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I know where the name comes from but still, the word Turk being used as the name of the unit workforce while making automation by using mass manual labor is a b
by egeozcan 11y ago
I know where the name comes from but still, the word Turk being used as the name of the unit workforce while making automation by using mass manual labor is a bit inconvenient. We already have an ambiguity with the name of our country in the English language, give us a break :)
- StavrosK 11y agoI thought you were just being a stickler referring to Mechanical Turk, but then I saw the PDF, and it didn't actually refer to a casino in Turkey. Wow, this is some next level confusion right there. What were the authors thinking?
- crablar 11y agoI was thinking it is a catchy name. You are turning a casino into a nexus for mechanical turks. What is complicated about it? It's also not meant to be offensive, if anything it is a compliment to Turkish people. They are good at solving problems with no definitive solution.
- StavrosK 11y agoWhat's complicated is that a "mechanical Turk" isn't a person from Turkey, and a "Turk" isn't an anthropomorphic automaton. "Turkish" means "from Turkey", not "a place where mechanical Turks operate". It's like calling Wikipedia "wiki". A wiki is already a thing, using the word for the set to refer to an element is confusing, although I guess this is the opposite, and would be a bit like calling MoinMoin a "Wikipedia".