Anatoly Karlin is a transhumanist interested in life extension, psychometrics and intelligence augmentation, X risks, AI alignment, geopolitics, crypto, network states, DeSci, artificial wombs, and animal uplift.
As of 2024, this is my main blog and I am also active on X at @powerfultakes.
You can contact me there or via email.
Best Posts
My personal website akarlin.com hosts a comprehensive archive of my work from 2008-2023. 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.
Current Projects
Apart from blogging, I currently have three main projects:
(1) Sophia DAO ⏩: Opening up the human intelligence enhancement space to crypto investors and accelerating the Biosingularity.
(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) Sublime Oblivion: Sci-fi novel (trilogy) in a universe where the Katechon Hypothesis turns out to be all too true.
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 cryptos at the following addresses:
Ethereum: akarlin.eth
Bitcoin: bc1qslyp5l99cf54t09xnx9dxk69xjqntlmfuvcr00
Solana: akarlin.sol
Although Substack does not currently support crypto, I will be happy to manually comp subscriptions in return for $BTC, $ETH, or stablecoin payments equivalent to the current $60 price of a yearly subscription. Just let me know in advance via email or Twitter, and send me the transaction ID. I also accept payments on the major ETH L2s such as Arbitrum, Optimism, and Polygon.
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.
