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Notes on the “Network City-State”

Culture & Public Commentary2023.10.26
Notes on the “Network City-State”
During the summer break I was deeply involved in drafting the SEEDAO white paper, including several consecutive days of offline salons, as well as some online written exchanges. The concept of “digital polity” or “network polity” is SEEDAO’s signature idea, and I had many discussions about it as well. Below I have excerpted part of my written Q&A on the network polity and compiled it into this article. When I have time later, I will also write a separate piece to explore it. (By the way, I do indeed appreciate some of SEEDAO’s characteristics and ideas, but that does not mean I support all of the practices it has actually…
internet blockchain decentralization Huawendao
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2023年10月26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
Review of Radical Markets: Also on Why the Crypto Movement Should Be Radical

Culture & Public Commentary2023.06.10
Review of Radical Markets: Also on Why the Crypto Movement Should Be Radical
This piece, along with the earlier The Liberation of People in the Digital Age, was written as copy for PTADAO. The final text was excerpted to form A One-Page Clear White; if you’re interested, you can go take a look there. Here I’m posting the original version of the book review. Lately I’ve joined some Web3 chat groups and occasionally put out a few views. For example, a few days ago I was discussing the significance of stablecoins with someone, and I said that cryptocurrency was from the very beginning meant to upend the old system of central banks and fiat money. If the entire blockchain market turns around and…
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2023年6月10日
Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3

Culture & Public Commentary2023.06.08
Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
This piece was submitted to the article by the new media outlet “歪脖三观,” founded and hosted by Jiang Gungun, and I was honored that it became the inaugural founding text of that media platform. When it was published, it was shortened and polished, and the title was changed to “The Ambition of Blockchain: Anti-Keynesianism, Public Life, and Transhumanism.” Everyone is welcome to repost and follow it. I am posting here the unedited original draft: EDCON2023 in Montenegro has come to a close. In addition to the usual topics of the crypto community, this year’s grand gathering also had a substantial block of topics related to transhumanism/longevity. The earlier “A Conversation…
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2023年6月8日
On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State

Culture & Public Commentary2023.05.12
On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State
Today I chatted again for a while with baiyu from SeeDAO, and in the process I laid out my thoughts on building digital city-states. What I chiefly want to promote is Arendt's thought, and to rebuild the “public sphere” in the digital age. SeeDAO’s ideal is to become a “digital city-state for 1 million Web3 nomads.” My quip is: this number, one million, is too big to be big, yet too small to be small. Too big in the sense that if Web3 is truly the general trend, then in the future there cannot possibly be only 1 million “Web3 nomads”; just the Chinese-speaking population alone would have to be…
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2023年5月12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…
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2023年5月8日
Play to Action—On Human Liberation in the Digital Age

Culture & Public Commentary2023.01.03
Play to Action—On Human Liberation in the Digital Age
This essay is a brief ideological manifesto written for a certain project. The idea was not initiated by me, but I was the main writer. It has something to do with ‘华文道’, but it is actually for another project proposal: https://prickly-ink-544.notion.site/da60bd1225aa49c2b6868d7011a617b3 In fact, the ideas of ‘华文道’ also broadly accord with this essay, so the two can be used as references for each other. As Marx said, “The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist” (Capital), every technological transformation is an opportunity to build a new social form and reshape human civilization. What we are seeing now is that a series of…
freedom Web3 blockchain public sphere
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2023年1月3日
Excerpt from a Reading Group on The Human Condition: The Boundary Between the Public and the Private, the Distinction Between Property and Wealth, and the Meaning of DAO

Culture & Public Commentary2022.11.13
Excerpt from a Reading Group on The Human Condition: The Boundary Between the Public and the Private, the Distinction Between Property and Wealth, and the Meaning of DAO
Note: Huawendao holds a weekly reading group on Arendt’s The Human Condition, reading and discussing the Chinese translation of The Human Condition paragraph by paragraph on site. This video and text excerpt come from one such passage, and the discussion is closely related to the aims of DAO. The video production and text arrangement were completed by Jiang Gungun, with 『華』 doing the polishing. The quotations below are selected from the original text of The Human Condition; the main text consists of explanation and discussion. The explainer is 『華』. Because many cuts were made in the整理, most of the on-site discussion was not recorded. Chapter 2 The Public and the…
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2022年11月13日
Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2022.11.13
Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation
The first offline presentation event of “Huawendao” was held on September 23, 2022, at Meta Space in Wudaokou. What follows is a written transcript. First Half: Reading and Discussing the White Paper “Hua”: I’m one of the three initiators of Huawendao, I’m “Hua,” and today I’ll be reading through and explaining our white paper section by section. If anyone has any questions in the middle, please feel free to raise them at any time. What I’m talking about today is already the second version of our white paper. The first version was actually longer, with more than ten thousand characters, but after many people read it, they all said it…
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2022年11月13日
Huawendao White Paper, Version 2.1.1

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2022.09.30
Huawendao White Paper, Version 2.1.1
In the past two days, an article lamenting Chinese Web3 entrepreneurs went viral far beyond its usual reach, which prompted me to publish ahead of schedule the DAO I have been gradually preparing to build. The popularity of that article shows that the need among Chinese entrepreneurs for recognition is still very widespread. So in fact, it is not hard to build a Chinese help Chinese community; what is hard is to genuinely carry forward the positive elements of Chinese culture, rather than understanding what “Chinese” means in a negative, oppositional sense (non-white, non-Western, non-English, and so on). Why is the Jewish community so strong? The key is still that…
technology China freedom Web3
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2022年9月30日