Call for volunteers: Publishing the Sequences

Titling the collection "The Sequences" doesn't seem optimal.

I'm inclined to to agree. What do you suggest as alternative? Think of a good one and persuade Luke and Eliezer!

Absolutely. The " - " issue occurs in all of Eliezer's work (and to be fair most work by folks working with an ascii-like medium). We've recently prepared a manuscript for the first 17 chapters of Methods of Rationality to be sent off to be published as hard copy. In that source I performed the substitution :s/ - /---/g across the board.

I'll have to be a little more careful with some of the sequence conversion---that particular character combination also occurs in equations that we'll be manually converting to the LaTeX equation environment.

Bugs like this could be found in LaTeX source using regular expressions.

If a thing like this happens, it probably happens more than once in a long text. So when humans find a first example, computer could detect all remaining examples of the same pattern. (I don't recommend automatical fixing of these bugs, only reporting them.)

it's an entirely reasonable habit to have given that the hyphen is an ASCII character but dashes aren't

Hmm. I wonder if markdown should convert hyphens surrounded by spaces to dashes.

I like that image.

The tagline in the image looks like you're pointing out on the map where Eliezer is. A bit at sea, it looks like.

Where is this a map of, and what is the significance?

Agree with TheOtherDave, that's a very nice cover.

Also, I'm sure that those who designed it know what they are doing, but are there any intellectual property issues using Google Maps? (Assuming that the map is actually GMaps.)

Sending a private message with your email may be better for spam and privacy reasons:

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Volunteered.

Great. I have you down as covering "Math is Subjectively Objective" in accord with your preference.

As an aside, the trivial inconvenience of sending an email makes it generally less likely that I will sign up for things like this. I would much prefer an option of "post your email address in a coment on this thread".

Oh, of course. That would work too. I suppose it just didn't occur to me to enumerate all the options.

we also have a regular publications

Pluralisation error, plz fix typograhpy.

I sent an e-mail offering to volunteer about 24h ago - no reply so far?

I just replied to the last few volunteers. Do let me know (with your name or email) if you still haven't got a reply.

Shouldn't the title give some indication of the book's contents to people who don't already know what it is? Or at least have some sub-title for this purpose? "Thinking for dummies"? "Rational thought in theory and practice"?

Hopefully something along the lines of Vladimir's suggestions catches on.

I take it the job search for a LaTeX guru hasn't gone well?

That would be me. And Malo, Chris and Stan - we all do various LaTeX tasks remotely, part time. The LaTeX side of things is covered. What we are in particular need of volunteers for is proofreading, editing and creating bibliographies - the process of taking a rough .tex source through to a polished final product.