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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

      lot poured into improving machine translation, little/none attacking problem from other direction: teaching humans to write to be machine-translated

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    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

      most of the hard work improving systems now is handling the long tail of bizarre edge cases in natural language. alternative strat to chop the tail off

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      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

      strong value prop in forcing copywriters/PR people/etc to learn a new standardized dialect of "business $NATIVELANG" designed to translate well

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        2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          this isn't really a new idea, serves the same utility function as luoyang mandarin or merchant pidgins, just in a new technological context

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        3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          most of the time "automation" is really about forcing humans to adapt to technology to eke out incremental productivity gains

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        4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          it takes a large disruption of the labor force to overcome the initial investment hurdle required to replace a swath of workers in one swoop

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        5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          I thought of the language thing because I was reminded of a poetically depraved anecdote from one of those articles on amazon warehouses

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        6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          (if you know what this is from pls link because I want to quote it in something and can never find it)

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        7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          the background is amazon warehouses are rather tightly run, people are equipped with headsets that command them exactly what to do at any moment

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        8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          and management is made into a "perfect" bureaucracy, zero individual judgement, entirely process-based, you live or die by your pick rate

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        9. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          so this story on the warehouse floor, someone knocks over a can of paint. the workers, just as robots, trudge through the paint like it isn't even there

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        10. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          now obviously these people are conscious of what they are doing, whereas a robot might just not be programmed for that contingency. but the behavior is identical

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        11. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          the reason for this is because of simple incentives structures. if they stopped to clean up the paint, it would trash their metrics

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        12. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          anyway, there's no reason you can't do that to white collar types presuming you deskill the work enough, this is the logical conclusion of fordism

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        13. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 9 Oct 2017

          if you want a vision of the future etc etc

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        1. Steven R. Baker‏ @srbaker 9 Oct 2017
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          As a Canadian in Sweden, I notice biz doing this already: website in Swedish, proof read google translate, dumb down the Swedish.

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        1. andrew vw‏ @andrew_vw 9 Oct 2017
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          who will do the forcing? who would want to be forced? if a copywritr wants thr copy 2 b mach.translated - they're a programmer to start with

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        1. Alex Marthews‏ @rebelcinder 9 Oct 2017
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          As an oldthinker, I unbellyfeel $BizNativeLang

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        1. Ghost Waffle‏ @Octapode 9 Oct 2017
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          Pidgin but for robots.

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        1. James Tinged Words‏ @nullary 9 Oct 2017
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          Even stronger for lawyers and patent attorneys drafting eg procurement contracts or patent docs which trigger prior art search

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