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Year: 2025

Museums in a Changing Society

Culture & Public Commentary2025.05.19
Museums in a Changing Society
An assignment from 中国科学报; the WeChat article was retitled “Where Are Museums, Born Out of the ‘Temple of the Muses’ and the ‘Cabinet of Curiosities,’ Heading in the Digital Age?” It should have been polished, so I am posting the original draft here. What is a “museum”? If we trace the history back, the concept of the museum and the social role it plays have never been fixed; they have continuously changed along with society. This was true in the past, and it is even more true in the future: in this rapidly changing society, museums are giving rise to new meanings. The word museum comes from Alexandria in the…
culture history of science history Aristotle
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2025年5月19日
Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin

Culture & Public Commentary2025.04.27
Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
My most recent long-form interview. Thanks to uncommons @fulihang2009 — it was a delightful conversation, with rich content and excellent editing. Condensed version https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2ZQVRTshnxU7tlT5fCESYQ Full version https://blog.uncommons.cc/cryptoflight-v Reporter's note/访者记 If one were to name the thinkers in the Chinese-speaking crypto world and seasoned Bitcoin players, Hu Yilin, who once taught philosophy of technology at Tsinghua University, is a name one cannot avoid. I first met Teacher Hu at the Bitcoin conference in Singapore last March; afterward, on a sweltering afternoon, we arranged to walk around Geylang until our legs nearly gave out, then found a café and talked about everything under the sun for two hours. But Bitcoin and, more…
philosophy China technology scholarship
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2025年4月27日
Reading: A Bridge to the Future

Culture & Public Commentary2025.04.23
Reading: A Bridge to the Future
Commissioned piece for China Science Daily China Science Daily (2025-03-23, p. 4, General) — I am posting the original draft here The theme of World Book Day 2025 is “Reading: A Bridge to the Future” (Reading: A Bridge to the Future). Come to think of it, this formulation seems a bit strange, because the future will always arrive; no matter what we do, time will always pass, and we will always move toward the future. Reading, by contrast, is always touching “the past,” and what becomes a book always originates in the past and settles there. Perhaps the point of the metaphor is the “bridge” — we will always enter…
culture Plato AI future
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2025年4月23日
Talking About Trump

Culture & Public Commentary2025.03.05
Talking About Trump
When Was America at Its Greatest? So-called “Make America Great Again” — but at exactly which period in history was America the greatest? This historical question actually determines how one judges present policy and the respective international situation. One standard answer is the post–Cold War period. At that time, the United States stood alone in glory, unrivaled, becoming the sole hegemon, the world’s policeman, imperious and overbearing. But in terms of industrial capacity and total GDP, America during this period was only about one quarter of the world. The highest share of GDP should have been at the end of World War II. By then, the whole world had been…
commentary faith value Christianity
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2025年3月5日
On the Left’s Self-dug Grave

Culture & Public Commentary2025.02.24
On the Left’s Self-dug Grave
https://x.com/epr510/status/1893851683534643208 (Reflections on watching the right rise in the German election) What’s funny is that many left-wing intellectuals earlier all thought the enemy was Trump, and that once this oddity had run its course, everything would be fine. But the facts have shown that the left’s collapse is global; Trump’s rise is not an exception but a trend. I think many people still haven’t figured this out even now. Of course, the left’s collapse has something to do with the general spirit of the age, but fundamentally it is still an internal problem. In short, left-wing parties themselves abandoned left-wing positions. So the essence of the left’s defeat is not…
culture politics equality the masses
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2025年2月24日
In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?

AI & Scholarship2025.02.21
In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?
Published in Science Daily of China (2025-02-21, p. 4, Culture). This should be the longest article I have ever published in a newspaper; they gave me a full page. My original text was basically not changed much, except that the section headings were altered a bit and the prose was lightly polished. What I am posting here is my original draft; anyone who wants to reprint it can go find the version posted by Science Net. Welcoming the AI Era In the courses on history of science and philosophy of technology that I had been teaching at Tsinghua, I had already run into the shock of AI. Back then I…
philosophy technology freedom education
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2025年2月21日
The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins

Web3 & Bitcoin2025.01.23
The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins
Recently I’ve basically given up on Weibo and switched to Twitter; one of the big themes on Twitter lately has been the MEME-related discussion that came along with Trump’s coin launch. 【On the origin of MEME】…A lot of people don’t know that the word MEME was coined by Dawkins. “Memes” are certainly a kind of meme, but MEME is not limited to “memes.” 【On TikTok being banned in the U.S.】This is the problem with Web2: you can’t always expect leader figures like Elon Musk to govern Web2 platforms. If so-called Web3 projects ultimately cannot provide a permissionless, uncensorable, open and free social space, then they do not deserve to be…
Web3 internet blockchain revolution
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2025年1月23日