Hi, I'm Arthur Tu, welcome to my homepage.

This is where I post all my shenanigans. So for whatever reasons you're here, I hope you find some of the information at least mildly entertaining.

I graduated Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) School of Computer Science (SCS) and Humanities and Social Sciences College (H&SS) with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Philosophy at the end of Fall 2007. I am currently a master's student in CMU's Department of Philosophy, studying, well, philosophy! My interests of study are Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Causation and Epistemology. Aside from Modern Analytical Philosophies, I also enjoy reading Ancient Philosophies such as Plato, Confucius, Aristotle and Lao Zi.

As you (probably) have noticed, I am one of those who spend a considerable amount of time in front of computers - and I've been doing this since junior high. I like to write, read, design and program; and aside from all the soul-devourering geek routines, I also enjoy freestyle dancing (breaking, popping, housing, krumping mixed) and music mastering & editing.

I love to think about random and seemingly-trivial phenomena so I never really understood the concept of boredom. I have realized after a year of college, our lives are steered by our beliefs. The world has too much to offer and we are too narrow-minded to accept, without understanding of our own beliefs through the study of philosophy, we're turning our fates over to indifference, despair, banality, and finally, cynicism. There's too much happening and even more that have already happend, there's no time to confine ourselves in ignorance.

I believe in neither god nor fate. I see moral and social institutions as by-products of human existence that are completely external to the universal truth under study. I do not believe there is a teleological cause in a person's life, the fact of our existence justifies nothing but capacities to observe and deliberate; inquisitions about why we are is just as meaningless and as pointless as contemplating for a reason why a particular fair coin turned up heads. I am, most probably, a Realist, an Existentialist and a Socialist.