Ben Goertzel wrote:
Feedback on AGI-06 overall was overwhelmingly positive; in fact Richard's is the only significantly negative report I've seen.
Of course, if the conference was filled with low-quality presentations and low-quality comments from participants, then all of those people who gave presentations and who made comments would be BOUND to give an objective evaluation of the quality of the conference, wouldn't they....? ;-)
They wouldn't have any vested interest in saying "What a success!", would they?
And if one person gave a poor evaluation of the conference based on specific points of fact, rather than just feel-good opinion (if, for example, that person noted a complete inability of the participants to talk about the main theme of the conference in a technically accurate way), that empirically-based observation would count for nothing, compared with the great "feeling" that everyone had about the meeting?
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