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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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Many collectives are nonprofits or structured like other groups that do not have to disclose individual donors, similar to how billions of dollars of political donations flow through nonprofits that don’t have to disclose their donors compared to groups that do.—
Ben Kamisar,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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The scholarships are funded through grants from individuals or donors from foundations.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Jan. 2025
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Of course, acts of communal kindness don’t just positively impact the givers.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Using clues from the quest giver, players can pinpoint a search location and send a scout to search it.—
Gieson Cacho,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Service organizations have long had to rely on funding from a range of sources, from federal grants to one-off donations, making their work dependent on a patchwork of benefactors with differing rules and deadlines.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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The decision sparked concern among watchdog groups and legal experts who noted Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have been scrutinized for accepting lavish gifts and hospitality from wealthy benefactors.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
14 Jan. 2025
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This is the largest settlement with contributors to the opioid crisis in the U.S.—
Katrina Kaufman,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2025
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The McKinsey Health Institute and Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative research reveals that workplace factors are not just contributors to brain health—they're often the primary drivers.—
Tarun Galagali,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Jared Isaacman, the billionaire philanthropist who's funded and flown on two private astronaut missions with SpaceX including the historic Polaris Dawn mission, has been nominated as the next NASA administrator.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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DeVos, an education philanthropist and prominent school-choice champion, served as secretary of education from 2017 to 2021.—
Frederick Hess,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Altruist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altruist. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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