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, intelligence enhancement, and Zero Borders activism.
This website serves as a repository of my writing, as well as hosting lists of my book ratings, podcasts, research, predictions, travel writing, and sundry notes. 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.