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   olcott to Kaz Kylheku   
   "there will still be a nested simulation   
   22 Oct 25 17:14:08   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/22/2025 3:20 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-22, olcott  wrote:   
   >> On 10/22/2025 2:52 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-10-22, AndrĂ© G  Isaak  wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-10-22 12:40, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >>>>> But that entire bundle is one fixed case DD, with a single behavior,   
   >>>>> which is a property of DD, which is a finite string.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I think part of the problem here is that Olcott doesn't grasp that the   
   >>>> "finite string input" DD *must* include as a substring the entire   
   >>>> description of HHH.   
   >>>   
   >>> Furthermore, he doesn't get that it doesn't literally have to be HHH,   
   >>> but the same algorithm: a workalike.   
   >>>   
   >>> The HHH analyzing DD's halting could be in C, while the HHH   
   >>> called by DD could be in Python.   
   >>   
   >> DD does call HHH(DD) in recursive simulation   
   >> and you try to get away with lying about it.   
   >   
   > I'm saying that's not a requirement in the halting problem.   
   >   
   > DD does not have to use that implementation of HHH; it can have   
   > its own clean-room implementation and it can be in any language.   
   >   
   > But nonetheless, yes, there will still be a nested simulation tower.   
   >   
      
   Thus proving that DD correctly simulated by HHH   
   cannot possibly reach its own simulated final halt   
   state no matter what HHH does.   
      
      
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