Claim · 2026-10-09 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The LessWrong post of October 2026 quotes a sentence it attributes to Land's “Circuitries”.

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What it connects

Nick Land has no theory of AI, just a theory of capitalism → cites → Circuitries

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Claim and evidence

Nick Land has no theory of AI, just a theory of capitalismcites ↓Circuitries

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2026-10-09 · publication Records dated 2026 →

Scope and limitsA naming records that the later text names the earlier; it is not agreement, influence or lineage beyond what the passage states. The quoted wording differs in spelling and punctuation from the 1992 print read for this collection ('mediaeval'; a semicolon) and was probably taken from a later edition, which the post does not name.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Nick Land has no theory of AI, just a theory of capitalism

LessWrong, read through the GreaterWrong viewer (greaterwrong.com) · 2026-10-09

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Source excerpt

“Human brains are to thinking what medieval villages were to engineering: antechambers to experimentation, cramped and parochial places to be.” -Nick Land, Circuitries”

Location in source Second paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: jacob (LessWrong user name)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 eeec69fbdfefc20321f224508322eacd030b0f8c1c0973c4e1292cb6264c5ae5). LessWrong post of 9 Oct 2026 as shown by GreaterWrong; the author writes in a comment of 14 Oct 2026 “maybe I’ll just edit it”.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: jacob (LessWrong user name), “Nick Land has no theory of AI, just a theory of capitalism”, 2026-10-09.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (23 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 151) re-read the source and agreed that the passage names the earlier text or author. No human editorial review.

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Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An explicit reference to a work. Citation alone is neither agreement nor causal influence.

Date. LessWrong post dated 9 Oct 2026 (GreaterWrong viewer).

Record ID ht-link-jacob-2026-nick-land-no-theory-of-ai-names-land-1992-circuitries