pranav
@pranav_so
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20 | polsci, philosophy, economics @ashokauniv | prev R&D policy @FASTIndiaTrust
Delhi, India
Joined August 2023
i’ll be spending the winter interning at @vidhi_india and will be visiting BLR from jan 2-6! if you’re around & want to meet, please DM :)
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it is incredibly easy to make impact in policy in india you only need to use a little bit of common sense
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if you think the reason people in india/AP are not winning nobel prizes because it doesnt pay a lot to win a nobel… man i have some news for you
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i love when we further misalign existing misaligned incentives. R&D/innovation policy in india is an absolute joke
Big Announcement from CM Naidu! The AP government will give ₹100 crore as prize money to a Nobel Prize winner in Quantum Science from Andhra Pradesh. #QuantumScience #NobelPrize
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one small win this year has been that i have, on frequent occassion, been able to come up with interesting and novel research questions worth exploring
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i might be soliciting name ideas for a substack which is a random mix of tech + policy + econ
i have, for the last 6 months, been sitting on a blogpost about india + AI sovereignty that i really think i should finish and post
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me: come up with what i think is a novel and interesting policy question to write about ajay shah: has thought deeply about it 257 years ago, written 24 blogs, and done 13 podcasts/interviews
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i have, for the last 6 months, been sitting on a blogpost about india + AI sovereignty that i really think i should finish and post
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dworkin on rights
how it feels after botching an explanation of something you ought to know very well
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Every additional person stuffed onto the plane is also less carbon impact per flight. A person complaining about air quality and pollution should support this.
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i agree with this and its pretty sad. but its also probably worth recognising structural constraints and tradeoffs e.g muralidharan (CEGIS ) or banerjee & duflo (JPAL) jeopardising their work with state governments. problems are often better understood as misaligned incentives
Big name Economists who have made their careers researching and publishing RCTs on NREGA are now silent when it's being dismantled by the government because they never cared about the subjects of their research in the first place. Spineless careerist rats
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I've been enjoying learning new things and dipping into adjacent fields more than ever before this year due to LLMs. The friction and frustration reduced by going from 'try to find the right textbook and make sense of it' to 'have a dialogue with all the textbooks, get them to
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an argument being made recently is that the VG-G-RAM-G bill is supply driven, whereas NREGA was demand driven. but i initially neither understood nor agreed with this argument. what was the meaning of "demand driven"? wasnt the scheme (NREGA or VB-G-RAM-G) always going to be
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Explain your ideology in one chart (okay actually three)
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tbc, i'm not endorsing this idea. a variation of the reasoning in this quote has in fact contributed to india’s chronic oversupply of government job aspirants.
let the public service be a proud and lively career and let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government, in any branch, at any level, be able to say with pride and with honor in future years: ‘i served the united states government in that hour of our
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