Richard Kulisz

An expansion on Academia Is Shit Actually, the title should be 'fields of academe devoid of a single person even capable of logic' ...

Every time the topics of abortion and animal abuse come around, ignorant American twits come out of the woodwork to make up some crazy theor...

I've ranted about magical thinkers often enough, and I've had to explain what magic means often enough, that I should really just wr...

One of the most fundamental concepts in economics is the "utility function" that is supposed to represent a person's desires a...

Many ignorant Americans believe that "liberalism" is an unambiguously good thing. After all, doesn't every racist cracker hate...

[Some people may want to skip straight to instructions for making harmless AIs rather than reading about the many things wrong with that cr...

Case study: after some browsing I casually tossed my keyboard aside in such a way that the F1 key got pressed continuously by a cable. By th...

Scientific American has an article about time's arrow this month. I've written about this subject a month ago and I've known a...

The justification for a basic income is pretty simple and even obvious after you know about it. There's only so much land on the Earth. ...

Dave on reddit gave an excellent explanation of Why So Many Programmers Are Right-Libertarians , bringing up many good points. It wasn't...

Have you read anything by Julian May? Her Pliocene Exile series has dwarves, elves and magic powers. Only the dwarves and elves are really e...

Idiots parrot all the time how the Hydrogen Economy is going to save the status quo. To a first order analysis this is ludicrous since fuel ...

Eco-zealots always whine that if only so-called "renewable" sources of energy had gotten as much research & development money ...

There's been some worrying about wage inflation happening in odd places like Oklahoma . Let's straighten it out. Wage inflation is g...

Some eco-zealots claim the nuclear industry has an EROEI of 10 or 2 or even negative. Ha! The right way to think about EROEI is to invert it...

By Carolus Obscurus in response to a (poor) article on nuclear's EROEI . In spite of theoretical safety concerns, in practise in the Wes...

Or, There Is No Such Thing As "Anarcho"-Capitalism "Anarcho"-capitalists believe that property rights should trump human...

Qualities of a Body of Knowledge What are some relevant qualities by which we may judge the quality of a body of knowledge? We can start wit...

From a lovely little discussion I just had . There is a fundamental magical difference between anything artificial and anything natural. In ...

Some unredeemable fools claim that various and sundry economists, notably Friedrich Hayek, are "empirical". This is unbelievable b...