Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy

Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and he is the author of The Cultural Transplant, Hive Mind, and 10% Less Democracy. This episode was fun and interesting throughout! He explains: * How migrants bring their values to their new countries, * Why national IQ matters, * How the Chinese people are an unstoppable global force for free markets, * Why we should have less democracy 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/garett-jones * Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3j3av8m * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3wvO1zK * Follow Garett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/garettjones * Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp 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