[gargalatas]

Although I believe that Claude Shannon [1] was the father of computers and a much more important person than Alan Turing who probably had a more "controversial" personality and thus he became a "cinematic" figure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

[kristianc]

Possibly - but this thread is about Turing, because of an article about Alan Turing, which was posted by the Alan Turing institute on the anniversary of the birthday of, you guessed it, Alan Turing.

Why the need to play one up?

[gargalatas]

Because Shannon's name has to be heard as well just for some people who admire Steve Jobs as the biggest IT Idol in the universe and have no idea who the hell is Dennis Ritchie. Just saying..

[kristianc]

Great, write a blog post on him then and post it here for us all to read.

[ayhanfuat]

Neither being gay nor being forcibly castrated has anything to do with personality [1]. [1] Link to Wikipedia personality page

[gargalatas]

"While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality"

Are you sure?

[ayhanfuat]

Yes, I am sure. Read the rest of the article. None of the disagreement is about sexual orientation being part of personality.

[gargalatas]

Well I am not, but I believe it can shape some aspects of it. But since I find you so dogmatic about it how about reading some papers which I really found very easily on google: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/finding-new-home/2...

[ayhanfuat]

You claimed it was Turing's personality which made him a "cinematic figure". Now you are coming with irrelevant articles about how sexual orientation is linked to personal traits like openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. For your argument to follow, it should be that one of these made him a cinematic figure, huh?

[29athrowaway]

Both were important, as well as many others, like Kurt Gödel.

Science is about growing the frontier of knowledge, akin to making a cake larger, not dividing up a cake.