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|    Tristan Wibberley to Tristan Wibberley    |
|    Re: The halting problem is merely the Li    |
|    21 Nov 25 01:28:24    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math       From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk              On 21/11/2025 01:14, Tristan Wibberley wrote:       > On 17/11/2025 22:59, olcott wrote:       >       >> Ultimately it is essentially the Liar Paradox in disguise.       >       > Yes, it is, I'm pretty sure (I haven't gone through it in such detail to       > satisfy all audiences).       >       > It's roughly evaluation of the contradictory G (as defined by Olcott in       > an inconsistent suppositional axiom extension) as opposed to judgement       > of that defining axiom (where judgement would be evaluation in a       > partiality monad instead of directly or in the identity monad).       >       > Where we have the craziness of nonstrict evaluation such as in Haskell,       > a partiality monad can be used for judgement and then used to construct       > evaluation using the monad's catamorphism with a simple empty loop.              For clarity, the "disguise" is obviously that a purported universal       decider is constructed of many of the same elements using a partiality       monad for judgements and combining them to what is "the universal       decider with what would be uniquely identifying characteristics if it       exists"              I think the catamorphism is required to complete the disguise because       the universal halting decider would be an infinite loop inside the monad       and to match the liar paradox it has to be merged with the empty case on       application of its catamorphism.              Obviously there are so many identities among the ways of couching these       things that it must be that the halting problem is the liar paradox in       disguise. It's interesting to explore how and how far removed are they       (not really very far).              --       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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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