A few announcements this month: We’re hiring for some exciting roles, including Chief of Staff, Data Fellow, and two Biotechnology Fellow positions. Come work for IFP! We’re also excited to announce the hire of Tim Fist as a Senior Technology Fellow. Tim’s research focuses on accelerating the development of trustworthy artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
Why should we be favoring immigration of foreign elites over our present overproduction of candidates for our own elite, a group selected less for merit, than for conformity, a group who in turn have driven our own geniuses out of not only power but employability? Problem-solving ability, intelligence, is measurable as the difficulty of problems one can answer. It is the best single predictor of job performance, a validity of over 0.6, more than three times as good as education and experience combined. But the correlation of ability with income is only 0.3 on the NLSY79 (2004, on thousands of US Boomers), and even lower among the top half of the population. The correlation with wealth is even lower, 0.16., with no correlation at all in the top half of the population. This can't happen without systematic, intentional discrimination against more-able people.
Apparently, it isn't enough to drive everyone smart or honest out of every institution, particularly geniuses, those disagreeable intellects who go against the group think of academia / NGO /corporate /government aparatchiks, we must import tractible aliens to replace them.
No one with a heart, or half a brain, hires a worker on an H-1B visa anymore ! L-1 is the way to go.
Big co.'s file as many petitions as they can to prove a "workers shortage" - which does not exist.
What does exist, still, is the special hell US politicians created for the spouses (read: wives) of the H-1B workers by creating the H-4 visa.
Coming in on an O-1 visa, a complicated procedure, thus very lucrative to immigration lawyers, does not remedy this issue. O-3 spouses are also not allowed to have a life in the US.
This country will never be able to bring in "the best and brightest: unless it starts to treat the spouses as human beings too !
P.S. Why are you forcing people to get an account on X (formerly Twitter) to get information and possibly have a discussion ? You have a Substack and a website.
Why should we be favoring immigration of foreign elites over our present overproduction of candidates for our own elite, a group selected less for merit, than for conformity, a group who in turn have driven our own geniuses out of not only power but employability? Problem-solving ability, intelligence, is measurable as the difficulty of problems one can answer. It is the best single predictor of job performance, a validity of over 0.6, more than three times as good as education and experience combined. But the correlation of ability with income is only 0.3 on the NLSY79 (2004, on thousands of US Boomers), and even lower among the top half of the population. The correlation with wealth is even lower, 0.16., with no correlation at all in the top half of the population. This can't happen without systematic, intentional discrimination against more-able people.
Apparently, it isn't enough to drive everyone smart or honest out of every institution, particularly geniuses, those disagreeable intellects who go against the group think of academia / NGO /corporate /government aparatchiks, we must import tractible aliens to replace them.
No one with a heart, or half a brain, hires a worker on an H-1B visa anymore ! L-1 is the way to go.
Big co.'s file as many petitions as they can to prove a "workers shortage" - which does not exist.
What does exist, still, is the special hell US politicians created for the spouses (read: wives) of the H-1B workers by creating the H-4 visa.
Coming in on an O-1 visa, a complicated procedure, thus very lucrative to immigration lawyers, does not remedy this issue. O-3 spouses are also not allowed to have a life in the US.
This country will never be able to bring in "the best and brightest: unless it starts to treat the spouses as human beings too !
P.S. Why are you forcing people to get an account on X (formerly Twitter) to get information and possibly have a discussion ? You have a Substack and a website.