This is a good time to remember that without immigration the US will only have 5% of the top people in each field. http://paulgraham.com/95.html
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You didn't say in the essay that talent was necessarily equally distributed. You made a specific reference to the "best" programmers.
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The whole essay is based on that principle.
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That's the basis of the idea that if you have x% of the population, (100 - x)% of the best people will be born elsewhere.
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how wise is it to geographically concentrate bright people in a single place? Wouldn't the more distributed brightness be beneficial?
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if you look at human history, great things happened whenever brightness was concentrated. Da Vinci's Florence, etc
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true, but if brightness is not an intrinsic characteristic, but is somewhat "contagious" concentrating it may be a bad idea
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I would REALLY like for you to consider how this perception "could" play out when in hiring, funding, etc for Black techies here.
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Yes. It does. These perceptions + pattern matching are part of the reason our industry lacks diversity now. sigh
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