Karlin: Selected Writings

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.