From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 11:38:31 MDT
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:31:46AM -0700, John K Clark wrote:
> Sometimes I wonder if that's why Turing killed himself
That particular bit of drivel, at least, is easy to respond to; he
was killed by the British government for being gay;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212910/How-Britain-drove-greatest-genius-Alan-Turing-suicide--just-gay.html
The fact that they didn't actually pull the trigger is rather
irrelevant.
-Robin
-- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
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