Slate Star Codex Abridged

by Scott Alexander

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.

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy

1284 pages, ebook

Published February 2, 2021

About the author

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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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Reviews

[Duncan]

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.

[Christopher]

The book reviews are especially good. I think Scott Alexander is one of the greatest essayists of our time. I was too young to read him before the Substack era so this collection was very convenient.

[J_BlueFlower]

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.