altruist
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Less than three dozen people picketed outside of OpenAI’s offices, but the demonstration sparked a bitter feud on an effective altruist forum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
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 Caroline Ellison, a fellow effective altruist from Jane Street.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
He has remade himself as an altruist, a philanthropist, and he means for his efforts to have maximum impact.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023
We cannot deny that the altruist, endowed with strong sentiments of sympathy and duty, is an excellent social worker, while the pure egoist constitutes an element of decomposition for society.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
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