decelerationist

plural decelerationists

1. uncommonA proponent of slowing down the pace of technological and economic progress; one opposed to accelerationism.

   Decelerationists have the utopian fantasy that we all could dedicate ourselves to doing pottery in Tuscany all the time, but this is not how life works.

   2022, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 168

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   The decelerationists, to the contrary, follow E.F. Schumacher, Kirkpatrick Sale and others (including a variety of Protestant denominations) in the belief that slowing down the technocultural and political economic pace, by engaging in local forms of democracy, will render global and national economic structures irrelevant.

   2014, Jason M. Adams, Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance after Occupy Wall Street, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 97

   Of the three people who are often called the godfathers of A.I.[…]the first two have recently become evangelical decelerationists, convinced that we are on track to build superintelligent machines before we figure out how to make sure that they're aligned with our interests.

   2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 45

   Synonyms: decel · Antonyms: accelerationist

comparative more decelerationist · superlative most decelerationist

1. Of, relating to, or favoring decelerationism; advocating for slowing down the pace of technological or economic progress.

   First, it implies that capability decelerationist and knowledge accelerationist policy goals are in direct conflict with one another.

   2023 June 30, Jon Stokes, “To De-Risk AI, The Government Must Accelerate Knowledge Production”, in jonstokes.com

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   To accelerate the production of this knowledge, the government should abandon decelerationist policies and incentivize incremental alignment R&D by AI companies.

   2023 June 30, Jon Stokes, “To De-Risk AI, The Government Must Accelerate Knowledge Production”, in jonstokes.com