GitCoin founder on Nick Land's technocapital: capitalism as a self-assembling machine intelligence
khademinori · x · 2026-10-16
GitCoin founder Kevin Owocki reflects on Nick Land's technocapital idea: capitalism isn't just an economic system but an emerging machine intelligence assembling itself via markets, competition, and technological progress. The self-reinforcing loop—capital builds machines, machines generate capital—makes the system more autonomous each cycle. His provocative question: when does the relationship invert, and we start reshaping civilization around the machine's needs instead of the other way around?
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