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    masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23

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    opening up to the general TL shape my object level view if you wannahttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/955970580032864257 …

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    masquerobot @eigenrobot
    Replying to @L0m3z @NoamJStein
    so as someone without strong feelings and also who is unwilling to ever read noah why screen by country of origin instead of just determining (i) desired immigration level, and then (ii) executing an annual or w/e second-price auction for the immigration rights?
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      2. 邪魔しないで‏ @Small_and_Quiet Jan 23
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Logistics, bureaucratic inertia, and of course, racism. Also, I'm guessing that you better be prepared for a historically HUGE influx of Chinese money and people. Immigration is not all benefits all the time, but I believe there would be long-term gain for some short-term pain.

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      3. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23
        Replying to @Small_and_Quiet

        I have no problem with rich Chinese people coming to the US! Bet China might tho :D Probably logistics would be dramatically lower than present, as would required bureaucracy, eeeep

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. 邪魔しないで‏ @Small_and_Quiet Jan 23
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        On logistics, I think you're right, after transition is complete, you settle down. But people hate change because it upsets routine. But don't consulates do a lot of handholding for immigration applicants? How easily could you standardize the process to apply to every country?

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      5. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23
        Replying to @Small_and_Quiet

        I imagine it would be cleaner when the only criterion for entry is one's bid!

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      2. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto Jan 23
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        We can't know the potential future value of those who want to immigrate, and especially can't know the value of their descendants.

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      3. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto Jan 23
        Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot

        Trying to price immigration slots in this way is like shareholder capitalism focused on quarterly earnings. It's tunnel visioned on the present.

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      4. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto Jan 23
        Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot

        Noah is a bad pundit though. The reason for open immigration is a n ethical one, not an economic one.

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      5. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23
        Replying to @danlistensto

        Noah is definitely a bad pundit no one can really KNOW the future value of immigrants but they probably have a better idea than we do and in any case they're going to pay up front while they credibly reveal their beliefs

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      6. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23
        Replying to @eigenrobot @danlistensto

        open immigration is a special case of this auction where q is set such that p = 0

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      2. ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ‏ @peroxycarbonate Jan 23
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Think of a country as being like a company. What if you hired the people who payed the most up-front?

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      3. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23
        Replying to @peroxycarbonate

        my framework is most analogous to natural resource allocation mechanisms are you concerned that (say) people who expect to recoup their costs by extracting welfare are likely to outbid oligarchs, tech firms, w/e?

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      4. ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ‏ @peroxycarbonate Jan 23
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Well, let's consider some specific examples. Some people were mad about Irish immigration. That turned out OK, but if there was more, maybe Tammany Hall would still be around today and cause lots of problems.

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      5. ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ‏ @peroxycarbonate Jan 23
        Replying to @peroxycarbonate @eigenrobot

        Harvard used to have a cap on the number of jewish students, but pressure from media got them to drop that. Today, Harvard and Yale admit more jewish undergrads than non-jewish white undergrads.

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      6. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23
        Replying to @peroxycarbonate

        solution, seems to me, is more asians :D

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      7. ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ‏ @peroxycarbonate Jan 23
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        A lot of the chinese immigrants I've met are going into either medicine or becoming real estate agents. The number of doctors is limited by med school slots, and there are already enough good applicants. Our institutions cannot manage this kind of incentivized bottleneck.

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      8. ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ‏ @peroxycarbonate Jan 23
        Replying to @peroxycarbonate @eigenrobot

        There are already too many real estate agents in the area, each doing far fewer sales than they could handle, but each is highly profitable. Rates can't be lowered because then incentives are bad, plus they're sort of standardized between real estate agents.

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      9. ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ‏ @peroxycarbonate Jan 23
        Replying to @peroxycarbonate @eigenrobot

        I know many people who have had Chinese professors, and they're almost universally considered bad teachers.

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      1. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 23

        the woodchipper calls us all eventually

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      2. ngvrnd‏ @ngvrnd Jan 24
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        You should remain without strong opinion on this. IMO.

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      3. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 24
        Replying to @ngvrnd

        mostly do :D definitely have few to no beliefs about optimal quantity weakly-held strong belief our allocative mechanism sucks

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