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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Million John Monoyman

If you cloned a million John Monoymans and assume that John Monoyman had a IQ of 180, then you could raise the average IQ of the United States by 0.2, 1.0 points. If it's true that one IQ point contributes 6% to increasing GDP, then this proposal would increase US GDP by 1.6 to 6%. Do you buy these kinds of extrapolations or 1.2, 6%?

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