Critique of Transcendental Miserablism
A blog post by Old Nick, Hyperstition, dated 15 January 2007. A post signed “Old Nick” on the Hyperstition blog, dated by the blog's archive page. It is credited to its signature: a chapter of the same title is attributed to Nick Land in Fanged Noumena (2011), whose wording was not compared.
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- Critique of Transcendental Miserablism Hyperstition (group blog, hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org), monthly archive page for January 2007 · published 2007-01-15 · 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.
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- Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligenceThe 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”.2007-01-15 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence: propositions page →
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