Taking the process of reading between the lines so far that you've left the lines entirely behind. Hyper-inference is pattern recognition on overdrive — seeing significance in random details, constructing elaborate meanings from things that were probably just noise, and arriving at conclusions so layered they'd require a presentation board to explain. It lives at the intersection of brilliant and unhinged. Sometimes hyper-inference is exactly right. Sometimes it's a three-hour spiral based on a punctuation choice. You rarely know which until it's too late.
His hyper-inference about the group chat name change turned out to be completely accurate, somehow.
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