I am a blogger and independent researcher. My background is in economics, and I have been writing about a wide range of topics from geopolitics to transhumanism since 2008.
Some concepts I came up with: Apollo’s Ascent, Katechon Hypothesis, The Age of Malthusian Industrialism, Elite Human Capital, Nooceleration.
I’m also present on X, Bluesky, and YouTube. My Ethereum identity is akarlin.eth.
Projects
My website akarlin.com has more details about my main projects, which are currently mostly focused on:
(1) Anatoly Karlin’s Blog: Here I write about world politics, life extension, reprogenetics, transhumanism, history, and anything else that catches my interest.
(2) Nooceleration: I am expanding my article The Biosingularity is Near into a book. Its main thesis is that human intelligence enhancement is preferable to a dysgenics-driven Dark Age or the AI paperclips. More details, including a chapter plan, here.
(3) Sophia DAO: Opening up the human intelligence enhancement space to crypto investors and front-running Nooceleration.
(4) Frozen Embers: Sci-fi novel (trilogy) in a universe where the Katechon Hypothesis turns out to be all too true.
Best Posts
My website akarlin.com also hosts my from 2008-2023, which can be explored either as a structured archive, or by Best Posts and Featured Posts.
Here are some of the highlights over the years:
Biosingularity/IQ
The Biosingularity is Near (2024): Solve intelligence - solve everything else!
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.
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?
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.
Русская Ноосфера 2.0 (2020): Probably most comprehensive article on Russian regional IQ patterns. In Russian.
Library
The Katechon Hypothesis (2019): What if the universe’s calculating space is limited?
Top 25 Cool Demographics Facts (2019): Did you know?
The Yaroslavl Rebellion: 16 Days of Freedom (2018): History of a revolt against Bolshevism.
A World of 1,000 Nations (2017): Early musings on fragmentation.
PEW Confirms “Soviet Freezer” Theory (2018): My take on “Bioleninism.”
Russia’s Technological Backwardness (2018): Russia’s troubles were obvious in hindsight.
Introduction to Comprehensive Military Power (2015): Quantifying military power.
The 5 Types of Russian American (2012): Humor.
Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History (2009): Towards a science of history.
Intellectual Restructuring (2023): My deep lore and my current positions.
My Fiction
WAGMI: The %TOTAL Maximizer (2021): AI doom through crypto.
The website also contains structured lists of my book ratings, podcasts, research, predictions, and travel writing.
Ideology
Though I always shied away from labels, as of 2024 you can probably classify me as an anarcho-lib. I generally support free markets, social liberalism, Open Borders, cryptocurrencies and DeSci, and extreme bioliberalism. I am bullish on and want to accelerate biology (bio/acc), radical life extension, and human intelligence enhancement (“nooceleration”). My political utopia is to replace the world’s nation-states with network states, running on a decentralized global constitutional trust layer that offers a global UBI from taxes on transactions and safe AI compute.
RationalWiki
I also share the mainstream scientific view on intelligence and hereditarianism, and support voluntary/positive eugenics.
This commitment to good epistemics and practical transhumanism has created some minor problems for me. If you search my name on Google, one of the first results will be an unsalutary profile about me at RationalWiki. This is primarily the work of a British individual called Oliver D. Smith (ODS), who abandoned the Neo-Nazism of his youth to engaged in a persistent campaign of smears, libel, and harassment against me and other intelligence bloggers/researchers at RationalWiki, a website with negligible editorial standards that Google privileges in its search rankings, as well as at lesser known wikis, blogs, and forum posts.
The vast bulk of what is attributed to me at RationalWiki is maliciously misquoted, and at times simply made up. My standard response is to direct readers to my statement on ODS/RationalWiki, as well as the City Journal and Cancel Watch articles about this individual.
