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[–] • 10 pts

I disagree but with the caveat that his notoriety has been inflated recently because he was a fag. It's not correct to say no one would have heard of him. His work gained widespread academic prominence in the 1950s while he was being chemically castrated for being a fag. He actually did become well known when people still hated fags, so it can't be true that being a fag made him famous.

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Subversive politics was always in play and it strangely played out over time. I'm not saying this happened, but his work may well have been picked specifically because he was the Rosa Parks of fags.

That said, his acclaim may well be rightly earned. While there are some who will shit on the notion, there are Jewish scientists who have actually done things too.

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so there are no other computer scientists who made greater advancements in computer science? turing was the best one of all time?

can you even name any?

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Sure. Church. Babbage, Von Neumann. Knuth, McCarthy, Dijkstra, Peano, Hilbert, Goedel. Lots more. Many people have contributed directly or indirectly to computer science, which is just math. There are so many more. It's hard to even figure out who made greater advances. Turing's thesis was so similar to Church's computability conjecture they call it the Church-Turing thesis. Turing connected math to a possibly physical machine in a neat way. In 1936 it would have been hard to imagine a machine directly executing lambda calculus.

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I dont recognize any of these names. I think that kinda proves OP's point.

[–] • 4 pts

Average libtard:

muh Nazis were putting faggots in concentration camps and mental hospitals!1!!1!

Average libtard when made aware of Alan Turing:

Well, such were the times back then, everyone was doing it! We are so much more advanced now!

[–] • 2 pts

Advanced as in "you have an advanced stage of cancer," not, "we have advanced medicine that will cure most things"

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Nobody heard of Turing until the rainbow brigade because his work wasn’t that impressive. The codebreaker system was given a hagiographic makeover, and his “Turing Test” for AI sentience has holes big enough to drive a truck through.

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The codebreaker system was given a hagiographic makeover,

Like Einstein after they purposely ignored all his plagiarism. Then used their media control to turn him into a celebrity.

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No. The difference is that until quite recently his sexuality was quite a fringe topic. I can remember having a lecture at university on Turing in the 90s and there was no mention of his sexuality. His achievements stand on their own. Recently though with the zealous subversion in our institutions, his achievements have been superceded by his sexuality. In fact I would bet that fewer people are aware of what he actually did now than in any previous decade.

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Alan Turing would still be known but he would be no more famous than anyone else who worked with him.