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by rtl49 3772 days ago
Yes. Extraordinary people are significantly less common than ordinary ones. Therefore, admitting large numbers of people indiscriminately will result in admitting significantly larger numbers of ordinary people. Perhaps I was wrong to say "many" orders of magnitude, but other than that I stand by the remark.
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The last part of your claim doesn't follow from your justification. I think I'll leave it at that, however.