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.
Nitin Pai
A policy wonk.
Co-founder, The Takshashila Institution @takshashila
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"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
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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
@patchworkbunny Hey! Welcome. This is the right place.
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I am @thej@social.thej.in
I was a happy user of Twitter for 15+ years. I have made the move today.
Blog: I am @thej@social.thej.in
- This is going to be my primary account
- Twitter is going to be my secondary account from now on.
Tech post tomorrow.
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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
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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."
Instead of the Examined
We have chosen
the Exhibited Life
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@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.
@jeffjarvis @null Yes, algorithmic competition is useful. It addresses a fundamental problem with social media 1.0
https://www.nitinpai.in/2021/01/31/what-we-must-regulate-when-we-regulate-social-media-platforms
"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
"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
“With the dramatic collapse of Bankman-Fried’s dubious FTX empire, the knives are out for EA. There is no doubt that the EA community must reflect on its moral trajectory even if Bankman-Fried and his clique are an aberration. But it would be altogether wrong to use his wrongdoing to discredit the principle”
#philosophy #philanthropy #publicpolicy #MastIndia
In my column, I argue that effective altruism the principle is valuable (even as EA the cult has lost its way with long-termism)
#philosophy #philanthropy #morality #ethics #publicpolicy #MastIndia
#introduction
Me https://www.nitinpai.in/me
Public policy: geopolitics, defence, tech, philosophy
Also, I’ve been uncomfortable with the “public square” metaphor.
As much as anyone can say anything at public squares, it usually means the loudest, most strident, the populist & the violent prevail.
That is why ancient republics had sabhas & senates; where deliberation, negotiation and compromise was possible.
Public squares may be good for conversation. They are terrible for decision making.
#TIL
Alcuin warned Charlemagne:
“Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.”
(Don’t listen to those who say the voice of people is the voice of god, because of the madness of crowds)
While people are saying “vox populi, vox dei” is a partial quote from this, I think Alcuin was referencing & criticising an extant view. I suspect vox populi originated in the Roman republic.
@TheTweetOfGod
Did you do “testing, testing” before you created the world?
If so, are we in the “testing” world or the world you intended to create?
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