Dominic Cummings: #29 On the referendum & #4c on Expertise

Dominic Cummings argues that post-Brexit Britain should combine ARPA/PARC-style science research and "systems management" for complex projects with reform of government institutions, so that high performance teams trained in "Tetlock processes" and equipped with data science and interactive models can make better decisions in a complex world. The post examines the ARPA and PARC model, crediting Joseph Licklider, Robert Taylor and Doug Engelbart with a 1960s vision of networked interactive computing that founded new technologies and industries. It also suggests that this approach could achieve big improvements with very few resources if structured correctly, and that a "phase transition" might be forced on the Westminster/Whitehall system.