Dominic Cummings — Inside the collapse of western government

Why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis. Dominic was Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister during COVID, and before that, director of Vote Leave (which masterminded the 2016 Brexit referendum). 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/dominic-cummings * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dominic-cummings-covid-brexit-fixing-western-governance/id1516093381?i=1000634919285 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HHku14yskmTwQR0IcYXOw?si=MQcsWkwDTRauk5yp7ZtLZg * Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - One day in COVID… 00:08:26 - Why is government broken? 00:29:10 - Civil service 00:38:27 - Opportunity wasted? 00:49:35 - Rishi Sunak and Number 10 vs 11 00:55:13 - Cyber, nuclear, bio risks 01:02:04 - Intelligence & defense agencies 01:23:32 - Bismarck & Lee Kuan Yew 01:37:46 - How to fix the government? 01:56:43 - Taiwan 02:00:10 - Russia 02:07:12 - Bismarck’s career as an example of AI (mis)alignment 02:17:37 - Odyssean education