Dominic Cummings
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Dominic Cummings is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between July 23, 2021 and April 08, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Dominic Cummings, formerly a top adviser to the British government, now has a Substack”; “Apparently inspired by Dominic Cummings predicting 50-50”; ""strategic masterminds (Dominic Cummings)"". It most often appears alongside OpenAI, Russia, Twitter.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: July 23, 2021
- Last seen: April 08, 2025
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- 1960s sci-fi (1 shared issues)
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- 2024 elections (1 shared issues)
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- 5 U.S.C. §§ 558, 706 (1 shared issues)
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- 538 (1 shared issues)
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- Ace Attorney (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Smith (1 shared issues)
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- Administrative Procedure Act (1 shared issues)
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- AI 2027 (1 shared issues)
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- AI 2027 (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
9: Dominic Cummings, formerly a top adviser to the British government, now has a Substack (…Domstack?) where he talks about the UK coronavirus response and his many other opinions. The “Ask Me Anything” threads are a particular gem - it’s hard for me to think of other examples of people with experience of the top levels of power being so accessible and willing to talk about it with randos.
Inline links: now has a Substack
Apparently inspired by Dominic Cummings predicting 50-50. Polymarket is even more bearish.
Inline links: Dominic Cummings predicting 50-50, even more bearish
If persuasion “only” tops out at the level of top humans, this is still impressive; the top humans are very persuasive! They range from charismatic charmers (Bill Clinton) to strategic masterminds (Dominic Cummings) to Machiavellian statesmen (Otto von Bismarck) to inspirational-yet-culty gurus (Steve Jobs) to beloved celebrities (Taylor Swift). At the very least, a superintelligence can combine all of these skills.