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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
“Metaverse” from the Perspective of the History of Technology — The New Environment of the Information Revolution

History of Science & Scholarship2023.08.15
“Metaverse” from the Perspective of the History of Technology — The New Environment of the Information Revolution
This article was published in Dialectics of Nature Studies, 2023, No. 7, Vol. 39; it was written last April and has only just appeared in print. Abstract: The concept of the “metaverse” contains two layers of meaning, “meta” and “verse.” The former is immersion, or rather transcendence; the latter is openness or connectivity. The metaverse has the characteristic of surpassing itself and referring back to itself, and this characteristic is embedded within the trend of the history of technology from cave paintings onward. The metaverse is not virtual reality, and one cannot confuse immersion with realism. The metaverse does not seek to approximate reality, but to transcend it. The reason…
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2023年8月15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…
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2023年8月8日
Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)

Philosophy & Thought2023.07.20
Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)
This is a topic I have wanted to write about for some time now, including “blockchain philosophy of time” and “metaverse philosophy of space.” These fields can bring into play my own intellectual grounding in Heidegger + McLuhan, and also form a continuous thread from classical philosophy all the way to cyberpunk. It is a very big topic, and for the moment I find it hard to produce an answer that satisfies even myself. But this year’s phenomenology and philosophy of technology conference is about to be held, and I hope to speak on it, so I have hastily put together some words to turn in as an initial stopgap….
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2023年7月20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…
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2022年9月30日
From a Snail Shell to the Metaverse—An Evolutionary Theory of Technological “Organs”

AI & the Future of Technology2022.04.26
From a Snail Shell to the Metaverse—An Evolutionary Theory of Technological “Organs”
A lecture I gave a few months ago has been posted today, and I’m also putting up the original verbatim transcript here. In name, this lecture was about The Origin of Species, but it mainly talks about technology and evolution; in this respect, another lecture from back then is actually clearer: Humans and Technology in Evolution — Technology Also Needs “Biodiversity Reserves”. This time, “the metaverse” has been added. Recently there have also been many lectures about the metaverse, but their basic viewpoints do not go much beyond the series of articles I posted here earlier, so I won’t post them separately either. The theme I’m talking about today is…
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2022年4月26日
The Science Museum in the Metaverse: Looking Ahead to the Future of Digital Collectibles

Web3 & Cypherpunks2022.03.31
The Science Museum in the Metaverse: Looking Ahead to the Future of Digital Collectibles
Recently I’ve had a few conversations about the possibility of combining NFTs with science museums, including people in blockchain circles and in the VR industry. I’m recording my thoughts here: The digitization of museums is nothing new; it’s been underway for many years, especially in many overseas museums, which long ago digitized most of their collections and made them public on the internet. Of course, digital exhibition halls and the like have also already been built in great numbers. Our own Tsinghua Science Museum is not behind the times either: every exhibition is turned into a “3D Digital Exhibition Hall”. But the current kind of digitization is basically still rather…
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2022年3月31日
Creating Something Out of Nothing — How the Metaverse Inflates Big Bubbles

Web3 & Bitcoin2022.03.20
Creating Something Out of Nothing — How the Metaverse Inflates Big Bubbles
Recently there has been a milestone event in the NFT world, all initiated by the team behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs. First it acquired the IP of Cyberpunks and Meetbits—Cyberpunks was a pioneer of the NFT market, even one of its creators, while Meetbits was a derivative project of Cyberpunks. Then Yuga Labs launched Apecoin, part of which was airdropped to the holders of all ape-related NFTs (BAYC, MAYC, BAKC). One BAYC could receive a little over 10,000 apecoins. Apecoin is said to play a role in the metaverse project the team will build next. What exactly that role will be is still unclear, but the market…
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2022年3月20日