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  • Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo

    AI & Scholarship

    Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo

    AlphaGo’s Go battle with Lee Sedol is now underway, and artificial intelligence has won 3:0; two honor matches remain, but the outcome is basically beyond doubt already. Whatever the final score may be, the historical significance of this match is beyond question. The significance of this match is mainly symbolic. In fact, since AlphaGo already defeated the European Go champion last year, proving that its Go-playing strength had reached the level of a professional player, its total victory over humans was only a matter of time. Of course, we might also say that ever since Deep Blue dominated chess, the AI conquest of Go had only been a “matter of…

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  • Communication and Chess

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Communication and Chess

    At times, people put to me a question in different ways: in communication, how do I view or handle the status relation between the two sides of a dialogue? For instance, in speaking with teachers and elders, must one inevitably look up to them, or, correspondingly, when speaking with juniors, does one unconsciously have to look down from a position of superiority? This is especially so lately with some younger students who communicate with me: they cannot help but face such a contradiction. They expect some kind of equal dialogue and do not wish always to be in a weak position, yet to try to counter my own forcefulness in…

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  • Friend

    Friend
    Life & Notes

    Friend

    What kind of person is your friend? Not someone for whom you can die; that is your “idol.” Nor someone for whom you live; that is only your beloved. Nor necessarily someone you spend every day with, inseparable; that may just be playmates. Nor necessarily someone who shares your ideals and understands you; that may be comrades or bosom friends. Simply put, a friend is someone with whom you can share joy and shoulder sorrow. You are sad because your friend is sad, and joyful because your friend is joyful. Sorry, I said that wrong. Such a person is your family. Well, anyway, friends and family are more or less…

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  • Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered

    Life & Notes

    Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered

    Now, ordinarily I don’t go around meeting junior male and female students, but I heard that a direct junior female student of mine had arrived, and she was also a guaranteed-admission student from the science track at the Second Affiliated High School of Huazhong Normal University. However you look at it, I ought to go meet her. She really does make one feel that the younger generation is formidable; or rather, since she came out of our Second Affiliated High School, she’s just plain impressive… even scarier than last year’s junior student from Shanghai~~ Feeling emotional…… Actually, I’ve always wanted to say that science-track guaranteed-admission students with an interest in…

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  • “Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

    Philosophy & Thought

    “Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

    The paper I wrote on philosophy of technology before was too rushed—I only decided to switch from Heidegger to Feenberg at two in the morning on Tuesday, spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday reading, and didn’t finish the paper until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning… In fact, many places could still have been developed further. On the question of plural rationality, the example Feenberg gives is a very good one— In the paper I wrote: Here, Feenberg agrees with historicism and social constructivism in holding that not only the content of rational beliefs, but also the principles and forms of reason itself, are historical and culturally plural. In order to…

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