Slate Star Codex

Slate Star Codex
Screenshot of the Slate Star Codex home page prior to deletion
Type of site
Blog
Available inEnglish
Successor(s)Astral Codex Ten
Created byScott Alexander
URLwww.slatestarcodex.com [formerly]
astralcodexten.substack.com [currently]
LaunchedFebruary 12, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-02-12)
Current statusActive (as Astral Codex Ten, Slate Star Codex is online but inactive)

Astral Codex Ten, formerly called Slate Star Codex (SSC), is a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog is written by Scott Alexander Siskind,[1] a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist,[2] under the pen name Scott Alexander.

Slate Star Codex was launched in 2013, and was discontinued on June 23, 2020, after Alexander's doxing (publication of his full name) by the New York Times.[3] As of July 22, 2020, the blog is partially back online, with the content restored but commenting disabled. The successor blog, Astral Codex Ten (ACX),[2] was launched on Substack on January 21, 2021.

Alexander also blogged at the rationalist community blog LessWrong,[4] and wrote a fiction book in blog format named Unsong.[5]

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  5. ^ Yudelson, Larry; Palmer, Joanne; Adler, Leah (January 3, 2017). "The great American kabbalistic novel?". Jewish Standard. Archived from the original on July 7, 2023. Retrieved July 6, 2023.