Lawtee
This essay starts from a forum post asking why browsers can't have a plugin that translates all kinds of measurement units the way they translate languages, and explores why humans embrace precise standard units yet can't do without non-standard ones in everyday life.
This article originated from a six-hour WeChat group discussion (debate) between Lao T and a friend. The conversation began with an offhand remark—'What does the Qing dynasty even have?'—and ultimately evolved into a systematic examination spanning literary history, institutional comparison, technological discontinuity, geopolitics, and civilizational typology. The following text is a complete…
This is an article written from the perspective of a nephew about his uncle, mostly personal and family matters.
A discussion about AI scanning and destroying old books has torn open our hypocritical attitude toward knowledge. Those moldy rare editions, quietly rotting away under the protection of copyright law, never read by anyone. Rather than letting knowledge rot in libraries, it is better to let AI devour it, activate it, and let it flow. This is a farewell to the cult of old books, and a rethinking of…
While agricultural bottom-line thinking is indispensable, it must not be used as a rigid excuse. What we really need to face is industrial upgrading and international competition — that is the only way forward.