Does Bryan Caplan have the weirdest beliefs of any living writer?>anarcho-capitalist>extreme foreign-policy pacifist>open-borders immigration policy, including letting Palestinians into Israel en masse>thinks torturing evil people to death is a moral duty>thinks torturing babies and animals is acceptable because they're dumb>anti-abortion>thinks The Simpsons is as good as Shakespeare>thinks Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey are almost certainly innocent>wants to birth and raise multiple genetic clones of himself>staunch atheist but a mind-body dualist and free-will libertarian>believes that almost all mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, are just exotic preferences>wrote a whole book on how evil feminism is>believes people should have as many kids as they can afford>says people who worry about AI are "paranoid">wrote a book titled "You Have No Right to Your Culture"
All those were the mainstream twenty years ago. He's just the last of the dinosaurs.
>>25211512Isn’t this just the logical conclusion of all the fad in polsci/phi up until a few years ago ?>transhumanist>ancap>weird beliefs on individuals
>>25211512I read some of his stuff after hearing about him from Huemer. They have some similar views, there is some logic to most of them, even thought I disagree with almost everything.
>>25211512>thinks The Simpsons is as good as Shakespearethat one's true though
>>25211512You can only become like this from performing a satanic ritual to summon a hard drive containing 10^32 yottabytes of CP.
>>25211512no idea, but sure looks weird. He looks like he took a whole tube of WWll era meth pills.
>>25211512Sounds to me like goodgoy libertarianism with a few safe-edgy takes thrown in.>>staunch atheist but a mind-body dualist and free-will libertarianThis isn't as weird as you might think. Free will is incompatible with physicalism.
>>25211512This is only 1% of the power level that anarcho-capitalism can provide you with, once you escape the limiting clutches of the Austrian school.
>>25211512Half of those are just normal opinions anyone sane has (opposing foreign policy and Israel) or just normal things worded in a sensationalist manner.
>>25211522>He's just the last of the dinosaurs.It's a tragedy that a clearly higher class of beings such as him have been displaced in favor of mind-melted chudcels. We need to rvtvrn to trvdvtivn.
>>25211512>anarcho-capitalistbased>open-borders immigration policy, including letting Palestinians into Israel en massecringe>thinks torturing evil people to death is a moral dutybased>thinks torturing babies and animals is acceptable because they're dumb>anti-abortioncontradictory>thinks The Simpsons is as good as Shakespearebased>wants to birth and raise multiple genetic clones of himselfbased>believes that almost all mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, are just exotic preferencesbased>wrote a whole book on how evil feminism is>believes people should have as many kids as they can afford>says people who worry about AI are "paranoid"based
>>25212933Why would an anarcho capitalist want borders?
>>25211708>goodgoyHe's half jewish.
>>25213046Have you read Hoppe, bro? Hoppe said something about this, probably?
