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Slate Star Codex Abridged

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Slate Star Codex is a blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism. SSC Abridged is a curated selection of 84 of Scott's best essays. Coming out to 800 pages and half a million words, this represents one eighth of the content he's posted on his blog between its inception in 2013 and its abeyance in 2020.

Note that this version contains all of the original images in full color.

1284 pages, ebook

Published February 2, 2021

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Scott Alexander

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This one is set up as Scott^^^Alexander


Scott Alexander is a pen name used by a blogger on The Slate Star Codex, Astral Codex Ten and other sites.

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January 22, 2026
Does not contain anything that isn't on the blog, and has a surprising number of formatting errors, dead links, etc. But if you want an easy way to have lots of SSC on your e-reader, this is that.
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October 17, 2021
A great collection of very far ranging essays with a few fiction bits here and there. I learned a lot. Scott Alexander is wise and smart and it feels fine to just read about what ever happened to interest him. I even ended up liking his book reviews.
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