Are you in favor of national borders restrictions, Vitalik? (Not asking as a gotcha, I'm genuinely curious)
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No borders means no systems and no diversity. There is a thermodynamic metaphor where a system can only exist with a border, and if you take down all borders, you get heat death. To have a diversity of political systems requires strong borders between them.
This idea is expanded on in my essay "The Heat Death of Humanity: Progressivism as the Second Law of Thermodynamics"https://athousandnations.com/2015/02/23/the-heat-death-of-humanity-progressivism-as-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/ …
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I'll read this, thanks! Feel free to tell me "read the essay first" but my next question is, without completely open or closed borders, you run into a need to optimize the level of permeability. (For example, skills-tested immigration.) What's the best way to empirically balance
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...the economic gains from freedom of trade and movement versus the QOL and civic downsides of weakening cultural cohesion?
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There's no simple answer to a question like this where goals vary and the underlying causal functions are poorly understood. Fortunately, I have a meta-answer: a diverse industry of competing city-states will discover good sets of tradeoffs. It's engineering, not philosophy.
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