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I 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 offens
by crablar 11y ago
I 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".