solipsist comments on If interventions changing population size are cheap, they may be the best option independent of your population ethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: solipsist 13 August 2014 12:39:46PM 2 points [-]

Alternatively, we could allow more immigration from poor countries to rich ones.

Comment author: DanielLC 14 August 2014 01:22:32AM 0 points [-]

That would be an example of Growth.

Comment author: ericyu3 14 August 2014 03:13:04AM 1 point [-]

I think this would almost certainly be more cost-effective than Plus+Minus if you were a government, but I'm not sure how easy or hard it would be for an individual to influence their government's immigration policy.

Comment author: Vulture 14 August 2014 08:51:11PM 1 point [-]

You wouldn't necessarily have to effect policy; you could just start smuggling people in.