A decelerationist (decel for short) is someone who believes in the curtailment, censorship or condemnation of advances in technology or philosophy in the interest of emotional comfort. Frequently, decelerationists’ solutions involve self-regulation, self-censorship or regulation at a national government level. Not to be confused with a Luddite.
A popular decel opinion in 2023 is that AI chatbots and image generators need to be programmed to prevent offensive materials from being created, because the dissemination of those materials would hurt people’s feelings.
A popular decel opinion in 2023 is that AI chatbots and image generators need to be programmed to prevent offensive materials from being created, because the dissemination of those materials would hurt people’s feelings.
If person A thinks players in a multiplayer video game should be prevented by the game’s code from ganging up on Player X because Player X would feel upset about it, then person B could correctly say that A is a decelerationist.
by eacc October 12, 2023
Get the decelerationist mug.Delegating development activities, usually done by non-technical technical people like managers and directors when they have an idea and figure they can just have somebody code it. Often comes up with proof of concept work and when creating solutions for new processes. Effective if you have skilled coders/programmers and a good understanding of what's actually possible.
We need a new app that will transform the widget in real-time, so I'm going to develegate that to Antonio.
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