"Studies have shown that models can better predict, for example, the success or failure of a business start-up, the likelihood of recidivism and parole violation, and future performance in graduate school."

A world that listens to rail-thin starving models is a nightmare that I don't want to live in.

I'm not sure I see how it's a burn on humanity that information processing tools we create are good at the specific tasks we've built them for.

If anything, we have developed a misplaced faith in the power of information technology. Decision-making models can track an enormous amount of data points and their quantifiable relationships, but the ease of their decisions comes from strict limits on what's considered relevant data and ways in which it can be manipulated.

Human judgment and expertise, in essence, are exactly what have been externalized into the frameworks that models operate so well within.

I'm thinking a Robot would make a better President, fersure.

http://www.brutallyhonest.org/photos/uncategorized/gorebot.jpg

If the Seattle Mariners fired manager Mike Hargrove and replaced him with a robot that used sabermetrics to determine lineups and substitutions, the team would probably do much better.