'super talented weirdos'- Dominic Cummings wants your cv

[Idris2002]

He's bitter about the hair thing, isn't he? That's why he's doing this.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

The Project of Paradoxes: In Search of Dominic Cummings – Part Two

Otto English continues his exploration of what drives the Prime Minister's chief advisor, ending with a startling discovery.

bylinetimes.com

In a rambling journey through his mind, Cummings – the anti-elite outsider – argued that university students should study more of what he thought they should study. “We need leaders who have read The Brothers Karamazov and The Quark and the Jaguar, who can feel Kipling’s Kim and succeed in Tetlock’s Good Judgment Project,” he wrote.

More worryingly, buried within the thesis, he controversially claimed that 70% of a child’s academic performance is genetically derived, arguing that “there is strong resistance across the political spectrum to accepting scientific evidence on genetics. Most of those that now dominate discussions on issues such as social mobility entirely ignore genetics and therefore their arguments are at best misleading and often worthless”.

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[two sheds]

Jesus. But exactly what you'd expect if you advertise for weirdos.

I remember reading a while ago that a lot of the people doing intelligence tests when they entered America didn't actually speak English. Which marked them down a little.

 

[Chilli.s]

Shit tests>shit results>shit conclusions.

 

[Riklet]

What a shit person to choose!

 

[Proper Tidy]

Who could have predicted that a call for against the grain types who like to do things differently to join a right wing administration would end up recruiting racist eugenicists. Surprised johnson hasn't got taki on board

 

[elbows]

Wont someone build a submarine
For this weird, disruptive team
So they can test their special plans
Far away from saner lands
Go and disrupt Beaufort's Dyke
An explosive end to the fourth Reich

 

[Proper Tidy]

Everybody wants to disrupt stuff now. We're a bank, pretty much like every other bank but our name is a bit jazzier and you can't go to a branch there is just this app, aren't we disruptive. Imagine a taxi, but through an app and unregulated. We're disruptors! Fuck off. Business wankers.

 

[Marty1]

Everybody wants to disrupt stuff now. We're a bank, pretty much like every other bank but our name is a bit jazzier and you can't go to a branch there is just this app, aren't we disruptive. Imagine a taxi, but through an app and unregulated. We're disruptors! Fuck off. Business wankers.

Yeah, a lot of these business apps remove human interaction and feel alienating. Ultimately it’s a cost saving exercise.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Yeah, a lot of these business apps remove human interaction and feel alienating. Ultimately it’s a cost saving exercise.

Yeah absolutely, it's about minimising costs, fine capital is obviously going to use new technology to further its interests of course. But the wanky language and the idiots who buy into it. I know people who have about ten bank accounts now, monzo, revolut (!), whatever the rest are called. Its still just a fucking bank account

 

[agricola]

I love how this completely out the box search turned up some High Anglican, sub-Toby Young bloke who worked in political research and freelance opinion-journalism.

 

[Sue]

I love how this completely out the box search turned up some High Anglican, sub-Toby Young bloke who worked in political research and freelance opinion-journalism.

Yes, without this, how would such types ever come to the fore...

 

[Shechemite]

The ‘care’ that those with learning disability receive kills them off even without scumbags like Sabinsky being involved in government

May: LeDeR annual report | News | University of Bristol

 

[Shechemite]

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[A380]

Jesus. But exactly what you'd expect if you advertise for weirdos.

I remember reading a while ago that a lot of the people doing intelligence tests when they entered America didn't actually speak English. Which marked them down a little.

One standard test that the Septics promoted across the world had at least one question based on knowing the order of Zip codes in LA suburbs. So universally applicable then.

 

[Shechemite]

 

[agricola]

I think my favourite comment amongst the inevitable replies to that garbage of Dawkins is where someone tries to defend Dawkins with "and wolves would not make very good PTSD companion animals".

 

[josef1878 2.0]

Job description here:
‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos…
just bizarre.

Spent a lot of time in Russia and now wants to fuck up the government here......

 

[likesfish]

I think my favourite comment amongst the inevitable replies to that garbage of Dawkins is where someone tries to defend Dawkins with "and wolves would not make very good PTSD companion animals".

I dont know might work

 

[equationgirl]

I'd like an anxiety support tiger, personally.

 

[two sheds]

I dont know might work

or even:

Florida man: dialysis center won't allow life-sized Trump as emotional support

Nelson Gibson stops kidney treatments at Port St Lucie facility, saying staff rejected his cardboard cutout

www.theguardian.com

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I knew this government were rightwing nationalist scum and vermin and cancer - repulsive filth of the lowest kind, but even I am surprised its taken them barely two months to unleash outright Nazis on us. Fuck.

 

[treelover]

Nasty piece of work, but should remember that plenty of 'assorted weirdos' saved our bacon at Bletchely Park, decoding enigma, etc.

 

[Ax^]

and the Nazis made the trains run on time?

 

[Chilli.s]

and the Nazis made the trains run on time?

Didn't they invent and build motorways too?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Nasty piece of work, but should remember that plenty of 'assorted weirdos' saved our bacon at Bletchely Park, decoding enigma, etc.

I just don't even...

Turing was a genius polymath who helped saved millions of lives. And he was hounded to death by mindless bigots like this Sabrisky fucker. What possible basis can you have for lumping the two together.

 

[William of Walworth]

Facts ignore ideology

His past tweet about aborting Downs syndrome babies was beyond out of order -- absolutely disgusting (I'd forgotten about it, but I do now remember being repulsed at the time).

But in that latest tweet, he's merely attempting to state a fact as he sees it -- selective breeding works for other species. He's not advocating it. Not for humans anyway. Or am I wrong? I don't see the latter in that tweet above
If Urbans are going to pile onto Dawkins, I suggest
1. On another thread to this one
2. Sticking to what he actually said, not what people think he said, or wanted him to have said.

 

[Sue]

I'd like an anxiety support tiger, personally.

I'd certainly feel less anxious if I had my own tiger ready and waiting to rip out the throats of my enemies.

 

[equationgirl]

Nasty piece of work, but should remember that plenty of 'assorted weirdos' saved our bacon at Bletchely Park, decoding enigma, etc.

There's weirdos and weirdos, treelover.

I think most of urban is probably weird in real life to one degree or another, including myself. Turing was a genius mathematician who was persecuted for being gay. This guy just sounds like a tool.