• D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated final haltstate

    From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu Nov 6 14:48:02 2025
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    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    I am not going to talk about any non-nonsense of
    resuming a simulation after we already have this
    final answer.

    We just proved that the input to H(D) specifies
    non-halting. Anything beyond this is flogging a
    dead horse.


    news://news.eternal-september.org/[email protected]

    On 11/4/2025 8:43 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-05, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    The whole point is that D simulated by H
    cannot possbly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement no matter what H does.

    Yes; this doesn't happen while H is running.

    So while H does /something/, no matter what H does,
    that D simulation won't reach the return statement.

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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 15:55:41 2025
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    On 11/6/2025 3:48 PM, olcott wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "H" and "D" in the above sentence
    could refer to an algorithm, C function, or finite string, and the
    meaning of the above sentence differs depending on which one is meant in
    each case.

    To fix this, prefix each instance of "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    with exactly one of:
    * algorithm
    * C function
    * finite string


    I am not going to talk about any non-nonsense of
    resuming a simulation after we already have this
    final answer.

    But the resumption proves the answer was wrong.


    We just proved that the input to H(D)

    i.e. finite string D which is the description of algorithm D and
    therefore stipulated to specify all semantic properties of algorithm D including the fact that it halts when executed directly.

    specifies non-halting.

    False, see above.

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 21:10:12 2025
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    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides
    with D's behavior.

    I am not going to talk about any non-nonsense of
    resuming a simulation after we already have this
    final answer.

    And you think that statements like this will not be an obstacle when you present your work to cs/math academia?

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating
    halt decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be
    never ending?

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was
    wrong.

    You need a /rational/ argument to explain why that is forbidden;
    you cannot just /decree/ that it is so.

    That's not how things work in the intellectual arts.

    We just proved that the input to H(D) specifies
    non-halting. Anything beyond this is flogging a
    dead horse.

    English language figures of speech are not a substitute
    for logical reasoning.
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 15:32:51 2025
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    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    I have know that for many years. Is this new to you?

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides
    with D's behavior.


    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D.
    The input to H(D) only specifies the behavior of D
    simulated by H.

    I am not going to talk about any non-nonsense of
    resuming a simulation after we already have this
    final answer.

    And you think that statements like this will not be an obstacle when you present your work to cs/math academia?


    Not at all. I will adapt a C interpreter to make
    things more clear.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating
    halt decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,

    Absolutely.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be
    never ending?


    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is
    correctly matched we are done.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was
    wrong.


    void Infinite_Loop()
    {
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return;
    }

    That we be the same as asking are we sure that
    Infinite_Loop() never terminates? Do we need to
    look at this again?

    You need a /rational/ argument to explain why that is forbidden;
    you cannot just /decree/ that it is so.


    No rational argument needed simply look at
    the execution trace.

    That's not how things work in the intellectual arts.


    You are simply totally wrong on this point about
    resuming a simulation.

    We just proved that the input to H(D) specifies
    non-halting. Anything beyond this is flogging a
    dead horse.

    English language figures of speech are not a substitute
    for logical reasoning.


    That you just don't get it does not entail
    that I am incorrect.
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  • From joes@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 22:07:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() never terminates?
    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.

    That's not how things work in the intellectual arts.
    You are simply totally wrong on this point about resuming a simulation.
    You haven’t even understood we are not resuming the simulatOR H.

    English language figures of speech are not a substitute for logical
    reasoning.
    That you just don't get it does not entail that I am incorrect.
    Neither does you proclaiming somebody doesn’t get it entail that you
    are correct.
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 22:07:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    I have know that for many years. Is this new to you?

    No; however, you blankly acknowledging it like this is rather what
    is starkly new!

    While in the past you have insisted that "stopping running
    is not the same as halting", the above statement is broader
    and more correct, equivalent to "stopping running is not the same as
    halting /or/ non-halting"; i.e. "stopping running is
    unrelated to halting".

    (Where "stopping running" refers to conducting the simulation,
    and "halting" is the actual subject's halting state.)

    You've never acknowledged that "stopping running" is
    no not the same as "non-halting".

    Your entire rehtoric that you've been repeating about D simulated by H
    not reaching its return statement, is predicated on not acknowledging
    that stopping running is not the same thing not halting.

    That we be the same as asking are we sure that
    Infinite_Loop() never terminates? Do we need to
    look at this again?

    You're the one saying that the input to H specifies only
    the behavior of the input as simulated by H.

    H only simulates a finite portion of the behavior of Infinite_Loop.

    So for your rhetoric to be consistent, you have to believe that
    true is a correct return value for H(Infinite_Loop).

    I now remember that this was exactly what prompted me to joke
    about that weeks back.

    So, rather, the reason why H(Infinite_Loop) -> false is correct
    is that Infinite_Loop specifies a behavior regardless of the
    existence of H. H recognizes that the behavior keeps going
    indefinitely past the point where it decides to stop simulating.

    H is making a statement about that remainder of the behavior
    of Infinite_loop that it has /not/ simulated.

    But according to you, that part of the behavior, the part not
    simulated by H, is osmething that the input does not specify.

    So you are saying that H(Infinite_Loop) -> false is a remark about an
    aspect of the input that the input does not specify: its future behavior
    after the point where H stops simulating it.

    You need a /rational/ argument to explain why that is forbidden;
    you cannot just /decree/ that it is so.


    No rational argument needed simply look at
    the execution trace.

    That's not how things work in the intellectual arts.


    You are simply totally wrong on this point about
    resuming a simulation.

    OK, good luck trying that on CS professors and other academic peer
    reviewers.


    We just proved that the input to H(D) specifies
    non-halting. Anything beyond this is flogging a
    dead horse.

    English language figures of speech are not a substitute
    for logical reasoning.

    That you just don't get it does not entail
    that I am incorrect.

    I completely get that you want H to be talking about something
    else: an imaginary H' which steps forever, and an imaginary D'
    which calls UTM(D).

    It's incorrect though; the imaginary D' is not the input.

    It's not classically the input, and it's not the input under
    your rules either: H simply does not simulate any portion of D'.
    It is simulating D which calls H, and not an imaginary D'
    which calls UTM.

    Those two do not have anything in common. They diverge right
    from the start. The first thing D does is call H(D), whereas
    the first thing D' does is call UTM(D').
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 16:16:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    I am stopping here and will not respond to you
    again until you follow the points that I make
    in the order that I make them and thus do not
    attempt to hi-jack the conversation.

    That's not how things work in the intellectual arts.
    You are simply totally wrong on this point about resuming a simulation.
    You haven’t even understood we are not resuming the simulatOR H.

    English language figures of speech are not a substitute for logical
    reasoning.
    That you just don't get it does not entail that I am incorrect.
    Neither does you proclaiming somebody doesn’t get it entail that you
    are correct.

    --
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 16:24:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.
    Try again.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides
    with D's behavior.

    I am not going to talk about any non-nonsense of
    resuming a simulation after we already have this
    final answer.

    And you think that statements like this will not be an obstacle when you present your work to cs/math academia?

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating
    halt decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be
    never ending?

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was
    wrong.

    You need a /rational/ argument to explain why that is forbidden;
    you cannot just /decree/ that it is so.

    That's not how things work in the intellectual arts.

    We just proved that the input to H(D) specifies
    non-halting. Anything beyond this is flogging a
    dead horse.

    English language figures of speech are not a substitute
    for logical reasoning.

    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:26:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating halt >>>> decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False. As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D)
    actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:27:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about has nothing to do
    with the halting problem.

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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 16:32:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's behavior. >>>> We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating
    halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was >>>>> wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D)
    actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:35:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's behavior. >>>>> We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to H(D) >>>>> only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a simulating >>>>>> halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be >>>>>> never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly matched we >>>>> are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was >>>>>> wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() never >>>>> terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the
    description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when executed
    directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D)
    actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly executed D is a
    semantic tautology.

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect.

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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 16:52:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    If you don't address this specific point and
    instead spew out dogma you will be *plonked*

    has nothing to do
    with the halting problem.

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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 16:55:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's
    behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to H(D) >>>>>> only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a
    simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be >>>>>>> never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly matched we >>>>>> are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that >>>>>>> simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result was >>>>>>> wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() never >>>>>> terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the
    description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when
    executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D)
    actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly executed D is a
    semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect.

    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:58:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False. Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers to be
    both greater than 5 and less than 3, it is not incorrect to require a
    halt decider to report whether any arbitrary Turing machine X with input
    Y will halt when executed directly.

    It just means that halt deciders, like Mythic numbers, don't exist.


    If you don't address this specific point and
    instead spew out dogma you will be *plonked*

    has nothing to do with the halting problem.




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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:00:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's
    behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to H(D) >>>>>>> only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a
    simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be >>>>>>>> never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly
    matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that >>>>>>>> simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the result >>>>>>>> was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() never >>>>>>> terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the
    description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when
    executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D)
    actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of machine
    D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly executed D is a
    semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology that the steps of the algorithm D that
    algorithm H simulates are exactly the same as the steps of algorithm D
    being executed directly.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't simulate all of those steps.



    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect.




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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:08:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.

    The halting problem DOES REQUIRE deciders to
    to report on a different sequence of steps than
    the sequence of steps that their
    ACTUAL INPUTS ACTUALLY SPECIFY.

    (Not plonked yet) you did slightly address the point.

    both greater than 5 and less than 3, it is not incorrect to require a
    halt decider to report whether any arbitrary Turing machine X with input
    Y will halt when executed directly.

    It just means that halt deciders, like Mythic numbers, don't exist.


    If you don't address this specific point and
    instead spew out dogma you will be *plonked*

    has nothing to do with the halting problem.




    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:12:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's >>>>>>>>> behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to >>>>>>>> H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a
    simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation to be >>>>>>>>> never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly
    matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that >>>>>>>>> simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the
    result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() >>>>>>>> never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the >>>>> description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all >>>>> semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when
    executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D)
    actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of machine
    D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly executed D is a
    semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology it is merely a
    false assumption at the foundation of computer
    science and math.

    Claude AI thought it was necessarily true too.
    that the steps of the algorithm D that
    algorithm H simulates are exactly the same as the steps of algorithm D
    being executed directly.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't simulate all of those steps.



    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect.




    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:32:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's >>>>>>>>>> behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input to >>>>>>>>> H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a
    simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps, >>>>>>>>> Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation >>>>>>>>>> to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly
    matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take that >>>>>>>>>> simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the >>>>>>>>>> result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() >>>>>>>>> never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is
    the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to
    specify all semantic properties of machine D including that it
    halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D) >>>>>> actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of
    machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly
    executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect

    that the steps of the algorithm D that algorithm H simulates are
    exactly the same as the steps of algorithm D being executed directly.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't simulate all of those steps.



    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect.







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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:35:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in wording for
    the last 3 years.

    The halting problem DOES REQUIRE deciders to
    to report on a different sequence of steps than
    the sequence of steps that their
    ACTUAL INPUTS ACTUALLY SPECIFY.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when executed directly.

    Therefore, the steps that the actual input to H(D) actually specifies
    are those of the directly executed machine D.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't correctly report on those steps.


    (Not plonked yet) you did slightly address the point.

    both greater than 5 and less than 3, it is not incorrect to require a
    halt decider to report whether any arbitrary Turing machine X with
    input Y will halt when executed directly.

    It just means that halt deciders, like Mythic numbers, don't exist.


    If you don't address this specific point and
    instead spew out dogma you will be *plonked*

    has nothing to do with the halting problem.







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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:36:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's >>>>>>>>>>> behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input >>>>>>>>>> to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a >>>>>>>>>>> simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps, >>>>>>>>>> Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation >>>>>>>>>>> to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly >>>>>>>>>> matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take >>>>>>>>>>> that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the >>>>>>>>>>> result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that Infinite_Loop() >>>>>>>>>> never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is >>>>>>> the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to
    specify all semantic properties of machine D including that it
    halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D) >>>>>>> actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of
    machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly
    executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    that the steps of the algorithm D that algorithm H simulates are
    exactly the same as the steps of algorithm D being executed directly.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't simulate all of those steps.



    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect.







    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:43:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's >>>>>>>>>>>> behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input >>>>>>>>>>> to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a >>>>>>>>>>>> simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps, >>>>>>>>>>> Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that simulation >>>>>>>>>>>> to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly >>>>>>>>>>> matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you take >>>>>>>>>>>> that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the >>>>>>>>>>>> result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that
    Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is >>>>>>>> the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to
    specify all semantic properties of machine D including that it >>>>>>>> halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to H(D) >>>>>>>> actually specifies are those of the directly executed machine D. >>>>>>>
    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of
    machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly
    executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions. Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all semantic properties of the machine being described.

    And as you admitted:

    On 9/12/2025 9:30 AM, olcott wrote:
    every TM has a machine description

    So there exists a finite string that has the semantic property of
    machine D halting.


    that the steps of the algorithm D that algorithm H simulates are
    exactly the same as the steps of algorithm D being executed directly.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't simulate all of those steps.



    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect.










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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:45:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in wording for
    the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    I went through all of my steps of all of my
    different halting problem proofs with Claude AI
    and it understood all of them.

    It did not quite accept all of my conclusions
    but it did understand every step of several
    different proofs. The sessions yesterday with
    Claude AI made much more progress than all
    of the human reviewers (from every forum) put
    together over the last 22 years.

    Humans begin with minds almost entirely closed.

    The halting problem DOES REQUIRE deciders to
    to report on a different sequence of steps than
    the sequence of steps that their
    ACTUAL INPUTS ACTUALLY SPECIFY.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when executed directly.

    Therefore, the steps that the actual input to H(D) actually specifies
    are those of the directly executed machine D.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't correctly report on those steps.


    (Not plonked yet) you did slightly address the point.

    both greater than 5 and less than 3, it is not incorrect to require a
    halt decider to report whether any arbitrary Turing machine X with
    input Y will halt when executed directly.

    It just means that halt deciders, like Mythic numbers, don't exist.


    If you don't address this specific point and
    instead spew out dogma you will be *plonked*

    has nothing to do with the halting problem.







    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:52:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers to be >>>
    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in wording
    for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the
    meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.

    Add exactly one of the following qualifiers to all instances of "D" and
    "H" in the above sentence:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string



    I went through all of my steps of all of my
    different halting problem proofs with Claude AI
    and it understood all of them.

    It did not quite accept all of my conclusions
    but it did understand every step of several
    different proofs. The sessions yesterday with
    Claude AI made much more progress than all
    of the human reviewers (from every forum) put
    together over the last 22 years.

    Humans begin with minds almost entirely closed.

    The halting problem DOES REQUIRE deciders to
    to report on a different sequence of steps than
    the sequence of steps that their
    ACTUAL INPUTS ACTUALLY SPECIFY.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the
    description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when executed
    directly.

    Therefore, the steps that the actual input to H(D) actually specifies
    are those of the directly executed machine D.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't correctly report on those steps.


    (Not plonked yet) you did slightly address the point.

    both greater than 5 and less than 3, it is not incorrect to require
    a halt decider to report whether any arbitrary Turing machine X with
    input Y will halt when executed directly.

    It just means that halt deciders, like Mythic numbers, don't exist.


    If you don't address this specific point and
    instead spew out dogma you will be *plonked*

    has nothing to do with the halting problem.










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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 17:59:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with D's >>>>>>>>>>>>> behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The input >>>>>>>>>>>> to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a >>>>>>>>>>>>> simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps, >>>>>>>>>>>> Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that
    simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly >>>>>>>>>>>> matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you >>>>>>>>>>>>> take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the >>>>>>>>>>>>> result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that
    Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is >>>>>>>>> the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to >>>>>>>>> specify all semantic properties of machine D including that it >>>>>>>>> halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to >>>>>>>>> H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly executed
    machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of
    machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly
    executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions.  Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Stipulative definitions are not exactly one-and-the-same
    thing as semantic tautologies. The only divergence is
    when elements of a set of stipulative definitions are
    inconsistent with each other.
    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 00:00:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the
    meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".

    The D which is a "simulation of D" has no return statement; it is
    the C function D which has that statement.

    So D simulated by H (D, the partial simulation of D) not reaching
    its return statement really means that something which doesn't /have/ a
    return statement is of course not reaching what it does not have.
    --
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:01:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers to be >>>>
    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in wording
    for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    as "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the
    meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    We have been through this too many times.
    Do you have a mental disability that causes
    you to immediately forget what was just
    explained to you?

    Add exactly one of the following qualifiers to all instances of "D" and
    "H" in the above sentence:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string



    I went through all of my steps of all of my
    different halting problem proofs with Claude AI
    and it understood all of them.

    It did not quite accept all of my conclusions
    but it did understand every step of several
    different proofs. The sessions yesterday with
    Claude AI made much more progress than all
    of the human reviewers (from every forum) put
    together over the last 22 years.

    Humans begin with minds almost entirely closed.

    The halting problem DOES REQUIRE deciders to
    to report on a different sequence of steps than
    the sequence of steps that their
    ACTUAL INPUTS ACTUALLY SPECIFY.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which is the
    description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to specify all
    semantic properties of machine D including that it halts when
    executed directly.

    Therefore, the steps that the actual input to H(D) actually specifies
    are those of the directly executed machine D.

    It's just that algorithm H doesn't correctly report on those steps.


    (Not plonked yet) you did slightly address the point.

    both greater than 5 and less than 3, it is not incorrect to require >>>>> a halt decider to report whether any arbitrary Turing machine X
    with input Y will halt when executed directly.

    It just means that halt deciders, like Mythic numbers, don't exist.


    If you don't address this specific point and
    instead spew out dogma you will be *plonked*

    has nothing to do with the halting problem.










    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:02:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with >>>>>>>>>>>>>> D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The >>>>>>>>>>>>> input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps, >>>>>>>>>>>>> Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>> matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that
    Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which >>>>>>>>>> is the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated to >>>>>>>>>> specify all semantic properties of machine D including that it >>>>>>>>>> halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to >>>>>>>>>> H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly executed >>>>>>>>>> machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of >>>>>>>> machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly
    executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions.
    Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all
    semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Then you agree that the input to H(D), i.e. the description of Turing
    machine D, possesses the semantic property of halting.
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:05:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers to be >>>>>
    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in wording
    for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite string D,
    and similarly for "H". So the above sentence could be referring to any
    of those.


    as "D" and "H" in the above sentence can refer to a C function, an
    algorithm, or a finite string, and the meaning changes depending on
    which one is chosen.


    We have been through this too many times.

    And every time, you have proved that you are not interested in an honest dialogue by refusing to add exactly one of the following qualifiers to
    all instances of "D" and "H" in the above sentence:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string


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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:16:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the
    meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    You can monkey around with all kinds of screwy
    stuff to get gullible people here to believe
    that infinite loops halt.

    The D which is a "simulation of D" has no return statement; it is
    the C function D which has that statement.

    So D simulated by H (D, the partial simulation of D) not reaching
    its return statement really means that something which doesn't /have/ a return statement is of course not reaching what it does not have.

    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:28:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:02 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The >>>>>>>>>>>>>> input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished steps, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>> matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that
    Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which >>>>>>>>>>> is the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated >>>>>>>>>>> to specify all semantic properties of machine D including >>>>>>>>>>> that it halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to >>>>>>>>>>> H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly executed >>>>>>>>>>> machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement
    nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of >>>>>>>>> machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly >>>>>>>>> executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions.
    Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all
    semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Then you agree that

    No you have to go back and read the rest of what I said.

    the input to H(D), i.e. the description of Turing
    machine D, possesses the semantic property of halting.
    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:30:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers >>>>>>> to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in
    wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite string D,
    and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be referring to any
    of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.


    as "D" and "H" in the above sentence can refer to a C function, an
    algorithm, or a finite string, and the meaning changes depending on
    which one is chosen.


    We have been through this too many times.

    And every time, you have proved that you are not interested in an honest dialogue by refusing to add exactly one of the following qualifiers to
    all instances of "D" and "H" in the above sentence:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string


    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:36:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers >>>>>>>> to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in
    wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite string D,
    and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be referring to
    any of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.

    All you have to do to prove you're interested in an honest dialogue is
    to fix the above sentence by qualifying each instance of "D" and "H" in
    the above sentence with exactly one of:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string

    Only liars refuse to clarify their statements.



    as "D" and "H" in the above sentence can refer to a C function, an
    algorithm, or a finite string, and the meaning changes depending on
    which one is chosen.


    We have been through this too many times.

    And every time, you have proved that you are not interested in an
    honest dialogue by refusing to add exactly one of the following
    qualifiers to all instances of "D" and "H" in the above sentence:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string





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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:37:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:28 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:02 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H.
    Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that
    Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D which >>>>>>>>>>>> is the description of machine D and therefore is stipulated >>>>>>>>>>>> to specify all semantic properties of machine D including >>>>>>>>>>>> that it halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input
    actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to >>>>>>>>>>>> H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly executed >>>>>>>>>>>> machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement >>>>>>>>>>> nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over
    bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of >>>>>>>>>> machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly >>>>>>>>>> executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions.
    Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all
    semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Then you agree that

    No you have to go back and read the rest of what I said.

    On 4/2/22 6:43 PM, olcott wrote:
    It is incorrect to disagree with stipulative definitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipulative_definition

    Disagreeing with a stipulative definition is like disagreeing with arithmetic.



    the input to H(D), i.e. the description of Turing machine D, possesses
    the semantic property of halting.



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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:44:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic numbers >>>>>>>>> to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in
    wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite string
    D, and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be referring
    to any of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.

    All you have to do to prove you're interested in an honest dialogue is
    to fix the above sentence
    by qualifying each instance of "D" and "H" in
    the above sentence with exactly one of:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string

    Only liars refuse to clarify their statements.


    I already fully addressed this twice.

    Only jackasses or people with mental
    disabilities ignore complete answers
    and keep asking the same question.



    as "D" and "H" in the above sentence can refer to a C function, an
    algorithm, or a finite string, and the meaning changes depending on >>>>> which one is chosen.


    We have been through this too many times.

    And every time, you have proved that you are not interested in an
    honest dialogue by refusing to add exactly one of the following
    qualifiers to all instances of "D" and "H" in the above sentence:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string





    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:45:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:37 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:28 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:02 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D >>>>>>>>>>>>> which is the description of machine D and therefore is >>>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated to specify all semantic properties of machine D >>>>>>>>>>>>> including that it halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input to >>>>>>>>>>>>> H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly executed >>>>>>>>>>>>> machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement >>>>>>>>>>>> nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over >>>>>>>>>>>> bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description of >>>>>>>>>>> machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the directly >>>>>>>>>>> executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions.
    Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all
    semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Then you agree that

    No you have to go back and read the rest of what I said.

    On 4/2/22 6:43 PM, olcott wrote:
    It is incorrect to disagree with stipulative definitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipulative_definition

    Disagreeing with a stipulative definition is like disagreeing with arithmetic.



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    the input to H(D), i.e. the description of Turing machine D,
    possesses the semantic property of halting.



    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:49:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about

    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic
    numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in
    wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite string
    D, and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be referring
    to any of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.

    All you have to do to prove you're interested in an honest dialogue is
    to fix the above sentence
    by qualifying each instance of "D" and "H" in the above sentence with
    exactly one of:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string

    Only liars refuse to clarify their statements.


    I already fully addressed this twice.

    Only jackasses or people with mental
    disabilities ignore complete answers
    and keep asking the same question.

    There was no complete answer because
    1) you referred to "H" as "something or other", and
    2) you continue to use "D" and "H" unqualified, proving your dishonesty
    and intent to equivocate.

    So going forward, all uses of "H" and "D" in a sentence are required to
    be qualified as either an algorithm, a function or a finite string.

    Failure to do so will result in any sentence using such unqualified
    usage to be dismissed out-of-hand as unclear.





    as "D" and "H" in the above sentence can refer to a C function, an >>>>>> algorithm, or a finite string, and the meaning changes depending
    on which one is chosen.


    We have been through this too many times.

    And every time, you have proved that you are not interested in an
    honest dialogue by refusing to add exactly one of the following
    qualifiers to all instances of "D" and "H" in the above sentence:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string








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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:50:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:37 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:28 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:02 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D >>>>>>>>>>>>>> which is the description of machine D and therefore is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated to specify all semantic properties of machine D >>>>>>>>>>>>>> including that it halts when executed directly.


    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see
    steps that are not the steps that its actual input >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly >>>>>>>>>>>>>> executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D
    simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement >>>>>>>>>>>>> nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over >>>>>>>>>>>>> bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description >>>>>>>>>>>> of machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the >>>>>>>>>>>> directly executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions.
    Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all
    semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Then you agree that

    No you have to go back and read the rest of what I said.

    On 4/2/22 6:43 PM, olcott wrote:
    It is incorrect to disagree with stipulative definitions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipulative_definition
    ;
    Disagreeing with a stipulative definition is like disagreeing with
    arithmetic.



    *Unless a set of stipulative definitions disagrees with itself*

    And you pointed out no such disagreement.

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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:51:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:49 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.

    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic >>>>>>>>>>> numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in >>>>>>>>> wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite string >>>>> D, and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be referring >>>>> to any of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.

    All you have to do to prove you're interested in an honest dialogue
    is to fix the above sentence
    by qualifying each instance of "D" and "H" in the above sentence with
    exactly one of:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string

    Only liars refuse to clarify their statements.


    I already fully addressed this twice.

    Only jackasses or people with mental
    disabilities ignore complete answers
    and keep asking the same question.

    There was no complete answer because

    I completely defined D twice and you did
    not revise your question to account for this.

    Are you a jackass or do you have mental
    disabilities?
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:54:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:51 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:49 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence
    of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic >>>>>>>>>>>> numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in >>>>>>>>>> wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite
    string D, and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be >>>>>> referring to any of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.

    All you have to do to prove you're interested in an honest dialogue
    is to fix the above sentence
    by qualifying each instance of "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    with exactly one of:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string

    Only liars refuse to clarify their statements.


    I already fully addressed this twice.

    Only jackasses or people with mental
    disabilities ignore complete answers
    and keep asking the same question.

    There was no complete answer because

    I completely defined D twice and you did
    not revise your question to account for this.

    As per the below requirements, the above sentence is rejected
    out-of-hand as unclear because "D" was not qualified as either a C
    function, algorithm, or finite string.


    Are you a jackass or do you have mental
    disabilities?
    1) you referred to "H" as "something or other", and
    2) you continue to use "D" and "H" unqualified, proving your dishonesty
    and intent to equivocate.

    So going forward, all uses of "H" and "D" in a sentence are required to
    be qualified as either an algorithm, a function or a finite string.

    Failure to do so will result in any sentence using such unqualified
    usage to be dismissed out-of-hand as unclear.

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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:56:31 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:50 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:37 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:28 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:02 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. The >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with unfinished >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness.

    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed.


    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope
    for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which is the description of machine D and therefore is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated to specify all semantic properties of machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D including that it halts when executed directly. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> steps that are not the steps that its actual input >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D >>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement >>>>>>>>>>>>>> nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over >>>>>>>>>>>>>> bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description >>>>>>>>>>>>> of machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the >>>>>>>>>>>>> directly executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions. >>>>>>> Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all
    semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Then you agree that

    No you have to go back and read the rest of what I said.

    On 4/2/22 6:43 PM, olcott wrote:
    It is incorrect to disagree with stipulative definitions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipulative_definition
    ;
    Disagreeing with a stipulative definition is like disagreeing with
    arithmetic.



    *Unless a set of stipulative definitions disagrees with itself*

    And you pointed out no such disagreement.


    You were so damned sure that I was wrong that
    you did not let me explain. Do you understand
    how and that stipulative definitions can be incorrect?
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:57:27 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:56 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:50 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:37 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:28 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:02 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:43 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:12 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:00 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:32 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:26 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:16 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:07 PM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:32:51 -0600 schrieb olcott: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not)
    D reaches a halt state.
    I have know that for many years.
    That goes directly against your claims.

    Only a correct, complete simulation of D coincides >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with D's behavior.
    We don't give a rat's ass about the behavior of D. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The input to H(D)
    only specifies the behavior of D simulated by H. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nobody cares about H.

    Do you think that CS academics will buy the idea >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that a simulating halt
    decider can leave a simulation object with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unfinished steps,
    Absolutely.
    You are beyond the pail.

    such that those do not matter, and pronounce that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulation to be
    never ending?
    As soon as a non-terminating behavior pattern is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> correctly matched we
    are done.
    Now you only need to prove the correctness. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    They are going to ask the obvious question: what if >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you take that
    simulation and peform more steps, surely it halts, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so the result was
    wrong.
    That we be the same as asking are we sure that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Infinite_Loop() never
    terminates?

    It’s not the same. D halts when executed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    The is off topic because that is out-of-scope >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for any termination analyzer.

    False, because the input to H(D), i.e. finite string D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which is the description of machine D and therefore is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stipulated to specify all semantic properties of machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D including that it halts when executed directly. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    It requires H to have the psychic powers to see >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> steps that are not the steps that its actual input >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually specifies.

    False.  As proven above, the steps that the actual input >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to H(D) actually specifies are those of the directly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> executed machine D.

    If that was true then you could show the steps of D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulated by H reaching its simulated "return" statement >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nitwit. None of the moronic stopping and starting over >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bullshit.



    That the input to H(D), i.e. the finite string description >>>>>>>>>>>>>> of machine D, specifies all semantic properties of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> directly executed D is a semantic tautology.


    In other words you are too fucking stupid to
    show the actual steps.

    It is a semantic tautology

    It is not a semantic tautology

    Disagreeing with a semantic tautology is always incorrect


    You are getting close to being plonked.

    It's not my fault you don't understand stipulative definitions. >>>>>>>> Here's one:

    Turing machine description: a finite string that specifies all >>>>>>>> semantic properties of the machine being described.


    Good you are being responsive. We can build an honest
    dialogue on this basis.

    Then you agree that

    No you have to go back and read the rest of what I said.

    On 4/2/22 6:43 PM, olcott wrote:
    It is incorrect to disagree with stipulative definitions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipulative_definition
    ;
    Disagreeing with a stipulative definition is like disagreeing with >>>>  > arithmetic.



    *Unless a set of stipulative definitions disagrees with itself*

    And you pointed out no such disagreement.


    You were so damned sure that I was wrong that
    you did not let me explain. Do you understand
    how and that stipulative definitions can be incorrect?


    On 4/2/22 6:43 PM, olcott wrote:
    It is incorrect to disagree with stipulative definitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipulative_definition

    Disagreeing with a stipulative definition is like disagreeing with arithmetic.

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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 18:57:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 6:54 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:51 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:49 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires
    Turing machines to have psychic powers to report
    on a different sequence of steps than the sequence >>>>>>>>>>>>>> of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic >>>>>>>>>>>>> numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in >>>>>>>>>>> wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite
    string D, and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be >>>>>>> referring to any of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.

    All you have to do to prove you're interested in an honest dialogue >>>>> is to fix the above sentence
    by qualifying each instance of "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    with exactly one of:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string

    Only liars refuse to clarify their statements.


    I already fully addressed this twice.

    Only jackasses or people with mental
    disabilities ignore complete answers
    and keep asking the same question.

    There was no complete answer because

    I completely defined D twice and you did
    not revise your question to account for this.

    As per the below requirements, the above sentence is rejected out-of-
    hand as unclear because "D" was not qualified as either a C function, algorithm, or finite string.


    I did explain exactly what D is in great detail.
    *plonked*


    Are you a jackass or do you have mental
    disabilities?
    1) you referred to "H" as "something or other", and
    2) you continue to use "D" and "H" unqualified, proving your
    dishonesty and intent to equivocate.

    So going forward, all uses of "H" and "D" in a sentence are required
    to be qualified as either an algorithm, a function or a finite string.

    Failure to do so will result in any sentence using such unqualified
    usage to be dismissed out-of-hand as unclear.

    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:58:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:57 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:54 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:51 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:49 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:44 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:36 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:30 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:05 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:45 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:35 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:58 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 4:27 PM, dbush wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 5:24 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Then you are admitting that what you're talking about >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Is proving that the halting problem has always
    been fundamentally incorrect in that it requires >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing machines to have psychic powers to report >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on a different sequence of steps than the sequence >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of steps that its input actually specifies.

    False.  Just like it is not incorrect to require Mythic >>>>>>>>>>>>>> numbers to be

    You cannot truthfully assess this as false
    UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE HEARD ALL OF MY POINTS.


    You've been saying the same points with slight variations in >>>>>>>>>>>> wording for the last 3 years.


    Because I cannot move on to the second step of
    my proof until the first step is understood.

    The first step of my proof is that D simulated
    by H cannot reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear,

    Only if you are clueless about the semantics
    of the C programming language.

    The posted code contains function D, algorithm D, and finite
    string D, and similarly for "H".  So the above sentence could be >>>>>>>> referring to any of those.


    DO YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISABILITY
    THAT CAUSES YOU TO IMMEDIATELY FORGET
    WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU?

    I am not going to endlessly repeat all
    of the details if you are just being a jackass.

    All you have to do to prove you're interested in an honest
    dialogue is to fix the above sentence
    by qualifying each instance of "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    with exactly one of:
    * C function
    * algorithm
    * finite string

    Only liars refuse to clarify their statements.


    I already fully addressed this twice.

    Only jackasses or people with mental
    disabilities ignore complete answers
    and keep asking the same question.

    There was no complete answer because

    I completely defined D twice and you did
    not revise your question to account for this.

    As per the below requirements, the above sentence is rejected out-of-
    hand as unclear because "D" was not qualified as either a C function,
    algorithm, or finite string.


    I did explain exactly what D is in great detail.

    Algorithm D, finite string D, or C function D?

    *plonked*


    Are you a jackass or do you have mental
    disabilities?
    1) you referred to "H" as "something or other", and
    2) you continue to use "D" and "H" unqualified, proving your
    dishonesty and intent to equivocate.

    So going forward, all uses of "H" and "D" in a sentence are required
    to be qualified as either an algorithm, a function or a finite string. >>>>
    Failure to do so will result in any sentence using such unqualified
    usage to be dismissed out-of-hand as unclear.




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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 01:22:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.
    Try again.

    Objectively, outside of any cult-like dogma, there is only one D.

    The directly executed D is exactly the same as

    interp *s = interp_init(D);

    // while API doesn't indicate termination, step it:
    while (!interp(s)) { }

    // D has terminated

    H does this for some of the steps, not all the way to the end.

    We can use a better API for the simulating decider to make
    everything crystal clear, whereby the caller of H creates
    the simulation (without stepping it) and passes it to H along
    side the function whose simulation that is:

    #include <interp.h>

    bool H(void (*p)(void), interp *si)
    {
    for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
    if (interp_step(s))
    return true;
    }

    return false;
    }

    void D(void)
    {
    interp *s = interp_create(D);
    if (H(D, s)) { for(;;); }
    return;
    }

    int main(void)
    {
    interp *s = interp_create(D);
    bool result = H(D, s);

    printf("Input halts = %s.\n", result ? "true" : "false");

    // reckoning: do we hang in this loop? Or will it halt?

    while (!interp_step(s)) { /* nothing */ }

    prinf("Input halted!\n");

    // If H had returned false, "incorrect" is printed.

    printf("H was %s about D.\n", result ? "correct" : "incorrect");
    }

    Here, when H(D, s) returns to main, indicating a false result,
    main has the handle "interp *s". Main executes the interp_step
    loop. That loop terminates indicating that the simulation of D
    is actually terminating, whereas H called it nonterminating.

    Nothing is hidden.

    H is told, here is a function P, along with a new simulation
    object for it. H steps the simulation partially, returns false.
    The caller steps the simulation some more, finds that H
    was wrong.

    Open and shut case.
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 19:25:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:22 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.
    Try again.

    Objectively, outside of any cult-like dogma, there is only one D.

    The directly executed D is exactly the same as


    You already agreed that it is not.

    On 11/4/2025 8:43 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-05, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    The whole point is that D simulated by H
    cannot possbly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement no matter what H does.

    Yes; this doesn't happen while H is running.

    So while H does /something/, no matter what H does,
    that D simulation won't reach the return statement.

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 01:46:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the
    meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:

    bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
    {
    while (!interp_step(s)) { }
    return true;
    }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

    void D_prime(void)
    {
    interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
    if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
    return;
    }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'. And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim that
    D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating. You claim that the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being really
    about D'.

    Yet, at the same time, you vehemently insist that the input to H
    is D simulated by H, and not the directly executed D,
    because H only operates on the "finite string that is its
    actual input".

    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    That's the function that does not terminate: D' is what we would
    get if H were not to abort, because H would then be H'.

    D' is /literally/ not an input to H; it is different from D,
    right from its first step. D' calls H'(D'), wheras D calls H(D).

    I don't agree that the input to H(D) is actually D'.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input in the expression H(D), since D and
    D' are different and unrelated.

    I.e. you say that the true finite string input in H(D) is "the behavior
    of D simulated by H". But the decision is actually about D', which has
    nothing to do with "D simulated by H".

    I don't misunderstand; I just deny that what you are proposing
    is "philosophically okay".

    You can monkey around with all kinds of screwy
    stuff to get gullible people here to believe
    that infinite loops halt.

    But the halting of the diagonal cases rejected by their simulating
    decider has been reproduced with the x86utm.

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    Exactly was was predicted in discussions.
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 20:46:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the
    meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:


    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    This by itself proves the repeating pattern
    that prevents D simulated by H to ever reach
    its own simulated "return" statement.

    bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
    {
    while (!interp_step(s)) { }
    return true;
    }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

    void D_prime(void)
    {
    interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
    if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
    return;
    }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'. And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim that
    D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating. You claim that the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being really
    about D'.


    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yet, at the same time, you vehemently insist that the input to H
    is D simulated by H, and not the directly executed D,
    because H only operates on the "finite string that is its
    actual input".


    Yes this has been a verified fact for three years.

    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is

    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters
    that defines a C function that calls its own C interpreter.

    D'!
    That's the function that does not terminate: D' is what we would
    get if H were not to abort, because H would then be H'.

    D' is /literally/ not an input to H; it is different from D,
    right from its first step. D' calls H'(D'), wheras D calls H(D).

    I don't agree that the input to H(D) is actually D'.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input

    Then you are rejecting reality.

    in the expression H(D), since D and
    D' are different and unrelated.

    I.e. you say that the true finite string input in H(D) is "the behavior
    of D simulated by H". But the decision is actually about D', which has nothing to do with "D simulated by H".


    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not
    in a different parallel universe depending on
    her answer.

    I don't misunderstand; I just deny that what you are proposing
    is "philosophically okay".

    You can monkey around with all kinds of screwy
    stuff to get gullible people here to believe
    that infinite loops halt.

    But the halting of the diagonal cases

    Hides all of the details, it should actually be
    called halting in all of the "do the opposite" cases.

    rejected by their simulating
    decider has been reproduced with the x86utm.

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.


    Mike Terry understands my code better than anyone
    else he seems to have a total blind spot about key
    elements of my algorithm.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.


    That only happens when you screw up the specified
    execution trace.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject
    an input when the behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES
    A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERN.

    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand
    CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Exactly was was predicted in discussions.

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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 22:01:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 9:46 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence >>>>> can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:


    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.

    No, his algorithm H_prime is in a for loop, showing that algorithm
    D_prime doesn't halt.

    This by itself proves the repeating pattern
    that prevents D simulated by H to ever reach
    its own simulated "return" statement.

       bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
       {
          while (!interp_step(s)) { }
          return true;
       }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

       void D_prime(void)
       {
          interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
          if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
          return;
       }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim that
    D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that the H
    decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being really
    about D'.


    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    He's saying that H(D) is reporting on the non-input D'


    Yet, at the same time, you vehemently insist that the input to H
    is D simulated by H, and not the directly executed D,
    because H only operates on the "finite string that is its
    actual input".


    Yes this has been a verified fact for three years.

    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is

    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters
    that defines a C function that calls its own C interpreter.

    D'!
    That's the function that does not terminate: D' is what we would
    get if H were not to abort, because H would then be H'.

    D' is /literally/ not an input to H; it is different from D,
    right from its first step.  D' calls H'(D'), wheras D calls H(D).

    I don't agree that the input to H(D) is actually D'.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input

    Then you are rejecting reality.

    No, stating that D' is the input to H(D) is rejecting reality.


    in the expression H(D), since D and
    D' are different and unrelated.

    I.e. you say that the true finite string input in H(D) is "the behavior
    of D simulated by H".  But the decision is actually about D', which has
    nothing to do with "D simulated by H".


    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not
    in a different parallel universe depending on
    her answer.

    Strawman: Mary is not an algorithm.


    I don't misunderstand; I just deny that what you are proposing
    is "philosophically okay".

    You can monkey around with all kinds of screwy
    stuff to get gullible people here to believe
    that infinite loops halt.

    But the halting of the diagonal cases

    Hides all of the details, it should actually be
    called halting in all of the "do the opposite" cases.

    rejected by their simulating
    decider has been reproduced with the x86utm.

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.


    Mike Terry understands my code better than anyone
    else he seems to have a total blind spot about key
    elements of my algorithm.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of D
    simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.


    That only happens when you screw up the specified
    execution trace.

    Nope, having a separate thread pick up the simulation started and
    abandoned by algorithm H is valid.


    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject
    an input when the behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES
    A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERN.

    But it is not a correct non-halting behavior pattern as proven by the
    fact that it exists in the halting algorithm D.


    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand
    CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    No, you fail to understand that non-halting behavior patterns don't
    exist in halting algorithms.


    Exactly was was predicted in discussions.




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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 21:31:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the
    meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:

    bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
    {
    while (!interp_step(s)) { }
    return true;
    }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

    void D_prime(void)
    {
    interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
    if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
    return;
    }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.


    I changed it from halting versus non-halting a long
    time ago to avoid screwy weasel wording. D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated "return"
    statement. Software engineers knowing nothing about
    comp.theory can and have verified that.

    We can even say that we refer to the outermost D
    directly simulated by the directly executed H. All
    the D versus D' crap is merely misleading, it has
    no actual substance.

    And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim that
    D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating. You claim that the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being really
    about D'.

    Yet, at the same time, you vehemently insist that the input to H
    is D simulated by H, and not the directly executed D,
    because H only operates on the "finite string that is its
    actual input".

    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    That's the function that does not terminate: D' is what we would
    get if H were not to abort, because H would then be H'.

    D' is /literally/ not an input to H; it is different from D,
    right from its first step. D' calls H'(D'), wheras D calls H(D).

    I don't agree that the input to H(D) is actually D'.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input in the expression H(D), since D and
    D' are different and unrelated.

    I.e. you say that the true finite string input in H(D) is "the behavior
    of D simulated by H". But the decision is actually about D', which has nothing to do with "D simulated by H".

    I don't misunderstand; I just deny that what you are proposing
    is "philosophically okay".

    You can monkey around with all kinds of screwy
    stuff to get gullible people here to believe
    that infinite loops halt.

    But the halting of the diagonal cases rejected by their simulating
    decider has been reproduced with the x86utm.

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    Exactly was was predicted in discussions.

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    Copyright 2025 Olcott

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 03:41:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:22 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 3:10 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    "Simulation of D" and "D" are not the same.

    A partial simulation of D does not show whether (or not)
    D reaches a halt state.


    We are never taking about the directly executed D.
    Try again.

    Objectively, outside of any cult-like dogma, there is only one D.

    The directly executed D is exactly the same as


    You already agreed that it is not.

    On 11/4/2025 8:43 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-05, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

    The whole point is that D simulated by H
    cannot possbly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement no matter what H does.

    Yes; this doesn't happen while H is running.

    So while H does /something/, no matter what H does,
    that D simulation won't reach the return statement.

    Here I'm not not saying that the D simulation won't reach
    the return statement, but that it won't happen while H is doing
    something.

    When I returns false, then it stops doing something.

    After that, D can reach the return statement; we just need
    something else to take over the responsibility of doing
    the interp_step calls that H is no longer doing.

    But, yes, before H returns, there is no way the simulation of the
    diagonal D will reach the point where the simulated H(D) returns
    to that simulated D.

    In the case of a different H-like procedure which does not return,
    namely H', D' never reaches its return. There never comes a time
    which is "after H' returns". But that's a different case.
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 22:45:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 10:31 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence >>>>> can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:

       bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
       {
          while (!interp_step(s)) { }
          return true;
       }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

       void D_prime(void)
       {
          interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
          if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
          return;
       }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.


    I changed it from halting versus non-halting a long
    time ago to avoid screwy weasel wording.

    In other words, it's too clear to hide your lies.

    D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated "return"
    statement.

    Which is actually weasel wording as you don't specify whether "H" and
    "D" are referring to an algorithm a C function, or a finite string.

    Software engineers knowing nothing about
    comp.theory can and have verified that.

    We can even say that we refer to the outermost D
    directly simulated by the directly executed H. All
    the D versus D' crap is merely misleading, it has
    no actual substance.

    No, that is PRECISELY the problem, and at the core of your
    misunderstanding over the last 21 years.

    You think algorithm D and algorithm D' are the same when in fact they
    are not.
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 03:59:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence >>>>> can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:

    bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
    {
    while (!interp_step(s)) { }
    return true;
    }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

    void D_prime(void)
    {
    interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
    if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
    return;
    }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.


    I changed it from halting versus non-halting a long
    time ago to avoid screwy weasel wording. D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated "return"
    statement. Software engineers knowing nothing about
    comp.theory can and have verified that.

    The simualtion D, while being simulated by H, will never
    execute enough steps to see D through to its return statement.

    That is a fact.

    That fact is true regardless of how H is defined, and whether it is
    aborting or exhaustively simulating (UTM).

    In the case of the exhaustively simulating type of H, which we should
    call something else, like H', the simulated H'(D') never returns to the simulated D'(). Therefore D' is nonterminating; it never executes the
    if test which selects its two behaviors.

    In the case of the aborting H, D does reach its return statement. This
    can be shown after H returns, by taking over the unfinished simulation
    and stepping it to completion. But even if no such stepping takes place,
    that simulation specifies halting behavior.

    In the case of H', there is no such a time as "after H' returns",
    because H' does not return to D'. Therefore D' does not reach its
    return statement.

    In the case of H, there is such a time as "after H returns".
    At that time an unfinished simulation exists, which is positively
    terminating.

    We can even say that we refer to the outermost D
    directly simulated by the directly executed H. All
    the D versus D' crap is merely misleading, it has
    no actual substance.

    Nope; it adds substance to your vague, equivocal rhetoric, correctly
    giving different names to, and correct descriptions of the entities you
    are alluding to.

    The D that runs forever and has no halt state is actually D';
    the diagonal test case of a hypothetical H' which does not abort.

    Because, remember, H(D) must abort the simulation to prevent its
    own nontermination. You've repeated that umpteen times.

    But H(D) doesn't have a nontermination! H(D) is terminating.

    What has nontermination is an imaginary version of H that doesn't
    abort.

    Since that imaginary H is different from H, it is necessary to call that
    by a different name like H'.

    Since D is built on H, the imaginary H' gives rise to an imaginary D
    that must be called D' since it is different from D.

    If we use the names D and H for D' and H', we are equivocating and
    promoting muddled thinking.

    THAT equivocation is what has no substance!!!

    That equivocation is, in great part, what allows you to stitch together
    your invalid rhetoric.

    Your rhetoric doesn't hold when we unmask the equivocation
    identify all the abstractions that are referenced in it and give
    them different names.
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 22:07:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 9:59 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence >>>>>> can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides >>>>> into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:

    bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
    {
    while (!interp_step(s)) { }
    return true;
    }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

    void D_prime(void)
    {
    interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
    if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
    return;
    }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.


    I changed it from halting versus non-halting a long
    time ago to avoid screwy weasel wording. D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated "return"
    statement. Software engineers knowing nothing about
    comp.theory can and have verified that.

    The simualtion D, while being simulated by H, will never

    reach its own simulated "return" statement final halt
    state because it remains stuck in recursive simulation
    until H kills its whole process.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 23:11:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 11:07 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 9:59 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above
    sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides >>>>>> into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider >>>> which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does >>>> this:

        bool H_prime(void (*P)(void), interp *s) // using new API
        {
           while (!interp_step(s)) { }
           return true;
        }

    and D' is this: it looks similar to D, but calls H':

        void D_prime(void)
        {
           interp *s = interp_init(D_prime);
           if (H_prime(D_prime, s)) { for (;;) }
           return;
        }

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the >>>> "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!

    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.


    I changed it from halting versus non-halting a long
    time ago to avoid screwy weasel wording. D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated "return"
    statement. Software engineers knowing nothing about
    comp.theory can and have verified that.

    The simualtion D, while being simulated by H, will never

    reach its own simulated "return" statement final halt
    state because it remains stuck in recursive simulation
    until H kills its whole process.


    On 8/10/2025 5:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    Erasing the immediate context that you are
    responding to is deceitful and dishonest.

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 04:16:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence >>>>> can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides
    into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:


    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.

    No; my H has a for loop which steps three instructions after
    which it returns false.

    This by itself proves the repeating pattern
    that prevents D simulated by H to ever reach
    its own simulated "return" statement.

    D' simulated by H' never reaches its return statement.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'. And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim that
    D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating. You claim that the H
    decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being really
    about D'.


    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Oh, but if I just coollapse H and H' under one name, and likewise
    D and D' then it will all suddenly make sense, right? ?

    Yet, at the same time, you vehemently insist that the input to H
    is D simulated by H, and not the directly executed D,
    because H only operates on the "finite string that is its
    actual input".


    Yes this has been a verified fact for three years.

    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is

    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters
    that defines a C function that calls its own C interpreter.

    D'!
    That's the function that does not terminate: D' is what we would
    get if H were not to abort, because H would then be H'.

    D' is /literally/ not an input to H; it is different from D,
    right from its first step. D' calls H'(D'), wheras D calls H(D).

    I don't agree that the input to H(D) is actually D'.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input

    Then you are rejecting reality.

    in the expression H(D), since D and
    D' are different and unrelated.

    I.e. you say that the true finite string input in H(D) is "the behavior
    of D simulated by H". But the decision is actually about D', which has
    nothing to do with "D simulated by H".


    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not
    in a different parallel universe depending on
    her answer.

    If Mary is a deterministic machine, then, yes, we do have to consider
    different Marys in different parallel universes in order have both a
    yes and no answer.

    In any one universe, Deterministic Mary gives one answer. Mary can only
    be a differently defined Mary in a different universe.

    Real people are not functions of the input you give them, though.

    Based on their mental state, they can give you a yes to a
    certain question and at a different time a no to exactly
    the same question.

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.


    Mike Terry understands my code better than anyone
    else he seems to have a total blind spot about key
    elements of my algorithm.

    Sure; it couldn't possibly be that he has no blind spot and is actually
    right, right?

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of D
    simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.


    That only happens when you screw up the specified
    execution trace.

    Says you, but you can't point to the details of where they are screwed.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject
    an input when the behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES
    A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERN.

    Test cases in your Halt7 do not match a correct non-halting
    behavior pattern.

    You have mistaken the initiation of a new simulation to be a loop.

    In the abstract "pure C" example, we can see that clearly.

    D() calls H(D), which calls s = interp_create(D) and then interp_step(s).

    As soon as it calls interp_step(s), the first step of D is executed.

    According to a naive analysis which ignores simulation levels
    and just jumbles together all the step events, it looks like
    a backwards branch!

    D has not yet executed the if (H(D)) conditional, yet ...
    the instruction pointer is back at the top of D!

    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand
    CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    You don't understand that you cannot put all the trace events
    from multiple simulations into a single buffer, and then
    declare that there is a loop just because "CALL HHH, DD"
    appears twice without an interfering conditional!!!

    Those CALLS are not coming form the same simulation;
    they are not in the same instruction stream.

    If you write a C program which launches multiple threads
    at a function:

    for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
    thread_t id = thread_create(function, ...);

    Suppose function is this:

    void function(void)
    {
    other_function();
    }

    Suppose other_function is this:

    void other_function()
    {
    thread_exit(0);
    }

    What happens? Since 50 threads are launched, function
    is entered 50 times, and 50 calls to other_function
    take place.

    Now imagine we are gathering execution events from all
    the thread instruction streams, putting them into one
    buffer.

    We are going to see 50 occurrences of "CALL OTHER_FUNCTION".
    And in between those, there won't be any conditionals.

    After seeing the first two or three such CALL instructions, without any conditional in between, are we correct to say that there
    is an endless loop?

    There is no loop: it's different threads---which quickly terminate.
    We just wrongly combined their instruction events into
    a single buffer, and came to a comically wrong conclusion.




    what's going to happen? The


    Exactly was was predicted in discussions.



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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 22:19:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 10:16 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above sentence >>>>>> can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides >>>>> into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:


    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.

    No; my H has a for loop which steps three instructions after
    which it returns false.

    This by itself proves the repeating pattern
    that prevents D simulated by H to ever reach
    its own simulated "return" statement.

    D' simulated by H' never reaches its return statement.


    Most importantly the D directly simulated by the executed
    H never reaches its own "return" statement. All the rest
    is weasel word deflection away from this point.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 23:27:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 11:19 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 10:16 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-07, olcott <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11/6/2025 6:00 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-06, dbush <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rejected out-of-hand as unclear, as "D" and "H" in the above
    sentence
    can refer to a C function, an algorithm, or a finite string, and the >>>>>>> meaning changes depending on which one is chosen.


    Your concrete example is brilliant I am going
    to rebuild something very similar on the basis
    of a C interpreter.

    Not only to that. "D" can refer to "simulation of D" which subdivides >>>>>> into "partial simulation of D" and "complete simulation of D".


    That has always been crazy nonsense. It has only
    always been the single continuous simulation
    of D by H that proves that D cannot possibly halt.

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider >>>> which is jsut a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does >>>> this:


    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.

    No; my H has a for loop which steps three instructions after
    which it returns false.

    This by itself proves the repeating pattern
    that prevents D simulated by H to ever reach
    its own simulated "return" statement.

    D' simulated by H' never reaches its return statement.


    Most importantly the D directly simulated by the executed
    H never reaches its own "return" statement. All the rest
    is weasel word deflection away from this point.

    Dismissed out-of-hand as unclear (see below)

    On 11/6/2025 7:49 PM, dbush wrote:
    So going forward, all uses of "H" and "D" in a sentence are required to
    be qualified as either an algorithm, a function or a finite string.

    Failure to do so will result in any sentence using such unqualified
    usage to be dismissed out-of-hand as unclear.

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  • From dbush@[email protected] to comp.theory on Thu Nov 6 23:29:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/6/2025 10:59 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    Since D is built on H, the imaginary H' gives rise to an imaginary D
    that must be called D' since it is different from D.

    If we use the names D and H for D' and H', we are equivocating and
    promoting muddled thinking.

    THAT equivocation is what has no substance!!!

    That equivocation is, in great part, what allows you to stitch together
    your invalid rhetoric.

    Your rhetoric doesn't hold when we unmask the equivocation
    identify all the abstractions that are referenced in it and give
    them different names.

    This is why I was pushing him to qualify all uses of "H" and "D". It
    makes it hard if not impossible to equivocate.

    The fact that he pushed back so much shows that he knows he's lying by
    using the same terms to mean different things.
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  • From Mikko@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 10:05:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-06 20:48:02 +0000, olcott said:

    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    That is merely a defect in H and irrelevanto to the semantic and other properties of D.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From joes@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 10:45:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'. And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating. You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation, return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.
    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H. You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.
    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 06:55:49 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'. H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'. And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating. You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation, return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
    int Halt_Status = H(D);
    if (Halt_Status)
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
    H(D);
    return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    Until H aborts.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 06:57:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-06 20:48:02 +0000, olcott said:

    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    That is merely a defect in H and irrelevanto to the semantic and other properties of D.


    That's a stupid statement.

    int D()
    {
    int Halt_Status = H(D);
    if (Halt_Status)
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
    H(D);
    return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    Until H aborts.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From wij@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 21:43:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation, return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.
    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.
    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the  result, not something else.
    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.
    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.
    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
       int Halt_Status = H(D);
       if (Halt_Status)
         HERE: goto HERE;
       return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
       H(D);
       return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.
    Until H aborts.
    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.
    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.
    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.
    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your 
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 08:06:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider >>>>> which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does >>>>> this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the >>>>> "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that >>>>> the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines >>>> a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not >>> a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel >>>> universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which >>>>> eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of >>>>> D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation, >>> return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts. >>>
    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the >>>> behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR >>>> PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING >>>> BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
       int Halt_Status = H(D);
       if (Halt_Status)
         HERE: goto HERE;
       return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
       H(D);
       return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
    int Halt_Status = H(D);
    if (Halt_Status)
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From wij@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 22:12:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/, H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H' and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
        int Halt_Status = H(D);
        if (Halt_Status)
          HERE: goto HERE;
        return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
        H(D);
        return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
       int Halt_Status = H(D);
       if (Halt_Status)
         HERE: goto HERE;
       return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.
    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.
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  • From joes@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 14:16:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Am Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:55:49 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to a
    UTM and simulates that?
    Apparently so, see below.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.
    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.
    Interesting. Then D is not the diagonal program and H is not a decider.
    Which H does D call? The one in the code halts.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.
    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system and they figured it out on their own
    and proved that they are correct.
    Do you really think both that H is a decider, D calling H doesn’t halt
    and D is the diagonal program to H? One of those can’t be right.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.
    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    And then the first H aborts instead of simulating simulating (sic)
    this H simulating D. This last H isn’t simulated at all, it is just
    assumed to not be a decider.
    --
    Am Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:35:31 +0000 schrieb WM in sci.math:
    It is not guaranteed that n+1 exists for every n.
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 08:28:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider >>>>>>> which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does >>>>>>> this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the >>>>>>> "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/, >>>>>>> H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H' >>>>>>> and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim >>>>>>> that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being >>>>>>> really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines >>>>>> a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not >>>>> a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be >>>>>>> considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to >>>>> a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel >>>>>> universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which >>>>>>> eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of >>>>>>> D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the >>>>>> behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR >>>>>> PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING >>>>>> BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the >>> result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
        int Halt_Status = H(D);
        if (Halt_Status)
          HERE: goto HERE;
        return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
        H(D);
        return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
       int Halt_Status = H(D);
       if (Halt_Status)
         HERE: goto HERE;
       return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.


    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said and don't know anything
    about programming in C.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 08:29:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 8:16 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:55:49 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to a
    UTM and simulates that?
    Apparently so, see below.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.
    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.
    Interesting. Then D is not the diagonal program and H is not a decider.
    Which H does D call? The one in the code halts.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.
    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem that way. Four LLM
    systems now understand my system and they figured it out on their own
    and proved that they are correct.
    Do you really think both that H is a decider, D calling H doesn’t halt
    and D is the diagonal program to H? One of those can’t be right.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.
    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    And then the first H aborts instead of simulating simulating (sic)
    this H simulating D. This last H isn’t simulated at all, it is just
    assumed to not be a decider.


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
    int Halt_Status = H(D);
    if (Halt_Status)
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From wij@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 22:35:35 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:28 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the
    result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
         int Halt_Status = H(D);
         if (Halt_Status)
           HERE: goto HERE;
         return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
         H(D);
         return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
        int Halt_Status = H(D);
        if (Halt_Status)
          HERE: goto HERE;
        return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.


    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said 
    You are false god. What you said is garbage.
    and don't know anything
    about programming in C.
    No one here (except you) who need debugger to explain C 'semantic'.
    And see the assembly dump as 'proof'. Wake up, idiot.
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 08:38:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 8:35 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:28 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/, >>>>>>>>> H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H' >>>>>>>>> and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is >>>>>>>>> nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim >>>>>>>>> that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being >>>>>>>>> really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be >>>>>>>>> considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to >>>>>>> a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel >>>>>>>> universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which >>>>>>>>> eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace. >>>>>>> You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING >>>>>>>> BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the >>>>>>> halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the
    result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case. >>>>>>
    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that >>>>>>> doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
         int Halt_Status = H(D);
         if (Halt_Status)
           HERE: goto HERE;
         return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
         H(D);
         return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your >>>>> head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel). >>>>>

    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
        int Halt_Status = H(D);
        if (Halt_Status)
          HERE: goto HERE;
        return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.


    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said

    You are false god. What you said is garbage.

    and don't know anything
    about programming in C.

    No one here (except you) who need debugger to explain C 'semantic'.
    And see the assembly dump as 'proof'. Wake up, idiot.


    If I was incorrect then you could show what
    the correct execution trace should be. If
    you lack the skill to show this and still
    want to disagree then you can be ignored.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From wij@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 22:55:25 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:38 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:35 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:28 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the
    result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
          int Halt_Status = H(D);
          if (Halt_Status)
            HERE: goto HERE;
          return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
          H(D);
          return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
         int Halt_Status = H(D);
         if (Halt_Status)
           HERE: goto HERE;
         return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.


    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said

    You are false god. What you said is garbage.

    and don't know anything
    about programming in C.

    No one here (except you) who need debugger to explain C 'semantic'.
    And see the assembly dump as 'proof'. Wake up, idiot.


    If I was incorrect then you could show what
    the correct execution trace should be. 
    First of all, the correct halt decider does not exist. We can only 'experiment' by assumptions.... But you know the liar's paradox well, so I save this.
    If you refer to POOH, no one can reproduce POOH, POOH is considered as non-existent.
    If
    you lack the skill to show this and still
    want to disagree then you can be ignored.
    Sure, you can ignore all and believe garbage.
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  • From wij@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 23:17:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 09:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:55 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:38 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:35 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:28 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the
    result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non- decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
           int Halt_Status = H(D);
           if (Halt_Status)
             HERE: goto HERE;
           return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
           H(D);
           return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts), D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
          int Halt_Status = H(D);
          if (Halt_Status)
            HERE: goto HERE;
          return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.


    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said

    You are false god. What you said is garbage.

    and don't know anything
    about programming in C.

    No one here (except you) who need debugger to explain C 'semantic'.
    And see the assembly dump as 'proof'. Wake up, idiot.


    If I was incorrect then you could show what
    the correct execution trace should be.

    First of all, the correct halt decider does not exist.

    Changing the subject is known as the strawman deception
    it is what cheaters do when they have no actual rebuttal
    and still want to be disagreeable.

    I am only talking about D simulated by H.
    I have no problem of "D simulated by (POO) H", except if you claim the HP proof is refuted is a big problem.
    As to the constantly changing POOH, many people have already explained to you.
    We can only 'experiment'
    by assumptions.... But you know the liar's paradox well, so I save this.

    If you refer to POOH, no one can reproduce POOH, POOH is considered as non-existent.


    I have a bunch of steps if you reject the first
    step out-of-hand because you don't understand C
    then we can't move on to the next step.
    Save it. I already had clue what your next steps is .... garbage.
    If
    you lack the skill to show this and still
    want to disagree then you can be ignored.

    Sure, you can ignore all and believe garbage.



    That you don't even understand what I am saying
    is not my error.
    I understand what you say (which bears no meaning).
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 09:20:25 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 9:17 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 09:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:55 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:38 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:35 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:28 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is >>>>>>>>>>>>> nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'! >>>>>>>>>>>> In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating. >>>>>>>>>>>
    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace. >>>>>>>>>>> You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the >>>>>>>>>>> halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the
    result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non-
    decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case. >>>>>>>>>>
    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that >>>>>>>>>>> doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
           int Halt_Status = H(D);
           if (Halt_Status)
             HERE: goto HERE;
           return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
           H(D);
           return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts), >>>>>>>>> D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D. >>>>>>>>>
    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel). >>>>>>>>>

    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
          int Halt_Status = H(D);
          if (Halt_Status)
            HERE: goto HERE;
          return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.


    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said

    You are false god. What you said is garbage.

    and don't know anything
    about programming in C.

    No one here (except you) who need debugger to explain C 'semantic'.
    And see the assembly dump as 'proof'. Wake up, idiot.


    If I was incorrect then you could show what
    the correct execution trace should be.

    First of all, the correct halt decider does not exist.

    Changing the subject is known as the strawman deception
    it is what cheaters do when they have no actual rebuttal
    and still want to be disagreeable.

    I am only talking about D simulated by H.

    I have no problem of "D simulated by (POO) H", except if you claim the HP proof
    is refuted is a big problem.

    As to the constantly changing POOH, many people have already explained to you.


    So you accept that D simulated by H cannot possibly
    reach its own simulated "return" statement?

    We can only 'experiment'
    by assumptions.... But you know the liar's paradox well, so I save this. >>>
    If you refer to POOH, no one can reproduce POOH, POOH is considered as non-existent.


    I have a bunch of steps if you reject the first
    step out-of-hand because you don't understand C
    then we can't move on to the next step.

    Save it. I already had clue what your next steps is .... garbage.

    If
    you lack the skill to show this and still
    want to disagree then you can be ignored.

    Sure, you can ignore all and believe garbage.



    That you don't even understand what I am saying
    is not my error.

    I understand what you say (which bears no meaning).

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  • From wij@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 23:34:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 09:20 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 9:17 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 09:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:55 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:38 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:35 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:28 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is
    nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'!
    In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status.

    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating.

    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the
    halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H.

    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully.

    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the
    result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non- decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case.

    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer.

    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that
    doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
            int Halt_Status = H(D);
            if (Halt_Status)
              HERE: goto HERE;
            return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
            H(D);
            return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts),
    D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D.

    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
           int Halt_Status = H(D);
           if (Halt_Status)
             HERE: goto HERE;
           return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree.


    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said

    You are false god. What you said is garbage.

    and don't know anything
    about programming in C.

    No one here (except you) who need debugger to explain C 'semantic'. And see the assembly dump as 'proof'. Wake up, idiot.


    If I was incorrect then you could show what
    the correct execution trace should be.

    First of all, the correct halt decider does not exist.

    Changing the subject is known as the strawman deception
    it is what cheaters do when they have no actual rebuttal
    and still want to be disagreeable.

    I am only talking about D simulated by H.

    I have no problem of "D simulated by (POO) H", except if you claim the HP proof
    is refuted is a big problem.

    As to the constantly changing POOH, many people have already explained to you.


    So you accept that D simulated by H cannot possibly
    reach its own simulated "return" statement?
    Repeat:
    int D()
    {
    int Halt_Status = H(D);
    if (Halt_Status)
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
    }
    If the H(D) in D above is a halt decider, D() cannot return. (the last line, obvious)
    As to "D simulated by H", that is Peter Olcott's Own Problem, not what 
    the HP concerns.
    If you want to understand 'the simulating H', people already explained.
    We can only 'experiment'
    by assumptions.... But you know the liar's paradox well, so I save this.

    If you refer to POOH, no one can reproduce POOH, POOH is considered as non-existent.


    I have a bunch of steps if you reject the first
    step out-of-hand because you don't understand C
    then we can't move on to the next step.

    Save it. I already had clue what your next steps is .... garbage.

    If
    you lack the skill to show this and still
    want to disagree then you can be ignored.

    Sure, you can ignore all and believe garbage.



    That you don't even understand what I am saying
    is not my error.

    I understand what you say (which bears no meaning).


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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Fri Nov 7 09:53:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/7/2025 9:34 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 09:20 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 9:17 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 09:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:55 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:38 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:35 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:28 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 8:12 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 08:06 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 7:43 AM, wij wrote:
    On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 06:55 -0600, olcott wrote:
    On 11/7/2025 4:45 AM, joes wrote:
    Am Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:46:57 -0600 schrieb olcott:
    On 11/6/2025 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

    No, what doesn't halt is H' simulating D'.  H' is a different decider
    which is just a UTM. Ih the language of our "concrete example" it does
    this:
    Not exactly. Your H is a UTM in a for loop.
    No, it is bounded.

    In D_prime, the H_prime call does not return. It never reaches its the
    "do opposite" logic. We completely agree!
    But D_prime is not D, and H_prime is not H.

    You have been trying to say that this: that /if/, /hypothetically/,
    H were not to abort the simulation of D, then it would turn into H'
    and therefore D would turn into D'.  And because that D' is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nonterminating, it is somehow "philosophically okay" for H to claim
    that D is nonterminating, because D' is nonterminating.  You claim that
    the H decision is correct because it should be interpreted as being
    really about D'.

    I have no idea what you are saying here.

    Yes, what’s giving you trouble?


    What you actually mean is that the true input to H is D'! >>>>>>>>>>>>>> In the updated version a finite string of ASCII characters that defines
    a C function that calls its own C interpreter.
    If it depends on an arbitrary function with a fixed name, then it’s not
    a single function/program with a definite halting status. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Somewhat separately from that, I don't agree that D' could ever be
    considered the finite string input
    Then you are rejecting reality.
    Is that what you mean? H replaces the call from D to H with a call to
    a UTM and simulates that?

    When you ask Mary a yes/no question she is not in a different parallel
    universe depending on her answer.
    You think she can answer both at once?

    Mike Terry even produced a clean HHH and DD pair of test cases which
    eliminate all shared, mutable, static data.

    He actually observed the start of the tower; seeing numerous levels of
    D simulations starting up --- and individually terminating. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That only happens when you screw up the specified execution trace.
    You haven’t shown that. H could easily save the state of the simulation,
    return 0, and later you call a UTM with the saved state, which then halts.

    It flat out nutty to do anything at all besides reject an input when the
    behavior OF THIS INPUT CORRECTLY MATCHES A CORRECT NON-HALTING BEHAVIOR
    PATTERN.
    It just seems like you and Mike fail to understand CORRECT NON-HALTING
    BEHAVIOR PATTERNS.

    Your pattern is not correct, because it ignores that D calls the >>>>>>>>>>>>> halting H.

    D simulated by the executed H does not call any halting H. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Then its the wrong 'H'. Read the Halting Problem carefully. >>>>>>>>>>>
    In HP proof, the counter-case D refers to the real DECIDER that reports the
    result, not something else.

    You think that D runs forever because it calls the non- >>>>>>>>>>>>> decider H. There can be no correct patterns in the diagonal case. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    If this is your most fundamental belief it may seem
    that way. Four LLM systems now understand my system
    and they figured it out on their own and proved that
    they are correct.

    Ask all LLM's, they are not responsible for their answer. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Every fix to the detection logic gives rise to a new program that >>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn’t match it.


    int D()
    {
            int Halt_Status = H(D);
            if (Halt_Status)
              HERE: goto HERE;
            return Halt_Status;
    }

    int main()
    {
            H(D);
            return 0;
    }

    H simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)
    that simulates D that calls H(D)

    If H claims it is a halt decider (i.e. H(x)==1 iff x() halts), >>>>>>>>>>> D has no way to return.

    Until H aborts.

    Manual 'abort'? or You lie the H(D) in main is the H(D) in D. >>>>>>>>>>>
    This is just ordinary C that no one
    here understands. I have been programming
    in C since K & R was the standard.

    Only you the idiot do not understand what program is.

    I know your final (or next step) is playing god, go ahead proving your
    head is harder than the stone (and the chick is thicker than steel).


    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
           int Halt_Status = H(D);
           if (Halt_Status)
             HERE: goto HERE;
           return Halt_Status;
    }

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    So the correct answer of Halting Problem is undecidable. Agree. >>>>>>>>>

    It might seem that way if you didn't understand
    a word that I just said

    You are false god. What you said is garbage.

    and don't know anything
    about programming in C.

    No one here (except you) who need debugger to explain C 'semantic'. >>>>>>> And see the assembly dump as 'proof'. Wake up, idiot.


    If I was incorrect then you could show what
    the correct execution trace should be.

    First of all, the correct halt decider does not exist.

    Changing the subject is known as the strawman deception
    it is what cheaters do when they have no actual rebuttal
    and still want to be disagreeable.

    I am only talking about D simulated by H.

    I have no problem of "D simulated by (POO) H", except if you claim the HP proof
    is refuted is a big problem.

    As to the constantly changing POOH, many people have already explained to you.


    So you accept that D simulated by H cannot possibly
    reach its own simulated "return" statement?

    Repeat:

    int D()
    {
    int Halt_Status = H(D);
    if (Halt_Status)
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
    }

    If the H(D) in D above is a halt decider, D() cannot return. (the last line, obvious)

    As to "D simulated by H", that is Peter Olcott's Own Problem, not what
    the HP concerns.
    If you want to understand 'the simulating H', people already explained.


    In other words you dishonestly dodge the direct
    question because:
    (a) You are dishonest
    (b) You are clueless about C
    (c) You want to be disagreeable no matter what the facts are

    Which is it?

    That you think it is irrelevant is not an excuse
    because I can only show relevance after this point
    is made. Thus thinking it is irrelevant is (a) and (b).
    --
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  • From Mikko@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 10:05:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-07 12:57:48 +0000, olcott said:

    On 11/7/2025 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-06 20:48:02 +0000, olcott said:

    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    That is merely a defect in H and irrelevanto to the semantic and other
    properties of D.

    That's a stupid statement.

    Stupid is better than false.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From Tristan Wibberley@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 09:43:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/11/2025 14:04, olcott wrote:
    No, that would not be a proof. A proof is a seuence of sentences,

    A proof is any damn thing that shows a conclusion
    is necessarily true.

    Wellll.. that's subjective. That only requires that the appraiser and
    prover agree on the truth of the conclusion.

    Lunatic1: "I had my favourite sandwich today, ergo God exists"
    Lunatic2: "Yes, yes he does."
    Lunatic2 thinks for a moment
    Lunatic2: "Why did you tell me about your sandwich?"

    We're in comp.theory, we should use logistic and proof-theoretic
    meanings of "proof".

    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 07:25:49 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/8/2025 3:43 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/11/2025 14:04, olcott wrote:
    No, that would not be a proof. A proof is a seuence of sentences,

    A proof is any damn thing that shows a conclusion
    is necessarily true.

    Wellll.. that's subjective. That only requires that the appraiser and
    prover agree on the truth of the conclusion.


    I am talking about correct semantic logical entailment
    on the basis of self-evident truths. A self-evident
    truth is proven true entirely on the basis of its meaning.

    int D()
    {
    int Halt_Status = H(D);
    if (Halt_Status)
    HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
    }

    That ASCII text string defines a function encoded
    in the C programming language is self-evidently true.

    Lunatic1: "I had my favourite sandwich today, ergo God exists"
    Lunatic2: "Yes, yes he does."
    Lunatic2 thinks for a moment
    Lunatic2: "Why did you tell me about your sandwich?"

    We're in comp.theory, we should use logistic and proof-theoretic
    meanings of "proof".


    The conclusion above is not necessarily true. I
    only referred to conclusions that are necessarily true.

    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 07:36:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/8/2025 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-07 12:57:48 +0000, olcott said:

    On 11/7/2025 2:05 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-06 20:48:02 +0000, olcott said:

    D simulated by H cannot possibly reach its own
    simulated final halt state.

    That is merely a defect in H and irrelevanto to the semantic and other
    properties of D.

    That's a stupid statement.

    Stupid is better than false.


    It is stupidly false because you didn't bother
    to pay any attention at all.

    H simulates D that calls H(D) that
    simulates D that calls H(D) that
    simulates D that calls H(D) that
    simulates D that calls H(D) that never reaches
    the simulated "return" statement final halt
    state of D because D calls H(D) in recursive
    simulation.

    Have you ever done any actual programming?
    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From Tristan Wibberley@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 13:38:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Mikko wrote:
    No, that would not be a proof. A proof is a seuence of sentences,

    On 08/11/2025 13:25, olcott wrote, validly demonstrating a portion of a conversation:
    On 11/8/2025 3:43 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/11/2025 14:04, olcott wrote:

    A proof is any damn thing that shows a conclusion
    is necessarily true.

    Wellll.. that's subjective. That only requires that the appraiser and
    prover agree on the truth of the conclusion.


    I am talking about correct semantic logical entailment
    ^^
    In this message perhaps, but not in the previous.

    It's conversationally nuts.

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    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 07:41:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/8/2025 2:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-07 14:04:22 +0000, olcott said:

    On 11/7/2025 2:26 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-06 10:54:43 +0000, olcott said:

    On 11/6/2025 2:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-05 11:37:15 +0000, olcott said:

    On 11/5/2025 4:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-04 13:56:17 +0000, olcott said:

    On 11/4/2025 4:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2025-11-03 23:28:03 +0000, olcott said:

    On 11/2/2025 6:28 AM, Mikko wrote:

    Irrelevant here. I said "Perhaps you should try to improve your >>>>>>>>>>> perfirmance in the art of excution traces". You didn't ppint out >>>>>>>>>>> any error or incoherence in that sentence. Instead you said >>>>>>>>>>> "There is no mistake in the essence of above."


    *Claude, ChatGPGT, Gemini and Grok all agree on this*
    *links provided below*

    int D()
    {
       int Halt_Status = H(D);
       if (Halt_Status)
         HERE: goto HERE;
       return Halt_Status;
    }

    The function H is a simulating termination analyzer:
    (a) Detects a non-terminating behavior pattern:
         abort simulation and return 0.
    (b) Simulated input reaches its simulated
         "return" statement: return 1.

    When given a function P, it literally simulates each
    step of executing P() to *see whether that simulated*
    *execution ever reaches a return statement* Now let H
    simulate D. Based only on the outcome of that literal
    simulation (not on reasoning about what should happen),
    what result should H(D) produce?

    That is irrelevant to anything in the quoted text.

    You didn't even pay attention to the words the last paragraph.

    Everything in the last paragraph, including the question, is
    as ifrrelevant as the text before.

    One should also note that you didn't identify any relevance.

    It forms a proof that H(D) is correct to reject (D).
    That you didn't see that proves that you are not
    paying close enough attention.

    If does not form a proof of anything.

    The proof would be my reviewers actually knowing C
    programming and being able to do their own execution
    trace.

    No, that would not be a proof. A proof is a seuence of sentences,

    A proof is any damn thing that shows a conclusion
    is necessarily true.

    It is not a proof if you it doesn't show without a proof that it shows.

    When we start with the semantics of the C programming
    language and this finite string of ASCII characters
    defining the C function D:

    int D()
    {
       int Halt_Status = H(D);
       if (Halt_Status)
         HERE: goto HERE;
       return Halt_Status;
    }

    This does not define a behaviour. The knowledge whether H(D) returns and
    what value it returns if it does or what it does instead if it does not
    is needed in order to know the behavour.


    That is incorrect. When D is simulated by H the fact
    that D calls H(D) in recursive simulation proves that
    no H ever returns to any simulated D.

    Have you ever done any actual programing at all?

    And the knowledge that H is a C interpreter
    that takes the above test.c file as an input
    and knows that the call to H(D) in D calls
    itself to simulate the text body of D then
    the execution trace proves that D simulated
    by H cannot possibly reach its own simulated
    "return" statement final halt state.

    This is not a well formed sentence of Common Language. The "and" on the
    third line is between the noun "the knowledge" and the verb "knows" but it
    is impossible to construct a sentence where both are valid in the initial position. COnsequently nothing is shown.


    The execution trace of D simulated by H
    proves the D simulated by H cannot possibly
    reach its own simulated "return" statement
    final halt state.

    How can people that are interested in the
    theory of computation not have programming skill?
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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 07:51:28 2025
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    On 11/8/2025 7:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    Mikko wrote:
    No, that would not be a proof. A proof is a seuence of sentences,

    On 08/11/2025 13:25, olcott wrote, validly demonstrating a portion of a conversation:
    On 11/8/2025 3:43 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/11/2025 14:04, olcott wrote:

    A proof is any damn thing that shows a conclusion
    is necessarily true.

    Wellll.. that's subjective. That only requires that the appraiser and
    prover agree on the truth of the conclusion.


    I am talking about correct semantic logical entailment
    ^^
    In this message perhaps, but not in the previous.

    It's conversationally nuts.


    ANYTHING
    *that shows a conclusion is necessarily true*
    This qualification limits the set of things.

    A deductive proof from true premises is one of the things
    *that shows a conclusion is necessarily true*
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

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  • From Tristan Wibberley@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 14:59:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 08/11/2025 13:41, olcott wrote:
    How can people that are interested in the
    theory of computation not have programming skill?


    Theory of computation is not a programming-level topic. It's a
    work-breakdown, specification and strategy-level topic.


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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 09:18:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/8/2025 8:59 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 08/11/2025 13:41, olcott wrote:
    How can people that are interested in the
    theory of computation not have programming skill?


    Theory of computation is not a programming-level topic. It's a work-breakdown, specification and strategy-level topic.


    I had assumed for many years that everyone on this
    forum was an expert programmer. How can one begin
    to understand anything about the theory of
    computation without having hands on programming
    experience?

    If one cannot even trace a sequence of steps
    to see the result then all of the computer
    science technical terms would be mostly nonsense.


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  • From Tristan Wibberley@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 17:51:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 08/11/2025 15:18, olcott wrote:

    How can one begin
    to understand anything about the theory of
    computation without having hands on programming
    experience?


    Think about the difference between synthesis and analysis.


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  • From olcott@[email protected] to comp.theory on Sat Nov 8 12:53:16 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/8/2025 11:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 08/11/2025 15:18, olcott wrote:

    How can one begin
    to understand anything about the theory of
    computation without having hands on programming
    experience?


    Think about the difference between synthesis and analysis.


    Think about trying to learn differential calculus
    before one has learned how to count to ten.

    If one cannot pay attention to a precise sequence
    of steps then how can one pay attention to the
    theoretical foundation of a precise sequence of
    steps?

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