Scott Alexander
Psychiatrist who writes Astral Codex Ten, formerly Slate Star Codex, under the pen name Scott Alexander.
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- Scott Alexander is the pen name of a psychiatrist on the US West Coast.
- He wrote the blog Slate Star Codex from 2013 until June 2020, and launched its successor, Astral Codex Ten, in January 2021.
- The blog covers reasoning, science, psychiatry, medicine, AI, economics and politics, and grew out of the rationalist community.
- He also wrote Unsong, a serial novel about American kabbalists, and works on new models for mental health care at Lorien Psychiatry.
Key facts
- Name
- Scott Alexander is a pen name2
- Work
- Doctor on the US West Coast, working on new models for mental health care at Lorien Psychiatry1
- Slate Star Codex
- Launched in 2013; taken offline on 23 June 2020, with the content restored in July 2020 and comments disabled2
- Astral Codex Ten
- Successor blog on Substack, launched on 21 January 2021; topics include reasoning, science, psychiatry, medicine, ethics, genetics, AI, economics and politics1
- Fiction
- Unsong, a serial novel about alternate-history American kabbalists; a revised version was published on 24 May 20242
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