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

Toner is a deep effective altruist, having worked exclusively in EA-specific institutions since March 2015.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2023

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

The four housemates sat on the board of the FTX Future Fund, an effective altruist group that Mr. Bankman-Fried financed with his crypto fortune.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

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 Forel, Auguste