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Alan Turing, brilliant scientist and inventor of modern computing, breaker of the Nazi Enigma code, who thus saved countless lives in WWII, came up with the idea of the Turing Test, for when machine intelligence will be able to fool people that it is a conscious human being (a prize is given every year for the best attempt to pass the Turing Test). He was honored as a great hero by England, then cruelly persecuted for being a homosexual - humiliated, chemically castrated and hounded out of academia, finally committed suicide with a cyanide-laced apple.

The piece is a comment on the contempt for human values that often shows in the true believers in cybernetic totalism, transhumanism, radical darwinism and the cyborg-asmic rapture of the coming Techno-Singularity.

Description
2nd variation

Alan Turing, brilliant scientist and inventor of modern computing, breaker of the Nazi Enigma code, who thus saved countless lives in WWII, came up with the idea of the Turing Test, for when machine intelligence will be able to fool people that it is a conscious human being (a prize is given every year for the best attempt to pass the Turing Test). He was honored as a great hero by England, then cruelly persecuted for being a homosexual - humiliated, chemically castrated and hounded out of academia, finally committed suicide with a cyanide-laced apple.

The piece is a comment on the contempt for human values that often shows in the true believers in cybernetic totalism, transhumanism, radical darwinism and the cyborg-asmic rapture of the coming Techno-Singularity.