SamuelA
January 25, 2018, 3:50pm
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wolfpup:
It appears that it’s not only on the subject of technology that SamuelA can provide novel and illuminating insights. Here he holds forth in an excellent new treatise on the subjects of immigration, race, and Making America Great Again™. Here we have one of the great minds of the day addressing one of the truly challenging issues of our times. You can read it starting with post #73 on page 2 of this thread . I cannot hope that my humble summary will do it justice, but I’ve tried to convey the essence of it. For the sake of brevity, I’ve cut to the chase of what he’s really saying and not bothered with the dog whistles.
America became successful because it was settled by the superior Aryan race, white northern Europeans. There wasn’t much in the way of formal immigration criteria prior to the 1920s, but that was OK because only decent white Europeans could afford to come here, so it all worked out. And after that it was biased by race and ethnicity with favoritism toward exactly the right kind of white northern Europeans, which was great! Oh, sure, in the 19th century a bunch of Chinese started coming in, but the 19th century was great because the rules worked pretty much according to the rules of SamuelA : laws were soon passed putting a stop to that sort of thing, see? So that worked out OK, too, when we kicked their little yellow oriental butts and made it clear they weren’t welcome.
Now inferior races from shithole countries want to come in – most of them even worse than Chinese – and this must be stopped. Don’t bother about their qualifications, just look at the shitholes they live in! It’s not that SamuelA is racist or anything – heaven forfend! – this is just Aumann’s theorem of rationality as expressed by SamuelA ’s posterior. We know he’s not racist because he tells us many times, just like he tells us that he’s absolutely right about computation and how the brain works. It’s so obvious that he’s right about all these things that you’d have to be an idiot not to see it. We assume that he totally loves inferior races from shithole countries, as long as they stay in their shithole countries and don’t mess up the ones that decent people live in. Did I mention that SamuelA is not a racist? Yes, I did, but you can never say it too often. He’s so incredibly non-racist that he probably even starts a lot of dinner-table conversations with comments like, “I’m not a racist, but …”.
This is why you’re on ignore. You are massively mis-characterizing what I wrote.
a. The facts are , our ancestors didn’t in reality let just anyone in pre-1920. I don’t know where the 12 million Chinese workers went, they aren’t there in the census data.
b. Some people are probably better than others as individuals, regardless of race. We should go by merit instead of having just “no limits, anyone and everyone”.
So no, you’re full of shit. I said things to this effect several times. You can’t fucking claim a massively different strategy than the one used in the past is going to work just as well. For some reason, letting in 84% Europeans and another group involuntarily worked. Those are the facts. You’re a fucking racist yourself if you see no other explanation than “europeans are superior”.
And I don’t propose going back to the old strategy, which is a valid thing to do. Doing what worked before in the past has a higher probability of working than just picking a random strategy. I propose using our shiny new computers that can compute approximate probabilities from data and to pick the right citizens by a model that factors in their probability of success.