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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…
technology China freedom Web3
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2024年5月8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…
internet Scientific Revolution blockchain AI
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2023年10月27日
Notes on the “Network City-State”

Culture & Public Commentary2023.10.26
Notes on the “Network City-State”
During the summer break I was deeply involved in drafting the SEEDAO white paper, including several consecutive days of offline salons, as well as some online written exchanges. The concept of “digital polity” or “network polity” is SEEDAO’s signature idea, and I had many discussions about it as well. Below I have excerpted part of my written Q&A on the network polity and compiled it into this article. When I have time later, I will also write a separate piece to explore it. (By the way, I do indeed appreciate some of SEEDAO’s characteristics and ideas, but that does not mean I support all of the practices it has actually…
internet blockchain decentralization Huawendao
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2023年10月26日
On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State

Culture & Public Commentary2023.05.12
On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State
Today I chatted again for a while with baiyu from SeeDAO, and in the process I laid out my thoughts on building digital city-states. What I chiefly want to promote is Arendt's thought, and to rebuild the “public sphere” in the digital age. SeeDAO’s ideal is to become a “digital city-state for 1 million Web3 nomads.” My quip is: this number, one million, is too big to be big, yet too small to be small. Too big in the sense that if Web3 is truly the general trend, then in the future there cannot possibly be only 1 million “Web3 nomads”; just the Chinese-speaking population alone would have to be…
Web3 politics blockchain public sphere
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2023年5月12日
Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?

Web3 & Bitcoin2022.02.11
Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?
This article was commissioned by China Business Journal; see http://www.cb.com.cn/index/show/zl/cv/cv13457191859 or https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404735824251191808. It was published with slight revisions here, and I am posting the original text. Because of space constraints and because some things cannot be said too directly, it is still better to read it together with my earlier On VR IV, The Metaverse Is Hyperreality, and related essays. For some reason, a couple of days ago the domestic media once again recycled the news about metaverse property speculation, reporting that “in December 2021, a virtual plot of land on the metaverse platform Sandbox was sold for about 32 million yuan.” I looked up the news from last December…
technology culture Web3 internet
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2022年2月11日
On VR (IV): If Houses Are Square, What’s So Strange About People Who See Squares? — On the Sensory Style of the Metaverse

AI & the Future of Technology2022.01.25
On VR (IV): If Houses Are Square, What’s So Strange About People Who See Squares? — On the Sensory Style of the Metaverse
In the earlier articles about the metaverse, I already said that the metaverse is not “virtual reality”—one path runs above reality, the other below it; these are two opposite roads. But just how different these two roads are, I still haven’t made sufficiently clear. Some people divide the development of the metaverse into two relatively independent dimensions: on the sensory dimension, simulation, realism, immersion; on the social dimension, openness, co-creation, decentralization. I basically agree with this division. Of course, first of all, I think the development of the metaverse places more emphasis on the social side, especially power relations and economic relations. But the path opposite to “virtual reality” that…
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2022年1月25日
On VR (II): A Stage-by-Stage Summary of the Gaming Experience

AI & the Future of Technology2018.08.25
On VR (II): A Stage-by-Stage Summary of the Gaming Experience
I’ve already bought VR for several months now. Overall, it was money well spent. Aside from occasionally letting classmates experience it at reading groups, I myself use it quite a lot; in fact, several days a week I even go to Tsinghua specifically to play VR, with the aim of exercising. The amount of exercise really is huge, and the immersion is very strong. I can do high-intensity exercise in there for more than an hour straight. Of course, I have also not forgotten that playing VR has at least some academic significance, so after playing it for a while, it’s time to write a little summary. I. The Body…
everyday life technology McLuhan game
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2018年8月25日
Philosophical Ramblings [Episode 1]: Freedom Is Like Treating Someone to a Meal

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2015.08.07
Philosophical Ramblings [Episode 1]: Freedom Is Like Treating Someone to a Meal
Since I wanted to launch the “Philosophy Commentary” column, I had long been bursting with topics I wanted to write about, but when it came time to write, I no longer knew where to begin. Might as well start with an old topic: “freedom.” As for freedom, I have already written many articles discussing it; in fact, everything that needed saying has more or less already been said. But related discussions often involve the similarities and differences between freedom and equality, as well as specific issues such as freedom of speech, and they are not written in a very accessible way either. Here, I want to offer a popular-style commentary…
philosophy China freedom language
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2015年8月7日
Media and Morality

Philosophy & Thought2012.08.29
Media and Morality
In the previous article, I said I wanted to make a transition from one thing to another; in fact, I only wrote half of it. I had originally planned to move from the Olympics to media, but the Olympics piece ended up being about the right length, and the latter half was a bigger theme. So let me pick it up again now. At the time I mentioned that, although on the one hand we were paying attention to the reeducation-through-labor case and satirizing politics, on the other hand we were also thrilled by the Olympics’ gold-medal contest. That is not a contradiction, much less something shameful. Recently I reposted…
philosophy technology media value
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2012年8月29日
A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”

Phenomenology & Heidegger2012.06.25
A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”
Watching Jing Qi struggle on the issue of “this” and formal indication, I can’t help but keep pushing back, and for that reason I have also read, intermittently, some material on Heidegger’s early concept of “formal indication,” gradually coming to some understanding. Basically speaking, I have never placed much weight on the concept of “formal indication” (formale Anzeige, 形式指引), for several reasons: first, the phrase feels too Westernized, too specialized, and is easily read as jargon, leaving outsiders completely baffled. If there is a more plain and straightforward way of putting it, then there is no need to go through this phrase at all; second, this concept belongs to the…
philosophy Heidegger mathematics space
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2012年6月25日