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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
Common Knowledge as Life

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.11.16
Common Knowledge as Life
A while back I went to Chiang Mai to attend ckcon, where I read Simondon to the ckb community and also gave the somewhat endorsement-like talk below. Of course I have a personal relationship with ckb and also a stake in it, but what I said was indeed sincere. ckb’s distinctive design really does fit quite closely with my own entrepreneurial direction: digital artistic creation that fuses life, culture (history), and information (blockchain). Both my ideas about “a new history of the blockchain” and “an AI life with individuality” can be done on ckb; moreover, the new “Common Sense” (from Common Sense to Common Knowledge) can serve as the foundation…
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2024年11月16日
The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.05.08
The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO
This is a commissioned piece for SeeDAO’s 卧虎藏龙 project, https://chinese3.substack.com/p/chinese3-newsletter2dao-2f0?r=3lmuif&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true In fact, my understanding of the current state of Chinese-language DAO is not all that comprehensive. Among the several DAOs I hang around in, I’m mostly a lurker. But this year at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, I happened to give a talk titled “The Possibility of the Revival of Traditional Chinese Culture in Web3,” and since the content was somewhat related, I took on this topic as an excerpt and expansion of that talk. The talk was too long, so in this article I’ll try to make things as concise as possible. This topic can be divided into three…
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2024年5月8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
A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”

Culture & Public Commentary2024.02.05
A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
Yesterday, in my capacity as the initiator of Huawendao, I took part in a roundtable discussion titled “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3.” Recently, whenever I’m invited to participate in a program in the name of Huawendao, I’m willing to join for free. That said, I actually don’t much like the so-called roundtable format, especially when the participants aren’t very familiar with one another and there are more than three people. In practice, everyone is basically just talking past one another, and the time is so tight that the topics can’t really be unfolded in depth. Of course, there are indeed times when some sparks of thought do…
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2024年2月5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…
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2024年1月15日
Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.01.14
Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch
See @epr510 on Twitter for details Let us proudly inscribe Chinese writing into blockchain history! (Tutorial in a follow-up tweet https://twitter.com/epr510/status/1746151703915725284?s=19) We have launched two sets of Chinese-character inscriptions, classical and modern: the classical version is the Thousand Character Classic, containing one thousand unique traditional characters, forming a beautiful rhymed prose—“Heaven and Earth dark and yellow, the universe vast and ancient…” This is a foundational textbook that every scholar in ancient China had to read, and it is also the main way of sorting sequences by character count. This set of characters is positioned to attract some cultural elites from the humanities, arts, and technology fields to join in reviving…
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2024年1月14日
The Triple Greatness of the Crypto Renaissance

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2023.12.29
The Triple Greatness of the Crypto Renaissance
Prelude 0.1. The Triple Transformation of Faith, Thought, and Power During the Renaissance, a new current of thought arose in Europe. Many thinkers and activists who opposed the decayed and rigid dogmas of the Middle Ages gathered together, seeking to revive ancient, Eastern wisdom. The new idol they invoked was called “Hermes Trismegistus” (“the thrice-great Hermes”). Copernicus said that the sun should sit at the center of the universe, just as “the thrice-great Hermes called the sun the ‘visible god’”; Bruno was burned at the stake for spreading Hermetic heresy; Boyle and Newton followed Hermes’s Emerald Tablet and devoted themselves to alchemy; the legendary Rosicrucians advocated the selfless sharing of…
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2023年12月29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…
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2023年11月22日
AI Is Sick; Web3 Is the Cure

AI & Scholarship2023.10.27
AI Is Sick; Web3 Is the Cure
Published on Wai Bo San Guan; the original text is posted here. Earlier, I gave the keynote address at the main session of the Ninth Global Blockchain Summit, entitled “Web3 Has the Cure—AI, Dao, and Games.” Because time was limited, I could not really go into it in depth; this article (and the next one) may be taken as an expansion of that talk. Many people believe that AI technology is leading the next industrial revolution, and that we are facing an era-defining transformation that comes once in several centuries, so entrepreneurs will encounter many opportunities and challenges. I fully agree with this judgment, but unlike many optimists, I think…
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2023年10月27日