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Turing Story​.​.​.​Or How The Prignarnis Test Was Written

from Tales From "The Legends of Prignarnis" by XKZ

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In the 1940s Alan Turing is a british scientist known for leading cyber-security teams in charge of intercepting encrypted Nazi codes during the second world war. Credited for saving up to 14 million Allied lives, he is also on the forefront of artificial intelligence research and discussion. He is one of the first philosophers to discuss the thought experiment now known as the “Turing test”, whereby participants attempt to differentiate between organic and artificial intelligence via conversation. Turing is a homosexual, and to engage in such behavior is considered "gross indecency”, a criminal offence in the UK. In 1952 he is prosecuted and convicted of said crime. Instead of imprisonment he accepts chemical castration as punishment, entailing him to receive hormone injections to eliminate his libido.

Meanwhile to his court proceedings and ruling, Turing is hard at work blueprinting a society that he knew could be better than the one he was living in. Why should he face criminal punishment simply for his sexual preference? He believed anyone could have the ability to live in kind with his vision and that anyone could see the truth to reality if they were able to live in accordance with his values. He condenses his values into a book titled “The Prignarnis Test”. Turing dies in 1954 and decades later "The Prignarnis Test" is discovered in his estate.

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100,000 people
On the countryside

I did science for all you fuckos
I saved lives
And the allies survived thanks to my mind
This is how you repay me?

So I take up my pen
And I scribe the society I very much would like
Prignarnis, it is the test
I only want those who can pass it
The lives worth saving

100,000 people
On the countryside

Then again, in the end
Prignarnis is like searching for a friend
The countryside, so peaceful and bright
But the grass was never green
And so I am writing

My name is Alan Turing and I'm failing this Prignarnis Test
Not convinced by this artificial Prignarnis
I've got all this time
I've got cyanide
Accidentally kill myself, that's what happened in my life
Oh!

100,000 people
On the countryside
100,000 people
On the countryside

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from Tales From "The Legends of Prignarnis", released April 20, 2020

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