AI maximalists treat charts as ritual objects: "every regression a Mayan calendar"
zetalyrae · x · 2026-11-15
NateWitkin quips that frontier labs have graduated from "chart crimes" to "chart terrorism," then offers a sociological observation: AI maximalists ritually anoint almost any graph—no matter how noisy or inscrutable the data—as an indefatigable object of common knowledge, triggering fascinating social cascades. His punchline: "Every regression a Mayan calendar." A sharp critique of the AI community's habit of using charts to sanctify predictions.
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