'Humanity built recursive self-improvement long ago': technocapital debate sparks
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-18
A viral thread engages with Nick Land's idea of technocapital: capitalism is not just an economic system but an emerging machine intelligence assembling itself through markets, competition, and technological progress. Capital builds more powerful machines, which generate more capital — each cycle making the system more autonomous and harder to escape. The provocative question: we build technology to serve humanity, but when does that relationship invert? The reposter's take: recursive self-improvement was invented long ago.
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