I don’t think anyone using the term is happy with it, and I do think they’d welcome a better term. [1] But in evaluating the choice to use it the history matters, which is that all the previous terms keep getting widely misunderstood to mean something different.
[1] ex: “getting just the relatively small idea of ainotkilleveryoneism (need a better name; more memetics) into the general population” (LW)
I don’t think anyone using the term is happy with it, and I do think they’d welcome a better term. [1] But in evaluating the choice to use it the history matters, which is that all the previous terms keep getting widely misunderstood to mean something different.
[1] ex: “getting just the relatively small idea of ainotkilleveryoneism (need a better name; more memetics) into the general population” (LW)