@cstross @landley it feels like this thing where we hold people to a too high standard. Turing is allowed to have stupid moments like the rest of us without people spending decades of efforts trying to figure out how that one idea was brilliant even though it obviously was really dumb.

@landley @cstross I am aware that Turing was very smart, and that he was gay, and chose chemicals over prison. Thanks. I am, in fact, blaming Turing for having a dumb idea in the Turing test, actually a very dumb idea. I think it's ok that he had a very dumb idea, I just wish people could accept that it was very dumb and stop bringing it up.