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|    olcott to Richard Damon    |
|    Re: Who is telling the truth here? HHH(D    |
|    31 Jul 25 20:03:15    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 7/31/2025 7:37 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       > On 7/31/25 8:18 PM, olcott wrote:       >> On 7/31/2025 7:07 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       >>> On 7/31/25 11:50 AM, olcott wrote:       >>>> *We are only addressing this one point in this thread*       >>>>       >>>> On 7/29/2025 11:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:       >>>> > It is a lack of technical ability on your       >>>> > part which is unable to judge whether such       >>>> > a correct simulation is possible. Everybody       >>>> > else sees that it is not, so further questions       >>>> > about it are non-sensical.       >>>>       >>>> HHH emulates DDD in a separate process context. When       >>>> this DDD calls HHH(DDD) the original HHH emulates this       >>>> HHH in the DDD process context.       >>>       >>> And that separate proccess, if left unaborted, would halt. But HHH       >>> gives up and aborts it, so the process is Halting, not non-halting.       >>>       >>>>       >>>> This emulated HHH creates yet another process context       >>>> to emulate its own DDD. When this DDD calls yet another       >>>> HHH(DDD) this provides enough execution trace that the       >>>> repeating pattern can be seen.       >>>       >>> But the pattern isn't non-halting by the fact that DDD is shown to be       >>> halting.       >>>       >>       >> *No not at all. Not in the least little bit*       >       > Of course it is,       >       > The pattern can't be non-halting if it occurs in a halting program.       >       >> Recursive simulation is only a little more difficult       >> than self recursion. Do you understand self-recursion?       >> What is the classic example of self-recursion?       >       > but since it is only finite recursion of partial simulation, since the       > first level WILL abort the process and end the recursion.       >       >>       >> When N instructions of DDD are correctly emulated by       >> every HHH that can possibly exist       >> (technically this is an infinite set of HHH/DDD pairs)       >> no emulated DDD can possibly halt and every directly       >> executed DDD() halts.       >>       >>       >       > Wrong, your problem is you forget that all those DDD are different,       It is an infinite set with every HHH/DDD pair having       the same property that each DDD cannot possibly halt.              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius       hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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