Bryan Caplan & Yaron Discuss Housing -- Build, Baby Build | Yaron Interviews

I liked this interview. Bryan seems like an honest guy who takes thinking seriously.

Great show!

Bryan said he never made a choice to be heterosexual and this non-choice helps in his thinking that instincts in humans are real.

Those sexual proclivities are value judgments made on a subconscious level long before we have the proper context to understand or control the outcome. When we're so young that our value judgments can't possibly be made explicit to us, it doesn't mean that these value judgments aren't happening.

This is why trauma at a young age can shape a child's entire outlook on the world. When these children eventually grow up and maybe go and see a psychologist to better understand and reshape their faulty premises, what the psychologist will do is have the patient recollect the event while putting the entire event into a fuller context. A context they originally didn't have when they were children. Children don't know stuff and can easily draw wrong conclusions at young ages. This is not me saying being straight or gay is wrong, either. I'm merely saying that those choices exist, they're just on an subconscious level so they appear fated.

This is just what I've gathered on my own, btw, I'm not trained or anything in any of this stuff.

Thanks!

It is always a pleasure to be a fly on the wall to Mr. Caplan’s conversation. Thanks, Mr. Brook for hosting!

Caplans attack on advocating free speech merely as a slogan, rather than as a generalization from concretes is basically Peikoffs claim, in_Understanding Objectivism_, that rationalism is holding ideas as mystical ideals with abstraction from concretes.

Brook and Caplan together make mainstream economic reporting seem like insanity.

A Pragmatist chaos of controls and freedom is used by control advocates to claim that controls cause the good things that freedom really caused. But ideologically total controls are easily known as destructive. Theres no freedom to blame.

Some academics deny slippery slopes as propaganda for individual rights.

Leftists complain about business "capturing" govt regulators but evade Leftist activists doing the same.

My local newspaper reports govt grants to my locality as if they are fishes and loaves from Jesus, w/no decreased production of other parts of the economy.

I predict intellectual cartoon strips and TV shows. Songs? Plays? Wait a minute, the Greeks!

Can you predict, with measurement, what mans free will mind would have created without govt economic controls?

About a year ago, the mayor of New Bedford, MA said that govt increased housing costs and that more govt would decrease them. This is your brain on Pragmatism.

Combining words and pictures! Radical, dude!

Very smart guy, impressed

This was a great show, love Brian’s energy

Discussions like this are great, but they make me realize just how ignorant I am.

Why did the jefferson school question get cut out? I thought Bryan's answer was interesting to hear

Even though he’s a bit quirky, I’ve always loved Bryan’s insights and observation, as well as his willingness to challenge the status quo. I think it’s great George Mason has people like him

This is incredible, thank you

I'm glas to have made this happen😂😂😂😂😅😅