Nitin Pai

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A policy wonk.
Co-founder, The Takshashila Institution @takshashila
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Takshashila Institutionhttps://takshashila.org.in
The Indian Nationalism Projecthttps://github.com/nitinpai007/indiannationalism/blob/b376679faa7b5ff665c5e83718b7f22be21fa4a7/seven-tenets-of-indian-nationalism-english.md
Nitin PaiSep 30, 2024
Dave Winer ☕️Sep 30, 2024

What really pisses me off, more than almost anything, is that the czars and benevolent dictators of tech have quietly removed from the web its most basic feature, linking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink

Hyperlink - Wikipedia

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Show threadNitin PaiNov 21, 2022

"At this stage in India’s development, effective altruism offers an thoughtful framework for corporate and individual social responsibility. We need more ideas, fresh thinking, innovative approaches and new money to enter the social sector. If our wealth generators are inspired to give a fraction of their earnings to well-considered altruistic causes, India as a whole will be better off."

https://www.nitinpai.in/2022/11/21/effective-altruism-is-a-useful-way-to-give-back-to-society

#Philosophy

Effective altruism is a useful way to give back to society

This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Whenever professionals and corporate executives

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"Long-termism is an indulgence of rich world intellectuals, no matter how genuinely altruistic they are...The mistake MacAskill makes is to conflate long-termism and effective altruism. They might overlap, but they are two different ideas."

https://www.nitinpai.in/2022/11/21/effective-altruism-is-a-useful-way-to-give-back-to-society

#EffectiveAltruism #philosophy #publicpolicy #philanthropy #MastIndia #economics

Effective altruism is a useful way to give back to society

This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Whenever professionals and corporate executives

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Show threadNitin PaiNov 21, 2022
@patchworkbunny Hey! Welcome. This is the right place.
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Thejesh GNNov 21, 2022

I am @[email protected]

I was a happy user of Twitter for 15+ years. I have made the move today.

Blog: I am @[email protected]

  • This is going to be my primary account
  • Twitter is going to be my secondary account from now on.

Tech post tomorrow.

I am @[email protected] | Thejesh GN

This time I was sure my move to Fediverse would be much more permanent. So instead of using site instances owned by someone else, I wanted to host it myself. So I started looking for appropriate software. Finally, I chose microblog.pub. I will write a detailed blog post on microblog.pub and the installation process on

Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್
Nitin PaiNov 21, 2022
Howard RheingoldNov 21, 2022
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel in economics, though she was a political scientist, for her carefully gathered evidence that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable & that communities that successfully govern common resources (water, fisheries, forests, etc) use 8 design principles. I like this brief explanation that specifically mentions #onlinecommunities
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/11/a-revised-ostroms-design-principles-for-collective-governance-of-the-commons-.html
A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons”

Nitin PaiNov 21, 2022
Nilanjana Roy 🦊Nov 20, 2022

Meanwhile, the first excerpt from Black River is out. (Thank you, if anyone's here from Scroll.in!)

"Munia’s eighth birthday falls on the hottest day in June, with the smell of burning cane scenting the air."

https://tinyurl.com/mw7bbsbj

Nilanjana Roy’s new novel is a noir mystery highlighting community divide and violence against women

An excerpt from ‘Black River’ by Nilanjana S Roy.

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Nitin PaiNov 21, 2022
Instead of the Examined
We have chosen
the Exhibited Life
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Show threadAkshay JaitlyNov 21, 2022
@nitin Agree completely. The validity of an idea has nothing to do with the people who abuse it. Sam Harris has a short, sharp new podcast out on this, primarily because he’s a big supporter of EA and had SBF on his podcast recently.
Show threadNitin PaiNov 21, 2022
@jgblr Can’t disagree at all!