holy shit in 1784 when edmund cartwright saw the mechanical turk play chess he was like "fuck it, if machines can play chess, they can weave" and then invented the mechanical loom
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dude just got pranked into radically advancing technology
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Oh my gosh. I had to look it up, and not only is this one true, but ADDITIONALLY the Mechanical Turk indirectly trolled Alexander Graham Bell into inventing the telephone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk …pic.twitter.com/3HNgGY1SSO
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