Ben Kuhn

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I’m the CTO of Wave. We build financial infrastructure for unbanked people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Personal site (incl various non-EA-related essays): https://www.benkuhn.net/

Email: ben dot s dot kuhn at the most common email address suffix

Common responses to earning to give

Ben Kuhn10 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC

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Spending on yourself vs. charity

Ben Kuhn5 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC

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Effective altruists and outsiders

Ben Kuhn5 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC

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Replaceability in altruism

Ben Kuhn29 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC

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A critique of effective altruism

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2013 1:39 UTC

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(www.lesswrong.com)

Lessons from running Harvard Effective Altruism

Ben Kuhn19 Sep 2014 4:05 UTC

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Brainstorming thread: ideas for large EA funders

Ben Kuhn28 Sep 2014 19:15 UTC

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Career choice: Evaluate opportunities, not just fields

Ben Kuhn28 Sep 2014 21:37 UTC

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Spitballing EA career ideas

Ben Kuhn30 Nov 2014 0:02 UTC

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Where are you giving and why?

Ben Kuhn12 Dec 2014 3:32 UTC

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[cross-post] Does donation matching work?

Ben Kuhn11 Jan 2015 3:49 UTC

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Results from a survey of people’s views on donation matching

Ben Kuhn1 Mar 2015 7:30 UTC

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Tech job Q&A

Ben Kuhn19 Mar 2015 17:52 UTC

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Explaining impact purchases

Ben Kuhn16 Apr 2015 0:53 UTC

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How important is marginal earning to give?

Ben Kuhn19 May 2015 20:41 UTC

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Solving donation coordination problems

Ben Kuhn28 May 2015 1:04 UTC

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[link] GiveWell’s 2015 recommendations are out!

Ben Kuhn21 Nov 2015 2:49 UTC

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Where I gave and why in 2016

Ben Kuhn6 Jan 2017 5:10 UTC

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[Question] Has your “EA worldview” changed over time? How and why?

Ben Kuhn23 Feb 2019 14:22 UTC

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“Why Nations Fail” and the long-termist view of global poverty

Ben Kuhn16 Jul 2019 7:59 UTC

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20 comments13 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)