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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"
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All those were the mainstream twenty years ago. He's just the last of the dinosaurs.
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>>25211512
Isn’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
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>>25211512
I 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.
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>>25211512
>thinks The Simpsons is as good as Shakespeare
that one's true though
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>>25211512
You can only become like this from performing a satanic ritual to summon a hard drive containing 10^32 yottabytes of CP.
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>>25211512
no idea, but sure looks weird. He looks like he took a whole tube of WWll era meth pills.
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>>25211512
Sounds to me like goodgoy libertarianism with a few safe-edgy takes thrown in.
>>staunch atheist but a mind-body dualist and free-will libertarian
This isn't as weird as you might think. Free will is incompatible with physicalism.
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>>25211512
This is only 1% of the power level that anarcho-capitalism can provide you with, once you escape the limiting clutches of the Austrian school.
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>>25211512
Half of those are just normal opinions anyone sane has (opposing foreign policy and Israel) or just normal things worded in a sensationalist manner.
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>>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.
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>>25211512
>anarcho-capitalist
based
>open-borders immigration policy, including letting Palestinians into Israel en masse
cringe
>thinks torturing evil people to death is a moral duty
based
>thinks torturing babies and animals is acceptable because they're dumb
>anti-abortion
contradictory
>thinks The Simpsons is as good as Shakespeare
based
>wants to birth and raise multiple genetic clones of himself
based
>believes that almost all mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, are just exotic preferences
based
>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
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>>25212933
Why would an anarcho capitalist want borders?
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>>25211708
>goodgoy
He's half jewish.
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>>25213046
Have you read Hoppe, bro? Hoppe said something about this, probably?



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