Concept
Slate Star Codex
Overview
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.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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All this being laid down, the only thing remaining to settle chronology is to see through what star the colure of the equinoxes passes, and where it intersects at this time the ecliptic in the spring; and to discover whether some ancient writer does not tell us in what point the ecliptic was intersected in his time, by the same colure of the equinoxes. Clemens Alexandrinus informs us, that Chiron, who went with the…
Voltaire, Letters on England
Close in meaning to Slate Star Codex; the term itself is not named.
x.): “While one star (mazzal) completes its circuit in thirty days, another completes it in thirty years.” They have thus clearly expressed it, that even each individual being in this world has its corresponding star. Although the influences of the spheres extend over all beings, there is besides the influence of a particular star directed to each particular species; a fact noticed also in reference to the several…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
Close in meaning to Slate Star Codex; the term itself is not named.
In point of fact it actually seems to grow by our mental determinations, be these never so 'true.' Take the 'great bear' or 'dipper' constellation in the heavens. We call it by that name, we count the stars and call them seven, we say they were seven before they were counted, and we say that whether any one had ever noted the fact or not, the dim resemblance to a long-tailed (or long-necked?) animal was always truly…
William James, The Meaning of Truth
Close in meaning to Slate Star Codex; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Feudalism
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- Game theory
- Jonathan Haidt
- Philosophy
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Politics
- Peter Singer
- Science
- The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- Effective altruism
- New Statesman
- Steven Pinker
- Oxford University Press
- Scott Aaronson
- Rationalist community
- LessWrong
Place in the tradition
Part of Rationalism.