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Category: Philosophy
An Ode on the Red Cliff
Su Shi was a government official and one of the most respected poet of the Northern Song dynasty in China, twice exiled for his criticisms of imperial policy. In 1082, he pondered about mortality and change at the Red Cliff, the place where General Cao Cao was defeated by his enemies 800 years earlier, expressed… Continue reading An Ode on the Red Cliff
If We Live in a Borgean Simulation
If we live in a simulation in Jorge Luis Borges’s world, an infinite series of Babylon Lottery determines each of our next move in the infinite Garden of Forking Paths, and each of our next expression drawn from the infinite Library of Babel.
The Beginning of the End
The other day I was reading Albert Camus' classic The Rebel. His exposition of Nietzsche's philosophy pretty much sums up my state of mind amidst these turbulent times - think in terms of an apocalypse to come, not in order to extol it, but in order to avoid it and transform it into a renaissance. To… Continue reading The Beginning of the End
Bitcoin as a Portal of Ideas
As a polymath and Bitcoin maximalist, I see Bitcoin as a portal to ideas of great thinkers of which I'm a student: Gustave Le Bon's crowd psychology, Eric Hoffer's fanatical mass movements, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's antifragility and skin in the game, Friedrich von Hayek's distributed knowledge and monetary competition, Jorge Luis Borges' illusion of reality,… Continue reading Bitcoin as a Portal of Ideas
A Guide to Reading Pu Songling
In vernacular Chinese, the Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) by Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) is regarded as the supreme novel. In classical Chinese, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (聊齋誌異) by Pu Songling (蒲松齡) has the equivalent status. Mao Zedong claimed to have read the Red Chamber five times. I say you need to read Strange Tales two times. Read it in English the first… Continue reading A Guide to Reading Pu Songling
From Tolstoy, Kafka, to Taleb
Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, we are always in a state of ignorance. The moment we decided to escape, we sank into the faint light of fake knowledge. The good news is that, from Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, we are slowly finding our way… Continue reading From Tolstoy, Kafka, to Taleb
My Notes from the Underground
Come, gentle night I run away from the Crystal Palace, and aspire to be a sick man, a spiteful man, an unattractive man. Greedily storing up impressions, one day I, too, will emerge from the underground, and master the path to chaos.
Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
I like people who are clever and arrogant. I like it best when Nassim Nicholas Taleb displays a dose of Nietzschean arrogance. Taleb on why today's readers can be ignored, in Incerto: As an essayist, I am not judged by other writers, book editors, and book reviewers, but by readers. Readers? maybe, but wait a minute…… Continue reading Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
The Wall and the Tower
Kafka's Great Wall of China, with the system of piecemeal construction, is filled with gaps and does not offer protection from barbarism. Likewise, the builders of the Tower of Babel, who purport to found a universal language, end up inviting God's punishment, speaking different languages and becoming barbarians to each other. Rather than failures, I… Continue reading The Wall and the Tower
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