2. I actually have somewhat overlapping concerns about the doom memeplex and a bunch of notes about it, but its not near even a draft post. But your response provides some motivation to write it as well. In the broader space, there are good posts about the doom memeplex for the LW audience from Valentine, so I felt this is less neglected.
3. I generally don’t know. My impression is when I try to explain the abstract level without a case study, readers are confused what’s the point or how is it applicable. My impression is meta explanations of memetics of some ideology tends to weaken it almost no matter what the ideology is, so I don’t think I could have chosen some specific example without the result being somewhat controversial. But what I could have done is having multiple different examples, that’s valid criticism.
2. I actually have somewhat overlapping concerns about the doom memeplex and a bunch of notes about it, but its not near even a draft post. But your response provides some motivation to write it as well. In the broader space, there are good posts about the doom memeplex for the LW audience from Valentine, so I felt this is less neglected.
3. I generally don’t know. My impression is when I try to explain the abstract level without a case study, readers are confused what’s the point or how is it applicable. My impression is meta explanations of memetics of some ideology tends to weaken it almost no matter what the ideology is, so I don’t think I could have chosen some specific example without the result being somewhat controversial. But what I could have done is having multiple different examples, that’s valid criticism.