Basic skills of decision making under uncertainty have been sorely lacking in this crisis. Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute is building up its Epidemic Forecasting project, and needs a project manager.
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I’m honestly struggling with a polite response to this. Here in the UK, Dominic Cummings has tried a Less Wrong approach to policy making, and our death rate is terrible. This idea that a solution will somehow spring from left-field maverick thinking is actually lethal.
Can you give some examples of “LW-style thinking” that they now associate with Cummings?
On Twitter I linked to this saying
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Did Dominic Cummings in fact try a “Less Wrong approach” to policy making? If so, how did it fail, and how can we learn from it? (if not, ignore this)
Huh. Wow.