Richard Kulisz

I just took another glance at this comic about gay rights and political progress a friend of mine gave me. At the time, I said I didn't...

I hate it when otherwise sane-seeming physicists start spouting trash about the Big Bang. You can tell they're doing it by rote, that th...

Okay, this rant is inspired by a story (which I won't recommend) that tried to one-up the standard "dodging asteroids" scene b...

This is me so you know not to expect your everyday rant. But ever wonder how the British like to proclaim the superiority of their nation? T...

I was reflecting on an earlier blog post about Complex Systems where I point out that theoretically there are only information, physical, e...

Hypnotism is an interesting phenomenon in the sense that it's something that I am utterly appalled at which others see as no big deal. H...

One of the things I collect is stories of science gone wrong. Respectable, and still respected, scientific experiments that are deeply flawe...

I just got a response by Elf Sternberg to an earlier post where I deride Eliezer Yudkowsky and his Friendly AI project . It's a big dis...

What are the sciences? A bunch of people come together, arguing about observations and argue back and forth between each other until they ar...

The Real History Of Physics Okay, I've been asked a question about how the big bang occurred. Now for those very few of you who understa...

What Is Overlearning Overlearning is a broad topic. Let's start first of all with just what is overlearning. Basically, it's conditi...

There's a tired old argument that keeps recurring over and over again whenever sane people encounter egotistical numbfucks (henceforth ...

There's a fairly interesting post about the limitations of reward seeking . Unfortunately, it's somewhat lacking in insight. I mean,...

This one doesn't bug me so much when average Americans or even Canadians do it. I don't expect much from eager citizens of the most ...

Swiss: I want a rail tunnel. no, you heard me right the first time! I WANT A RAIL TUNNEL. ummm, I want ... two rail tunnels? yeah, yeah I wa...

There's plenty of science in biology. Cladistics, measurements of the rate of evolution in the fossil and genomic records, the double hi...

In the previous blog entry , I explored what galactic colonization must inevitably look like to any civilization conducting it. Note that an...