Anatoly Karlin is a blogger and independent researcher who has been writing about a wide range of topics from world politics to transhumanism since 2008.
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My main current projects include:
- Nooceleration: Book making the case for radical human intelligence enhancement (IQ/acc).
- Frozen Embers: Post-apocalyptic sci-fi series.
- Radical life extension and intelligence enhancement activism!
This website serves as a repository of my writing, as well as hosting lists of my reviews, podcasts, research, predictions, and travel writing. Some of my best posts are linked to below.
Geopolitics
- Anthropic Shadow Geopolitics (2025): Geopolitics may cancel AGI doom.
- A World of 1,000 Nations (2017): Early musings on fragmentation.
- Introduction to Comprehensive Military Power (2015): Quantifying military power.
Russia
- Russia’s Technological Backwardness (2018): Russia’s troubles were obvious in hindsight.
- The 5 Types of Russian American (2012): Humor.
History
- The Yaroslavl Rebellion: 16 Days of Freedom (2018): History of a revolt against Bolshevism.
- Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History (2009): Towards a science of history.
Philosophy
- The Biosingularity is Near (2024): Solve intelligence – solve everything else!
- The Cognitive Chain of Being (2019): On animal rights.
- The Age of Malthusian Industrialism (2019): What if low IQ & natalism are selected for over several centuries?
- The Katechon Hypothesis (2019): What if the universe’s calculating space is limited?
Politics
- Trumpism: Can’t Get Fooled Again (2024): Jail programmed for the Tech Right.
- Intellectual Restructuring (2023): My deep lore and my current positions.
- PEW Confirms “Soviet Freezer” Theory (2018): My take on “Bioleninism.”
My Fiction
- WAGMI: The %TOTAL Maximizer (2021): AI doom through crypto.
Intelligence
- The Idiocy Of The Average (2018): Why intelligence matters?
- The Geography of the Noosphere (2019): Global innovation is critically reliant on a small cognitive smart fraction.
- Top 25 Cool Demographics Facts (2019): Did you know?
- Coffee Salon Demographics (2018): Why are some communities so intellectually productive?
- National Wealth and IQ at the Edge: American Exceptionalism, East Asian Mediocrity (2015): Why are Americans richer than Europeans?
- Apollo’s Ascent (2015): Explaining historical innovation patterns.
- Race Denial vs. Racism – A False Dichotomy (2012): Endorsed by James Flynn.
- Русская Ноосфера 2.0 (2020): Probably most comprehensive article on Russian regional IQ patterns. In Russian.