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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 wasis 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]]'', in what Alexander and his supporters referred to as [[doxing]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> {{As of|2020|July|22|df=US}}, the blog is partially back online, with the content restored but commenting disabled. The successor blog, '''''Astral Codex Ten''''' (ACX),<ref name=nytssc/> was launched on [[Substack]] on January 21, 2021.

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> A revised version of ''Unsong'' was published on May 24, 2024.<ref>{{Cite webCitation needed|lastdate=AlexanderNovember |first=Scott |title=Unsong Available In Paperback |url=https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/unsong-available-in-paperback |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=www.astralcodexten.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/Unsong-Scott-Alexander/dp/B0D57BYS3Y</ref>

== Notable posts ==