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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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 do appreciate that perspective as well; I think ultimately the bright folks should be allowed to choose for themselves
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that way they're free either to contribute to the global cutting edge, or raise standards back home - whichever they prefer
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I think doing the former contributes to the latter. Stories of local heroes on global stage = inspiring to all. True for SG
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I think there are more choices. Thinking about going where we are most needed.
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the thing is, its not so clear. Eg
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Not sure that he best moral ground for immigration is to deprive other countries of their "best(!) people".
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the world's best shd be allowed to go wherever they think best serves them. Many world leaders study abroad, for eg
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Need to think about accessibility though. Someone born in Siberia is less likely to become top in any field. Can't get the education
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that's assuming talent is evenly distributed. You have to be white, Christian and American to be talented... Don't you?
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this is of course ceteris paribus, but things like education and internet access is hard to discount.
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Both of which are not the best.
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