Dwarkesh Podcast

Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

Jan 24, 2023

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Genetic Selection for Intelligence

02:08

China Is a Poorest Majority Chinese Country

03:53

Is There Increasing Returns to National IQ?

01:39

Introduction

2min

The Median Voter Theorem

3min

The Innovation of the Elite IQ Matters More Than the Left Tail

2min

Is There a Meeting in the Middle?

2min

The Quantity Theory of Migration and Economic Freedom

2min

Is It a Coincidence or a Corollary?

2min

Why You Don't Get the Best?

2min

Why Wouldn't I Want the Best Thing Possible?

2min

China Is a Poorest Majority Chinese Country

4min

10.

New Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find, Right?

2min

11.

Open Borders for Iceland

2min

12.

The Value of Open Borders

2min

13.

Do I Want a Smaller Country With Lower Average Productivity?

2min

14.

Is Diluting the Power of the Smartest Person in America a Big Deal?

2min

15.

Are Places With Low SAT Scores Stuck Forever?

2min

16.

Are You Just Handing Out Iodine Tablets?

2min

17.

Moving Kids From Poor Countries to Richer Countries Will Increase Global IQ

2min

18.

The Impact of Migration on Innovation

2min

19.

Is There a Positive Relationship Between Test Scores and Productivity?

2min

20.

The Million John Monoyman

2min

21.

Is the Market Allocation of Intelligence Correct?

2min

22.

Is There Increasing Returns to National IQ?

2min

23.

Genetic Selection for Intelligence

2min

24.

The FDA and the CDC Aren't Doing What Congress More or Less Wanted.

3min

25.

Is the EU on Net a Good Idea for Markets?

3min

26.

Does Elite Technocratic Control Work Best in Only High IQ Countries?

2min

27.

What Is Your Printing Up Near Reactionaries?

2min

28.

The Myth of the Rational Voter

3min

29.

The Benefits of Diversity Are Great When Search Costs Are Lower

2min

30.

Is the Bond Market a Good Way to Move Capital From Low Productivity to High Productivity?

3min

31.

Are You Expecting the Welfare State to Shrink?

3min

32.

Mormon for Gality, Is It Planning on Doing With All This Money?

2min

33.

Is It Possible to Turn the Deep Roots Into a Point Based System?

2min

34.

Are Smart People More Cooperative in a Kind of Very Calculating Sense?

2min

35.

Machiavellian Intelligence Drives the Link Between IQ and Cooperation

2min

Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Cultural Transplant, Hive Mind, and 10% Less Democracy.

This episode was fun and interesting throughout!

He explains:

* Why national IQ matters

* How migrants bring their values to their new countries

* Why we should have less democracy

* How the Chinese are an unstoppable global force for free markets

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:08) - Migrants Change Countries with Culture or Votes?

(00:09:15) - Impact of Immigrants on Markets & Corruption

(00:12:02) - 50% Open Borders?

(00:16:54) - Chinese are Unstoppable Capitalists

(00:21:39) - Innovation & Immigrants

(00:24:53) - Open Borders for Migrants Equivalent to Americans?

(00:28:54) - Let's Ignore Side Effects?

(00:30:25) - Are Poor Countries Stuck?

(00:32:26) - How Can Effective Altruists Increase National IQ

(00:39:13) - Clone a million John von Neumann?

(00:44:39) - Genetic Selection for IQ

(00:47:02) - Democracy, Fed, FDA, & Presidential Power

(00:49:42) - EU is a force for good?

(00:55:12) - Why is America More Libertarian Than Median Voter?

(00:56:19) - Is Ethnic Conflict a Short Run Problem?

(00:59:38) - Bond Holder Democracy

(01:04:57) - Mormonism

(01:08:52) - Garett Jones's Immigration System

(01:10:12) - Interviewing SBF

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