Being John Searle inside the Chinese Room
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Spotas the meaning of
现货, but it actually means
in stock merchandise. I was asking whether they could fill an order for a list of specific items and they were answering in the affirmative.
Squeaking by on a good-enough level of communication with Taobao sellers via Google Translate and a text file containing dozens of canned fill-in-the-blank questions and answers in Simplified Chinese and English often calls to mind John Searle’s Chinese room thought experiment.