altruist
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But to buy the property at current market rates without jacking up rents, even an altruist would have to come up with some unlikely financial wizardry.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024
He brought on Gary Wang, an old friend from math camp, and later Ellison, a fellow effective altruist from Jane Street.
From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2023
Ellison said that Bankman-Fried, a self-described effective altruist who purportedly wanted to make the world better by making tons of money, used that angle to justify their crimes together.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2023
As Peter Singer, who considers himself an effective altruist, notes, this would include charitable causes like "donating to help the global poor" and reducing "animal suffering."
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022
Yet in this she is a true altruist.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 by Various
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