Our Overfitted Century

This article discusses cultural stagnation in the 21st century, attributing it to overfitting in cultural production. It explores various factors contributing to this phenomenon, including the decline of deviance, intellectual property rights, corporate monopolies, and the influence of the internet. The author argues that cultural overfitting, similar to the concept of overfitting in artificial intelligence, leads to a lack of creativity and decreasing variance in cultural outputs. The article also touches on the potential dangers of an inability to create novelty and generalize to new situations.