If by "suck" @FiveThirtyEight means "outperforms all but the best human forecasters" then it's true - for now!https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/609467661265670144 …
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And I would think that, of all the media outlets, @FiveThirtyEight would differentiate between "robots" and predictive models.
@MakerOfDecision @FiveThirtyEight any model so complicated you need a computer to work it is philosophically on the side of the robots.
@admittedlyhuman By "robot" do you mean future AI? This seems like an issue of generalizing from fictional evidence: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/ …
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