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.
You can contact me securely via this email.
I’m also present on X and YouTube.
My website akarlin.com contains lists of my my book ratings, podcasts, research, predictions, and travel writing.
Best Posts
That website hosts my blog archives 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:
Futurism & Transhumanism
The Biosingularity is Near (2024): Solve intelligence - solve everything else!
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?
HBD & IQ
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 Idiocy Of The Average (2018): Why intelligence matters?
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.
Philosophy, Politics, & Geopolitics
Intellectual Restructuring (2023): My deep lore and my current positions.
Top 25 Cool Demographics Facts (2019): Did you know?
The Yaroslavl Rebellion: 16 Days of Freedom (2018): History of a revolt against Bolshevism.
PEW Confirms “Soviet Freezer” Theory (2018): My take on “Bioleninism.”
Russia’s Technological Backwardness (2018): Russia’s troubles were obvious in hindsight.
A World of 1,000 Nations (2017): Early musings on fragmentation.
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.
My Fiction
WAGMI: The %TOTAL Maximizer (2021): AI doom through crypto.
Projects
For updates on my projects, visit akarlin.com. Apart from blogging, my main priorities for 2025 include:
(1) 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.
(2) Sophia DAO: Opening up the human intelligence enhancement space to crypto investors and front-running Nooceleration.
(3) Frozen Embers: Sci-fi novel (trilogy) in a universe where the Katechon Hypothesis turns out to be all too true.
Ideology
Though I have always shied away from labels, as of 2024 you can loosely assign me into the libertarianism, network states, and abundance bins. I 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 (“IQ/acc”).
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.
