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Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?

AI & Scholarship2022.07.24
Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?
Published in China Business News, 2022-07-24 Recently, Musk said “已经做过了” (“I’ve already done it”) in a remark that sparked attention and heated discussion. The question he was replying to was: “If you could upload your brain to the cloud and talk to your virtual version, would you become friends?” Musk was most likely joking, but not long ago Google did in fact have a programmer who, after talking with an AI, concluded that the AI had awakened self-awareness and tried to fight for rights for his “AI friend.” For now, consciousness uploading or AI awakening probably has not yet happened, but we can indeed begin with a thought experiment: what…
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2022年7月24日
Why Is the Cat Version of “The God of Medicine” Wrong?

Culture & Public Commentary2022.05.07
Why Is the Cat Version of “The God of Medicine” Wrong?
This commissioned article was published in Science and Technology Daily (2022-05-05, p. 3, general section), with the title changed to “Why Was the ‘Cat Version of the Drug God’ Criminally Detained?” This was a change that deviated greatly from my original intent, and there were also some important alterations to the article’s content, especially the final paragraph. I understand why such rewriting happened, so I did not object further. My view is that the cat-version drug god did something wrong, but that does not mean the reason for detaining her is correct. I am not defending her detention; I am defending scientific research ethics and research norms. A few years…
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2022年5月7日
The “King of Invention” wasn’t called that for nothing—he was the one who invented “invention” itself

History of Science & Scholarship2017.11.24
The “King of Invention” wasn’t called that for nothing—he was the one who invented “invention” itself
This article was published in the November 24, 2017 issue of the *Science and Technology Daily* on the “Chang’e Supplement.” The original title was “Edison: The Invention of Invention”; the editor’s revised title is also quite good, so I am reposting it according to the edited version. What was Edison’s greatest invention? People usually think of the light bulb. But many people do not realize that, in fact, Edison was only an improver of the light bulb; decades before him there had already been light bulbs, and even in terms of commercial popularization, he was not the first. But Edison was still undeniably the king of invention. His contribution…
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2017年11月24日
Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident

Culture & Public Commentary2017.08.14
Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident
Recently, a memo circulating internally at Google was exposed. The author argued that the company’s gender imbalance was not a problem at all, because women are naturally unsuited to being programmers; and if one really wanted to promote diversity, one should promote “ideological diversity” rather than gender or ethnic diversity, because conservative ideology is currently suffering from discrimination. After the memo was exposed, public opinion exploded, everyone turned on the employee, and Google decisively fired him. At first I didn’t think much of it. Of course I do not agree with this male employee’s remarks, and Google had nothing to say for firing him. But then I read some rebuttal…
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2017年8月14日
Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”

History of Science & Scholarship2012.06.14
Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”
On the relationship between science and religion, if one were to say that the two are irreconcilable, then the focal point of the conflict often lies in Christianity’s doctrine of creation, where Christian teachings about the universe or nature come into direct collision with natural science. Conversely, if one were to say that science and religion complement and support one another, one would still have to begin from creation theory. In 1934 Michael Foster wrote the article “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science,” attempting to reduce Christianity’s doctrine of creation to a necessary condition for the rise of modern natural science, and offering a…
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2012年6月14日
The Blind Spots of Modern Medicine as Seen from “Double-Blind Experiments”

History of Science & Scholarship2010.12.30
The Blind Spots of Modern Medicine as Seen from “Double-Blind Experiments”
Is medicine a science? The usual answer is yes, or at least that “medicine is not merely a science,” but in any case, one believes that medicine is first of all a science, or at least “scientific.” Like other modern sciences, the “scientificness” of medicine is embodied in its goals and methods: the goal of science is to reveal the (natural, reductionist) causes and laws of things; the method of science is quantitative and experimental. The scientificness of modern medicine is first grounded in biology and physiology. But even the most stubborn reductionists will admit that medicine is not physiology, and that besides studying physiological phenomena, the basic theme…
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2010年12月30日
On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions

History of Science & Scholarship2009.12.28
On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions
Sender: EPR (Gu Bu | JOKER | Pingtian Dasheng | the homebody who wants to become the Pirate King), Board: KXTS标　 Subject: My own conjecture about the second essay question Posting site: Peking University Weiming BBS (2009-12-28 22:20:24, Monday), internal message This year’s short-answer questions were relatively easy. The first essay question was a homework problem from previous years, and the third homework question was fairly open-ended. Only the second question was especially difficult; I was completely stumped by it at first. Still, it is quite interesting. Although I didn’t set the question, I also want to try to guess at a possible line of thought. First, the question asks…
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2009年12月28日
On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.10.20
On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”
Although Teacher Wu didn’t come, this time the Keke Forum had far more listeners than usual. Many familiar senior students also went, and the atmosphere of discussion was unprecedentedly lively (a group from Peking University bullying one person from Tsinghua), which really showed Peking University’s distinctive style~~ In real life I’m usually rather timid; with so many teachers and senior students raising such good questions, I simply didn’t ask anything, especially since the teachers and senior students had already brought up everything that should have been said. But online I can be a bit more unrestrained, and I can still offer a few thoughts. I’ve already posted my comments on…
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2007年10月20日
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading

Life & Notes2007.08.24
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
Before I knew it, I had been dabbling in stocks for more than a month, and a summer vacation that ought to have been the busiest of all is now clearly on the verge of being wasted away in vain (of course, not because of stock trading). And as my life rhythm returns to normal, and my stock-trading ideas grow increasingly mature, I will no longer spend more time researching stocks. So I’ll just casually jot down here my reflections from this past month of stock trading: Stock trading counts as yet another “social practice” I’ve done this summer. Originally, the point of my parents’ letting me trade stocks was…
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2007年8月24日
Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?

Life & Notes2007.06.13
Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?
Artificial species are about to make their debut http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-06-09/074011988076s.shtml http://www.sina.com.cn 2007年06月09日07:40 Sichuan Online – Huaxi Metropolis Daily According to a report on the 8th by American media, several American biologists are using the method of synthetic biology to synthesize the smallest and simplest genome from DNA fragments carrying specific genetic codes, and then implant that genome into bacteria from which the genetic code has already been removed, thereby forming a new microorganism. At present, this new artificial species is about to come into being. According to reports, the scientist leading this research is named Venter, and he has long been devoted to artificially creating new microorganisms at an institute in…
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2007年6月13日