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Recent Examples of altruist
Effective altruists, by contrast, tended to jump at such opportunities — after all, 10 percent better conditions for animals, while hardly perfect, is still better.
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Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
Some of the effective altruists will classify all of the effective accelerationists as extreme libertarians.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
Effective altruists were also making a splash in other areas, like global health and development or biosecurity or AI, but those were all areas where a lot of money was already being spent from many sources.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
Effective altruists were some of the earliest people to take seriously the study of catastrophic risks from AI, and many in the AI safety community—though not all—subscribe to the philosophy to varying degrees.
—Billy Perrigo/san Francisco, TIME, 30 May 2024
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Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
Some of the effective altruists will classify all of the effective accelerationists as extreme libertarians.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
Effective altruists were also making a splash in other areas, like global health and development or biosecurity or AI, but those were all areas where a lot of money was already being spent from many sources.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
Effective altruists were some of the earliest people to take seriously the study of catastrophic risks from AI, and many in the AI safety community—though not all—subscribe to the philosophy to varying degrees.
—Billy Perrigo/san Francisco, TIME, 30 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for altruist
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While this tendency can be improved through staff training and donor cultivation, especially in areas like the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research or the life sciences, additional models warrant exploration.—
Mung Chiang,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Bannon was found to have diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors to associates.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Both sides quickly thereafter resumed negotiations and struck a compromise, prompted in part by the potential damage to care givers.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2025
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Furthermore, appreciation benefits the giver as well.—
David Ford,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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When the Ordway opened its doors in 1985, our chief benefactor and guiding spirit, Sally Ordway Irvine, had a vision to create a place where ALL the performing arts would be embraced and ALL members of the community would feel welcome.—
Christopher Harrington,
Twin Cities,
29 May 2025
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Lapid trades in indelicate satire for indelicate times — Y at one point literally and lavishly licks his wealthy benefactor’s gleaming knee-high boots — so these grisly verses at first seem a typically blunt caricature of Israeli nationalism at its most ruthless.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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In the 2017 book Self-Concept Clarity, contributors Kevin McIntyre, Brent Mattingly and Gary Lewandowski Jr. emphasize the importance of maintaining a whole sense of self while dating.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Leaflet © OpenStreetMap contributors + - d F m k j What's Next The Winter Storm Watch could be upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning as confidence in the snowfall totals and impacts increases.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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Jordan has a production company, Outlier Society, which doubles as a laboratory for developing his own projects, plus thriving side careers as a brand ambassador, philanthropist, and sea-moss-beverage entrepreneur, among other pursuits.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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Our values must live beyond our walls The Jewish community has many generous philanthropists.—
Rabbi David Steinhardt,
Sun Sentinel,
28 May 2025
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“Altruist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altruist. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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