[ExI] Royal Pardon for Alan Turing

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2013-12-26 01:05, Eugenio Martínez wrote:
> I think that the important question is: Do Alan Turing pardon the Queen?

That was the point made last year by Martin Robbins, 
http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2012/dec/14/gay-rights-alan-turing?intcmp=239
Not really possible, but as I argue in
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/12/tis-the-season-of-pardons/
there is a degree of mutual reciprocity going on here. In a sense 
society at large and sexual minorities are engaged in a case of partial 
apology/gratitude that is actually a good thing, even if the Turing 
pardon per se is pretty problematic.

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University