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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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2025年3月5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…
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2024年4月29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
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…
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2022年9月30日
NFT-ifying Behavioral Histories: The Return of Value to Meaning

Culture & Public Commentary2022.08.02
NFT-ifying Behavioral Histories: The Return of Value to Meaning
I had a sudden awakening around the end of last year and the beginning of this year, and embraced new concepts like the metaverse, NFT, and Web3. But there is still one new concept about which I have always been somewhat reserved: DAO. DAO stands for “decentralized autonomous organization.” In fact, it is also an old concept. I remember that when I first got into Bitcoin, Babite seemed to be planning to do DAO (or something similar), and I also witnessed the The DAO incident that later led to the Ethereum fork. My view has actually remained fairly consistent: I think DAO is a good concept, but the ways it…
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2022年8月2日
“Investiture of the Gods”: An NFT Project I Envisioned

Web3 & Cypherpunks2022.01.10
“Investiture of the Gods”: An NFT Project I Envisioned
After spending a few days exploring the NFT market, I’ve really felt that it is still just getting started, with far too much room for imagination. One night, when I couldn’t sleep, I did a bit of self-brainstorming and came up with a way to play with NFTs. Actually, it was several ways of playing with them, though several of the others are still not very mature. I recorded the idea here. I’ve also already made the NFT and frozen the metadata: Opensea link If any big names or teams want to draw on it, you’re welcome to contact me. As for NFT development, apart from the specific design below,…
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2022年1月10日
Who Is the Worst in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?

Culture & Public Commentary2020.11.26
Who Is the Worst in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
This piece is just for fun, and is published only in encrypted form on Suixuan. Please do not repost. When I was little, I actually didn’t have much of an impression of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”; only when I grew up and thought back on it each time did I begin to feel that it held some meaning. Who is the worst person in this story? Clearly the tailors are bad: they deceived the emperor and his ministers. The ministers, who lied one after another about seeing the clothes in order to save face, are also bad. But the emperor, who deceives himself and others, is probably the worst of…
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2020年11月26日
Why We Don’t Need BitCNY

Web3 & Cypherpunks2015.01.29
Why We Don’t Need BitCNY
1、This Is a Revolution, Not an Upgrade BTS is one of the projects in the so-called “second-generation coins” (the full name is second-generation knockoff coins) that has raised the most money (so far) and has the loudest reputation (mainly in China). Whenever I casually take a swipe at it on Weibo, many enthusiastic netizens inevitably come over to “instruct” me, earnestly teaching me that I need to keep up with the times, need to be open and inclusive, need to keep learning… So I usually can’t be bothered to say much. This time, since I’ve been invited to write for 8BTC, I might as well concentrate my complaints here again,…
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2015年1月29日
The History of Work

AI & the Future of Technology2013.01.16
The History of Work
Richard Donkin: The History of Work, translated by Xie Zhongwei, Electronic Industry Press, 2011. Generally speaking, a title like “The History of XX” is always interesting, especially when that “XX” looks all the more dull and ordinary; its history is often all the more interesting. For history tells us that anything we have long taken for granted and found unremarkable has its own origins and development; by tracing history we can let our imagination unfold: is it necessary? Is it inevitable? In what other forms might it still take place? Recently, I happened upon this The History of Work, and felt it was quite good. Along with Technical Elements, Electronic…
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2013年1月16日
On Elitism and Esoteric Truth

Culture & Public Commentary2012.10.18
On Elitism and Esoteric Truth
Today I went to sit in on the World Congress of Chinese Philosophers, took a look at some academic celebrities whose names I had only heard before, and was greatly disappointed. I’m too lazy to go again tomorrow. That Tang Yijie was unreliable I already knew; that Chen Lai was reliable I also already knew. But I didn’t know many of the other famous figures very well. After listening to one round today, basically the only one of any interest was Chen Lai; the others, such as Lin Yusheng, sounded academically fairly sound, but the reports themselves were a little dull. As for the much-vaunted Gan Yang and Liu Xiaofeng,…
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2012年10月18日