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?

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[–] 3 points 1 hour ago

Tech Cult Watch ?

What kind of activities are intended exactly, journalism, lobbying?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    Society for Egalitarian Technology and Ethical Computation

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    The Centre for Actual Creativity

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

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    Hmmm...

    • Reaction Watch (like retraction watch but, you know. reactionaries)

    • Mad At Reactionary Techies

    • Action Against Computer Cults

    • Computer Users Against Reactionary Losers

    • Silicon Valley Antifa

    • ???

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    I think anything with language about advocacy, speaking out, justice, fairness etc. is good because it contrasts with the EA belief that public policy must only be discussed in a totally values neutral way with any personal standpoints optimized out.

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    This seems a good time to remember Dale Carrico, the Berkeley rhetorician and Hannah Arendt fan who was opposing what he dubbed "superlative" futurological discourse, as long ago as 2009.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    Pile Of Opposed People!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago* (1 child)

    Actual altruists.

    If you form a band you could be the Death Spirals.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 hours 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")

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours 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).

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago

    Per contemptum ad astra.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago

    poo poo pee pee gang

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    the Association for Software Sanity

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

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Grounded Humanists, perhaps?

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