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Web3 & Cypherpunks

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  1. Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
  2. The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
  3. The Network State and Its Technological Foundations
  4. Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
  5. The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins

Masterworks

  1. Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
  2. Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
  3. From BTC to NFT: From Wealth to Power
  4. Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency
  5. Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
  6. The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)

Topic · 312

History of Science & Scholarship

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  1. Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
  2. If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
  3. Will AI Restructure the History of Science?
  4. How to Be a Punk Philosopher
  5. How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New

Masterworks

  1. History of Science as a Nature Reserve—A Darwinian View of Science
  2. Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
  3. What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?
  4. On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
  5. Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science
  6. The Biography of Objects: Methods and Significance in the History of Scientific Instruments
  7. The Rationality of Whig History and the Possibility of an Anti-Whig Approach

Topic · 267

Culture & Public Commentary

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  1. After Academic Fraud, Public Trust Should Be Reduced to Zero: On the Jiang Fangzhou Incident, University Autonomy, and a High-Trust Society
  2. A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism
  3. The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again
  4. Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
  5. The whole world has erupted into a shouting match—what right does a museum have to step in and play peacemaker?

Masterworks

  1. Arendt Reading Notes
  2. Do the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment
  3. Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
  4. In Praise of “Rumors”
  5. From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
  6. Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
  7. “Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?

Topic · 178

Philosophy & Thought

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  1. From “Whether There Is a Mind” to “How to Establish the Mind” — The Broader Question of Heart-Mind Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  2. How to Be a Punk Philosopher
  3. The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
  4. Memory Replacing Computation—A Review of Stiegler’s Technics and Time
  5. Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)

Masterworks

  1. Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance
  2. A Loose Phenomenological Discussion of “Artificial Intelligence”
  3. 媒介史作为先验哲学
  4. Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
  5. From “Whether There Is a Mind” to “How to Establish the Mind” — The Broader Question of Heart-Mind Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  6. The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time
  7. The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?

Topic · 134

AI & the Future of Technology

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  1. The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”
  2. Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
  3. From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
  4. The Future Did Not Attend the Project-Approval Meeting: From Unpaid Wastewater Plant Fees to Pre-Sold Apartment Buildings, Hu Yilin Discusses the Monetary Roots of “Afford to Build, but Not to Maintain”
  5. From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears

Masterworks

  1. Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo
  2. Unemployment or Liberation? Artificial Intelligence’s Dual Revolution
  3. If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
  4. In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”
  5. Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  6. Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?

Topic · 394

Life & Notes

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  1. Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
  2. The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks
  3. Opening Remarks for the Brain-Computer Interface Forum: Interface or Port?
  4. In Memory of Master Xianglong
  5. Heavenly Endowment

Masterworks

  1. Philosophy of the Starry Sky
  2. Silent Wonder
  3. Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
  4. Can This Really Count as a General History? — The Publication of Extension of Man: A General History of Technology
  5. Heavenly Endowment
  6. The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks

Topic · 73

Teaching & Courses

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  1. Commentary on the 2023 Exam Paper for “Media History and Media Philosophy”
  2. Summary of the Course “A General History of Technology” (Fall 2022 Semester)
  3. Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)
  4. “Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Technology” Course Summary for 2022
  5. Course Summary for A General History of Technology, Fall 2021 (Questionnaire Summary)

Masterworks

  1. On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course
  2. On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
  3. Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology
  4. What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
  5. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science (Introduction)
  6. From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course

Topic · 67

Site Matters

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  1. A Self-Account & Guide (2026 Edition)
  2. The Blog Has Been Refreshed
  3. The Media Matrix and the Livestream Preview
  4. Email Subscription Has Been Re-enabled
  5. My blog keeps crashing, and I have had enough — I am going to overhaul it completely. While I troubleshoot, the blog may look rather ugly.

Masterworks

  1. Let me explain why this place is called “Suixuan”~
  2. Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
  3. On CC Licenses
  4. My blog keeps crashing, and I have had enough — I am going to overhaul it completely. While I troubleshoot, the blog may look rather ugly.

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