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.

And I just thought to myself, thank god the effective altruists got into AI because this is my hottest take.

Testimony at his trial suggested that his image as an altruist was at least partially a sham.

Opaque, barely regulated and often cutthroat, it is seldom viewed as an incubator of big-hearted altruists.

He brought on Gary Wang, an old friend from math camp, and later Ellison, a fellow effective altruist from Jane Street.