Han Qin is an independent philosopher, researcher, and multilingual content creator. He is the author of the Self-as-an-End (SAE) theory series — a body of work developed over eighteen years in collaboration with philosopher Zesi Chen, and published in accelerated form beginning in late 2025.
Han publishes in Chinese, English, and Japanese across X (@hqinjarsy), Substack (hqin.substack.com), and LinkedIn. Long-form essays include narrative treatments of Kant ("完成康德"), Wang Yangming ("完成王阳明"), Nietzsche ("Self-Cultivation in a Vacuum"), and ongoing applications of the SAE framework to civilization history, pop culture, and contemporary technology.
Han is Co-founder and CEO of Jarsy, a tokenization platform building compliant blockchain-based infrastructure for global investors to access alternative assets. Jarsy is backed by Breyer Capital, Karman Ventures (Travis Kalanick's fund), and notable angels, and operates under Reg D 506(b) and Reg S.
Prior to Jarsy, Han worked as an engineer at Facebook, Uber, and Afterpay. He holds a PhD background in computer science with expertise in ontology, semantic mapping, and knowledge hierarchies.
The Self-as-an-End framework originated from a practical frustration with Silicon Valley's instrumental rationality — the culture that asks "how fast?" without asking "toward what end?" The framework's name emerged through an unexpected path: a ChatGPT misunderstanding during a conversation about Demon Slayer, passing through an essay that eventually crystallized eighteen years of intellectual development into a named theoretical system.
The framework's core operation is the chisel-construct cycle (凿构循环): a self-executing logical process that derives a 16-level dimensional sequence (0D through 16DD), from the pre-structural negation of Hundun (浑沌) at 0D to the mutual non-doubt (双向不疑) of fully realized subjectivity at 16DD. Applications span normative social theory, AI consciousness, cosmological physics, philosophy of language, and civilization history.
The end/acc (End-Directed Accelerationism) manifesto is the framework's public-facing counterpoint to e/acc, asking not "how fast?" but "how right?" — where rightness is defined by escape velocity exceeding colonization velocity.
Email: han.qin.research@gmail.com
X: @hqinjarsy
Substack: hqin.substack.com
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