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The Hyperstition post “Critique of Transcendental Miserablism” of 2007, signed “Old Nick”, states that capitalism “has consumed life and biological intelligence to create a new life and a new plane of intelligence, vast beyond human anticipation”. In a separate passage it states that machines, “incarnating market mechanics”, are “evolving themselves by quasi-darwinian alogorithms”. Copy claim link
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Date 2007-01-15 · publication Records dated 2007 → Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The post does not call capitalism or the 'new plane of intelligence' artificial or machine intelligence, and does not state that machine intelligence assembles itself through capitalism; its passage on machines evolving themselves does not mention intelligence. Scope and limits The post is signed 'Old Nick'; its title is that of a chapter by Nick Land in Urbanomic's contents list of Fanged Noumena (2011), whose wording was not compared. Records two separate passages of the post, not evidence that what they state is true.
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Critique of Transcendental Miserablism ↗ Hyperstition (group blog, hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org), monthly archive page for January 2007 · 2007-01-15
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Source excerpt “Capitalism, in contrast, has no external limit, it has consumed life and biological intelligence to create a new life and a new plane of intelligence, vast beyond human anticipation.” Location in source Post of January 15, 2007, eighth paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Old Nick Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 00943487743aabf493392e6b6a0792fa49174f315022818d73277923353ef3da). Post of January 15, 2007 as shown on the blog's monthly archive page; the permalink (archives/008887.html) returns HTTP 404. The page's character encoding shows some quotation marks as replacement characters; quotations avoid them. Signed “Old Nick”; credited to that signature. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Old Nick, “Critique of Transcendental Miserablism”, 2007-01-15. 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 (29 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. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Critique of Transcendental Miserablism ↗ Hyperstition (group blog, hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org), monthly archive page for January 2007 · 2007-01-15
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Source excerpt “The machines have sophisticated themselves beyond the possibility of socialist utility, incarnating market mechanics within their nano-assembled interstices and evolving themselves by quasi-darwinian alogorithms” Location in source Post of January 15, 2007, fifth paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Old Nick Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 00943487743aabf493392e6b6a0792fa49174f315022818d73277923353ef3da). Post of January 15, 2007 as shown on the blog's monthly archive page; the permalink (archives/008887.html) returns HTTP 404. The page's character encoding shows some quotation marks as replacement characters; quotations avoid them. Signed “Old Nick”; credited to that signature. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Old Nick, “Critique of Transcendental Miserablism”, 2007-01-15. 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 (24 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. 'alogorithms' as printed. The sentence continues with a relative clause whose quotation marks appear as replacement characters in this copy; it is not quoted. No human editorial review. Status and meaning 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.
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Date. Date header on the blog's January 2007 archive page.
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