Archive

Six stages of growth

Draw a core from bark to heart and the years show how they grew.

1. 2005–2008

   Stars and campus

   A young philosophy student at Peking University: the philosophy of the starry sky, reading notes, thoughts on Buddhism and the Gongqingyuan. Suixuan opened, and the pen name 古雴 began here.

   • Philosophy of the Starry Sky
   • Silent Wonder
   • The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy
   • Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom

2. 2009–2012

   The phenomenology years

   Reading groups and the ontology of media: starting from Husserl and Heidegger, “media” slowly became a method; Arendt and political commentary took shape in the same years.

   • A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Media Ontology
   • Arendt Reading Notes
   • 媒介史作为先验哲学
   • Do the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment

3. 2013–2016

   Meeting Bitcoin

   The Bitcoin trilogy asked what money and the state are; the lectures on the general history of science were worked out in class and became Outdated Wisdom.

   • Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
   • Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
   • Lecture Notes on the General History of Science (Introduction)
   • Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
   • A Loose Phenomenological Discussion of “Artificial Intelligence”

4. 2017–2022

   Tsinghua’s history of science

   Helping to build the department and teaching there: a general history of technology, an introduction to the philosophy of technology, three books in a row, and the first looks at Web3 and the metaverse.

   • Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
   • History of Science as a Nature Reserve—A Darwinian View of Science
   • Can This Really Count as a General History? — The Publication of Extension of Man: A General History of Technology
   • From BTC to NFT: From Wealth to Power
   • Heavenly Endowment

5. 2023–2024

   The AI wave and Huawendao

   After ChatGPT, asking again what scholarship is for; the triple crypto renaissance and the Huawendao white paper were the other thread of these two years.

   • Unemployment or Liberation? Artificial Intelligence’s Dual Revolution
   • Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT
   • The Triple Greatness of the Crypto Renaissance
   • Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency

6. 2025–now

   Leaving, and free scholarship

   Moving to Singapore as an independent scholar: the AI and scholarship series, streets and walking, the redesign of Suixuan, and the writing goes on.

   • Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
   • The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks
   • If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
   • From “Whether There Is a Mind” to “How to Establish the Mind” — The Broader Question of Heart-Mind Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence