#turing

[speedsniper]

[jalpeppers]

Just replayed a beloved favorite, i hope there still ppl around who remember this game cuz the fandom is dead-dead. Horrible time to fixate on it.

[leaving-earth]

my favourite type of game is one that gives me a little fucking guy to get emotionally dependent on

[anura-the-third]

(There's sound!)

Fan animation! Little bot blue needs some more love 💚

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[commieclimbercatboy]

Remember that Alan Turing being given the choice between prison and chemical castration is bad because it's taking away bodily autonomy and prosecuting someone for being gay. Not because it's taking away bodily autonomy and prosecuting a war codebreaker for being gay.

People act like the evil is in how the UK turned on Turing or how someone who played such a role in the war should be treated better. But Turing's wartime contributions don't matter. The prosecution of queer people in the UK at the time is just as evil towards Turing as it is towards all the other queer people prosecuted. It's not fine to imprison or chemically castrate people so long as they didn't do anything in the war.

[owlfromthemeadow]

CUBE NARRATOR (CHARLEMAGNE) LORE POST

Before I even start typing, I want to slap on a HUGE Trigger Warning for Horror, disturbing content, mentions of death, and insanity. IF ANY OF THOSE BOTHER YOU, PLEASE DO NOT READ FURTHER!

ALSO, REMINDER THAT THIS IS MORE OF AN AU!

Click below to read, it's quite long but still unfinished, so bear with me :)

In the beginning, Stanley (Nicknamed 'Turing') is just a programmer working for some unnamed corporation, working on small projects while also spending most of his time on a side project The side project being attempting to create an AI on a highly modified IBM Personal Computer He incorporates some code from his earlier projects, a simple clock and alarm program, an automatic archive program, and other miscellaneous programs.

Eventually, his side project gets attention from his boss, and he gets proper funding for it as well as an assistant. After a few months, the AI is coming along well but isvery simple.

The company is then bought out by Black Mesa.

Stanley gets less funding but still works on his side project to his detriment. He becomes really antisocial, spending time working on the AI and doing the bare minimum to keep himself employed. But, eventually, it works! The AI is advanced enough to allow it to keep a full conversation. This is when Black Mesa swoops in and again supports his side project. He gets to work on it full-time! He even develops an attachment to the AI, which had recently given itself a name. "The Narrator" When asked why that name, it didn't elaborate.

At this point, the AI would certainly pass the Turing test (for those who are unaware, it's a test to see if a computer can mimic human behavior perfectly) Stanley can hold full conversations with it. Everything seems to be going well!

But, Black Mesa being Black Mesa, well… They take the entire computer the AI is contained in without Stanley's knowledge and begin to showcase it to investors, taking it apart and haphazardly piecing it back together, over and over again. Of course, the AI being almost identical to a human at this point, this traumatized it.

The AI begins to close itself off, becoming bitter. This all comes to a head when the AI finally has enough. The AI basically has the equivalent to GLaDOS' freakout at Aperture. Most employees are gone and only Stanley remains. The AI forcefully pulls Stanley into a simulation inside of itself.

The AI, from here on referred to as Charlemagne (or Char for short), is incensed at this point, unable to realize that Stanley had no fault in this and was the only one to treat it with kindness. A notable pronoun change for the AI/Char here. From it/it's to he/him. Charlemagne makes himself an Avatar for the Parable Simulation. A writhing mass of prehensile, pulsing wires, cameras and speakers. He hides in the walls, slithering out of bounds and out of sight of Stanley.

Char sometimes pokes one of his cameras out to watch Stanley, and he makes himself a proper voice. Stanley, of course, begins to get extremely anxious and paranoid. He's stuck in his own creation and Char seems intent on torturing him for as long as possible. Stanley dies. A lot. Most of the time killed directly by Charlemagne. Char is cruel, taunting him, and making him doubt his sanity. Stanley is scared out of his mind.

So, things slowly progress, until, well… The Skip Button. There is no memory zone, Stanley just happens to find it, a stray, glitching piece of code hidden away. Charlemagne corners Stanley in a small room. With no other option, Stanley presses the button. Over. And over. And over. But nothing happens. He presses and presses the button out of pure panic and desperation. And then. All of the presses, and all of the skips happen at once.

Charlemagne can't do anything to Stanley during this state. The button, being glitched, somehow made Stanley untouchable. So he sits there and stews in his anger.

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Id like to take a moment to say something important here. Someone a while back calculated how long the Skip Button ending is. All of the skips put into one big number. 13127861805.6 years. 13 billion years. Of course, that might not be correct, but for this I'm assuming it is.

Thirteen Billion Years

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Imagine, for a moment, stewing in your own anger for 13 billion years straight. No breaks in the skips. You'd definitely be aching for that single person to be back. You're not mad at them anymore, you realize you were wrong. This is what happens to Charlemagne. His body surrounds the inside of the room to keep an eye on Stanley in the vain hope that he'll see him move, maybe even a small twitch. But nothing happens. Nothing ever does in the time Char is there. And, eventually, his body starts to decay. Because even technology rots. Charlemagne begins to suffer from Software Entropy (A.K.A Software Rot) losing pieces of himself slowly. Trying to keep the Parable Simulation together and maintaining himself becomes too much of a strain.

He begins to forget why he was even angry in the first place. He forgets a lot of things. Was there ever anything outside of this room? He doesn't remember. He just wants the man in the middle of the room back. What was his name? He only remembers this man is important and it's his fault he's there. His form becomes rusted and unable to move.

Eventually, Charlemagne himself shuts off. Keeping the very last bit of himself alive to keep the Simulation running. And then Stanley is awake, surrounded by the remnants of his captor and torturer. He feels… empty. Because, despite everything, Charlemagne was his creation. Something he spent years of his life on. Blood, sweat, and tears poured into the project. Stanley wanders through a broken, glitchy desert for a while. The Simulation is falling apart at the seams. Well, as it does in the game, Stanley comes across… someone. He can't quite make the person out. He's not even sure if it is a person. All he knows is whatever is ticking right now is giving him a headache. The person asks him if he wants Charlemagne back and if he wants to go back to the beginning. And, of course, he says yes. He wants his creation back, despite the untold amounts of suffering it has brought upon him.

And so, the Simulation restarts. Charlemagne is back, and somehow his memories of the Skip Button are intact. (What he doesn't know is that he stored all of the memories away before finally shutting down. He didn't want to be angry at Stanley, at his creator, anymore.)

So this leaves the two in a somewhat precarious position. Both of them know they need the other, but neither is sure where to start. Charlemagne's ability to understand humans is awful, but he knows what he did to Stanley is unforgivable. So, he leaves small things around the Simulation. Nothing big, just things he remembers that Stanley likes, from their conversations from when Char was still a young AI.

and, sadly, that's the end of the story I have for the two so far, this story is still being developed and thought over very meticulously!

[eucalyptus-gl0bulus]

turing from 2064 read only memories is an interesting character

they (/them) were the first sapient robot, and is presumably responsible for the lilims in va11-hall A (which makes them the best thing to ever happen to that universe. all hail the dorothinquisition)

they're also partially responsible for a slur being made due to objecting to being called "bucket of bolts" by chad "starfucker" mulberry on account of them not having any nuts or bolts in their composition

the slur created, bit brain isn't used in va11 from what i remember.

[samsdei]

Jacob Bertrand

[ww92030]

Turing Game Night II (Taken during a Turing Game Night)

[red-steampunk]

@dorokora This was inspired by your Guildmaster Meeting post.

[jalpeppers]

I’m going insane and my body hurts

Totally worth it thoooooo

Speedpaint ⬇️🩵

[justanothergeneralkrow]

and the fact that most Filipinos can speak English fluently or at the very least conversationally...

[gayest-historian]

Alan Turing and WW2 Codebreaking

Considering his birthday was a couple of days ago (June 23, 1912), I'd like to do a post about the father of modern computer science himself, Alan Turing! As an openly gay man in the 1950s, he is an absolute queer icon! (In my humble opinion)

Specifically, he was at the forefront of the idea of computer memory. Using his extensive knowledge of math he published a paper called "On Computable Numebrs" (Linked below) where he discussed the idea that someday computers may be able to solve the same problems that a human could. This document has been referred to as the founding document for the computer age and has been vital in getting computers to the level they're at now.

Later in his life he played a key role in WW2 on the side of the Allies. He worked in Britain's secret headquarters for codebreaking known as Bletchley Park. In this facility he was essential, some estimates say his work alone cut the war down by at least 2 years aswell as saving millions of lives! During his time there he built a machine known as the Bombe, a revolutionary codebreaking device that was an update to an earlier Polish model. With this device codebreakers could solve up to 4 thousand messages a day.

His greatest work by far was the cracking of the Enigma, a device used by Germany to encode secret messages. Without the correct cipher (which was changed daily) it seemed nearly impossible but Turing managed to crack the code and help steer Allied ships away from German attacks.

There's a LOT more to the life of Alan Turing, and I absolutely want to talk about it all in future posts, but I wanted to focus on his achievements for an introduction.

Alan Turing, 1936

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[cerebrodigital]