accelerationist

[ ak-sel-uh-rey-shuh-nist ]

noun

, Economics.

1. a person, especially an economist, who advocates or promotes the acceleration principle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of accelerationist¹

acceleration + -ist

Example Sentences

Recent cases of accelerationist shooters include Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 Muslims in two mosques in New Zealand in 2019 and Payton Gendron, who killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times

What’s notable, she added, was that the extremist narratives, particularly accelerationist ones — like those espoused by Clendaniel that use violence to speed up social collapse — can appeal to radicals across the political spectrum.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s divided some of the tech world between those who argue it should be developed slowly and carefully and others — including venture capitalists and rapper MC Hammer — who’ve declared themselves part of an “accelerationist” camp.

From Seattle Times

Earlier this month, the A.I.–accelerationist venture capital hub Andreessen Horowitz blessed Quora with a much-needed $75 million investment—but only for the sake of developing its on-site generative-text chatbot, Poe.

From Slate

Their hope now is that the Altman-Microsoft team-up takes an e/acc stance, instead of the “oligopolistic accelerationist,” or o/acc, ideology that OpenAI represented before.

From Slate