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Slate Star Codex: Themes & Science
Astral Codex Ten (ACX), formerly Slate Star Codex (SSC), is a blog focused on science, medicine (especially psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog is written by Scott Alexander Siskind, a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist, under the pen name Scott Alexander.
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Slate Star Codex topic overview
The analysis highlights Themes and Science as prominent areas in the source structure around Slate Star Codex.
Related topics
55
Source areas
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Connected nodes
59
Extracted relationships
51
Concept neighborhoods
16
Bridge connections
59
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Content and themes · 23 topics
The New York Times controversy · 14 topics
Overview · 10 topics
Author · 8 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Available in
English
Created by
Scott Alexander
Current status
Active (as Astral Codex Ten, Slate Star Codex is online but inactive)
Launched
February 12, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-02-12)
Successor
Astral Codex Ten
Type of site
Blog
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Slate Star Codex connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Slate Star Codex shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Slate Star Codex → Alexander, Alexander's, As, But, Cohn, In June, Jackson, National Review, NYT, NYT's, Prior, Scott Alexander's, SSC, The Daily Beast, The New Statesman's Jasper, The New York Times, The Poynter Institute's David, The Verge, Tobias Hoonhout, We Another extracted example is Slate Star Codex → Alexander, Alexander's, CDC, COVID-19, Economist Tyler Cowen, Face Masks, For, Many, March, Much More Than You, PDF, Scott Alexander, Some, The, The New Statesman, The New Yorker, Wanted To Know. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Slate Star Codex
Top relations
related to The New York Times controversy· 21
Slate Star Codex → Alexander, Alexander's, As, But, Cohn, In June, Jackson, National Review, NYT, NYT's, Prior, Scott Alexander's, SSC, The Daily Beast, The New Statesman's Jasper, The New York Times, The Poynter Institute's David, The Verge, Tobias Hoonhout, We
related to Author· 17
Slate Star Codex → Alexander, Alexander's, CDC, COVID-19, Economist Tyler Cowen, Face Masks, For, Many, March, Much More Than You, PDF, Scott Alexander, Some, The, The New Statesman, The New Yorker, Wanted To Know
related to Effective altruism· 5
Slate Star Codex → Hours, In, LessWrong, Rethink Charity, The
Available in· 1
Slate Star Codex → English
Created by· 1
Slate Star Codex → Scott Alexander
Current status· 1
Slate Star Codex → Active (as Astral Codex Ten, Slate Star Codex is online but inactive)
Launched· 1
Slate Star Codex → February 12, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-02-12)
Successor· 1
Slate Star Codex → Astral Codex Ten
Type of site· 1
Slate Star Codex → Blog
URL· 1
Slate Star Codex → www.slatestarcodex.com [formerly] www.astralcodexten.com [currently]
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Slate Star Codex relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 51 structured relationships around Slate Star Codex. Examples in this analysis include Slate Star Codex → Available in → English and Slate Star Codex → Created by → Scott Alexander. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Object
Confidence
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Slate Star Codex
Available in
English
1.00
infobox
Slate Star Codex
Created by
Scott Alexander
1.00
infobox
Slate Star Codex
Current status
Active (as Astral Codex Ten, Slate Star Codex is online but inactive)
is better known than other animal rights organizations
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text
Slate Star Codex
related to Author
The
0.60
section
Slate Star Codex
related to Author
The New Statesman
0.60
section
Slate Star Codex
related to Author
The New Yorker
0.60
section
Slate Star Codex
related to Author
Alexander's
0.60
section
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Slate Star Codex bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Star, Slate and Blog. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Slate Star Codex
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Slate
Blog
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Ten
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slate star codex
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the new york times
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Slate Star Codex, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Slate Star Codex with Content and themes. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
Slate Star Codex — Content and themes· splits 36 ⟂ 24Slate Star Codex — The New York Times controversy· splits 45 ⟂ 15Slate Star Codex — Overview· splits 49 ⟂ 11Slate Star Codex — Author· splits 51 ⟂ 9
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Slate Star Codex
Nodes60
Edges59
Triples51
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Slate Star Codex to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Themes & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
