Anatoly Karlin is a blogger and independent researcher. My background is in economics, and I have been blogging about a wide range of topics from geopolitics to transhumanism since 2008.
My personal website akarlin.com hosts an archive of my prior work, and I am also active on X at @powerfultakes.
Projects
(1) Elite Human Capital (this website) is my current main blog where I write about politics, life extension, reprotech, transhumanism, history, and everything else that catches my interest.
(2) Nooceleration: Book extending Sophia DAO programmatic article The Biosingularity is Near to argue that human intelligence enhancement is preferable to dysgenics-driven Dark Age or the AI paperclips.
(3) Sophia DAO ⏩: Opening up the human intelligence enhancement space to crypto investors and accelerating the Biosingularity.
(4) Sublime Oblivion: Sci-fi novel (trilogy) in a universe where the Katechon Hypothesis turns out to be all too true.
Best Posts
Here are some of my best posts:
The Biosingularity is Near (2024): solve intelligence, solve everything else
The Idiocy Of The Average (2018): why intelligence matters
The Katechon Hypothesis (2019): what if the universe’s calculating space is limited?
Coffee Salon Demographics (2018): why are some communities so intellectually productive?
The Age of Malthusian Industrialism (2019): what if low IQ & natalism are selected for over several centuries?
Apollo’s Ascent (2015): explaining historical innovation patterns
The Cognitive Chain of Being (2019): on animal rights
Top 25 Cool Demographics Facts (2019): did you know?
Intellectual Restructuring (2023): deep lore & my current positions
That website is intermittently updated with project updates, book reviews, podcasts, research, predictions, travel writing, and sundry miscellanea that doesn’t belong to a newsletter.
Supporting My Work
The best way to support my blogging is to just buy a subscription to my Substack and/or my Twitter.
I also accept crypto at the following addresses:
Ethereum: akarlin.eth
Bitcoin: bc1qslyp5l99cf54t09xnx9dxk69xjqntlmfuvcr00
Solana: akarlin.sol
You can also send me fiat through Paypal.
RationalWiki
I am the victim of a persistent campaign of smears, libel, and harassment from a former Neo-Nazi called Oliver D. Smith (ODS) at RationalWiki, as well as at lesser known wikis, blogs, and forum posts.
My standard response is to direct readers to my statement on this as well as the CancelWatch article about this individual.