decel

See also: dəcəl

English

Noun

decel (countable and uncountable, plural decels)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of deceleration.
    • [2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      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. (colloquial) Clipping of decelerationist.
    • 2023 November 20, Nitish Pahwa, “What the Heck Just Happened at OpenAI??”, in Slate‎[2], →ISSN:
      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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