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Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good

AI & Scholarship2026.06.24
Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
Hu Yilin on AI Writing, Authorial Responsibility, and the Academic Paper System IntroductionAfter science fiction writer Hao Jingfang spoke about AI’s participation in novel writing, a dispute broke out over whether “AI writing should be labeled” and whether “AI as the chief writer still counts as creation.” What such arguments really touch is not how much AI a particular writer used, but how authors, readers, and the academic community should rethink creation, responsibility, and evaluation once AI has entered the formal writing process. Hu Yilin’s position is very clear: he not only supports AI-assisted writing, but also AI-led writing. Human beings can in the future completely become second authors, editors,…
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2026年6月24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
How Is a History of Technological Thought Possible? — Mumford’s Historiographical Method as Seen in Technics and Civilization

History of Science & Scholarship2023.06.06
How Is a History of Technological Thought Possible? — Mumford’s Historiographical Method as Seen in Technics and Civilization
Published in Journal of Guangxi Minzu University, 2023, v.29;No.107(01) 46-52 Abstract: Mumford was a pioneer in the discipline of history of technology, and his representative work Technics and Civilization has profound significance as an inspiration for historiographical method. His historiographical method can be developed as a “history of technical thought,” which, like the “history of scientific thought,” aims to sort out the “inner logic” of technological development, that is, a certain thread at the level of thought or spirit. A history of technical thought requires the introduction of the following four features: first, spirituality (no longer regarding technology merely as neutral material artifacts, but revealing the spiritual connotations of technology);…
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2023年6月6日
An Interview Transcript on Research Failure

History of Science & Scholarship2022.03.04
An Interview Transcript on Research Failure
In an earlier interview with China Science Daily, I answered quite a lot of questions, but when they compiled it into an article, they actually only quoted two of my sentences. Here I’m posting my original answers. 1. Someone once proposed that “failure refers to an action’s result deviating from the expected goal, or to the termination (interruption) of an action that has not achieved its intended value.” How do you understand “research failure”? The relationship between failure and success is dialectical. In your view, what kind of research counts as ‘failure’? Can “research failure” be divided into several types? How we define failure of course depends on how we…
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2022年3月4日
Rules for Authorship on Coauthored Papers

History of Science & Scholarship2020.08.11
Rules for Authorship on Coauthored Papers
Professor Wu’s published papers and books are almost always single-authored; he has never coauthored papers with students. Naturally, I followed suit, and under normal circumstances I also tend toward working independently, while encouraging students to pursue research on their own and not giving much thought to questions of joint authorship. Still, of course, I am not rigid to the point of stubbornness. For various reasons, I have recently begun trying to coauthor papers with students. But this is not something to be done casually or blindly: why coauthor at all, under what circumstances one may be listed as an author, who should be first author and who second author—these questions…
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2020年8月11日
From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle

Culture & Public Commentary2019.02.15
From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
An impromptu submission to Jiemian; I finished writing it at noon and it went up in the afternoon~ The recent Zhai Tianlin incident made “CNKI” and its plagiarism-checking technology quite the sensation. Netizens spontaneously helped run plagiarism checks on Zhai Tianlin’s paper and found the rate of duplication to be as high as 40%, causing his image as a top student to collapse. I’m not particularly interested in Zhai Tianlin’s image crisis; I’m more inclined to hitch a ride on the hot topic and talk about my own views on plagiarism-checking technology for theses. Plagiarism checking has been popular for many years now. I have always taken a critical and…
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2019年2月15日
On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)

History of Science & Scholarship2018.06.30
On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
The deadline for submitting assignments for the History of Technology survey course has now passed. Although I had already previously talked about plagiarism, it still wasn’t enough, so I’m posting a special article here to explain the matter and to lay down rules for how I will deal with plagiarism in the future. This time there were 29 students in the course altogether. One student withdrew from the class (not taking the exam and not submitting the assignment), so the actual number was 28. Looking at their midterm assignments now, I found a total of 5 plagiarized pieces! That’s almost one-fifth! Of course, among them were 2 international students (though…
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2018年6月30日
Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology

Teaching & Courses2018.06.12
Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology
Notes As I said before, the final exam is “completely open-book,” and you may bring electronic devices to search the internet. The “attendance questions” are also my own new idea, something I wanted to try while the class size was still small. Why set attendance questions? I think students who take a course can roughly be divided into three broad types: first, those who are habitually diligent and honest, who will keep coming no matter whether the teacher’s lectures are good or bad; second, those who are habitually coasting, who will almost never come no matter whether the teacher’s lectures are good or bad; and third, those who are free-spirited…
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2018年6月12日
What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment

History of Science & Scholarship2018.05.29
What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
After this article was posted, the blog inexplicably crashed, and had to be restored several times… The course “A General History of Technology” is about to end. Next week I will write a brief summary; for now, let me talk about the homework issue. The assessment format for this course is rather innovative, consisting of 40% midterm assignments + 60% final exam. As for the midterm assignment, I do not want to see students plagiarizing, or cobbling together a lousy paper and handing it in, so I proposed a flexible either-or scheme: students who are interested in, or capable of, writing a paper may still write a short essay of…
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2018年5月29日
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage

History of Science & Scholarship2016.12.01
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
Introduction: From Philosophy of Technology to Philosophy of Garbage 1. The Historical Absence of a Philosophy of Garbage 2. How Is Garbage Possible? 3. Garbage Has Existed Since Ancient Times 4. The Modernity of Garbage I. The World of Ideas That Rejects Decay 1. The Age of the World Picture 2. The One-Sidedness of the World Picture 3. Plato’s World of Ideas 4. Aversion to Mortality II. Intellectual Purism That Rejects Ambiguity 1. Binary Opposition 2. Is and Ought 3. Identity and Garbage 4. Kant’s “Discarding Method” III. Foundationalism That Rejects Recycling 1. The Triple Synthesis 2. Memory and Its “Recycling” 3. Learning and Technology 4. The Cycle of History…
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2016年12月1日