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Nationalism Is Implicitly Transhumanist
•�May 31, 2021
•�1,000 Words •�299 Comments
Transhumanism, at its most basic level, is about extending human capabilities through technology. In a sense, it has always been with us since at least the invention of fire. As David Landes notes, the invention of eyepieces in Renaissance Italy de facto doubled the productive life expectancy of artisans that relied upon fine motor skills... Read More
Obninsk & Borovsk 2019
•�December 14, 2019
•�1,900 Words •�28 Comments
I have long wanted to make a "pilgrimage" to Borovsk, home to the museum-apartment of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, one of the three major thinkers - along with Nikolay Fyodorov and Vladimir Vernadsky - who could be said to be the fathers of Russian Cosmism, which is the precursor to modern transhumanism. Fortunately, to reach Borovsk, the... Read More
Moscow Geek Picnic 2019
•�July 16, 2019
•�1,300 Words •�31 Comments
The past weekend saw the ninth Geek Picnic. This is an annual Russian science/sci-fi festival where technologists and futurists come together to hear lectures presentations, see tech exhibits, and do other futuristic things. I decided to come to this one to see what's it's all about. Some of you may have followed my Twitter thread... Read More
Transgenderism & Transhumanism
•�July 10, 2019
•�200 Words •�138 Comments
Both futurist progressives and right-wing obscurantists (such as Dreher and Dugin) often regard transgenderism as a subset of transhumanism. This gets it 100% backwards. At current tech levels, gender reassignment surgery is just glorified mutilation. Transhumanism is about human augmentation, not incapacitation. You don't augment yourself in any way whatsoever by transitioning towards an ersatz... Read More
The Dawn of Animal Uplift
•�April 11, 2019
•�500 Words •�77 Comments
All the cool biopunk stuff seems to be happening in China these days: Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter Here is the paper in question: Shi, Lei, Xin Luo, Jin Jiang, Yongchang Chen, Cirong Liu, Ting Hu, Min Li, et al. 2019. “Transgenic Rhesus Monkeys Carrying the... Read More
Best Political Compass Yet
•�August 28, 2018
•�100 Words •�12 Comments
Sacred Digital: It is based on this old video by up and coming Russian vlogger Kirill Nesterov.
Feasibility of Transhumanist Techs
•�August 4, 2018
•�1,400 Words •�85 Comments
Pursuant to the discussions at the last big thread, I am making a quick post with my assessments of how realistic various "transhumanist" spheres of technology are. *** Has been, is, and will continue to happen - and will affect lower-IQ occupations sooner. Since it takes IQ to design and maintain the robots, this will... Read More
Virgin Primitivist vs. Chad Transhumanist
•�December 12, 2017
•�100 Words •�47 Comments
A couple of memes that you can only find in the most autistically glorious corners of /pol/. If we view history as an evolutionary competition between societies and ideas, it seems obvious that primitivism would be the most self-defeating - and consequently, self-refuting - ideology on the planet. While transhumanism is accelerationism maxed, the most... Read More
Paper Review: Artificial Wombs
•�April 30, 2017
•�600 Words •�42 Comments
Partridge, Emily et al. - 2017 - An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb *** Abstract: This is really cool. I have been ad
Paper Review: Crispening CRISPR
•�April 5, 2017
•�200 Words •�4 Comments
Tang, Lichun et al. 2017 CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human zygotes using Cas9 protein Abstract: Gwern Branwen's comments: Back in February 2015, qualia researcher Mike Johnson predicted that dedicated billionaire with scant regard for legalistic regulations could start
H+ Debate in SF East Bay on Feb 6, 2016
•�January 13, 2016
•�400 Words •�23 Comments
Organized by IEET and Brighter Brains (Hank Pellissier). I'll be participating in one or perhaps two of them. My positions, briefly: Immigration/Open Borders - Opposed, and not even just from an HBD/"waycist" perspective. See Immigration and Effective Altruism. UBI - For it, and not even just from an automation perspective. See The Ethnic Politics of... Read More
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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
I Talk Alt Left on the Stark Truth
•�November 11, 2015
•�500 Words •�17 Comments
Robert Stark is a journalist who specializes in interviewing various interesting figures from the Alt fringes. So you could I suppose view him as The Unz Review but on radio. This is my second interview with him. Here is a link to the first. Robert Stark interviews Anatoly Karlin. Topics were my standard fare: NRx... Read More
Spellchecked Supermen
•�February 12, 2015
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Founded by eight NASA scientists, the Rainbow Mansion is a kind of academic coop, where you have to demonstrate you're working on something interesting to get a rental agreement. The building itself is true to its name, a mansion spacious within, and surrounded by lush gardens without. Every week they host a group dinner, followed... Read More
"Transhuman Visions" Conference @SF, Feb 1, 2014
•�November 15, 2013
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This conference is organized by brain health and IQ researcher Hank Pellissier, and its aim is to bring all kinds of quirky and visionary folks - "Biohackers, Neuro-Optimists, Extreme Futurists, Philosophers, Immortalist Artists, Steal-the-Singularitarians" - together in one place and have them give speeches and interact with each other and the interested public. One of... Read More
Sublime Oblivion - What Might be Is
This is the first in a series of philosophical essays in which I outline my philosophy of Sublime Oblivion. Here I...
•�January 9, 2009
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Here I outline one of the core philosophies of Sublime Oblivion. I demonstrate the indivisibility of the material and Platonic worlds and show that our universe is almost certainly a computer simulation nested within an abstract computer program or simulacrum, the truth that hides that there is none. The consequences of these results are explored.... 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.