why does anyone object to building a wall with such vehemence i still dont understand this seems like your options are (i) you actually want literal open borders or (ii) its purely symbolic weird twitter people excepted, and i say that with love, (i) seems a pretty sparse camp
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Replying to @eigenrobot
this discussion made me realize I should support the wall so Canada can more effectively moneyball global migration I don't, because ancap, but it's an angle I hadn't really considered
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Replying to @arachnocapital2
its insane to me that the us doesnt moneyball migration we could take in huge quantities of revenue AND an arbitrary number of exceptionally-capable immigrants with the right immigration permit auction mechanism
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Replying to @eigenrobot @arachnocapital2
this is approximately the current policy though. it's not an explicit auction, but rather an implicit one based on securing corporate or academic sponsorship for visas.
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Replying to @danlistensto @arachnocapital2
an extremely inefficient auction! we can do better!
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Replying to @eigenrobot @arachnocapital2
I am beginning to come around to the position that inefficient processes are usually better than efficient ones, for sufficiently ambiguous notion of what efficiency means in context
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
anything academia touches is going to have blindingly irrational incentives, and I don't trust any corporation large enough to move the immigration needle to be much better eigen's approach has better incentives, we can layer on bureaucracy until it's safely inefficient
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Replying to @arachnocapital2 @eigenrobot
this is approximately the current policy
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the most radical immigration position you can take these days is to say that we are mostly doing it right already
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no mine is better
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Replying to @eigenrobot @arachnocapital2
how would it work, specifically?
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