Cummings’s On the referendum #31: Project Maven, procurement, lollapalooza results & nuclear/AGI safety discusses various important trends, including a sophisticated discussion of AGI safety. This is mainly noteworthy because the author is the mastermind of Brexit and the recent Conservative landslide in the UK, and perhaps the most influential man in the UK as a result.
Want to signal-boost this. It’s a big, big deal. Probably the most important EA / rationalist thing that happened this decade (in terms of discrete events, harder to say for trends).
Worth noting the changes that are apparently going to be made in the UK civil service, likely by Cummings’ design, and which seem quite compatible with a lot of rationalist thinking.
More scientists in the civil service
Data science, systems thinking, and superforecasting training prioritised.
Want to signal-boost this. It’s a big, big deal. Probably the most important EA / rationalist thing that happened this decade (in terms of discrete events, harder to say for trends).
See also Cummings’ High-performance government.
Worth noting the changes that are apparently going to be made in the UK civil service, likely by Cummings’ design, and which seem quite compatible with a lot of rationalist thinking.
More scientists in the civil service
Data science, systems thinking, and superforecasting training prioritised.
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1212486981713899520
More on this, hot off the presses: https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two-hands-are-a-lot-were-hiring-data-scientists-project-managers-policy-experts-assorted-weirdos/ (a)