Want to dive into Scott Alexander's work and his thousands of blog posts? This fan website lets you sort and do semantic search through the whole codex. Enjoy!

See also Top Posts and All Tags.

Or pick a range
–
min
Blog
Only
Year
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
Include tag...
Exclude tag...
Links to
Filter by linked site (twitter, substack…)
Remember which posts I've read on this device
4 posts
Date
Length
Likes
Comments

Your Book Review: How Language Began

The review examines Daniel Everett's 'How Language Began', which challenges Chomsky's linguistic theories and proposes an alternative view of language as a gradual cultural invention.

acx
Jul 19, 2024 11,773 words 242 likes 633 comments Listen · 79 min Read Read

Your Book Review: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep

A review of 'The Family That Couldn't Sleep' by D. T. Max, discussing its exploration of prion diseases and their impact, with updated perspectives on the book's conclusions.

acx
Jul 12, 2024 11,039 words 171 likes 131 comments Listen · 58 min Read Read

Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences

Scott Alexander critiques Adam Grant's article on gender differences in tech, arguing Grant misrepresents evidence and ignores key factors like innate interest differences between men and women.

ssc
Aug 7, 2017 6,903 words 0 likes 3 comments Listen · 69 min Read Read

The Control Group Is Out Of Control

Scott Alexander critiques a meta-analysis supporting psychic phenomena to illustrate flaws in scientific methodology and meta-analysis.

ssc
Apr 28, 2014 4,998 words 0 likes 197 comments Listen · 38 min Read Read
Per page:
Showing 1 to 4 of 4 results
Get these search results in an EPUB

Your filters match 4 posts.

Posts to include
–
Leave empty to keep the defaults. Range cannot exceed 500 posts.
Download now

Generates an EPUB right now and downloads it to your device.

Send to email

Generates an EPUB in the background and emails you a temporary download link.

Your email is not shared with anyone.

Email address

To send to your Kindle, just use this link.