Overfitting seems pretty great for survival - who cares if one in 100 canines is friendly - much safer to avoid them! Humans seem to be unique in that we occasi

Overfitting seems pretty great for survival - who cares if one in 100 canines is friendly - much safer to avoid them! Humans seem to be unique in that we occasionally second guess our overfit models. And in the case of avoiding dangerous animals, the result couldn’t have been more wonderful: Dogs! Confronting and undoing a casually overfit mental model is harder the more subtle and useful they are - but those are the bits that hide the great secrets of the universe!