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'''''Astral Codex Ten''''', formerly called '''''Slate Star Codex''''' (SSC), is a [[blog]] focused on [[science]], [[medicine]] (especially within [[psychiatry]]), [[philosophy]], [[politics]], and [[futures studies|futurism]]. The blog is written by Scott Alexander Siskind,<ref name="TheVerge"/> a [[San Francisco Bay Area]] [[psychiatrist]],<ref name=nytssc/> under the pen name Scott Alexander.
''Slate Star Codex'' was launched in 2013, and was discontinued on June 23, 2020, after Alexander's full name was published by the ''[[New York Times]]''
Alexander also blogged at the [[Rationalism#Contemporary_rationalism|rationalist]] community blog ''[[LessWrong]]'',<ref name="NewYorker" /> and wrote a fiction book in blog format named ''Unsong''.<ref name="Yudelson Palmer Adler 2017 r542">{{cite web |last1=Yudelson |first1=Larry |last2=Palmer |first2=Joanne |last3=Adler |first3=Leah |date=2017-01-03 |title=The great American kabbalistic novel? |url=http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-great-american-kabbalistic-novel/ |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=[[Jewish Standard]] |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707164130/https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-great-american-kabbalistic-novel/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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=== Controversies and memes ===
In "The Toxoplasma of Rage", Alexander discusses how controversies spread in media and social networks. According to Alexander, [[meme]]s that generate a lot of disagreement spread further, in part because they present an opportunity to members of different groups to send a [[Costly signaling theory in evolutionary psychology|strong signal]] of commitment to their cause. For example, he argues that [[PETA]] with its controversial campaigns is better known than other animal rights organizations such as [[Vegan Outreach]] because of this dynamic.<ref>{{Cite book|author1=[[Steve Omohundro]]|chapter=Costly Signaling|title=This idea is brilliant: lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know|others=Brockman, John, 1941-|date = 16 January 2018|isbn=9780062698216|edition= First |___location=New York|oclc=1019711625}}</ref> Alexander suggests that activists face a dilemma in that messages more likely to generate backlash will tend to reach a greater audience.<ref
* {{Cite news|last=Lewis|first=Helen|date=26 November 2015|title=If activists want real change they must ditch the dying cat|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/26/activists-dying-cat-paris-beirut-whataboutery|access-date=|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108142522/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/26/activists-dying-cat-paris-beirut-whataboutery|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Shiri's scissor===
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