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Longreads

Anthropic Shadow Geopolitics

The World May Get Very Weird and Lethal as AGI Timelines Contract

May 20, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

India v. Pakistan: Who Would Win?

Charting the Last Wars of the Human Era

May 10, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

The New Colossus

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Tropical Hyperborea, Operation Rake, and Manifest Destiny

Jan 10, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

Trumpism: Can’t Get Fooled Again

Why EHC Endorses Kamala Harris to Safeguard Our Democracy

Nov 2, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin

Euthanasia and Cryonic AutoSave

Individual Autonomy is Great, But Let's Use Cryonics to Cancel Permadeath Mode

Jun 13, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin

Anatoly Karlin's Blog

Anatoly Karlin's Blog

Anatoly has written about a wide range of topics from world politics to transhumanism since 2008.

Podcasts

Karlin Show

Open Thread 174

Newsletters

Sci-Fi Novel about a Subterranean Rogue Planet Earth

Odds and ends, flotsam and jetsam.

Karlin Show

37:47

Open Thread 174

Return to San Francisco, Trumpgrets, and New Video Format for Open Threads

May 6, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

1:57:18

Roko Wants You To Live on an Iceberg!

What is Stopping You From Moving to An Iceberg?

Feb 14, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin and Roko

1:06:25

Zelar City Blues

Seeding a Global Network of Longevity Pop-Up Cities From Berlin

Dec 23, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin

Interview: Are We Smart Enough to Solve Aging?

"The Biosingularity Is Near" in Video Format with Elias Schlie

Dec 22, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin and Elias Schlie

Reviews

Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

A Meditation on Capitalism, Violence, and Its Exchange Rate

Feb 4, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

Review: Prince of Thorns (Mark Lawrence)

War is a thing of beauty, as I’ve said before, and those who say otherwise are losing.

Jul 7, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin

Film Review: A Boy and His Dog (1975)

I finally watched the film that inspired the nuclear post-apoc aesthetic (vaultpunk?) from Fallout to Howey’s Silo.

Jun 11, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin

Travel

What is Stopping You From Moving to Málaga?

Mar 25, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

What is Stopping You From Moving to Europe’s DeSci Capital?

Dec 7, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin

Zapiski

The Party's Over

When Bitcoin Is at $124,000 You Are NOT Early

Aug 18, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

EHC Victory in Romania

Nationalists Don't Do Internationals

May 30, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

Snakes & Skyscrapers

Brainstorming: What Would a "Vitalist Cult" Look Like?

May 14, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

Elon’s Salutegate

To Deny the Nazi Salute is to Deny a Master Troll His Due

Jan 29, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

Frozen Embers

Influencers... Influencers Never Change

Feb 7, 2025 • Anatoly Karlin

FE Lore: The Great Bifurcation

Dated Sci-Fi Lore is What Peak Blogging Looks Like

Jul 2, 2024 • Anatoly Karlin

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