Year: 2024

Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism

Web3 & Bitcoin2024.12.29
Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism
This was an online talk I gave for SeeDAO, which some friends in the SeeDAO community整理成 a written version. There are a few places where the tone does not quite match my original words, but overall it is fairly accurate. I am reposting it here. Guide This article comes from Professor Hu Yilin’s sharing on the third day of the Ninth Node Consensus Conference of SeeDAO (December 1, 2024). Eleven years have passed since Professor Hu’s “first discussion” in 2013, and he again undertakes a profound exploration of the topic of the “disappearance of the state.” In this talk, Professor Hu combines the media philosophy and technological revolution of Bitcoin…
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2024年12月29日
My blog keeps crashing, and I’ve had enough. I’m准备彻底 updating it. I’m currently troubleshooting the problem, so during this period the blog may look rather ugly.

Site Matters2024.12.20
My blog keeps crashing, and I’ve had enough. I’m准备彻底 updating it. I’m currently troubleshooting the problem, so during this period the blog may look rather ugly.
Please paste the Chinese text of part 1, and I’ll translate it.
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2024年12月20日
Common Knowledge as Life

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.11.16
Common Knowledge as Life
A while back I went to Chiang Mai to attend ckcon, where I read Simondon to the ckb community and also gave the somewhat endorsement-like talk below. Of course I have a personal relationship with ckb and also a stake in it, but what I said was indeed sincere. ckb’s distinctive design really does fit quite closely with my own entrepreneurial direction: digital artistic creation that fuses life, culture (history), and information (blockchain). Both my ideas about “a new history of the blockchain” and “an AI life with individuality” can be done on ckb; moreover, the new “Common Sense” (from Common Sense to Common Knowledge) can serve as the foundation…
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2024年11月16日
From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture

Culture & Public Commentary2024.09.23
From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture
I bought Black Myth and still haven’t had time to play it, so I first wrote a commissioned essay, published in China Science Daily (2024-09-20, p. 4, Culture). At publication, its title was changed to “Black Myth” as a Vehicle for “Cultural Export” — Does It Measure Up? On August 20, 2024, the action role-playing AAA game Black Myth: Wukong, produced by the Chinese company Game Science, was officially released. Both Black Myth’s preorder revenue and its peak concurrent online player count set records in Chinese game history, and reached world-leading levels, coming in second only to the record of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Steam. The so-called AAA game is a…
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2024年9月23日
The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.05.08
The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO
This is a commissioned piece for SeeDAO’s 卧虎藏龙 project, https://chinese3.substack.com/p/chinese3-newsletter2dao-2f0?r=3lmuif&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true In fact, my understanding of the current state of Chinese-language DAO is not all that comprehensive. Among the several DAOs I hang around in, I’m mostly a lurker. But this year at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, I happened to give a talk titled “The Possibility of the Revival of Traditional Chinese Culture in Web3,” and since the content was somewhat related, I took on this topic as an excerpt and expansion of that talk. The talk was too long, so in this article I’ll try to make things as concise as possible. This topic can be divided into three…
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2024年5月8日
The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.04.29
The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3
It was also at the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival that, right after the previous talk, “Accelerationism Is Not Liberating Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Released,” I immediately gave another hour-long talk at Open Stage. Of course, I also want to thank Wanxiang for providing the stage. This talk was also something I was even more eager to share with the broader Chinese Web3 community: “The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3.” Are Chinese People Inferior to Westerners? Most of the people at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival were Chinese, and more than half of the talks and events were…
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2024年4月29日
Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed

AI & Scholarship2024.04.21
Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed
Thanks to Wanxiang Blockchain, I was invited to attend the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, and on April 6 I gave two talks, respectively at Sub-venue 2 and on the OpenAI Stage. Their titles were “Accelerationism Is Not Liberating Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Released” and “The Possibility of Reviving Traditional Chinese Culture in Web3.” Since the lecture time was limited, I’ll expand a little here and organize the relevant content into an essay. Who Is Alignment Alignment to? My title, “Accelerationism Is Not Liberating Enough,” is aimed at “accelerationism.” But I am not trying to endorse “decelerationism” or “alignmentism,” so let me begin…
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2024年4月21日
On “Fair Launch”

Web3 & Bitcoin2024.03.22
On “Fair Launch”
What Is Fair Launch? “Fair launch” is a slogan that has risen again along with the Bitcoin inscription craze, but now I find that some coins with 50% locked, 10% reserved, and the like also tout themselves as “fair launch.” This abuse of the concept dilutes its meaning. Of course, language is free; I can’t do anything about their misuse. But we should strive to build consensus and discuss the bottom line of “fair launch.” “Fair launch” is a kind of revival (please refer to my “The Threefold Great Crypto Renaissance” https://yilinhut.net/2023/12/29/9432.html ), because Bitcoin itself was launched this way, and the early altcoins likewise all took fair launch as…
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2024年3月22日
Has NFT Failed?

Web3 & Bitcoin2024.03.12
Has NFT Failed?
https://twitter.com/epr510/status/1767519073330422056 If the BAYC floor price falls below 15E, has NFT failed? I don’t think so. First of all, if persistent price slumps count as “falsification,” then Bitcoin has already been falsified countless times. Besides, as for the pioneering Punks, they actually haven’t fallen that far. Even if projects like BAYC and Azuki all declined and perished, that still would not prove that NFT has failed. By the same token, we can look at the history of FT: Bitcoin has gone up and down, while the other cryptocurrencies have gone quiet one by one. Of the FTs that were hot more than ten years ago, aside from Bitcoin, probably only…
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2024年3月12日
A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”

Culture & Public Commentary2024.02.05
A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
Yesterday, in my capacity as the initiator of Huawendao, I took part in a roundtable discussion titled “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3.” Recently, whenever I’m invited to participate in a program in the name of Huawendao, I’m willing to join for free. That said, I actually don’t much like the so-called roundtable format, especially when the participants aren’t very familiar with one another and there are more than three people. In practice, everyone is basically just talking past one another, and the time is so tight that the topics can’t really be unfolded in depth. Of course, there are indeed times when some sparks of thought do…
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2024年2月5日