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I think more or less the same thing about the word "meme" as you have used it.

• spencerchubb 3y ago
  I feel I used the word 'meme' appropriately "A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme." Paper authors use "All You Need" to allude to the well-known transformer paper, even if their proposed technique is not in fact all you need.
  • jordanpg 3y ago
    You used the word in the sense it commonly used, which is something like "often-repeated" or, more frequently, "shared a lot on social media." While I agree that this is consistent with the WP definition in the broadest sense, it isn't really what Dawkins had in mind in the Selfish Gene.
    • spencerchubb 3y ago
      My understanding is that a meme spreads through memetics similar to how a gene spreads through genetics. Ideas will spread that are fit for reproduction, i.e. communication. Oftentimes memes are powerful at reproducing, but in science we don't want ideas that are likely to spread. We want ideas that are truthful