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Introduction to Apollo's Ascent
HBD, Hive Minds, and H+
•�November 11, 2015
•�5,000 Words •�85 Comments
Today is the publication date of Hive Mind, a book by economist Garett Jones on the intimate relationship between average national IQs and national success, first and foremost in the field of economics. I do intend to read and review it ASAP, but first some preliminary comments. This is a topic I have been writing... Read More
The Evolution of Chinese IQ
•�August 17, 2012
•�1,300 Words •�62 Comments
In the discussion at the previous post, in which I took exception to Ron Unz's theory of the East Asian Exception, he alerted me to so additional work on the matter he'd done as a Harvard freshman on Chinese IQ. You can read his summary of Social Darwinism and Rural China as well as Steve... Read More
Walled Off By Complexity: Did China Stagnate Because of Its Writing System?
•�May 7, 2011
•�2,500 Words •�62 Comments
One of the biggest questions in global history is why it was Western Europe that industrialized first, and ended up colonizing most of the rest of the world. As late as 1450, the possibility of such an outcome would have been ridiculed. By almost any metric, China was well in the lead through the medieval... Read More
Review of "War and Peace and War" by Peter Turchin
•�April 8, 2010
•�2,500 Words •�21 Comments
Then you might get something like Peter Turchin's War and Peace and War, which I've finally read on the recommendations of Kolya and TG. Ranging from Ermak's subjugation of the Sibir Khanate to the rise of Rome, Turchin makes the case that the rise and fall of empires is reducible to three basic concepts: 1)... Read More
Review of "Limits to Growth" by Donella Meadows et al.
•�February 16, 2010
•�4,300 Words •�8 Comments
If I could recommend just one book to someone with a business-as-usual outlook, someone who believes human ingenuity and free markets will always bail us out of any resource scarcity or environmental problem, it would be Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (henceforth LTG). After reading it, you may never look at the world in... Read More
Ecotechnic Dictatorship Is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
•�January 31, 2010
•�6,500 Words •�40 Comments
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why the only realistic way to prevent collapse now is to force through a "sustainable retreat"... Read More
The Belief Matrix
•�July 20, 2009
•�3,700 Words •�9 Comments
Consequent to my post Categorizing the Russia Debate and the lively debate it spawned, it occurred to me that much of Russia's tortured and intriguing history could be rationalized as a self-reinforcing loop within a belief matrix. This can even be extended further to many other societies - I will also have similar posts up... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.