From an email exchange with a friend – here is how I categorized him

Yang reads as a hacker news comments section come to life – Well written, well intentioned writing by someone who is an expert in some other field…

He’s pleasantly free of identity politics, but seems to have no problems making decisions for other people in great detail. He is living proof of Bryan Caplan’s definition of a progressive of someone who has a hatred of anything that isn’t planned. He does not draw the anger of conservatives to any degree.