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effective accelerationist

effective accelerationist noun: a proponent of effective accelerationism.

Noun

effective accelerationist (plural effective accelerationists)

  1. A proponent of effective accelerationism.
    • Effective accelerationists essentially believe that tech is universally good, that our planet is doomed, and that the only way to save the human species is by letting capital and resources flow upwards, so that beneficent billionaire autocrats can one day send us to a colony on Mars. Or something....2023 October 17, Janus Rose, “Major Tech Investor Calls Architect of Fascism a 'Saint' in Unhinged Manifesto”, in VICE, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2023
    • As I wrote Monday, [Sam] Altman's ouster inflamed a long-simmering feud between two ideologies in the artificial intelligence space: on one side, the effective altruists deathly afraid of going too fast with A.I., and on the other, the "effective accelerationists," or e/accs, who believe we aren't...2023 November 22, Nitish Pahwa, “Sam’s Town”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2023

Forms of effective accelerationist

pluraleffective accelerationists

Words formed from effective accelerationist

Questions about effective accelerationist

What does effective accelerationist mean?
Effective accelerationist means a proponent of effective accelerationism.
What part of speech is effective accelerationist?
Effective accelerationist is a noun.
What is the plural of effective accelerationist?
The plural of effective accelerationist is effective accelerationists.

Words near effective accelerationist in the dictionary

  1. effectivated
  2. effectivates
  3. effectivating
  4. effective
  5. effective accelerationism
  6. effective accelerationist
  7. effective accelerationists
  8. effective altruism
  9. effective altruist
  10. effective altruists
  11. effective compression

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