"Today I have the pleasure of speaking with  Garrett Jones who is an economist at George   Mason University. He's most recently  the author of The Culture Transplant:   How Migrants Make the Economies ..."

"First question. Isn't the cultural transplant a  continuation of your argument against democracy?   Because isn’t one of the reasons we  care about the values of migrants,   the fact that we eliminate..."

"I'll cheat a little bit because we  don't get to run experiments on this,   so I just have to make an informed guess. I'm gonna call it 50-50. The way citizens   influence a country through formal dem..."

"who are disrupting the whole process. The risks  of crime from the lower end is a probabilistic   risk. It's not like some zero to one switch.  We're talking about something probabilistic.  The median..."

"Hmm. Interesting. Does that imply the fact that,   at least in certain contexts, that elite IQ  matters more than the left tail? Does that imply   that we should want a greater deviation of IQ in  a c..."

"Can we just apply this line of reasoning to  low skilled immigration as well then? Maybe   the average IQ of your country goes down if you  just let in millions of low skilled immigration   immigrants..."

"Yes but if you get rid of their migrant's  ability to vote, let’s assume you could do   that, what is the exact mechanism by which  the, the, the cultural values or the lower   median is impacting the..."

"Native Americans certainly changed in  response to the movement of Europeans.   English Americans certainly changed  in response to the migration of German   and Irish Americans. So this meeting in th..."

"freedom. I just used the normal economist tool.  I thought about how economists check to see if   changes in the money supply  change the price level?  That's what we call the quantity theory.  The wa..."

"got. And sometimes it's just up for debate. So if you had to guess what percentage of the   world has cultural values that are equivalent  to or better than the average of America’s?  Equivalent to or..."

"US level on all three. Why do they have to be   higher? Why not just equivalent? Part of the reason is because the   entire world depends on US innovation. So we  should make America as good as possib..."

"better but the median is a little bit  lower. Because the median's shaping the   productivity of the whole team. This is what  it means when you believe in externalities.  But if you have somebody who..."

"roots literature that are widely used. Two are S and A. That is State History   and Agricultural History. That's how many  thousands of years your ancestors have had   experience living under organize..."

"cul-de-sac and they just don't quite know how to  get out of it. And it's for the people who live   there. If the other side had won the Chinese  Civil War, things would probably be a lot,   lot bette..."

"When Brian Kaplan made the claim that the ancestry  scores, the deep root scores don't predict   the low performance of India and China he only  checked the S and the A in the S A T scores.   Which le..."

"Okay, interesting. The puzzle goes away. Somehow   these guys just never seem to run the simple  things, the transparent things. I don’t know.  The one you mentioned, what was it? Nowrasteh?  The name..."

"ideas that we're still getting are still worth so  much. If we're still increasing lifespan a month   for every year of research we're doing, that just  seems great. A decade that adds a year to life,..."

"If you wanted to get Singapore levels of  population density in Iceland, that'd be   about 300 million people. I think that's  about what the numbers end up looking like.  But the value of open border..."

"No. Take the simple version of my story,  which is the median of the population ends   up shaping the productivity of everybody in  the country. The mean skill level ends up   shaping the productivity..."

"open borders for everybody who's over 85? This ends up being a math problem that’s a little   hard to solve on a podcast. It's a question of do  I want a smaller country with super high average   prod..."

"Because if you have a compelling reason to think  that the direction of strength of the second and   third and fourth order things are negative and the  variance is really wide, then you're just addin..."

"could do is create a welcoming environment for  large numbers of Chinese migrants to move there   persistently. I don't think that's of course the  only thing that could ever work, but I think it's   ..."

"Famously so in Indonesia. There have been many  times across Southeast Asia where anti-Chinese   pogroms have unfortunately been a fact of life. Or Indians in Uganda under Idi Amin. I'm curious how yo..."

"Well, that's a classic short run versus  long run effect. Libertarians and open   borders advocates tend to be focused  on the short run, static effects.  You're right, moving kids from poor countries..."

"lower institutional quality, productivity, and  savings rates. It's hard to avoid that outcome.  I don't remember the exact figures,  but didn't Bryan address this in his   Open Borders book as well, ..."

"Yep. Do you think that the people who are  currently Americans, but their ancestry,   traces back to countries with low S  A T scores? Is it possible that US   GDP per capita would be higher without t..."

"There was a blogger who took a look at your 2004  paper about the impact of National IQ on GDP.   They were just speculating, let's say you  cloned a million John Von Neumann’s and assume   that John ..."

"If you had a choice of which country  to have the million John Von Neumanns,   it's probably gonna be one of the I-7. Maybe  Switzerland would be a good alternative.  What is the optimal allocation of..."

"people leave Kentucky and go to San Francisco? I'm a big agglomeration guy. The internet makes it   easier but being in the room is still important. There's something both Hansonian and Girardian   he..."

"Are you a fan of genetic selection for  intelligence as a means of increasing   national IQ or do you think that's  too much playing at the margins? If it's voluntary, people should  be able to do wha..."

"What do you make of the fact that  Chat GPT had a measured IQ of 85?  Yeah, I've seen a few different measures of  this. You might have seen multiple measures   too. When you see people using non IQ t..."

"simple problems. That's pretty bad news for  their careers. I'm disappointed to hear that.   At least for the transition. I dunno  what's gonna happen after the transition.  I'm hoping that's not true..."

"appointed technocrats, but they seem more  interested in creating annoying popups on   your websites than with dealing with the  end of economic growth on the continent.  Is this a story where more de..."

"What do you think explains the fact  that Europe as a whole and the voters   there are less market friendly than Americans? Compared to the planet as a whole, they're pretty   good. I never get that e..."

"more open to laissez faire than Europe would be. Does that overall make you more optimistic about   migration to the US from anywhere? The same story Yeah, ceteris paribus. America gets people who   a..."

"and steer everything toward themselves and  not give a darn about the masses at all.  A lot of elite control in any kind of democracy is  gonna have a good effect if you're really looking   at somethi..."

"the equilibrium. Something more like a corporate  board and less like either the libertarian ideal   of the entrepreneur who owns the firm, or the  monarch who has the long-term interest in being   a ..."

"Over the long run, should we expect all of  the tensions of ethnic diversity to fade away?   Nobody today worries about the different Parisian  tribes in France butting heads at the workplace.  Yeah, ..."

"some of these things will fade with time. The  problem with human beings, one of our great evils,   is that we are always looking for a focal point. People will use visible appearance as a horrifying ..."

"in 10% less democracy was the  chapter on bond holder democracy.  I'm curious, corporations are obviously  an example to use here where they do have   bond holders who hold them accountable but the  a..."

"send a market signal to move capital from low  productivity to high productivity projects. Why are yields on 30 year fixed treasuries so low?  Because theoretically, investors should know that   we ha..."

"the middle class. That's probably the most  likely outcome. Hence no hyperinflation.  So are you expecting the welfare state to  shrink either in quality or quantity over time?  In relative terms, com..."

"fiscal policy credibility and they'll take action. What are the deep roots of Mormonism? Why do   they have such high trust and  such tight-knit communities?  I think part of it is that they reflect  ..."

"helping make us all more productive, which I think  is something that fits in with Mormon values.  Yeah. I think people have pointed out that people  should be spending more money given the fact that ..."

"them for decades. That's one of the popular  multi-level marketing schemes that actually   gets to men. A lot of them are targeted  at women through cosmetics, as you might   know. But at least the me..."

"know which points I'd use. But something along  those lines is worth thinking about. I would   never use any quotas or hard cutoffs. If you  think about point space systems, 10-20 years of   further r..."

"How was the SBF thing? Did he  just say “I'll fly you out?”  I was there for the EA Bahamas  and then while I was there, I   talked to somebody who knew him and I'm  like, “Hey, I would love to interv..."

"I'm really curious to ask you this, because in  Hive Mind you're talking about the fact that   higher IQ people on average are more cooperative  in prisoner's dilemma type situations and I just   inte..."