[Link] Still Alive - Astral Codex Ten

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169 [Link] Still Alive - Astral Codex Ten

21st Jan 2021

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This is a linkpost for https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

I.
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here, huge success
No, seriously, it was awful. I deleted my blog of 1,557 posts. I wanted to protect my privacy, but I ended up with articles about me in New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast. I wanted to protect my anonymity, but I Streisand-Effected myself, and a bunch of trolls went around posting my real name everywhere they could find. I wanted to avoid losing my day job, but ended up quitting so they wouldn't be affected by the fallout. I lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees. I accidentally sent about three hundred emails to each of five thousand people in the process of trying to put my blog back up.
I had, not to mince words about it, a really weird year.

The first post on Scott Alexander's new blog on Substack, Astral Codex Ten.

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[-]Maxwell Peterson4y270

YESSSSSSSSSS

[-]Dirichlet-to-Neumann4y140

Good news : slate star codex is up again.
Bad news : I've been singing "still alive" since this morning and it's driving me crazy.

[-]lsusr4y90

This is a good post even compared to Scott Alexander's typical post.

[-]Dirichlet-to-Neumann4y30

That's some great news !

[-]Baisius4y10

Does Scott's contract with Substack prevent automatic cross-posting here? I really do loathe Substack as a UI.

[-]ChristianKl4y100

We never had automatic crossposting with SlateStarCodex, so it's not trival to say that we should have it now with the new website.

[-]Baisius4y10

Interesting. I didn't realize that (wasn't active on LW at the time). Is Scott not interested in cross posting?

[-]ChristianKl4y70

Some of Scotts posts draw a lot of political discussion and there are concerns to what extend it's good to have those posts on LessWrong.

The decision to import posts was made on a case by case basis, I'm not sure whether by Scott or someone else.

[-]habryka4y100

Made by Scott. We gave him a tag he could apply to posts that would automatically cause that post to crosspost. Good chance we will set up something similar for the new blog (if possible).

[-]Dagon4y50

Inoreader lets me subscribe to the feed (URL https://astralcodexten.substack.com/feed/, which looks like standard RSS to me), so it doesn't seem that Substack is intentionally limiting access to their site.

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