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In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?

AI & Scholarship2025.02.21
In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?
Published in Science Daily of China (2025-02-21, p. 4, Culture). This should be the longest article I have ever published in a newspaper; they gave me a full page. My original text was basically not changed much, except that the section headings were altered a bit and the prose was lightly polished. What I am posting here is my original draft; anyone who wants to reprint it can go find the version posted by Science Net. Welcoming the AI Era In the courses on history of science and philosophy of technology that I had been teaching at Tsinghua, I had already run into the shock of AI. Back then I…
philosophy technology freedom education
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2025年2月21日
Is Bitcoin Environmentally Friendly?

Web3 & Bitcoin2013.10.20
Is Bitcoin Environmentally Friendly?
This article is an original entry in the 2013 essay contest organized by Bitren and was first published on the Bitren forum, so it did not debut on my blog. At first I thought I stood no chance of winning any prize, so last night I casually posted it on the blog; unexpectedly, it still won the second-place grand prize. Because I reposted it half a day early (to Babbitt), I have voluntarily deducted 10% of the prize money as punishment, and here I would like to apologize to and thank the Bitren website. 1. Does Bitcoin waste resources? Bitcoin’s proof-of-work mechanism, that is, the so-called “mining,” is often criticized:…
technology Web3 value Bitcoin
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2013年10月20日
Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?

History of Science & Scholarship2011.08.19
Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
This article is a rewriting based on the earlier Heidegger’s Thinking on Technology. In fact, very little was changed, but after changing the title it suddenly became much more to the point and more complete. What I presented at this year’s Yangma Island conference was this very article, so before posting the conference record, let me post this article first. Is Heidegger a Technological Pessimist? Hu Yilin, Department of Philosophy, Peking University Abstract: Heidegger’s philosophy of technology is often described as a typical kind of pessimism. Starting from the question of whether Heidegger is in fact a technological pessimist, this article selectively expounds Heidegger’s analysis of modern…
philosophy technology Heidegger Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
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2011年8月19日
Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture

Culture & Public Commentary2010.10.15
Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
Scientific development is proceeding at high speed, and humanity is forging ahead rapidly on the road to knowledge—but does such development need a braking mechanism? Does science need to be “negatively thought”? This is the question Teacher Wang raised. Does science need ethical constraints? Beyond what is “correct,” is there also a standard of “justice”? When people discuss the ethical constraints or social responsibility of science, they are often referring to the personal conduct of scientists. Of course, scientists, as citizens and as members of society, are subject, like people in any other profession, to corresponding social and ethical constraints in their work and lives. Scientific ethics in this sense…
culture science knowledge pursuit
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2010年10月15日
A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games

Culture & Public Commentary2008.08.13
A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games
The “second talk” below is even less coherent, and in fact does not really talk about “Olympics” at all. It is simply continuing to talk about “games.” But since it nevertheless arises from the same occasion as the scattered essays before and after it—namely, the holding of the Olympic Games—I still name it “Second Talk on the Olympics.” Had I not written it at this moment, it might perhaps have been filed under the “nonsense” series. However, although it stands together in the title, the folder in which it is placed on the blog has been changed. The first piece, because it focused on the cultural style of ancient Greece,…
philosophy culture tradition human nature
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2008年8月13日