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Silicon Valley s safe space Cade Metz, New York Times Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, in New York, Jan. 7, 2017. The blog Slate Star Codex, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist, became the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists and a window into the psyche of many tech leaders. Then it disappeared. (Andrew White/The New York Times)Andrew White/NYT The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex. It was nominally a blog, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist who called himself Scott Alexander (a near anagram of Slate Star Codex). It was also the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists, a group that aimed to reexamine the world through cold and careful thought. ....