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The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)

Philosophy & Thought2025.09.26
The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
I am in the process of building my own “blockchain philosophy” — not using philosophy to discuss blockchain, but using blockchain to construct “universality,” that is, whether it is possible to pursue universal knowledge in a decentralized (anti-absolutist, anti-dogmatic) way. Universality is philosophy’s eternal pursuit, yet in modern times it has fallen into confusion; I believe blockchain is one way of responding to this. Below is the preface I wrote for Blockchain Philosophy; perhaps this book could also be called The Great Chain (Block) of Being, or Using the False to Cultivate the True, and so on. This book will gather together everything I have learned in my life, so…
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2025年9月26日
Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin

Culture & Public Commentary2025.04.27
Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
My most recent long-form interview. Thanks to uncommons @fulihang2009 — it was a delightful conversation, with rich content and excellent editing. Condensed version https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2ZQVRTshnxU7tlT5fCESYQ Full version https://blog.uncommons.cc/cryptoflight-v Reporter's note/访者记 If one were to name the thinkers in the Chinese-speaking crypto world and seasoned Bitcoin players, Hu Yilin, who once taught philosophy of technology at Tsinghua University, is a name one cannot avoid. I first met Teacher Hu at the Bitcoin conference in Singapore last March; afterward, on a sweltering afternoon, we arranged to walk around Geylang until our legs nearly gave out, then found a café and talked about everything under the sun for two hours. But Bitcoin and, more…
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2025年4月27日
Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)

Teaching & Courses2023.04.05
Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)
Because last semester’s final assignment was not due until the beginning of this semester, and after the term started I was, on the one hand, busy with all sorts of pointless odds and ends, while on the other hand I ran straight into allergy season. Every spring my allergies torment me half to death, and this year was no exception; when my rhinitis flares up I can do absolutely nothing. In short, I dawdled and dawdled until now before finally writing this summary. “Introduction to Philosophy of Technology” is an old course. I taught two rounds of it in the autumn of 2018 and the autumn of 2019 (see the…
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2023年4月5日
NFT Value Viewed Through The Philosophy of Money

Philosophy & Thought2023.01.03
NFT Value Viewed Through The Philosophy of Money
This article was published in China Book Review. For reprints, please contact the magazine. Citation format as follows: Hu Yilin.The Value of NFT from the Perspective of The Philosophy of Money[J]. China Book Review, 2022(12):7-17 Introduction: Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money elaborates a relativist version of Kantian transcendental philosophy, explaining the origin of value through “distanciation” and the formation of objectivity through exchange activity. Simmel criticizes the modern monetary economy for inverting means and ends, severing property possession from the freedom of the subject. Seen from Simmel’s perspective, cryptocurrencies or NFTs, supported by blockchain, seem to contain certain opportunities to help people reshape their values, prompting them to recall the…
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2023年1月3日
“Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Technology” Course Summary for 2022

Teaching & Courses2022.07.12
“Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Technology” Course Summary for 2022
The courses I teach are mainly undergraduate general-education courses, and among graduate courses, this reading course is basically the only one I still have now. This is the second run of this course that I’ve taught. I don’t seem to have written a summary after the first run either, probably because there was no exam component then, so there was nothing to comment on. As for the course content, it was just reading, so there wasn’t much to summarize anyway. But in this run I added an exam component, so it became necessary to write a set of comments. This course itself is taught in a fairly lazy way: I…
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2022年7月12日
Heavenly Endowment

Life & Notes2022.04.01
Heavenly Endowment
At 11:39 a.m. on April 1, 2022, a new life came squalling into the world. Yes, I have a daughter now~ I chose her name a few days earlier: Hu Tianyu. Don’t worry, I’m not suddenly going to turn into a shameless kid-showoff. Writing in the public sphere will not become excessively intimate. On the one hand, this post is a special commemoration; on the other, it is also an excuse to talk about certain general topics through my daughter’s name. Back in the day my grandfather gave me a name: “Tian Ding,” meaning roughly that my fate was decreed by Heaven. In the end, though, it was never used….
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2022年4月1日
Why Must Philosophy Be Obscure? — Reflections on a Perfect-Score Zhejiang Essay

Culture & Public Commentary2020.08.04
Why Must Philosophy Be Obscure? — Reflections on a Perfect-Score Zhejiang Essay
A recent Zhejiang Gaokao essay that scored full marks has sparked heated discussion, but the target of the criticism is often “obscurity.” The author opened by quoting Heidegger, famous for being obscure, and thereby deepened the stereotype of philosophy = obscurity. In my view, the key to that full-mark essay is not “obscurity,” but “posing,” that is, feigning obscurity. Some philosophers are obscure because they often construct a grand edifice of thought, weaving together a self-consistent conceptual system; if an outsider is not familiar with the basic patterns, then even a few scattered phrases are hard to understand. It is like a mathematical formula: if you are not familiar with…
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2020年8月4日
Rethinking Human Nature in the Age of Technology — A Review of Technics and Time 1

Phenomenology & Heidegger2020.04.03
Rethinking Human Nature in the Age of Technology — A Review of Technics and Time 1
This article was published in the April 2020 issue of Book City Bernard Stiegler is one of the most influential living philosophers in the field of philosophy of technology, and in recent years he has also had a considerable impact in China. He himself often comes to China to give lectures and teach courses. The lecture notes from a course he taught in the Department of Philosophy at Nanjing University in 2016 have recently been published in collected form (Nanjing Lectures: Reading Marx and Engels in the Anthropocene—From The German Ideology to Dialectics of Nature). And the Chinese translation of the work that made his name in his early years,…
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2020年4月3日
“Preventable and Controllable” — the “Flag” of the Technological Age

Culture & Public Commentary2020.01.26
“Preventable and Controllable” — the “Flag” of the Technological Age
The pneumonia epidemic is raging, and I didn’t go home for the New Year this year either. I’m just staying at home in a daze, which is a good excuse to write something. But I’m feeling restless, so before writing on other topics, I might as well first say a few things about this epidemic. Still, I should make it clear from the outset that anything I write here is utterly useless for the practical work on the front lines of epidemic prevention and control. I have neither the standing nor the ability to “offer advice and propose measures” for anyone. Of course, simply shouting a couple of slogans like…
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2020年1月26日
Is Philosophy of Technology Useful? — Applying Philosophy of Technology in Teaching the Philosophy of Technology Course

AI & the Future of Technology2019.12.14
Is Philosophy of Technology Useful? — Applying Philosophy of Technology in Teaching the Philosophy of Technology Course
This week’s Introduction to Philosophy of Technology class centered its discussion session on the “smart classroom.” Compared with last year, the discussion class was pushed back by a week, and before it we added one more lecture on Marcuse. That felt pretty good; many students were already able to think through the issue in terms of “critique of instrumental reason.” “Smart classroom” is a broad concept. In its most basic sense, it includes the application of technologies such as tablet computers, online platforms, and smart apps in classroom teaching, but it also includes the more alarming technologies of intelligent surveillance and sensing headbands. Broadly speaking, we usually would not oppose…
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2019年12月14日