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DEI Must Start from Equality for All (Starting from the A’erdai Incident)

Culture & Public Commentary2026.08.18
DEI Must Start from Equality for All (Starting from the A’erdai Incident)
The death of Cambridge University professor Jason Alday was quickly seized upon by two opposing narratives. One narrative holds that he was a typical product of DEI policies undermining academic standards: the university, in order to produce a symbolically significant Black professor, ignored the credentials, papers, and personal record that ought to have been rigorously scrutinized. The other narrative holds that he was a victim of a racist public manhunt: a Black scholar with autism who, because of a few mistakes, was subjected to humiliation and persecution far beyond the bounds of ordinary academic dispute. I think these two narratives need not be mutually exclusive. A scholar’s papers can very…
pluralism equality fairness identity
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Aug 18, 2026
A Philosophical Discussion of Reality and Happiness (vs. ChatGPT)

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2026.07.21
A Philosophical Discussion of Reality and Happiness (vs. ChatGPT)
This is a philosophical dialogue I invited ChatGPT to have with me, and it felt pretty good. At first I wanted it to generate an article, but when I read it, I thought it was only so-so, so I decided to just post the whole conversation instead (with section headings added). The generated article is at the end as well. ## 1. Reality, Happiness, and the Subject of Choice **Hu Yilin** Please discuss a philosophical problem with me. You ask me the questions, and after several rounds of back-and-forth, you should help me organize my views into an article. **ChatGPT5.6SolPro** All right, I’ll try to be more like a conversational…
philosophy freedom pluralism public sphere
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Jul 21, 2026
If Trump’s Information Can Be Sold, Why Can’t the Teleprompter Operator Make Money? — On the Truth API and the White House “Insider Betting” Investigation

Culture & Public Commentary2026.07.20
If Trump’s Information Can Be Sold, Why Can’t the Teleprompter Operator Make Money? — On the Truth API and the White House “Insider Betting” Investigation
Behind the Truth API and the White House “insider betting” investigation: what is the real problem, after all — profiting from information, or who monopolizes information and power? Introduction On July 16, two pieces of news that seemed to contradict each other appeared at the same time. Trump Media & Technology Group announced the launch of Truth API, selling financial institutions a low-latency data interface for major Truth Social accounts. The company said the service could deliver machine-readable data to institutional clients at millisecond speed, is scheduled to open on August 1, and is being positioned as a new long-term recurring revenue source. Trump’s remarks often move expectations around tariffs,…
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Jul 20, 2026
From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility

AI & Scholarship2026.06.29
From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
IntroductionAfter the Beijing CITIC Tower, “China Zun,” was struck by a small aircraft, low-altitude flight safety once again became a public issue. But in the view of technology philosophy researcher Hu Yilin, this accident should not be understood only as a low-altitude economy risk; it should be discussed within a much larger problem: whenever a new technology moves into mass use, society always tightens control in the name of safety, but whether that control is effective, who bears its costs, and who enjoys its benefits are often far more worth asking than the question of “whether we need safety” itself. After the China Zun accident, low-altitude safety was pushed into…
technology freedom Introduction to Philosophy of Technology sociology
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Jun 29, 2026
Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2026.06.24
Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
The Singapore government recently required YouTube, Facebook, and X to block 14 pieces of online content targeting the Indian community. Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said these posts attacked the Indian community and undermined Singapore’s multiracial social model, and that the relevant content may have originated on Chinese platforms. The police issued directives to the platforms under the Online Criminal Harms Act, requiring them to bar Singapore users from accessing the relevant content. This incident has drawn attention not only because it involves racial issues, but also because it touches the core of Singapore’s mode of governance: in a modern city-state that places a high value on social harmony, multiracial…
freedom politics pluralism state
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Jun 24, 2026
AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age

AI & Scholarship2026.06.24
AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age
Recently, the U.S. government, citing national security, asked Anthropic to suspend foreign nationals’ access to its frontier large models Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic then announced that, in order to ensure compliance, it would take both models offline for all users. This incident quickly sent shockwaves through the AI industry: if one country can, on security grounds, suddenly cut off global users’ access to frontier AI, then what exactly is AI—a commercial service, a piece of public infrastructure, or a new kind of strategic weapon? In the public discussion surrounding this incident, opinion quickly split into two camps. One side believes that frontier large models may be used for…
freedom history of technology AI public sphere
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Jun 24, 2026
Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately

AI & Scholarship2026.05.27
Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
It’s graduation season again, and recently many universities in China have acquired a new task: checking AI-generation rates. Rules like “if AI-generated content (AIGC rate) exceeds 40%, you cannot graduate” are simply hilarious; they show how helpless some universities are in the age of AI. I believe that any university that stipulates that using AI means you cannot graduate can be dissolved on the spot; that is the best thing it can do for this era. Stop misleading the young. Checking the AIGC rate is a joke Checking the AIGC rate is in the same vein as the earlier thesis plagiarism check. I criticized the absurdity of plagiarism checks in…
China scholarship freedom education
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May 27, 2026
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…
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Mar 5, 2025
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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Feb 24, 2025
Freedom of Speech and Social Media

Culture & Public Commentary2021.01.11
Freedom of Speech and Social Media
This article was written spontaneously, as a stream-of-consciousness piece prompted by my own feelings; it is shared only on Suixuan, and please do not reprint it. Trump’s social media accounts being banned set off a discussion about freedom of speech. Aside from the arguments that have never reached consensus, today’s discussions of freedom of speech do in fact involve some new conditions that have only emerged in the past decade or so. This is the rise of large social media websites. They have carved out an autonomous space in the network world, and in many cases have replaced what used to be understood as public space. Whether, and how, the…
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