After AI Takes Everything
Prompted by letters from three engineers, the author asks what remains for humans as AI takes over execution, naming judgment, taste, and derivation as irreplaceable, and warns against the erosion of subjecthood.
On the Value of Existence and the Experience of Life
Explores the existentialist question of life's meaning and the collapse of assigned value, offering practices for living fully, from ordinariness to connection.
How to Communicate Effectively — Through the Lens of Zhuangzi's Qiwulun
Starting from the problem of standpoints in Zhuangzi's Qiwulun, this essay uses the Ladder of Inference to analyze how attitudes and judgments form in communication, seeking effective consensus.
The 'Zen' of Sky: Children of the Light
An essay reading the game Sky: Children of the Light through aesthetics, psychology, hermeneutics, and existentialism, examining its art, gameplay, and social design.
How Is Artificial Consciousness Possible?
Drawing on Detroit: Become Human and other sci-fi works, this piece surveys mind-body dualism, behaviorism, physicalism, and functionalism, using the Chinese Room to ask whether artificial consciousness is even theoretically possible.
My Approach to Reading Papers and Writing Essays
Personal reflections on reading academic literature and writing essays, breaking the process into five phases — collection, reading, study, construction, and writing — for readers to reference.
"I'm Fine Without You."
A personal essay on Ralph Breaks the Internet, reflecting on friendship and growing up through Ralph and Vanellope learning to let go, and how real friendship endures without constant closeness.