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Land’s post “Will-to-Think” (Outside in, xenosystems.net, 15 September 2014) concludes, in its final note, that our instrumental but also absolute priority is the realization of superior minds. Copy claim link
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Date 2014-09-15 · publication Records dated 2014 → Wording attested 2014-09-17. Wording of the post as captured on 17 September 2014, read in the raw replay by the archive retrieval of 2026-11-02. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits From the post’s closing note; the clause begins in lower case in the source. 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.
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Will-to-Think ↗ Outside in (xenosystems.net) · 2014-09-15
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Source excerpt “our instrumental but also absolute priority is the realization of superior minds.” Location in source Post #post-3604, .entry paragraph 15, beginning “Note: One final restatement”; clause after “Ergo,”
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Source details and check notes Authors Nick Land Version Archive capture 20140917022211 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 39b8ee8855856f09cdcd1a80198cbeac0e79e09c60cac5733a4d5896b38c7ed2, equal to the hash the cross-family check of 2026-11-01 recorded). The post shows the date September 15, 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 2014-09-17: Will-to-Think ↗ . Captured 2 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2014-09-17. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-11-02.Attribution Nick Land, “Will-to-Think”, Outside in, 2014-09-15. 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 Quotation as given verbatim by the archive retrieval of 2026-11-02 (research/archive-fetch-held-2026-11-02/report.md, W07 — Will-to-Think), which read it in the raw replay of the capture of 17 September 2014 (timestamp 20140917022211; SHA-256 39b8ee8855856f09cdcd1a80198cbeac0e79e09c60cac5733a4d5896b38c7ed2 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 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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