Scott Alexander Siskind
Scott Alexander is a psychiatrist and writer based on the US West Coast who currently works at Lorien Psychiatry and authors the blog Astral Codex Ten on Substack. He is best known for his influential writing on science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and artificial intelligence, originally under the blog Slate Star Codex, which he launched in 2013 and deleted in 2020 amid a dispute with the New York Times over the publication of his real name. He is a central figure in the rationalist community and is widely read among technology and Silicon Valley audiences. He writes under the pen name Scott Alexander, with his full legal name being Scott Alexander Siskind.
“Scott Alexander, I think, has written a very good post that makes you feel this particular wave crashing over you of like, imagine in the future, if there are like people in other galaxies and they think they read all the history of what was the creation of powerful AI like. And they're like every single character that was even marginally related is like a celebrity.”
Source→“"There's this strange, interesting essay by this guy, Scott Alexander, is like rationalist blogger. And he has this essay called the lottery of fascinations."”
Source→“All of these incredible bloggers who had changed people's lives and who had huge readerships like Scott Alexander were doing it for free rather than being rich as they deserved to be.”
Source→“All of these incredible bloggers who had changed people's lives and who had huge readerships like Scott Alexander”
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