A Conversation with Nick Land (Part 1)
An interview by Vincent Lê, Architechtonics, dated 13 January 2026. Substack post dated Jan 13, 2026; the interviewer presents a transcript; the date of the conversation is not stated.
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- A Conversation with Nick Land (Part 1) Architechtonics (Vincent Lê's Substack) · published 2026-01-13 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 834974ac03a2a0a003af85c97e7420ae795bf997b3c058b62a8e28dee1bb3b73). Interviewer's published transcript, posted Jan 13, 2026; the date of the conversation is not stated.
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- Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligenceIn Lê's published conversation with Land of January 2026, Lê states that capital is “a vastly more general intelligence than us humans”, that Kurzweil's 2040s prediction for AGI or the singularity and a “2027 thesis” are “both too late” (“Their dates should really be centuries ago”), and that LLMs are to capital as a species is to natural selection; Land calls this “a really good way of structuring this” and says “the natural selection mechanism is ultimately the intelligent mechanism”.2026-01-13 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence: propositions page →
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