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Marks of the end time – Is cashless society a mark of the end time?

The end time is a biblical concept referring to the time before the old world is folded away and a new world is introduced (the new heavens and earth, Revelation 21:1). According to the Bible, the end time is not peaceful but full of apocalyptic terrors and disasters. Therefore, any mention of the end time...

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

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Bayesian probability and the Monty Hall problem

On a rare slow Friday, I found myself in a musing of the Monty Hall problem. You know the famous brainteaser, a probability puzzle in which you are a player in the game of guessing in order to win a prize. There are three doors closed, and behind each door is either a goat or a car, and whatever you have picked will be the prize for you. Of course, you want the car, not… Read More »Bayesian probability and the Monty Hall problem

Anonymity and Privacy

In the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, there’s a struggle over the distinction between anonymity and privacy.  Even some of the most articulate people struggle and stumble over explaining these concepts. The struggle is due to misunderstanding of the concepts and reality. Sure, one can make a distinction based on the literal meaning of the words....

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
Introduction
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Truth in culture

“The irony is that only western culture allows dissent against culture and the acceptance of other ideas… yet western culture has the most dissenters.” Dr. Craig S. Wright, Linkedin post From a cybernetics view, a culture is a complex system that relies on both a base Unity and an active Requisite Variety to absorb (to deal with) the environment. The Western culture’s base unity is Truth, while the Eastern culture’s base unity is Order. For… Read More »Truth in culture

The politically modest but technologically ambitious Bitcoin

Today's headline: Coinbase Cuts Off 25K Russian Wallets!

It's unclear what the reporter's concern is. I don't mean that there should be no concern. It is just unclear what the reporter's concern really is. This is typical of the crypto reports, because the writers only look at superficial things and do not understand what is really at work.

From a political point of view, it is foolish to demand exchanges to cut off Russians just because they are Russians. And it is even questionable to cut off some Russians selectively, because how can an exchange decide?

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
Introduction
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Volume II: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Beyond - Essays of Science, Economics, Law, Ethics, and Controversies
Introduction
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The Internet is a test

Allan Milne Lees’ article Why The Internet Is Destroying Civilization is an interesting read. Written by a talented and insightful writer, but tinted with a bias. The Internet is infested by not only lies that are designed to induce fear and prurience (which are highlighted by the author in the article), but all kinds of lies, including that are designed to induce false hopes or to work as deceitful sedation (which are neglected in the… Read More »The Internet is a test

WallstreetBets — why it is foolish to do and also foolish to abolish

No, it is not David versus Goliath. It is Mob versus Mafia. It is not an intelligent revolt at all. Therefore it will accomplish nothing except for hurting the participants (the mob). Guess who made money in all this? Only two groups of people made money: First group is those who were really wrong about business of the company (GameStop in this case) but accidentally got rewarded when the stock price went up unexpectedly. The second… Read More »WallstreetBets — why it is foolish to do and also foolish to abolish

Wake up, Americans

Americans are not aware of the real threat this country is now facing. The current events, influenced by a powerful illusion created by a zoomed-in distortion effect (intentionally or unintentionally), are a dangerous diversion from answering the real threat. America is now facing a very harsh reality. People’s sin has caught up with them. Both the moral deficit and financial deficit, neither can be magically made to disappear. Sooner or later we will pay. And… Read More »Wake up, Americans

“Meritocracy”​ and “Equality”​

Headline: Nation’s No. 1 High School Poised To Pick Students Based On Race, Not Achievement While debating over “meritocracy” and “equality”, we are ignorant of another related and much more fundamental risk:   Corruption. Once you do away with meritocracy, the floods of corruption come in (or come out from within, to be more exact), because this type of corruption is inherent with the corrupt nature of the fallen race of Adam. People’s acts start to… Read More »“Meritocracy”​ and “Equality”​

Why AI Will Never Replace True Humanity

This article is not about the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI), but an attempt to address a more profound question that has to do with the very nature and meaning of human life in the view of AI.  Saying that AI will never replace true humanity is not to say that AI system isn’t useful. In fact, AI is not only useful, but will become far more useful in the future than most people can imagine today. These are fundamentally different… Read More »Why AI Will Never Replace True Humanity