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In many areas, the E.U. regulates to help the worst sort of giant corporate looters defending their position against entrepreneurs. Post-Brexit Britain will be outside this jurisdiction and able to make faster and better decisions about regulating technology like genomics, AI and robotics.
- Dominic Cummings
#AI
#Better
#Technology
#Will
#Worst
All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people have tried very very hard to avoid exactly this problem.
- Dominic Cummings
#Avoid
#Best
#Go
#Hard
#People
Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave - she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won.
- Dominic Cummings
#Leave
#Project
#She
#Vote
#Without
Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high leverage.
- Dominic Cummings
#Chaos
#Communication
#People
#Technology
Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g 'witch doctor') to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels) and quantitative models (e.g design of modern aircraft).
- Dominic Cummings
#Design
#Doctor
#Physics
#Progress
#Wind
A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.
- Dominic Cummings
#Great People
#Great
#People
#Politics
People think, and by the way I think most people are right: 'The Tory party is run by people who basically don't care about people like me.' That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. I know a lot of Tory MPs and I am sad to say the public is basically correct.
- Dominic Cummings
#Care
#Country
#I Am
#Me
#Sad
I've learned over the years that 'rational discussion' accomplishes almost nothing in politics, particularly with people better educated than average.
- Dominic Cummings
#Better
#Nothing
#Over
#People
#Politics
The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius and Archimedes on ellipses would be used centuries later by Kepler for his theory of planetary motion.
- Dominic Cummings
#Ideas
#Motion
#Problems
#Pure
#Work
There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.
- Dominic Cummings
#Brilliant
#People
#Politics
#Service
Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics.
- Dominic Cummings
#Economics
#People
#Politics
#Prediction
Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that a lot of people without exceptional talents can use - yet we can't embed it in government.
- Dominic Cummings
#Government
#Management
#Project
#Way
The E.U. has narrowed our horizons. It has narrowed everyone's horizons in Whitehall so they're not thinking about the big things in the world. They're not thinking about the forces changing it or what Britain can really do to contribute to them.
- Dominic Cummings
#Big
#Everyone
#Things
#Thinking
#World
Britain could contribute huge value to the world by leveraging existing assets, including scientific talent and how the NHS is structured, to push the frontiers of a rapidly evolving scientific field - genomic prediction - that is revolutionising healthcare in ways that give Britain some natural advantages over Europe and America.
- Dominic Cummings
#America
#Push
#Talent
#Value
#World
Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very talented people.
- Dominic Cummings
#Fields
#Hardest
#Other
#People
#See
It is very very hard for humans to lift our eyes from today and to go out into the future and think about what could be done to bring the future back to the present. Like ants crawling around on the leaf, we political people only know our leaf.
- Dominic Cummings
#Eyes
#Future
#People
#Political
#Today
In healthcare like in government generally, people are incentivised to engage in wasteful/dangerous signalling to a terrifying degree - not rigorous thinking and not solving problems.
- Dominic Cummings
#Government
#People
#Problems
#Thinking
Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the 1920s, statisticians invaded medicine and devised randomised controlled trials. Doctors, hating the challenge to their prestige, resisted but lost. Evidence-based medicine became routine and saved millions of lives.
- Dominic Cummings
#Lost
#Medicine
#More
#Politics
#Trials
Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism.
- Dominic Cummings
#Action
#Focus
#Pragmatism
#Priorities
If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is - hire physicists, not communications people from normal companies and never believe what advertising companies tell you about 'data' unless you can independently verify it.
- Dominic Cummings
#Advice
#Believe
#Communication
#People
Despite the centrality of communication to politics it is remarkable how little attention Insiders pay to what works - never mind the question 'what could work much better?'
- Dominic Cummings
#Communication
#Mind
#Pay
#Politics
#Work
As I've said many times, Vote Leave could only win because the Establishment's OODA loops are broken - as the Brexit negotiations painfully demonstrate daily - and they are systematically bad at decisions, and this created just enough space for us to win.
- Dominic Cummings
#Bad
#Daily
#Space
#Vote
#Win
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