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Slate Star Codex (SSC) is a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry ), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind, [ 1] a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist, [ 2] under the pen name Scott Alexander.
Jan 30, 2013 · SSC is the project of Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist on the US West Coast. You can email him at scott [at]slatestarcodex [dot]com. Note that emailing bloggers who say they are psychiatrists is a bad way to deal with your psychiatric emergencies, and you might wish to consider talking to your doctor or going to a hospital instead.
Sep 11, 2020 · Update On My Situation. Posted on September 11, 2020 by Scott Alexander. It’s been two and a half months since I deleted the blog, so I owe all of you an update on recent events. I haven’t heard anything from the New York Times one way or the other.
Feb 7, 2023 · Scott Alexander, a magician who competed in Season 6 of America’s Got Talent, died earlier this week after suffering a stroke.
6 days ago · Substack is the home for great culture. P (A|B) = [P (A)*P (B|A)]/P (B), all the rest is commentary. Click to read Astral Codex Ten, by Scott Alexander, a Substack publication.
Jan 31, 2015 · It should be in the center of the schoolyard, and have a plaque saying something like “Scott Alexander, who by making a herculean effort managed to pass Calculus I, even though they kept throwing random things after the little curly S sign and pretending it made sense.”
Feb 13, 2021 · Like many great blogs, not any one thing: it’s the eclectic interests of a unique individual with a broad intellectual appetite. Scott is a psychiatrist by profession, and some posts are about psychiatry, consciousness, and the brain. But he also writes about philosophy, politics, and science.
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Feb 13, 2021 · It was nominally a blog, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist who called himself Scott Alexander (a near anagram of Slate Star Codex). It was also the epicenter of a community called the...
This is a collection of some of the best essays written by psychiatrist and author Scott Alexander on his long-running blog, Slate Star Codex. They’re divided into several categories, such as “Science and Pseudoscience”, “Liberalism and Its Enemies”, “Medicine”, etc.
