Does this sound like Downing Street is gearing-up for mass surveillance, post-Brexit, or is it just me?
No. 10 Downing Street hiring data scientists, physicists, weirdos
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US is looking for allies not protectorates.
Giving the benefit of doubt, I'm assuming that they meant the UK being a protector of the US interest[s]; however, I could be wrong.
Considering they specifically mentioned "alongside Guam," I have to assume they meant becoming a territory of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_Stat...
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#13Dominic Cummings is a problem in UK politics.
If this was Corbyns advisor and Corbyn was in power how would people feel about a data driven approach to disrupting politics?
For left leaning folk don't like cummings new style, does that mean they are thinking conservatively about government?
I think this is an interesting thought experiment?
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#14Dominic Cummings is a problem in UK politics.
Or a necessary counterbalance to Seumas Milne. It all depends on your point of view.
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#15Does this sound like Downing Street is gearing-up for mass surveillance, post-Brexit, or is it just me?
It does seem to me too.
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#16Cummings has been good at tearing things down, we’ve yet to see him build something. His one attempt at business was a complete failure.
He seems to have drunk the AI koolaid but I’m not convinced he really understands it.
This could all go spectacularly wrong.
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#17Is there some context or information missing here? He's a disciple because he quotes Graham once in a blog post in a fairly pedestrian way? Surely no reasonable person would describe that relationship as being a 'disciple' unless there is something more? Searching the wider internet for "Dominic Cummings" "Paul Graham" doesn't seem to reveal any meaningful connections. And who is the person who has editorialised this…
He's the brexit architect. I very much doubt he has any credible connection to pg
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#18That seems surprisingly coherent actually. Freakishly so
Everything else the brexit crowd has produced is a steaming PoS of low quality lies.
Maybe they're better at playing the fool than I gave them credit for
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#19tl;dr: "help us build the eye of Sauron"
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#20This is A+ language to hide that he simply wants to hire people with the same worldview/mindset as himself irrespective of qualifications and civil service rules.
Telling also that this is posted on his private blog, not an official government site. He will rip the country apart, make a huge profit for himself and his friends (like Farage) and leave a bloody mess. Damage for decades as we see already now with Britain's conflicted population (huge rift in particular between pro/against Brexit people and on a lot of other lines) but at an institutional scale and reach.
How are this kind of people allowed into power...