OP here. Many people are reacting to the title of the paper. A few thoughts: * The paper is 35 pages long and it's hard to convey its message in any single tit

OP here. Many people are reacting to the title of the paper. A few thoughts: * The paper is 35 pages long and it's hard to convey its message in any single title. We make clear in the text that our point is not that predictive optimization should never be used. * We do want the _default_ to change from predictive optimization being seen as the obvious way to solve certain social problems to being against it until the developer can address certain objections. This is also made clear in the paper. * The title is a nod to a famous book in this area called "Against prediction". Most people in our primary target audience are familiar with that book, so the title conveys a lot of information to those readers. That's one reason we picked it. * Despite its flaws, when might we want to use predictive optimization? Section 4 gets into this in detail. Thanks for reading.