Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone on the crisis in hong kong. Over the last year, weve interviewed several probate janan prodemocracy figures, and we challenge them all to justify what theyve done and said some of their arguments have clearly failed to stand the test of time. Nathan law, a leading prodemocracy activist, fled to london in june after a warrant was issued for his arrest. This week i asked him if hed ever believed his movement could take on beijing. And when i think we have already achieved a lot of things where demonstrate the courage and bravery of how come people and making sure the well knows that well received staying and collaborating in combating the authoritarian expansion of china. So i think we have awakened the world, but the result isnt in doubt, is it, china will get its way, will get its way, wont it . Well, beijing has been suppressing hong kong people at the cost of our basic freedom. And as a matter of fact, the world has been reac
Im looking forward. Its not too far away from virginia tech. Looking forward to having dr. Joins dr. Jones. Hes an expert in a civil war era history. Especially in Civil War Veterans with opiate addiction. Phd athe subject of a binghamton university, also published a recent article in the journal of the civil war era. Hes worked on a book on the topic. This is his topic. He knows it better than anyone. We are fortunate to be the subject of his talks. He will speak for about 35 minutes, so we will have plenty of time for discussion at the end. Inay you can engage discussions with dr. Jones is pretty q and a future. Onwont be able to turn cameras or microphones of the attendees. We will do everything through the chat box. Type in your question, and we will see it and hopefully be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap up around 8 15. You can ask a question at any time. If something occurs during the talk, we can you can type it in and we will respond to them as we are able. Th
To know why the why dont you go down with the white house. So i dont know how i dont think its the fault of the clothes. Of the. Top that wanted to develop. A new number 1000001 it. May. 6 6 2 well. To so think of visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty empathy our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the last of the at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show was. Great to be here thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with this called sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be in the affective or even harmful and in what cases yes i think suddenly isnt very often as ine
Dot com, chris from elan. Chris, lets start with you. It seems that despite all of this positive vaccine is because weve practically heard it every day. This week, markets remain sort of stuck at these levels and covert 1000 cases. Still surging. Is this something we should expect to see these sort of patterns for the forseeable future . I really think the market got a little over extended that ive really are this year in september. And if i want to put in that high in september, we have got as much needed was in the overall stock market. And really this multi month sideways consolidation really is a pause at this point because i do think the stock market wants to go higher. Were going to have more stimulus eventually that should push these markets to new highs. Once again, we do have the holiday rally coming right around the corner here for us equities. So i actually think the market has just taken well deserved breather. And i actually didnt really continue to see this market move hi
Thats actively harmful not just in affective but most of the time things do sentiment of good is just that the very best things we can focus our time and money on do normas them out into the world lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something outrageous to what i read an example in one of your interviewees a charity that for instance sends books to africa for kids to learn with but theres no teachers there so the books arent really making much difference so your money sort of waste it give me other causes that arent effective enough to be donating to if i spend money on for instance Alzheimers Research is it like money well spent is it effective. Ok so i mean Something Like funding out same as the search or funding treatment for illnesses that affects some of it just countries in the world you know these are good things to do theyre making the world better but the question is are they the most effective things you can be doing and i think generally not and th