Emory and Arkansas and a former colleague of mine at Alabama) is moving to the University of Richmond Law School to become the George E. Allen Chair. Epstein has taught at a number of institutions both as a tenured professor and a visitor. He got his start at UNC, where he was hired by Dean Dickson Phillips - who later became a Fourth Circuit Judge (and for whom I clerked.)
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Location 9°9'42.36"N, 79°50'15.67"W

Parameters: air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, sea surface temperature, solar radiation (pyranometer), air pressure, soil moisture, runoff, potential evapotranspiration, wet/dry season starting dates

Lutz catchment is a 9.73ha protected watershed on BCI

The Lutz tower was built in 1972 and was originally 42m. In 2002 it was increased to 48m

The data from 48m should be considered a separate data series from the data at 42m. Wind speed is significantly higher at 48m due to the distance to the top of the canopy.

The Clearing is a small, open area surrounded by forest and some buildings. Station established in 1972. Consists of a Stevenson screen with max/min thermometers and air pressure sensor. Temperature/humidity sensor, rain gauge and evaporation sensors are located at various locations around the screen.


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