Slate Star Codex is a blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism. SSC Abridged is a curated selection of 84 of Scott's best essays. Coming out to 800 pages and half a million words, this represents one eighth of the content he's posted on his blog between its inception in 2013 and its abeyance in 2020. Note that this version contains all of the original images in full color.