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altruist

[al-troo-ist] / ˈæl tru ɪst /








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Tallinn became a major donor to AI-safety organizations, including Yudkowsky’s Machine Intelligence Research Institute, as well as effective altruist groups such as the Centre for Effective Altruism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Starring Vanessa Williams as the titular prima donna, the brilliantly named Ebony Scrooge, the film follows Ebony’s transformation from penny-pinching pop star to charitable altruist.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

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

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

Judging then from the opinions of the Governors fifty years later, John Armitstead was not wholly an altruist.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell




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