Across every post, these are the external websites Scott Alexander links to most often. "Links" counts every hyperlink; "Posts" counts how many distinct articles link there.
1,500 domains · 30,738 links
Most amazon.com links are pointing to books. Astral Codex Ten links are excluded from the substack.com bin and grouped under astralcodexten.com, whether they use one domain name or the other.
| Domain | Links | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| slatestarcodex.com | 3,335 | 1,125 |
| wikipedia.org | 2,679 | 854 |
| astralcodexten.com | 2,948 | 557 |
| twitter.com / x.com | 1,825 | 443 |
| lesswrong.com | 775 | 397 |
| nih.gov | 1,038 | 328 |
| reddit.com | 733 | 320 |
| substack.com | 983 | 267 |
| amazon.com | 474 | 265 |
| nytimes.com | 313 | 225 |
| google.com | 404 | 214 |
| wordpress.com | 285 | 172 |
| vox.com | 254 | 159 |
| tumblr.com | 261 | 158 |
| washingtonpost.com | 198 | 143 |
| marginalrevolution.com | 192 | 139 |
| theguardian.com | 163 | 129 |
| sciencedirect.com | 188 | 127 |
| nature.com | 209 | 126 |
| youtube.com | 183 | 125 |
1,117 Twitter/X accounts · 1,796 links
| Account | Links | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| slatestarcodex | 40 | 30 |
| cremieuxrecueil | 26 | 20 |
| stuartjritchie | 20 | 18 |
| richardhanania | 17 | 13 |
| esyudkowsky | 15 | 13 |
| mattyglesias | 13 | 12 |
| kelseytuoc | 12 | 10 |
| garettjones | 11 | 10 |
| stevenkaas | 10 | 9 |
| eigenrobot | 9 | 9 |
| aella_girl | 9 | 8 |
| elonmusk | 8 | 8 |
| silvervvulpes | 8 | 8 |
| emollick | 11 | 7 |
| webdevmason | 8 | 7 |
| noahpinion | 7 | 7 |
| realdonaldtrump | 8 | 6 |
| sama | 8 | 6 |
| sapinker | 10 | 5 |
| gidmk | 8 | 5 |
450 Substacks · 925 links
| Substack | Links | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| freddiedeboer | 39 | 28 |
| benthams | 34 | 21 |
| thingofthings | 21 | 17 |
| richardhanania | 22 | 12 |
| thezvi | 17 | 11 |
| philosophybear | 13 | 10 |
| noahpinion | 11 | 9 |
| samkriss | 10 | 9 |
| aella | 11 | 8 |
| theinfinitesimal | 11 | 8 |
| nicholasdecker | 7 | 7 |
| denovo | 10 | 6 |
| erikhoel | 9 | 6 |
| progressandpoverty | 24 | 5 |
| sarahconstantin | 5 | 5 |
| doyourownresearch | 19 | 4 |
| garymarcus | 6 | 4 |
| benjaminjolley | 4 | 4 |
| forecasting | 4 | 4 |
| karlstack | 4 | 4 |
201 subreddits · 722 links
| Subreddit | Links | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| slatestarcodex | 264 | 130 |
| askreddit | 52 | 37 |
| nootropics | 28 | 13 |
| themotte | 20 | 13 |
| nootropicsdepot | 17 | 9 |
| dataisbeautiful | 9 | 8 |
| science | 8 | 8 |
| askhistorians | 7 | 7 |
| prospera | 8 | 5 |
| pics | 5 | 5 |
| todayilearned | 5 | 5 |
| wtf | 6 | 4 |
| iama | 4 | 4 |
| machinelearning | 4 | 4 |
| worldnews | 4 | 4 |
| georgism | 4 | 3 |
| etymology | 3 | 3 |
| mensrights | 3 | 3 |
| news | 3 | 3 |
| philosophy | 3 | 3 |
142 WordPress blogs · 285 links
| Blog | Links | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| thingofthings | 24 | 23 |
| thezvi | 13 | 12 |
| westhunt | 13 | 12 |
| whyevolutionistrue | 12 | 10 |
| jaymans | 7 | 7 |
| hbdchick | 7 | 6 |
| srconstantin | 9 | 5 |
| educationrealist | 7 | 4 |
| familyinequality | 4 | 4 |
| spottedtoad | 4 | 4 |
| artir | 3 | 3 |
| meteuphoric | 3 | 3 |
| radishmag | 3 | 3 |
| randomcriticalanalysis | 3 | 3 |
| scientiasalon | 3 | 3 |
| terrytao | 3 | 3 |
| thewholesky | 3 | 3 |
| anarchopapist | 5 | 2 |
| feministphilosophers | 3 | 2 |
| occidentaltraditionalist | 3 | 2 |