I agree the term is in common use, but there is value in proposing a detailed operationalization of a concept that otherwise has a fuzzy referent. This is one way to ground timelines debates and make forecasts cross-comparable, as we discuss in the piece.
To me, this reads as “We, alongside thirty-one co-authors, recently released a paper trying to co-opt terminology in common use”.
I agree the term is in common use, but there is value in proposing a detailed operationalization of a concept that otherwise has a fuzzy referent. This is one way to ground timelines debates and make forecasts cross-comparable, as we discuss in the piece.