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States are tools and territory for peoples, not magical repositories of real interest
In the "high skill" immigration debate, I see people conflating the interests of "us" with those of the American state. There are arguments to be made that certain kinds of immigration are of benefit to the state. The state gets more labor and perhaps high... posted 2mo ago with 10 replies received politics immigration

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I'm not so sure. It's not that I don't recognize talent, there are very talented outsiders. I'm not sure we need formal channels for them, or should react with anything except hostility in order to put up the highest level of filter. In wartime they become... 6d ago received

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Heart of Darkness
There are four global trends that threaten major crises in our lifetime: birthrate collapse, US-China conflict, AI runaway, and the one singular continent whose population continues to double. The first three of these are discussed ad nauseum in popular di... posted 6mo ago with 34 replies received life news immigration

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Here's a lens to understand the Heart of Darkness more clearly. Look at the new "Alliance of Sahel States" with Russian and Chinese backing. All three countries, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have explosive birthrates and rock-bottom GDP. So what do we see... 4mo ago received

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Did you see my point in >>4663 and before? We basically agree: the way to lower African fertility is via development.... 2w ago received

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Unamericans in America
One severely underdiscussed aspect of woke is its disastrous effect on our ability to integrate talent.... posted 3mo ago with 61 replies received politics news immigration

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Fair. I meant "woke" in a more general sense that predates the 2010s. In the 90s it was called "PC". There's a general phenomenon dating back to the 60s, but which got substantially worse recently, where:... 3mo ago received

Fair. I meant "woke" received

Disagree. If we shut down the O1 program tomorrow it would slightly reduce "non-white immigration" but it would be a big loss to the United States.... 3mo ago received

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Valid points, I agree on all counts! These are indeed important considerations. 2w ago received

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New Mag Cooperation - Rumors of Discontent
Palladium’s publication frequency has recently been inconsistent, with the most current article in the most recent issue dating back to 2022. Its purpose should be to provide a reliable platform for uniting thinkers and policy innovators from key hubs li... posted 1y ago with 39 replies received supercoordination news immigration

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OP it sounds like you should write a Palladium article on "pressing topics such as H1B visas, industrial policy, literacy rates, [or] population decline." As >>2315 suggests, these things don't grow on trees, and like any magazine Palladium is bottlenecked... 1y ago received

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As I look back on my prev post, I think I should update it in the following way. There are 2 cruxes: how important is geopolitics vs techno-scientific-industrial progress. And then how important is AGI/ASI progress for the latter as opposed to heavy indust... 3mo ago received

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Development is the Hard Truth
We open with this incredible line from Deng Xiaoping: "development is the hard truth".... posted 4mo ago with 15 replies received politics immigration

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What all successful ruling elites seem to do is picking the parts of their nominal ideology that work, while ignoring the parts that don't work.... 4mo ago received

What all successful received

TR was a Progressive, both by self-identification and public identification. That was already a distinct movement from Liberalism in its received form.... 3mo ago received

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The Lost Generation
This is an important article that deserves debate. It details and substantiates the systemic expulsion of young white men from prestigious American institutions, especially in media and academia, from 2014-2024.... (www.compactmag.com) posted 4mo ago with 8 replies received politics immigration

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I'm okay with the suggestion I must be a fruit or whatever, but I do want to make my conclusion clear.... 4mo ago received

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The socialism will continue until morale improves?... 4mo ago received

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The Modern Galileo
What does it feel like to be Galileo? What is heretical truth?... posted 6mo ago with 14 replies received philosophy immigration

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These are good points. I know these policies would be enforced with Party members with the most strictness (and there was perhaps less need for coercive measures with them, than with people way out in the provinces), and that there were exceptions for ethn... 4mo ago received

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The Critical Niche Fuentes Provides in the New Right
The Groyper movement must be studied for anyone wanting to form a revolutionary mass in the modern era. I get if you dislike Fuentes for his low IQ anti-semitism, but his meteoric rise from the first Groyper war against Charlie Kirk to Kirk’s assassinati... posted 5mo ago with 15 replies received politics immigration

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Yeah that’s what’s happening. My point is that Nick shuts down this performative worship by mocking it. I don’t know why’re you’re acting smug about this this is the crux of my argument 4mo ago received

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How did Effective Altruism get so big?
I disagree with many of the views behind EA, but I've been fascinated by how they managed to make institutions, build a scene, start companies, NGOs, get funding, etc.... posted 2y ago with 28 replies received politics rationality immigration

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I'm writing a longer article about this but my basic analysis is that the EAs have one big virtue they are fairly unique on: they treat money as a strategic resource to be disposed of rapidly for effective impact, whereas everyone else treats money like a ... 2y ago received

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Some good stuff here on the ideological and intellectual content of Effective Altruism, and how that package fit the zeitgeist. That's half the story.... 2y ago received

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It's a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg situation. The quality of ideas does matter, but the ideas can adapt and change as long as the initial nucleus of the movement holds together and remains high-quality. Historical EA for example was very good at attractin... 5mo ago received

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What We Owe Charlie Kirk
As you've all seen by now, Charlie Kirk was martyred for having the courage to openly proclaim the ideals and realities this country was built on. I didn't agree with him about many things, but I find that I agree with him a lot more now that I've watched ... posted 8mo ago with 17 replies received politics immigration

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I don’t doubt there were insane people on the darkest corners of the web who said terrible things at every point of internet history, and to the extent they can be persecuted for encouraging violence, they should be.... 7mo ago received

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Political systems and the mess we are in
It seems everyone in our sphere has given up on democracy and liberalism. One thing Curtis Yarvin often says about democracy is its like making a six year old the king. The example is to illustrate that a person(or group) that has no agency cannot actually... posted 9mo ago with 23 replies received fieldtrip immigration

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"dictatorship + gatekeeping outsiders from power + suppression of oppositional speech" are actually normal and fine if you do it while being correct and good and without other cruelties accompanying them. I also grew up in America and I don't think this is... 8mo ago received

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It's The Asian Century
Dread it, run from it, something about the structure of American immigration, meritocracy, cursus honorum, elite status, wealth, etc. enables Asian Americans to dominate. The latest classes at Harvard, since SFFA and the overturn of affirmative action, hav... posted 9mo ago with 34 replies received history economics immigration

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I’ll the peripheral argument about the nature of the Chinese first.... 9mo ago received

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It's straightforward enough to create nouns or other concepts from (Classical) Chinese ad nauseum. The whole point during the Meiji Restoration was to have words that were from the West but had no previous equivalent.... 9mo ago received

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IDEA WORLDS
Thought this would be a good place to post my draft.... (personalwebsitetwo.fly.dev) posted 11mo ago with 7 replies received immigration

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I dont much understand the rest of what you are saying but i will speak to this. I know nothing about you but you sound chinese given your language choices. I will address your points through that lens. Ethnicity alone doesnt make someone a threat, but it ... 11mo ago received

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On German and Mid-Atlantic English:... 11mo ago received

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Trump Admin 2 Months In
The Trump 47 administration has been in office roughly 2 months. I created this thread so people can discuss their actions, where they’ve been succeeding, and where they can to do better.... (www.bbc.com) posted 14mo ago with 8 replies received politics news immigration

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The Trump administration can complain about the filibuster once they've actually proposed legislation. Any legislation.... 14mo ago received

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this 1999 stormfront framing of the issue is weak and vulgar. It presumes way too much from grievance group ethics and just tries to get the white man in on the moral patient grift. The real issue here is european civilization as a transcendent higher thin... 13mo ago received

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A Sketch of Near Future Political Prognosis
I want to speculate for a minute about what kind of revolutionary or reform potential exists in our political-economic system as the current era of boomer senility and liberalism reaches its breaking point. I'm going to skip over a lot of reasoning here fo... posted 1y ago with 4 replies received politics immigration

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All of these companies are highly selective in their hiring. Part of what makes the cult work is the kind of people the employees are in the first place.... 1y ago received

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This is a good point. Mere selectivity and a particular culture isn't enough to work in the way I'm speculating will become more normal. The key is going to be ability to actually reproduce human capital, not ability to attract and shape. I'll believe Spac... 1y ago received

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The Drone Question. Is America screwed by lack of industrial capacity?
The war in Ukraine is teaching us that explosive hunter-seeker drones, FPV piloted or autonomous, are shockingly overpowered. Flying panzerfausts are wrecking armor for fractional cents on the dollar, and flying grenades are blowing the legs off of boys wh... posted 2y ago with 40 replies received technology economics immigration

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Buying drones doesn't particularly help you build drones. Unless it's just a handful for reverse engineering and inspiration. I think if your drone sports were to be leveraged into something industrially useful, it would start by making drones do something... 2y ago received

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consumer demand is a complete red herring here. Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosyste... 2y ago received

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Mapping the critical cohorts of the US
America relies on the competency of just a few cohorts of people and the health of the institutions that they occupy throughout their careers to function. I think it's a short list but I'd be curious to hear input on what I have so far:... posted 2y ago with 57 replies received supercoordination news immigration

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The algorithm giveth, the algorithm taketh away. Occasionally, it may make mistakes, but more importantly we all may make mistakes in what we like and dislike. Attention is a political resource that we must fight to allocate properly. Please form your opin... 2y ago received

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The Dolphin Question
Now that there are some more people on here I think the hour has dawned to unleash the DQ: the Dolphin Question.... posted 2y ago with 22 replies received eugenics immigration

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I am not certain intelligence in the anthropocentric sense is what makes for civilization. I think dolphins are missing specialization among themselves. In this way, I’d see beehives or ant colonies as more likely to hit on the special sauce than dolphin... 2y ago received

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There will be space for many different species and subspecies of cetaceans, and therefore many kinds of dolphin culture, in our civilization. For instance, the Yangtze River dolphin and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin occupy different ecological niches. Resp... 2y ago received

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