Actually, border enforcement in the US would increase the crime rate because immigrants on average commit half as many crimes as citizens. (This is not true everywhere, for example, immigrants in Europe commit more crimes than citizens). The problem would be much worse if we actually enforced work laws, but both parties know that would be devastating to the economy and not benefit anyone.
AI will bring about a shift from negative to positive reinforcement to control the population. Prisons, arrests, and handcuffs will be seen as barbaric in 50 to 100 years as slavery and torture do today, and be abolished. This won't eliminate crime, but it will reduce the cost of prevention and enforcement. AI will make it less expensive to reward good behavior and more expensive to punish bad behavior. People will want to be tracked if it has benefits like a higher credit score and all the nice things that come with it. We already let the government track our driving in exchange for not having to stop to pay cash tolls. Imagine eliminating cash altogether. In any case, travel and trade are becoming easier. I expect most borders will be open in the next century. On Fri, Jun 7, 2024, 11:58 AM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 10:09 AM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> ... >> We did cut crime by half since the 1990s by locking up 1.3% of the male >> population... >> > > Ending Imprisonment’s Slavery With Border Enforcement > <https://sortocracy.org/ending-imprisonments-slavery-with-border-enforcement/> > > Capitalism is in a political deadlock with liberal democracy’s tyranny of > the majority limited only by vague laundry list of selectively enforced > “human rights”. > > Breaking this deadlock requires empirically grounding the social sciences > by sorting proponents of social theories into governments that test them: > Sortocracy. > > This means that the current model of “human rights” must be replaced with > a single, well defined, right to vote with your feet. This right to vote > with your feet necessarily implies three material rights: > > 1. The material right to land. > 2. The material right to transportation. > 3. The material right to border enforcement. > > #1 is obvious since you can’t put your social theory into practice without > land. #2 is also obvious as people who cannot practically relocate cannot > vote with their feet. > > #3 _should_ be obvious but, due to the moral zeitgeist, it is not. > Incarceration rates, particularly in the US, show us that there are two, > fundamentally opposed, kinds of borders: Those that keep people out and > those that keep people in. Of the two, the kind that keeps people in is > least compatible with the right to vote with your feet. Even the US’s 13th > Amendment to the Constitution has provision for involuntary servitude: Slavery > for those imprisoned > <http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/prisoners-arent-protected-against-slavery.html>. > We see a prison-industrial complex arising at the interface of government > and capitalism to exploit this loophole in the 13th Amendment. The moral > zeitgeist’s mandate is “let people in”. What is not admitted is this > *necessarily* entails walls that keep people from leaving who are found > to be “criminal” by the admitting society. > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta32348ecc8396e1a-M2eedb7328ac59b9eab8bd4d7> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta32348ecc8396e1a-M6e441a3c4a247db26a048c50 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
