Re: the Dominic Cummings “failure of imagination”.
From a UK context it’s widely understood that during the PPE panic huge sums of money were thrown at friends of both Cummings and the elected Cabinet. In this context, a common interpretation on hearing stories of Cummings trying to bypass procurement rules isn’t “hero takes down bureaucracy” it’s “corrupt official wants less scrutiny on where public money is sent”.
Personally, I fully agree that existing procurement rules are unlikely to be optimal, but there are few people who have proven themselves less trustworthy than Cummings in UK politics over the last few years.
I admire Dominic from a distance based more on reading old blog posts than on awareness of recent news (which I actively avoid in general in preference to getting information via word of mouth as a salience filter and then doing followup with active evidence seeking to test hypotheses).
there are few people who have proven themselves less trustworthy than Cummings in UK politics over the last few years.
Are you saying that he has a multi-year pattern of redirecting funds from public coffers to personal friends?
Or maybe… are you saying that he just has a halo, for you, of being someone that members of your tribe should say “boo” to by default?
Specifically, could you name things from the last few years which might update me decisively to not trusting Dominic in specific ways? I’d be specifically looking for official crimes (or gross normative violations) he may have committed that cross a coherent bright line. I currently model him as simply “an official villain that the press hates” because the press hated Brexit and so on and so forth?
So my structural model here is that you might be “simply downstream of the British press who I model as quite biased in predictable ways (so much so that I avoid the popular press on purpose in general)” or you might be “aware of specific crime-like actions done by Dominic that would surprise and sadden me and give me a specific threat model for how to be careful around him (that I might not know because I am often oblivious to many current events)”?
Links to the best evidence of the worst bright-line violations of behavioral norms by Dominic, that are clear, clean, and surprising to me would be appreciated <3
I’d be specifically looking for official crimes (or gross normative violations) he may have committed that cross a coherent bright line. I currently model him as simply “an official villain that the press hates” because the press hated Brexit and so on and so forth?
The issues in the leave (ie Brexit) campaign were
The misleading claim about extra funding for the NHS,
The claim about the entire population of Turkey settling in the UK, which was both misleading and racist
The use of personal data by a company he hired, which has now folded under legal issues
Re: the Dominic Cummings “failure of imagination”.
From a UK context it’s widely understood that during the PPE panic huge sums of money were thrown at friends of both Cummings and the elected Cabinet. In this context, a common interpretation on hearing stories of Cummings trying to bypass procurement rules isn’t “hero takes down bureaucracy” it’s “corrupt official wants less scrutiny on where public money is sent”.
Personally, I fully agree that existing procurement rules are unlikely to be optimal, but there are few people who have proven themselves less trustworthy than Cummings in UK politics over the last few years.
I admire Dominic from a distance based more on reading old blog posts than on awareness of recent news (which I actively avoid in general in preference to getting information via word of mouth as a salience filter and then doing followup with active evidence seeking to test hypotheses).
Are you saying that he has a multi-year pattern of redirecting funds from public coffers to personal friends?
Or maybe… are you saying that he just has a halo, for you, of being someone that members of your tribe should say “boo” to by default?
Specifically, could you name things from the last few years which might update me decisively to not trusting Dominic in specific ways? I’d be specifically looking for official crimes (or gross normative violations) he may have committed that cross a coherent bright line. I currently model him as simply “an official villain that the press hates” because the press hated Brexit and so on and so forth?
So my structural model here is that you might be “simply downstream of the British press who I model as quite biased in predictable ways (so much so that I avoid the popular press on purpose in general)” or you might be “aware of specific crime-like actions done by Dominic that would surprise and sadden me and give me a specific threat model for how to be careful around him (that I might not know because I am often oblivious to many current events)”?
Links to the best evidence of the worst bright-line violations of behavioral norms by Dominic, that are clear, clean, and surprising to me would be appreciated <3
The issues in the leave (ie Brexit) campaign were
The misleading claim about extra funding for the NHS,
The claim about the entire population of Turkey settling in the UK, which was both misleading and racist
The use of personal data by a company he hired, which has now folded under legal issues