Est. 2026kotliarlab.com
KotliarLab
A workshop for questions, investigations, projects, and things worth understanding.
The lab / field note 00
Follow the question, not the format.
Kotliar Lab is a place to investigate ideas in public: to separate evidence from inference, record uncertainty, test predictions, and keep useful questions open long enough to understand them.
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Publication / current issue
WEEKLY
Five completed inquiries, one continuing thread, and a visible line between evidence and interpretation.
WEEKLY is the publication desk inside the lab. Issue 1 applies the working method across geopolitics, political movements, neuroscience, nutrition, and the history of science.
Open Issue 01Issue 01 / inquiry index
Questions on the table
- 01.1 How Many Men Can Ukraine Actually Mobilize? Demography
- 01.2 What Happens to MAGA After Trump? Political structure
- 01.3 If We Simulated Every Neuron, Would We Have a Brain? Brains + AI
- 01.4 How Much Protein Do We Actually Need? Research review
- 01.5 When Geologists Thought the Rocks Recorded Noah's Flood History of science
Continuing investigation / thread 01
Brains
+ AI
This investigation does not end with an issue. It accumulates definitions, thought experiments, objections, and evidence requirements over time.
- What counts as equivalence?
- Which biological details are computationally relevant?
- What observation could distinguish simulation from instantiation?