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, →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, →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”).