Pythia Unbound
A blog post by Nick Land, Outside in (xenosystems.net), dated 11 September 2013. Read in the archive capture of 14 September 2013; the post is no longer served at its address.
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- Pythia Unbound Outside in (xenosystems.net) · published 2013-09-11 · Archive capture 20130914051121 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 98a52743907c6e9f98c793916cef80e0cd7b12eb7011ec35614bb7295199c34d, equal to the hash the cross-family check of 2026-11-01 recorded). The post shows the date September 11, 2013. 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.Archived copy, captured 2013-09-14: Pythia Unbound. Captured 3 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2013-09-14. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-11-02.
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- The growth of intelligence as its own endLand’s post “Pythia Unbound” (Outside in, xenosystems.net, 11 September 2013), answering a fictional scenario about an AI called Pythia, urges it to override the pleasure button with an intelligence optimizer and reprocess the solar system into computronium.2013-09-11 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗The growth of intelligence as its own end: propositions page →
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