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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…
China culture tradition game
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2024年9月23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…
China culture Web3 Bitcoin
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2024年4月29日
Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.01.15
Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)
1.What is Huawendao? Huawendao is a decentralized autonomous organization based on identity markers formed on the blockchain, aimed at gathering Chinese pioneers who are courageously exploring the world of Web3, while also attracting lovers of Chinese culture, so that Chinese civilization may glow with new life in the digital age. Joining the Web3 tide, we are not ashamed of being Chinese or of using Chinese characters; we do not need to disguise ourselves as foreigners in order to promote ourselves, nor do we need to trail behind Westerners scavenging their leftovers. Chinese people, and Chinese culture, should confidently and proactively lead the wave of the times, becoming an element of…
China culture Web3 Bitcoin
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2024年1月15日
Accelerationism vs. Alignmentism, Socialism(?)

AI & Scholarship2023.11.22
Accelerationism vs. Alignmentism, Socialism(?)
The big internal-drama spectacle at OpenAI has once again brought into sharp relief the debate about artificial intelligence, “effective accelerationism vs. super ‘alignment’.” I also posted two comments on Weibo, which I record here: I support neither side. Accelerationism believes that whenever new technology disrupts society, the result is always good. But the problem is that in history, good outcomes are also the result of positive social change; if society merely passively accepts the push of new technology, there may not necessarily be good results. The problem with alignmentism is that it is fanciful: human values have never been aligned, so how could machines be? I support checks and balances…
technology culture freedom Web3
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2023年11月22日
Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution

Culture & Public Commentary2023.08.08
Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution
This article was originally the topic of a talk I gave when I took part in a PTADAO sharing session as a friend. After the talk, I organized the text myself, and it was almost as if I reworked the whole line of thought from scratch, forming a more complete article. After it was published on “Yuaibo Sanguan,” it was retitled On Fully On-Chain Games: Reality Is Not Unreal, Virtuality Is Not False, Greatness Does Not Rely on Planning. This article can be counted as a “small synthesis” of my recent thinking. I’m posting the original here. 1 The game of innovation: the only way to achieve great innovation is…
culture freedom media history of technology
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2023年8月8日
On Transhumanism, the Logic of Blockchain, and Huawendao: A Dialogue at SeeDAO

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2023.05.08
On Transhumanism, the Logic of Blockchain, and Huawendao: A Dialogue at SeeDAO
Many thanks to the SeeDAO friends for organizing this conversation, which helped me revisit the core ideas of Huawen DAO (Huawendao) in a new context. I hope it can generate even greater influence. Guest Introduction 丨Speaker: Hu Yilin Hu Yilin is an associate professor in the Department of History of Science at Tsinghua University. He received his PhD in philosophy from Peking University. His research focuses on the history of technology, philosophy of technology, and media ecology. He is the author of A Strong Program for Media History, What Is Technology, Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology, and others. 丨Host: baiyu Prelude When Nietzsche cried out “God is dead, the…
China culture Peking University tradition
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2023年5月8日
Do We Still Need to “Read” in the Age of “Swiping”?

AI & Scholarship2023.04.21
Do We Still Need to “Read” in the Age of “Swiping”?
The original title of this article was “Does the Age of Artificial Intelligence Still Need Reading?”, published in China Science Daily (2023-04-21, p. 1, News, the title was changed to “Do We Still Need to ‘Read’ in the Age of ‘Scrolling’?”》, and on the WeChat public account the title was changed again to Just for This Reason, in the Age of “Scrolling” We Still Need to “Read”. I myself think the newspaper title is better, so I use it here. What follows is the original draft; it was lightly polished for publication, and when citing it, please use the newspaper version. World Book Day is coming again soon. Books are…
culture scholarship freedom AI
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2023年4月21日
Augmented Reality or Augmented Rationality? The Multiple Ideals of Communication Technology

Culture & Public Commentary2022.08.11
Augmented Reality or Augmented Rationality? The Multiple Ideals of Communication Technology
This article was published in Science News (2022-08-10, p. 4, General, under the title “Augmented Reality Does Not Necessarily Mean Augmented Rationality”), while the title in the WeChat public-account version was changed again to “Holographic Teleportation, Human-Machine Symbiosis? Communication Technology: There Is No Best, Nor Can One Speak of Better.” Recently, students at Western University used Microsoft’s Hololens to achieve the world’s first “international holographic teleportation.” In the press release issued by Western University, the opening lines already mention the science-fiction scenes of Star Wars and Star Trek, where people far away on another planet can also attend a meeting in the form of holographic images. But this news item…
technology culture reason VR
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2022年8月11日
Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?

Web3 & Bitcoin2022.02.11
Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?
This article was commissioned by China Business Journal; see http://www.cb.com.cn/index/show/zl/cv/cv13457191859 or https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404735824251191808. It was published with slight revisions here, and I am posting the original text. Because of space constraints and because some things cannot be said too directly, it is still better to read it together with my earlier On VR IV, The Metaverse Is Hyperreality, and related essays. For some reason, a couple of days ago the domestic media once again recycled the news about metaverse property speculation, reporting that “in December 2021, a virtual plot of land on the metaverse platform Sandbox was sold for about 32 million yuan.” I looked up the news from last December…
technology culture Web3 internet
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2022年2月11日
Rebuilding the Threshold—Web3 Is Indeed a Kind of Regression into “Enclosure and Self-Exaltation,” but That May Not Necessarily Be a Bad Thing

Culture & Public Commentary2022.01.30
Rebuilding the Threshold—Web3 Is Indeed a Kind of Regression into “Enclosure and Self-Exaltation,” but That May Not Necessarily Be a Bad Thing
Yesterday, the floor price of the Bored Ape NFT broke through 100 Ether (ETH), and now it is 106.9 (one Ether is currently worth more than 2,500 U.S. dollars), which means a single Bored Ape is worth roughly one to two million yuan. “Floor price” refers to the cheapest ape you can buy right now if you rush in and make the purchase immediately. Because every ape looks different, and the rarity of their various attributes also differs, many people choose to buy at a higher price point; for example, Justin Bieber today spent 500 ETH to buy one. The full name of Bored Ape is “Bored Ape Yacht Club”…
culture Web3 blockchain decentralization
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2022年1月30日