Decel
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Clipping of deceleration. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable
"Mountainhead plays out less like a drama between four tenuously connected, very rich friends, and more like a random word generator of tech and finance bro jargon – decel (deceleration, as in AI), p(doom) (the probability of an AI apocalypse), first principles."
- 2 Clipping of decelerationist. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable
"Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”)."
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More examples"Mountainhead plays out less like a drama between four tenuously connected, very rich friends, and more like a random word generator of tech and finance bro jargon – decel (deceleration, as in AI), p(doom) (the probability of an AI apocalypse), first principles."
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