Claim · 2014-08-25 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Land’s post “Stupid Monsters” (Outside in, xenosystems.net, 25 August 2014) says that the will-to-think essentially supplants ulterior directives.

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What it connects

Stupid Monsters → articulates → The growth of intelligence as its own end

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Stupid Monstersarticulates ↓The growth of intelligence as its own end

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2014-08-25 · publication Records dated 2014 →
Wording attested: 2014-10-13. Wording of the post as captured on 13 October 2014, read in the raw replay by the archive retrieval of 2026-11-02.
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsOne clause of the post, in the author’s own prose; the capture that attests it is of October 2014. Only this passage on machine intelligence is recorded. The page shows the author label “admin”; the attribution to Nick Land rests on xenosystems.net being his blog, Outside in, whose posts Jessica Taylor’s review of 2024 (recorded in this collection) attributes to him; the archive retrieval did not independently establish the account’s identity.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Stupid Monsters

Outside in (xenosystems.net) · 2014-08-25

Archived copy, captured 2014-10-13: Stupid Monsters

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Source excerpt

“The will-to-think essentially supplants ulterior directives”

Location in source Post #post-3392, .entry paragraph 7, beginning “So how ‘loyally’”; clause beginning “The will-to-think”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-02

Source details and check notes

Authors: Nick Land
Version: Archive capture 20141013052107 of the post, read in its raw replay by the archive retrieval of 2026-11-02 (research/archive-fetch-held-2026-11-02/report.md; SHA-256 1db269b8a59ea1ffb48c6ebdc6d490818f50f583584c9eae644b6d0940e2b23b, equal to the hash the cross-family check of 2026-11-01 recorded). The post shows the date August 25, 2014. The page shows the author label “admin”; the attribution to Nick Land rests on xenosystems.net being his blog, Outside in, whose posts Jessica Taylor’s review of 2024 (recorded in this collection) attributes to him; the archive retrieval did not independently establish the account’s identity. The post is no longer served at its address; the session applying the decision could not reach the archive.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-11-02
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2014-10-13: Stupid Monsters. Captured 49 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2014-10-13. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-11-02.
Attribution: Nick Land, “Stupid Monsters”, Outside in, 2014-08-25.
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: Quotation as given verbatim by the archive retrieval of 2026-11-02 (research/archive-fetch-held-2026-11-02/report.md, W07 — Stupid Monsters), which read it in the raw replay of the capture of 13 October 2014 (timestamp 20141013052107; SHA-256 1db269b8a59ea1ffb48c6ebdc6d490818f50f583584c9eae644b6d0940e2b23b of the response body as served). That retrieval, by a model of another family, is the cross-family read of this passage; the session applying the decision could not reach the archive and took the passage from the report. Matched there within the author’s post, not the comments. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 proposed this text for this proposition (maintainer’s decision 1 of 2026-11-01, review/heterodox-thought-pack-2026-10-31.md). Admitted by the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-02. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

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Date. Posting date displayed on the post (“August 25, 2014”), outside the comments, in the capture of 13 October 2014.

Record ID ht-w07-land-2014-stupid-monsters