Slate Star Codex
Screenshot of the Slate Star Codex home page prior to deletion | |
Type of site | Blog |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Successor | Astral Codex Ten |
| Created by | Scott Alexander |
| URL | www www |
| Launched | February 12, 2013 |
| Current status | Active (as Astral Codex Ten, Slate Star Codex is online but inactive) |
Astral Codex Ten (ACX), formerly Slate Star Codex (SSC), is a blog focused on science, medicine (especially psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog is 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 temporarily discontinued on June 23, 2020. In July 2020 the blog was partially back online, with the content restored but commenting disabled. The successor Substack blog, Astral Codex Ten, was launched on January 21, 2021.