Meaning of decelerationist | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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