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The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind, a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist, under the pen name Scott Alexander. Slate Star Codex was launched in 2013, and was discontinued on June 23, 2020, as Alexander feared doxing (publication of his full name) in a New York Times article.
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.
Jul 11, 2024 · Scott Alexander is the pen-name of LessWrong-rationalist blogger and psychiatrist Scott Alexander Siskind. Alexander began writing on LessWrong under the name Yvain, and then branched out into his own blog, Slate Star Codex (a near-anagram of "Scott Alexander").
5 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.
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.
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.
