But it's a convergent instrumental goal for just about every end goal you could think of for a statistical model. If your model has zero predictive power, and t

But it's a convergent instrumental goal for just about every end goal you could think of for a statistical model. If your model has zero predictive power, and that's fine, then you don't need a model in the first place. You can just make random guesses, or assume everything is equally correlated, or whatever make sense for your goal.