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The Cognitive Chain of Being: A New Approach to Animal Rights
Quantifying An Ethics of Animal Rights, or: Why I Avoid Pork For Non-Islamic, Non-Jewish Reasons
•�February 28, 2019
•�5,400 Words •�266 Comments
Most normal, civilized people living today would agree that reducing animal suffering is a worthy goal. But how do we to go about it? We can at least all agree, at a minimum, that plants don't have sentience, so veganism is one philosophically and logically consistent option. The problem is that while there are some... Read More
AOMI IV: What Is the Maximum Population Earth Can Support?
•�January 30, 2019
•�4,600 Words •�272 Comments
This is the fourth in a series of posts about the demographics of the coming Age of Malthusian Industrialism. In the decades and centuries to come, technological progress will slow to a crawl, as dysgenic reproduction patterns deplete the world's remaining smart fractions (assuming that there are no abrupt discontinuities in humanity's capacity for collective... Read More
Book Review: Joseph Tainter - the Collapse of Complex Societies
•�October 28, 2018
•�4,800 Words •�123 Comments
Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies (1998) Rating: 5/5 Notes: Can be downloaded here. Access my other reviews here: TLDR: Joseph Tainter argues that the root cause of civilizational collapse is because of over-investment into and declining marginal returns on complexity. Societies invest in complexity to solve their problems and typically need to... Read More
Happening: Brazil Elections Round 2
•�October 27, 2018
•�800 Words •�38 Comments
You can discuss the Brazilian elections in this thread. The polls say that it will almost certainly be Bolsonaro. PredictIt is giving him a 95% chance. *** Brazil seems to be an exception to the pattern in the rest of the world where the richest and most intelligent reject the Far Right. But is this... 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.