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Scott Alexander

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Scott Alexander Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Scott Alexander photo

Scott Alexander

Birthname

AKA: Scott Alexander

Birthday: July 10, 1989

Nationality: United Kingdom, United States Of America

Occupations: Film Director, Screenwriter, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty, and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity.”

— Larry Flynt, The People vs. Larry Flynt

Tagged: Obscenity, Sex, ugly, dirty, War

“[Timothy Leary] During his later life, he wrote books about how the human brain had hidden circuits of consciousness that would allow us to live in space, including a quantum overmind which could control reality and break the speed of light.”

— Scott Alexander, Why Were Early Psychedelicists So Weird?

Tagged: Psychedelics, Wierd

“ I would like to give people another perspective on events like Tumblr banning female-presenting nipples or Patreon dropping right-wing YouTubers or Twitter constantly introducing new algorithms that misfire and ban random groups of people. These companies aren’t inherently censorious. They’re just afraid. Everyone is afraid.”

— Scott Alexander, RIP Culture War Thread

Tagged: Tumblr, Media Cliff Notes

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