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On John Stuart Mill, “Utilitarianism,” J. J. C. Smart, “Defending Utilitarianism,” and Mozi, “Impartial Caring” from Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy. According to J.S. Mill, originally, the utilitarian standard of the Greatest

On "Work and meaning in the age of AI" by Daniel Susskind, and "The Simple Macroeconomics of AI" by Daron Acemoglu, and Anthropic's research on labor market impacts. Before we delve into the normative space that Susskind's "meaning prob

On Kai Yi Ng, "The Asymmetrical Friend: Evaluating AI in the Dimensions of Friendship"   Kai Yi's argument is quite straightforward and clearly written. He begins by presenting a framework for friendship that includes three dimensions:

On Proof of an External World, G.E. Moore & Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation, Jonathan Vogel. Mostly transcribed from speech. What is the point of Moore's proof of an external world? Is his proof satisfactory or not? Wh

I've never thought that my next journal would be about war. Just like I never thought that I myself would one day experience one. As the situation is still developing, none of us really knows what is going to happen next. For the purpo

On AI, authorship, authenticity, attention, and scarcity. Effectively a continuation of my previous posts [1, 2, 3, 4].   Since adopting voice-to-text transcription, my writing speed has surged, on balance. In the past weekend, I probabl

On Will to Believe by Williams James, Clifford's moralism, Logical Positivism, and the "other minds" problem.   I'm actually in a bit of a rush to write this post at 10 p.m., and I should really be focusing on my transfer application. Bu

On What's All the Fuss About? By John Zerelli. What if "human dignity" has nothing to do with perceived uniqueness? As conversations unfold around so-called AI, for some reason—or in fact, from my perspective, due to the still-will

On 读评论答网友疑：关于我特殊的母女关系 - 小红书. Also on love, obligation, and gratitude. I'm often criticized by many of my friends for lacking a personal perspective or a strong voice—a phenomenon/syndrome I have come to call the "diluted voice." While I

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On Seven Digital Deadly Sins. The prompt is: How is user interaction designed to organize the content of the site? How does the interaction make the user a part of the experience (what role do they have)?  What might be another way

On Embrace the Remix , a TED talk by Kirby Ferguson. Coincidentally enough, the first time I ever heard of the claim "everything is a remix" was on the course promotion poster here in NYUAD, and it was even taught by a professor I know

This post documents of a couple of conversations between my friends and me. Most of them are translated from Chinese. Some off-topic messages are omitted. The conversations started after I posted this journal . While the following messag

The central question I kept circling, both while browsing the examples and while building, was quite simple: what is the purpose of a portfolio? Hiring funnel, research archive, conversation starter, process notebook, or personal museum? I

This post is a mere documentation of a conversation between me and a stranger I met on the internet. All topical messages are included as they were in the chatbox, with some irrelevant messages omitted. Only minimal grammar correction is d

Covering arting, happiness, incomplete empathy, space-time manipulation, human-nature relationship, computer art, and AI. Continuing on this . Happiness, and more than happiness. Knock, knock, this is me sitting in our Prague dorm at 1

This post contains my sketch response to the following interview questions posed by Gemini 2.5 Pro after "reading" all of my previous writing on this site. The overall conversation is about collaboratively designing the album concept for N

On Norman, “Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better.” Aesthetics vs. function, durability vs. lightness, artistic vs. technical—it's so easy to fall into a binary mindset. To some extent, my intuitive argument would be: 'Yes, th

On The Art of Interactive Design, Ch. 1 By all means, this passage intrigued me first by its plain and candid tone and the approach to start with 'trying' to define instead of throwing jargon and how the author concedes to potential argu

On Eyeo2012 - Casey Reas By all means, what does 'generative' stand for? And what about 'random', 'chaos', 'definitive', 'rules', 'control', 'freedom', 'certainty', and so on? Before getting into details in Reas' presentation, these que

Indeed, I experienced a breakdown. And I never expected I would possibly react so drastically. Before starting to describe how it walks through me, the simple fact that I could really identify it as a breakdown is something once in a lif

"No, you can never catch up with him, nor catch music—if you don't face music properly." —— Franz Von Stresemann , In Nodame Cantabile I started to watch the anime Nodame Cantabile around the beginning of my winter holiday and finishe

Yesterday night, or technically this morning at about 4 am, I was planning to record the last projected piece for my first cover compilation Picking Up. Unfortunately, as I discovered that I inadvertently cut the E string of my last pack o

Haven't been using this notebook (Entenote, back then) to journal for a while (like... it happens to be approximately exactly a year). As I found tonight's thought wouldn't be concise, maybe it's time to unbox the "weekly" series. A quick

On Thomas Nagel, “Ethics” from The Last Word, and Sharon Street, “Does Anything Really Matter or Did We Just Evolve to Think So?" One of the key tensions I found in Nagel's piece, or at least as it seemed to me to be unresolved, is the

Following up on the previous entry, "Novel Relationship It May Be—Symmetric Or Not."   There are indeed some questions left in the previous entry that could have been addressed more carefully, besides the hard problem itself, which ultim

On Jesse Prinz, “Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response,” and Martha Nussbaum, “Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation. What do you think of Jesse Prinz’s argument that morality is a culturally conditioned respon

Following up on my last post on war. Written before Iran declared that American schools are legitimate targets after their university was bombed. Also revisiting Deleuze.   Here are some questions or critiques I either received or concei

On Descartes from The Science of the Mind, by Owen Flanagan, and The Ontological Problem from Matter and Consciousness, by Paul Churchland. This journal could be substantially more spontaneous and whimsical than others.   Disclaimers ahe

On Minds, Brains, and Programs, by John R. Searle.   Unsurprisingly, or as it's destined to be, Searle's argument eventually leads to the "other minds" problem. If, according to Searle, we dismiss the behavioral and functionalist perspec

On Computing Machinery and Intelligence, by Alan Turing. Effectively a continuation of my previous posts [1, 2]. Within the framework of Turing’s "imitation game," the "heads in the sand" objection seems to represent a visceral, almost

On What is Philosophy, by Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley This is the first post of a new series of reading responses. Coincidentally or not, the two philosophy classes I'm taking this semester share the same requiremen

On understanding "respect." A few months ago, I briefly mentioned in a post how I understand and practice "respect" as a counterexample to confront the possibility of my being a relativist who virtually has no values . In hindsight, ther

On My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? by Laurel Schwulst. Covering websites, metaphors, the meaning of life, creations, passion, and becoming. In the age of information overload, THE ULTIMAT

On bruno imbrizi: experiments . The prompt is to reflect on any audio-visual project out there. The 'waves' in the title can stand for many things: physically speaking, sounds are waves (and the Fourier Transformation tells us that, furt

On Functionality, Forget about Functionality , an essay by Marti Manen, commenting on artist Rafaël Rozendaal. yeah totally i know for sure? I found it so very ironic as well as pleasing to see these three lines at the end of the es

Covering performance/identity; self-(de)construction; mental health; near-death/medical experience; AI and ethics; racism; relationships/intimacy; NYU Abu Dhabi; agency/choice. As this journal discusses potentially sensitive content, it is

The book has been on my to-read list for centuries. While it matters not to ramble about why I haven't read it until now, it is indeed a timely input for me. After completing the last "journal,"   I have been largely reflecting on the v

What if I never need to justify or explain anything ever again? What would that life be like? It’s such a great question I cannot answer and, to some extent, dare not answer. (And yeah, my best friend can’t either) Back then, when I wa

It seems that I tend to start with apologizing (to myself) and explaining why I haven't been writing for _ amount of time. Let's skip that this time. To provide some basic context for this post, I've been in Prague for 2.5 days, attendin

On Passing Stange By Stew We want the song, but we don't wanna BE a song. We want to be loved, but love will never come if we only WANT. We want to stay real, but daring not to change only hinders the the real. Three years ago, I onc

It is difficult for me, as well as for many, to distinguish if studying the music before a concert would be conducive to understanding the music or ruin the first-hand experience, especially in terms of classical music. While the Turkish p

Imaginatively kinetic contemporary and urban dance. Above is the byline on Sol Invictus's poster. By all means, there's no way for me to identify what exactly that performance, event, dance, theatre, gathering, gala, festive, showcase, p

Today is the first day of my college life. Maybe it is because I was encouraged to (or actually reminded of) keep journalling yesterday on a seemingly reading seminar (but a group-therapy-like event) I could take advantage of being here at

I like answering questions. Sometimes people who don't know me may assume I am a person of reticence (which is evidently not true in many cases). I would say this impression may stem from my general inclination towards "observe-respond"

As I said in the last post, I'm here to fulfill my words. Given that the application season is already over, at least on my side, I suppose posting it here should do no harm; other than the CA version that I submitted to colleges, I've al

Although the first tedious post I made here is unlike many of the archived ones, which were basically day-to-day wrap-ups of a period of time and were more of like the phone-based short notes to focus on some narrow matters, I wasn't reall