Parth Ahya
@Parthion
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Chief of Staff at @RenPhil21
Washington, DC
Joined December 2011
@nanransohoff Also a nice related quote from JFK. I, too, am drawn irresistibly to people with clear goals. That is sometimes true even when the goals are not perfectly aligned with my ideals!
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Related from @nanransohoff
What virtue is undersupplied today? I drafted my answer here and am very curious how others would answer this question! https://t.co/5cQLbq8fWN
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Why is it so rare and refreshing to meet people with clear, specific goals?
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This is cool!
Introducing a new type of civic tech made possible by AI. Every citizen should have a live, systems view of their government and today we bring that to SF! Track gov entities, spending, news, and more in real time. With LLMs, we can bring this to every city. Who's next?
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How to make time feel like you’re 7 years old again: - Do new things. Changes in activity, setting, etc tell your brain there’s more happening so it feels like you got more time - Lock in on small details. Count the steps, stare at the night sky, look at the world like you
what are your best ideas for how to slow perception of time? if you want it to feel like you are 7 years old again and a 1h lecture feels like a day, how do i slow down time to that?
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At Our World in Data, we spend much of our time counting deaths. But it’s just as important to know the number of lives saved — even though it is harder to estimate and involves much larger uncertainty. My Data Insight today includes this chart of some estimates.
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🚀 Applications are open for the 2026 Horizon Fellowship! Deadline: Aug 28 Join a community of 80+ alums and spend up to two years in DC working on emerging tech policy at agencies, congress, or think tanks. Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/70EcaBb40r
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here's a secret to getting opportunities at work that no manager is going to tell you: having a good personality helps They don't have to think twice before introducing you to someone in their network or putting you in front of a customer. You're easier to root for. Spending
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The FDA is sitting on a goldmine of drug development data — 10,000+ page dossiers detailing how drugs are designed, made, tested, and approved. Big Pharma has these in-house. Startups? Locked out. It’s time to fix that. Read my proposal for @IFP on how. https://t.co/rPrLuG7tHz
ifp.org
How to fuel AI by unlocking the FDA’s knowledge of biotech failures
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Honestly the thing that motivated me to do this episode was learning that there's less than $200M/year of smart philanthropy on factory farming - GLOBALLY. Just to explain how fucking crazy that is: 1. It's insane how cheap the interventions that will spare BILLIONS of animals
Just $1 can help avert 10 years of farmed animal suffering. I decided to give $250,000 as a donation match to @farmkind_giving after learning about the outsized opportunities to help. FarmKind directs your contributions to the most effective charities in this area. Please
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Niche request: has anyone made an Anki deck of all the characters in the Mahabharata?
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CBO finds that every $1.00 in research and development investment yields $7.00-11.50 in additional output. We shouldn't be cutting federal investment in R&D - we should be expanding it!
CBO examined the economic and budgetary effects of two illustrative scenarios in which federal funding for nondefense research and development is increased by $30 billion per year for the next 10 years. https://t.co/WWqwRfCjOW
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come work with @Parthion and I on global health and development!
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And you get to work with @Parthion!
We are hiring someone to join @RenPhil21 and help us work on the intersection of science/tech and global development - e.g. better testing for childhood lead poisoning. Pls share and apply!
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We are hiring someone to join @RenPhil21 and help us work on the intersection of science/tech and global development - e.g. better testing for childhood lead poisoning. Pls share and apply!
come work with @Parthion and I on global health and development!
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African cities need to build if they’re going to accommodate the ~900 million people moving in btw now and 2050. 🌆 But an African YIMBY mvt will have to go beyond just upzoning & reforming land use regulations. It must address underlying factor markets: land, capital, & labor
Africa needs a YIMBY movement What should it look like? https://t.co/7f3Nz72PCr
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What should I ask @Lewis_Bollard, Farm Animal Welfare Program Director for OpenPhilanthropy?
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Compared to the ethics of AI, the ethics of gene editing feels under discussed relative to its significance. We may soon have the ability to dramatically alter our biology; what lines should we draw around that? Who has done the best writing on this topic?
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