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Scott Alexander. Writer: The People vs. Larry Flynt. Scott Alexander was born on 16 June 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), American Crime Story (2016) and Ed Wood (1994).
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Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Scott Alexander (born June 16, 1963) and Larry Karaszewski ( / ˌkærəˈzjuːski /; born November 20, 1961) are an American screenwriting duo, best known for writing postmodern biopics with larger-than-life characters. They coined the term "anti-biopic" to describe the genre they invented: Movies about ...
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February 13, 2021 ·5 min read Scott Alexander is my favorite blogger. I’d like to recommend him to more people, but it’s hard to know where to start, since he’s written over 1,500 posts. A little while ago a friend asked me to make a list of my favorite pieces of his. So, here is a beginner’s guide to the writings of Scott Alexander. (I’ll refer to...
Like many great blogs, not any one thing: it’s the eclectic interests of a unique individual with a broad intellectual appetite. Scott is a psychiatrist by profession, and some posts are about psychiatry, consciousness, and the brain. But he also writes about philosophy, politics, and science. He writes in-depth book reviews, some of which are argu...
Scott writes with a rare combination of insight, humor, incisive clarity, relentless questioning, and (often) exhaustive data analysis. He asks big questions across a wide variety of domains and doesn’t rest until he has clear answers. No, he doesn’t rest until he can explain those answers to you lucidly. No, wait, he doesn’t rest until he can do t...
This guide is organized by topic. In each category I’ve highlighted a few posts that stood out in my memory. There isn’t any one place to start with Scott Alexander. Just pick a subject you’re interested in and start reading.
How to think, reason, and come closer to truth: 1. Beware The Man Of One Study.It’s easy to go wrong looking at a single scientific study. 2. Socratic Grilling. “One of the most important rationalist skills is ‘noticing your confusion’. But that depends on an even more important proto-skill of wanting things to make sense.”
How to have better discourse (and how to spot people who are arguing in bad faith): 1. Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor.On applying epistemological rigor in a biased way, demanding higher standards to justify ideas you don’t like. 2. All In All, Another Brick In The Motte.The “motte and bailey doctrine”, in which someone vacillates between a weak ...
More like meta-science, actually: the philosophy and practice of science. 1. The Control Group Is Out Of Control.The replication crisis in science; why science is hard; parapsychology as “the control group for science.” 2. 5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review. How an entire body of work in neuroscience went completely wrong. The co-authors of the paper that ...
Scott Alexander is a writer and producer, best known for 1408, Man on the Moon and Ed Wood . He attended the University of Southern California, and instructed screenwriting seminars at USC film school
Jun 25, 2021 · Scott Alexander was born June 16, 1963, in Los Angeles, and Larry Karaszewski was born November 20, 1961, in South Bend, Indiana. Both had childhoods with a deep fascination with movies, and getting lost in the land of make-believe. Their paths crossed for the first time at USC, where they were roommates.
May 30, 2023 · EXCLUSIVE : Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the famed writers, directors and producers who have thus far shard two Emmys, two PGA Awards, two WGA Awards, a USC Scripter Award and a Golden ...
Jul 25, 2023 · “American Crime Story” writer/producer Scott Alexander remembers the WGA strikes of 1988 and 2007 and told TheWrap that this time there’s “a sense of righteousness” as writers and actors ...
