You can send feedback at contact~at~readscottalexander.com. This website isn't directly affiliated with Scott Alexander or his blogs, Astral Codex Ten or Slate Star Codex.

Why this website?

I have been a fan of Scott's writing for years and reading his work has really expanded my intellectual worldview, and empathy for others. My partner and I are one of those people that read Scott's blogs as a romantic bonding activity. (This summer when friends heard that our date plan was to go to the beach and "read statistics" they looked at us funny. Look, it works for us!)

When it's already late and we need a quick bedtime story it can be hard to find a short post, so I thought maybe I could make a quick website with a filter that would show me posts shorter than 20 minutes to read.

That initial project has grown a bit out of hand...

How does Scott feel about this website existing?

All the writing obviously fully belongs to Scott Alexander and this website wouldn't exist without him putting it out there. Again, you should go support him if you can. The robots.txt file is set to disallow crawling of the posts here, so Google should still direct people to the main blogs when looking for specific articles. I'm in the process of contacting Scott to make sure he's ok with the blog being readable here as well, otherwise just the search will remain.

EDIT: I'm happy to report Scott said he was "definitely okay" with this!

EDIT 2: The website has now been mentioned by Scott in an Open Thread.

Donating and supporting

Find how you can support this website over here.

(The TLDR is to subscribe to Scott Alexander before anything else then donate if you'd like - go read the donation page if you want more context.)

How does this website work?

You can find technical details on how the website works over here, and cost analysis on the donation page.

Feedback and feature requests

If you have any feedback or feature requests, please let me know! I can't promise I'll implement them, but hearing about how you use the website and what you'd like to see is very valuable to guide future development. You can reach me at contact~at~readscottalexander.com.

Other community SSC/ACX projects

If you have a project related to Scott's work and want me to list it here, send me an email and I'll be happy to add it to the list.

• Jenn has worked on categorizing book reviews and built an archive for SSC book reviews with more metadata than is available here.
• The SSC podcast has audiobook versions of most of the articles. You can find the podcast over here and their patreon over here.
• ACXReader is a really fast website where you can read ACX posts.
• This github project allows to extract SSC and ACX into ebooks to read offline.

Privacy policy

You can register to save your read history and your favorite articles. Your data will only be used to provide you this service and will never be sold to anyone. It's hosted in the EU. If you want to delete your account, you can reach out to contact~at~readscottalexander.com.