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   Message 58,572 of 59,235   
   olcott to Richard Damon   
   Re: Very simple first principles showing   
   10 Dec 25 21:33:33   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/10/2025 9:21 PM, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > On 12/10/25 9:19 PM, olcott wrote:   
   >> On 12/10/2025 8:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:   
   >>> On 12/10/25 9:00 PM, olcott wrote:   
   >>>> *It has take me 21 years to boil it down to this*   
   >>>>   
   >>>> When the halting problem requires a halt decider   
   >>>> to report on the behavior of a Turing machine this   
   >>>> is always a category error.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The corrected halting problem requires a Turing   
   >>>> machine decider to report in the behavior that   
   >>>> its finite string input specifies.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> And since the input specifies the behavior of the Turing Machine it   
   >>> represents when run,   
   >>   
   >> Counter-factual, but then you have only ever been   
   >> a somewhat smart bot stuck in rebuttal mode.   
   >>   
   >   
   > WHy do you say that?   
   > What grounds do you have for that claim?   
   > Do you even know what you are saying?   
   >   
      
   That is the behavior pattern that you have been   
   consistently showing with every post for years.   
      
   You cannot possibly go through any reasoning to   
   show that I am incorrect. You only have a predefined   
   boiler-plate set of replies. So you just flunked   
   the Turing test.   
      
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