Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about his political transformation, as well as the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and the timeline for the singularity/AGI. Anatoly Karlin used to blog at Unz until 2021, and has a new substack blog, Nooceleration, focused on Artificial intelligence. Follow Anatoly on Twitter.
Topics:Anatoly’s ideological transformation from a Russian nationalist to a neoliberal globalist, and why he has no use for the RightAnatoly’s prediction that the Ukraine war would happen in December, 2021 (referenced in New York Times), though he was wrong in predicting that the war would be shortWhy the war will likely remain a stalemate, unless there is some technological breakthroughAnatoly’s disillusionment with Putin’s RussiaWhy neutrality is the sane position for both the Ukraine vs Russia and Israel vs. Gaza conflictsWhy large-scale escalation of the Mideast conflict is unlikely in a conventional timeline, though an AGI alignment timeline increases the riskIs the Israel/Gaza War the end of the Liberal-Zionist Alliance? (Woke anti-Zionists hate Israel/Jews due to their Whiteness)Whether wokeness is waning and being replaced by outright establishmentarianismAnatoly’s correct prediction that the election would be Trump vs. Biden, and why he still predicts that Biden will winWhy Anatoly is more bearish on China’s economic and soft power after previously being a China bullReasons to be relatively bullish on the US, primarily because its the center of AIWhy the culture wars are unimportant looking at the big pictureThe major problems with AI accelerationismThe economic impacts of AI and crisis of overproductionWhy the solution to AI is not government regulation but rather investing in the biosphere, plus reforming the hardware based on a public blockchain