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- From: maler@pelvoux.imag.fr (Oded Maler)
- Subject: Re: IJCAI reviewing
- Message-ID: <C190DK.6s1@imag.fr>
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- Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
- References: <1jk62gINN6o1@morue.usc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:15:20 GMT
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- In article <1jk62gINN6o1@morue.usc.edu>, hulthage@morue.usc.edu (Ingemar Hulthage) writes:
- ..
- |> outrageous. Fairness versus quality control is a false choice. What
- |> better guarantee of quality is there than fairness !
- |>
- |>
- |> Ingemar Hulthage
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- Oh, this is very naive. Even in trivial situations when "fairness"
- and "quality" have a precise meaning they might be in conflict
- (e.g., Arrow's paradox). And in the non-trivial case of the ill-defined
- "science" of AI, comparison of quality is almost meaningless.
- I'm not trying to say that "everything goes" and some reasonable
- approximation of scientific value should not be strived for.
- But the belief in objective criteria, and the possibility to implement
- them by human beings with a necessariliy limited point of view and
- with bounded mental resources is false.
-
- About anonymity - I think the anonymity of referees is more disturbing.
- And I will use this opportunity to signal the anonymous referees
- of the truely-exceptional, breathtaking, classical-even-before-accepted
- paper that I have submitted (yes, I did, and *not* for the materialistic
- reasons of financing a one-hour trip from Grenoble to Chambery), that
- they can identify my authorship by the fact that the number of occurrences
- of the letter 'a' in my paper is prime. Any of you guys, who will succeed
- in proving him/her self as an author of a positive referee report on
- that (really great) paper, is invited to a dinner during the conference
- (wine and discussion on the meaning of life, whether humans can think
- etc. are included).
-
- (Should I use the :-)- notation? Doesn't the word referee has some double
- 'f' or double 'r' somewhere? Let's leave some open questions for the
- journal version).
-
-
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