I’m in a pile of excellent people opposed to the TESCREALists at this trying time in history. We need a name.

We have a list of possibles, but it’s actually hard to pick a nice name that doesn’t sound like an EA front group!

An initialism for S.N.E.E.R. probably won’t be the sort of thing we’re after lol.

What’s a name that’s (a) nice and polite sounding (b) says at least a bit what it actually is (c) doesn’t sound like an EA front group?

  • rhamph@awful.systemsEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Nowtermism

    Or otherwise something drawing attention to the problems that exist in the world today, as I feel that’s the big antithesis to everything TESCREALists worry about (besides the racism, of course).

  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
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    10 days ago

    the Association for Software Sanity

    with corresponding conference the Association for Software Sanity Home for Originating Less Entropy

      • athairmor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        “Hmmmm… let’s see if a relevant domain name is available… com, no… org, no…maybe something less common… let’s try cx,…GRAHHHHHHH!!! NOOOO!!!”

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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      10 days ago

      not pitching an alternative because your suggestion is better, but I’m always tickled when I get to use the phrase “Actually Existing”, e.g. “Actually Existing Altruists” (see: “actually existing socialism”)

  • stingpie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Gradient clippers. In machine learning, learning too quickly can cause a model to “explode,” and the technique to prevent it from moving too quickly is called gradient clipping. So, if you apply that to technology, gradient clippers would be opposed to accelerationism.

  • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Honestly, I say we just mug what’s left of the Situationist International and take their shit over

  • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I feel like so much of the TESCREAL narrative is about a particular kind of line-goes-up futurism that something about an egalitarian or democratic future could help demonstrate where our vision differs and foreground where their ideology is fundamentally authoritarian. The word “democratic” is probably unusable in a US context, regrettably. I’d also like to snipe at the longtermists specifically and emphasize making the future better by solving the problems that are right in front of us now rather then ignoring them and hoping they go away.

    Working Today for a Free and Equal Tomorrow or something?

  • -dsr-@awful.systemsEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Association Opposing Greed and Idiocy.

    Doesn’t lend itself to snickering. Gets the point across. Hard to turn into “well actually the real greed is sharing”.

  • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
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    10 days ago

    The Centre for Actual Creativity

    I wonder how much would it cost to have a booth at Fringe to stir trouble with?