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Michael Huemer

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“Might have wanted to know, oh, well, how can we improve the world? I don't know, that's really hard, right? Like on a small scale, my idea is to model rationality Like interact with people in a way that is reasonable and rational. And part of the reasonableness is like you listen to them and try to actually understand what their point is before saying your thing. Don't just only be thinking about your point, right? And my idea is if we get enough people doing that, maybe the culture will improve.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I guess got to make enough money to pay the bills, right? But it needs to feel like you're doing something meaningful because otherwise when you get later in your life, you're going to be like, I have a lot of money, but boy, sure, I wasted my life because you want to have happen. And then, like, I, you know, I had like smaller scale advice. Like, at some point, I'm probably going to, maybe I'll put this in blog post. I'll put my advice for people about buy a house. If you're going to be somewhere for a few years, buy a house or a condominium or something like that because it's a super good investment. And then, you know, like when you have money. Invest in index funds, you know, like don't try to beat the market because you're probably not going to.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Solid, meaningful relationships. So, like hang out with people that you get along well with and develop close relationships with them, right? And like people that are not beneficial, just cut them out. Don't hang around with people who are not beneficial to you, right? And like, this is super obvious, but a lot of people don't do this. They just keep having this boyfriend who's no good. And they just like, I don't know, try to change the person or whatever. You're not going to change people. Anyway, then the other thing is meaningful work, right? So like going to a career that feels like you're doing something meaningful.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mean, like, I have advice from the standpoint of self interest to people. This is probably not what you're asking about, right? Like, you know, how you can be happy or something, right? But anyway, okay, this is what I figured out. It's very simple, but the secret to happiness is, first of all, having, um,”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know, like, you know, my first advice is buy all my books. But I mean Like advice for what like what are they trying to accomplish?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they're sort of like different versions of the multiverse, but I guess he thinks that it comes out of string theory. I don't know. And, yeah. But different ways there could be multiverse. There could be like just really far away other universes that on the space in between our universe and the other universe is expanding so fast that there's no way to ever reach the other universe so they're effectively isolated right I'm sorry, I can't remember this guy's name. Anyway, but there are lots of good books. I liked the myth of the rational voter, right? That was very good. In just thinking about why politics works the way that it does.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I liked the fountain head a lot. That novel And I guess, like, you know, I had an influence on me. And actually, Ayn Grand had an influence on me in doing philosophy. Although she was not a professional philosopher and ultimately was not very good at philosophy, she still influenced me to do philosophy. What else? I mean, I might when you ask me this and I haven't thought for a long time, I'm biased towards books that I read recently. So I like the book Time and Chance by David Albert. Because it's just like fascinating, right? Just fascinating stuff about what physics teaches us about the nature of the universe and so on. And also I like the cosmic landscape by, I've got his name now. Anyway, which was about the multiverse theory, which I just find amazing. It's just an amazing, fascinating idea.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That you did not write yourself. Oh, okay. Let's not mine. I don't know. Like I probably have to spend a lot longer to actually accurately answer that.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I guess I try to work on all of them, but Kaplan is probably correct, it's a lot harder to get people who have already And have been there for a few decades.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess. I mean, I don't have a very specific plan, right? I just have the idea that it would be good if there were more people who had true beliefs about important philosophical matters. I don't know how it's going to happen, but in some way that is going to improve society. I kind of think that it goes from the top down, so to speak. That is, if you convince that elites, then the rest of society will go along.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I mean, if you want to assess who's making the bigger difference, that's hard to say, right? Like, because the entrepreneur probably wouldn't be doing it if it weren't for the philosophy.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After writing that book, apart from convincing the entrepreneurs, like he tries to convince a bunch of ordinary people, like I go to, like I try to convince students, I write this book, and I think that that part is having a lot less influence. Like it's super hard to convince people to change their life in a way that's not in their personal self-interest, you know, for ethical reasons. You can get like a few percent. You can change a few percent of people's lifestyle for ethical reasons because that's how many people care about morality. Anyway. But like a few percent of those people are like entrepreneurs who are going to then make a big difference.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, good question. So, like, I mean, this makes me think of an example. So think of the example of there's Peter Singer, and then there's the people who are beyond meet people, people who create that company. And, you know, these other companies like the Impossible Burger and the people who are doing the synthetic meat. Okay, so I think Peter Singer is kind of the reason why people are doing that. I think those people, like the entrepreneurs, I think our animal welfare advocates or something like this. And it's largely because of Peter Singer and other philosophers like Tom Regan. But also”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just like, well, I mean, I'm on a mission, right? I'm on a mission to promote rationality in society. I'm in philosophy not just as a job, but to get a paycheck or whatever, or to get prestige or any of that. I'm trying to improve the world intellectually, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. Partly because I'm smart, it's partly because I love philosophy. If you don't love it and you're just doing it as a job, then you won't do that much of it. In the academic world, there's sort of, there's not really incentives for producing like, you know, blog posts or stuff like that. There's not incentives for producing public philosophy. So like you don't get prestige from it. The other academics are not so much impressed or whatever. And literally in my department, we literally have a point system for publications. You get a performance review every year and like we assign points for each publication. There's no points for blog posts. Although that might change in the future. But anyway, so yeah, so you would only do this if like”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is it okay? What if they don't want to listen to the guardian? Is it okay to force them? I don't know. It probably depends on the situation, right? If they want to go play in traffic, I guess yes, right.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. I mean, yeah, so like the way that children are treated is somewhat like slaves, right? No rights. Parents just tell them what to do all the time, right? Is it better than slavery? Well, fortunately, most parents love their children in the way that most masters do not love their slaves. So things work out better. But also, you know, it was factually true that the children couldn't make decisions for themselves. And it was not true that the slaves couldn't make decisions for themselves. We just weren't letting them, right? You might think though, like, well, there actually are some adults who are not really suited to run their own lives, like mentally retarded people or something. That doesn't mean that you can treat them as slaves, but they probably do need a guardian. To tell them what to do”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mean it increases gradually, right? And it also could vary depending on the maturity of the individuals. I don't think that I can say a hard and fast rule. Now, you know, you might think like there's some people who are not mature at 18, right? Like they still need someone to take care of them then, but what can we do? Like we need to have a general rule for Society in general, right? So I guess it's kind of reasonable to pick 18 as the time when you become an adult. I don't know.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I think they have comparable rights against malicious coercion. Like that seems justified to me. I mean, I don't have particularly involved argument for that. Like, I don't have an interesting or surprising argument for that, right? I guess I just have a conventional view, which is that, you know, like these children just don't know what they're doing. They don't have enough knowledge and they just need somebody to take care of them, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Speak Yeah, I mean, so I assume that that's going to end at some point. And so it will be better to have more people. I am to some degree worried about the population dwindling, right? Because as people become wealthier and their living standard goes up, their fertility goes down. And like it's at the point now where in the wealthy countries, like the fertility of well-off people is below replacement rate. So I am somewhat worried about the human species dwindling. Just as we become good, just as the moral progress reaches the point where it's better for us to be around and not, the population will be dwindling and maybe we'll go extinct from just not deciding to have kids, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the in person education is better, like, it's a better experience, right? But the thing is, like, it's just not better enough that it would justify paying whatever $10,000 or whatever people are paying, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The funny Yes, I would be happy to have extra people show up who actually want to learn in my class. But to be clear, I'm not grading your paper. I'm not graining.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is what people actually want. So, I mean, I guess I think. Most people don't actually want the education, they want the prestige, but also most people don't realize that that's what most people want. So, you know, online education isn't, I don't think that it's going to take over It would if people just wanted knowledge, right? But so people don't realize why it's not taking over, but that's the reason, right? Actually, by the way, like if you just want the knowledge, you don't have to pay somebody a bunch of money, not even for online courses, right? If you just want knowledge, like almost all of it is on the internet, you can get a great education for free just reading sites on the internet.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it's probably like it's a good way of learning if that's what you want, right? But I think it's a less good way of getting prestige.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, yeah, and like, and you know, just my experience reading referee reports, I often think, well, like this guy did not read this carefully at all, like he's raising some objection that I answered and he doesn't seem to be aware that I answered it, right? Or he's like totally misunderstood and like I clearly explained, you know, what I meant and like he's misunderstanding it like and it would make sense that they wouldn't read it carefully, right? Because they have no stake in it, right? The editor would have more of a stake in it, right? Because like it reflects on the quality of the journal. It's an anonymous review, so it doesn't reflect on that person. No one will ever know if you did a bad job of reviewing.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're thinking, I have no self interest in doing this review for you for free, so can't do it. And so they just like go down the list, okay? And like you have things where graduate students are reviewing papers. And then you have situations where like the person who's being criticized by the paper is reviewing the paper. And I know that that happens because they've sent to me papers that are criticizing me. And I think that I'm a fine reviewer, like I'm perfectly objective anyway, but I don't trust everyone to be objective.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Peer review, underrated or overrated. I don't know. Yeah, probably it's probably overrated, I guess. So the thing is people think that Guess the average opinion is that it's a pretty good quality control mechanism. And I think that probably most people don't realize kind of how lame it is, right? So like you get. So, you don't get paid for doing these reviews, right? Which means that not that many people want to do it. So like you have this editor who's trying to find peer reviewers and like they just keep, they have to keep going down the list. I've never been an editor, so I'm assuming this is what happens. Like you try to get top people in the area of the paper to review it and they say, no, I'm too busy. And, you know, and it's not in my interest to do this. They don't say that last part, but that's.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't have the patience, you'll be excluded by that, right? So it's like it's possible that it would still be good, but I mean, I think that, let's see, actually, I mean, a lot of the stuff that goes on on the blog is kind of social commentary, which I think doesn't require that much of reading literature or stuff like that. It's like most of that would be the same. But like if I were writing about issues that are debated in academic philosophy and I didn't know the literature, like it just wouldn't be good, right? And like, you know, like my undergraduate papers just weren't good, right? They were good for undergraduate papers, okay, but they weren't good for, you know, academic papers.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I mean, there's a possibility that it's actually a selection effect rather than. The training effect, right? Yeah, like the people who have patience, people have enough patience to do good work Make it through graduate school”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, they don't know that they're A reinventing the wheel, but B, like doing a simplistic version of it, right? Like they're defending a view that has already been defended, but they are defending the simplest, least adequate version of it because they haven't looked at all the objections that causes you to be modified. And they don't know what the reasons why it's wrong. And like they don't know what the alternative views are. So like they can't adequately respond to them. They'll respond to alternatives that are stupid and don't need to be discussed, right? So, you know, that's like a thing that happens.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and so I so you know, like I run into people like on the internet and whatever, and sometimes I get email from random people. And there were people who have written their, they written their treatise on something or whatever. And they just don't realize that they don't know what's going on. They just haven't read the stuff that's written on the topic that they're writing about”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Requires work and effort and stuff like this that is not, it requires some stuff that's not so fun, right? And then, and I'll reading a bunch of literature and finding out what people really think, right? And you're just not going to do that unless you have like, well, few people will do it unless they have somebody else who's telling them you have to do this. And that's what happens when you're in graduate school, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, like, Scott Alexander is probably correctly rated because I think that he has an extremely high reputation among people who know who he is, right? I guess not enough people know who he is But about non academic intellectuals more generally, I don't know. Most non academic intellectuals, I think, are not good. And like, so like not worth reading, or they wouldn't be worth it to me to read. And I don't think worth it to other people to read. But that's, you know, I'm like, I'm not trying to be a snob or whatever. But I think Think because you learn stuff when you go to graduate school and you get the PhD, they actually teach you some stuff. And one of the problems is if you don't go through that kind of training, like people are naturally lazy. And in order to do stuff that's really good and useful.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, they're greatly overrated by some and underrated by others, I guess. I like public intellectuals. So, I mean, I think the academic intellectuals underrate the public intellectuals because they're like, oh, yeah, these public intellectuals are not being rigorous enough or they're not like citing all the academic literature. The thing is, yeah, the reason they're not doing that is no one will listen to them if they start blabbing on about boring stuff. Like, you know, boring little details that are in the academic literature, okay. Yeah, I guess underrated.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I took one course on Pascal, which was a programming language that I guess nobody uses anymore. But it was not enough for me to do anything useful with it. But many years later, I discovered that there's a language called GameMaker language. And it's really good for writing games. So I tried writing a game using that.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, like, I think some people, basically, I think people who would be reasonably good at it should learn it. Some people would just be terrible at it, so there's no point, right? Like they could learn to do some basic stuff, but it would never be useful.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let's see, is it overrated or underrated? Maybe about correctly rated, I suppose. I mean, I think it's useful, but I don't agree that everyone needs to learn decode, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, yeah, so that is a plausible, I think that society has to make more progress. So like I think if the majority of people cared about animal welfare, then the government could pass regulations that would promote animal welfare. It would get a lot better, right? So, but this will only happen after most of the problem is solved. And then the government will come in and sort of like sweep up the remainder of it from like, you know, the backward people who are still promoting cruelty.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so, you know, they're actually making it worse. So, and you might think, oh, but we can just change that. But no, it's not so easy. Most of the things the government does, it's not an accident that they're doing them, right? Like, well, I mean, they're obviously not going to ban meat when most people want it, right? I think it was like, so I think Corey Booker was the first vegan presidential candidate that I saw, but like I think that was clearly a liability for him. And like In fact, there's a time when an interviewer asked him, Hey, so are you going to try to make everybody vegetarian? And he was like, no. Not doing that. Because if he said yes, he's definitely out of the running, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. So, like, if the state would actually do that, that would outweigh all of the other bad stuff they're doing, right? Like most other libertarians would not accept this, but this is obvious and true. But when we have the government, what they actually do is they're actually supporting the meat industry.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This Neil Stevenson's idea? Any, I think I got this from some science fiction author, right? Everybody should be watching everyone else, not one organization watching everyone else.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The alternative you might want is you might want sort of distribute it monitoring, like people monitoring each other, just regular people monitoring each other all the time, rather than like a single central authority monitoring everyone else.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So one of the things I'd be worried about now is genetic engineering of biological weapons. So maybe somebody could engineer a virus that would be extremely dangerous and would cause the extinction of the species. So that might happen just naturally, but it's a lot more likely if somebody's trying to make it happen. And that might just become cheaper and cheaper. So you might think, oh, we need the government to stop that from happening, although I'm not sure the government will actually stop it. If we have them And I think there's a fair chance the government will cause it because. Actually, like hire people deliberately to create biological weapons. So, you know, it's a little hard to say.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Might say, yeah, even though the government is going to create this technology, they're going to create the world destroying technology sooner. You might say, but they're still safer, right? Because like, you know, maybe private parties will develop that technology much later, but when they do, then someone is going to release it, right? Unless there's a government to stop them. By the way, I'm not sure that the government is going to stop it even if they continue to exist, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Except that it's super expensive and, you know, no, like. Wasn't a person who had a good incentive to do it, I guess. Anyway, yeah, so you might think, yeah, but if we didn't have a government, then maybe there would be more, I don't know, would there be more people who are trying to build weapons of mass destruction? I wouldn't think that. I mean, Understand why governments are doing this, right? Well, there's this thing called war that happens between states. And so they build all these standing armies. And so they just, they're constantly looking for bigger and more powerful weapons, right? And so that's just like this constant pro destruction technology lobby, right? So, I mean, it just looks like that's the way to accelerate the time that we get the world destroying technology. Okay, but I'm not sure because”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So before the nuclear bomb was invented, could a private individual have invented it? I don't know. I mean, after it was invented by the US government, then the US government would stop anyone else from building them. But before it had been discovered, I don't know why a private person couldn't have done it.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Obviously, the Everyone is religious, then yeah, all the good things are going to be created by religious people. But not everyone is a government employee, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, that might be right, right? Like, I mean, like, I think this is the strongest argument for keeping the state. But I think there is an argument on the other side, which is, well, actually, the government is likely to be the ones who develop the deadly technology. So, so far, there's one technology that... Would plausibly be capable of killing everyone that's nuclear weapons. And it was created by the government and has only ever been used by the government. But in fact, I think every weapon of mass destruction has been created by governors. Most weapons have been created by governments, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like monitoring individuals in a pretty close way, right? So, like, you know, not having much privacy and able to stop them. So that might be the case if you're in a society in which one person has the ability to release a world destroying weapon. Right now, right now that's not the case, but yeah, as technology advances, that could definitely happen, right? Because as technology advances, like just what it means is that you can produce larger effects with smaller effort, right?”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, in fact, I think I had a blog post that was kind of about this, right? Which I guess I view as the strongest argument for strong state. And yeah. I think it was titled Something About the Case for Tyranny or something like that. And then a bunch of people started arguing about whether I should have used the word tyranny there Like, oh, it's not necessarily tyrannical, right? But it was just an argument that there needs to be somebody.”
2021-05-28 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source