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'... lifeless eyes, like a doll’s eyes...’

Dominic Cummings

Sep 29

'Politics is the womb in which war develops'... Errors in politics and strategy dwarf errors in operations and tactics... Relevance for UKR... Seventeen…

Dominic Cummings

Aug 24

“If the value system collapses, how can the social system be sustained?” Wu Huning, adviser to Xi. A few snippets below on: Dangerous academics on…

Dominic Cummings

Jul 29

A few snippets below on: Culture wars Why HMT has too much power, destroys value, and should be split up The leadership contest SW1 myths on ‘the…

Dominic Cummings

Jul 16

Thanks for all comments on Reading List. Snippets below on: No10 farce summary Finkelstein re Tory strategy Ukraine AGI ruin Evidence on daycare…

Dominic Cummings

Jul 4

As long promised (sorry!), here are some books and a few papers I recommend. I’ve read at least some of (almost) all of them and (almost) all of most…

Dominic Cummings

Jun 26

Dan Wang on 'engineers of the soul'... GPT3, the scaling hypothesis... SW1 sex deviants... Baby P/child abuse coverups... Imminent trolley tax u-turn

Dominic Cummings

May 11

Innovation & procurement... Why Pentagon/MoD are high-friction-high-latency-low-performance?... RMA/'military-technical revolution'... Why successes get…

Dominic Cummings

Apr 20

Trump winning is 'modal outcome'... AI progress ('for progress there is no cure')... Fusion progress... Sex/Left losing...

Dominic Cummings

Apr 5

Schelling's game theory was dangerously misleading... How should we think of deterrence? ... What new capabilities should we prioritise?

Dominic Cummings

Mar 28

We should be encouraging a deal but our idiocracy wants the war to continue... PM's team thinks the war helps him politically... Strauss on Nietzsche...

Dominic Cummings

Mar 27

Western theories re Soviet 'rationality' and nuclear strategy/ deterrence were revealed post-91 to be overconfident & wrong... Few realise... The rot of…

Dominic Cummings

Mar 18

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