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   Mikko to All   
   Re: New formal foundation for correct re   
   30 Nov 25 12:19:00   
   
   XPost: sci.math, comp.theory   
   From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi   
      
   olcott kirjoitti 29.11.2025 klo 18.42:   
   > On 11/29/2025 3:40 AM, Mikko wrote:   
   >> olcott kirjoitti 28.11.2025 klo 16.54:   
   >>> On 11/28/2025 2:29 AM, Mikko wrote:   
   >>>> olcott kirjoitti 27.11.2025 klo 17.17:   
   >>>>> On 11/27/2025 1:40 AM, Mikko wrote:   
   >>>>>> olcott kirjoitti 26.11.2025 klo 17.15:   
   >>>>>>> On 11/26/2025 3:22 AM, Mikko wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> olcott kirjoitti 26.11.2025 klo 5.17:   
   >>>>>>>>> On 11/25/2025 9:09 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> On 2025-11-26, olcott  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>> On 11/25/2025 8:36 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-11-26, olcott  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> None of them ever had the slightest clue about Montague   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> Grammar. Except for one they all had very severe math   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> phobia.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> So do you; you are terribly afraid of the mathematical idea   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> that   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> simulations that are paused still exist and have future   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> states.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> I am not going to discuss your psychotic nonsense.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> In all honesty, you and your therapist /should/ be laser   
   >>>>>>>>>> focused on your   
   >>>>>>>>>> own psychotic nonsense.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> You already agreed that I am correct so this subject   
   >>>>>>>>>>> is closed.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Whaaat ...   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> news://news.eternal-september.org/20251104183329.967@kylheku.com   
   >>>>>>>>>>> On 11/4/2025 8:43 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-11-05, olcott  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.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> But we know that. If H is nonreturning, of course D is.   
   >>>>>>>>>> Since D calls H(D), D is suspended until H(D) returns,   
   >>>>>>>>>> which means forever if H(D) is nonterminating.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> I have no idea what you are trying to milk out of this;   
   >>>>>>>>>> it is completely uncontroversial.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> I really did figure out how to determine the   
   >>>>>>>>> correct halt status that the halting problem's   
   >>>>>>>>> counter-example input specifies to it decider.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> The basic halting problem is about Turing machines. A Turing   
   >>>>>>>> machine   
   >>>>>>>> specifies only one bhavour. It does not specify anything else to   
   >>>>>>>> the   
   >>>>>>>> decider. An ambiguous program is outside of the domain of the   
   >>>>>>>> halting   
   >>>>>>>> problem.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> That is inaccurate.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> No, it is not. Of course there are many ways to formulate the problem   
   >>>>>> but what I said is true about the basic formulation. All formulations   
   >>>>>> restrict the domain to unambiguous specifications.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It is a perfectly unambiguous ultimately   
   >>>>> self-contradictory specification.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If the specification of D is perfectly unambiguous there is no point   
   >>>> to say "specifies to its decider".   
   >>>   
   >>> That DD simulated by HHH never stops running   
   >>> unless aborted by HHH proves that the input   
   >>> to HHH(DD) specifies non halting behavior.   
   >>   
   >> That DD halts when executed by a C conforming execution environment   
   >> proves that the input to HHH(DD) specifies a halting behaviour.   
   >   
   > Yes if you are stupid enough to believe that the caller   
   > of a function is always one-and-the-same-thing as the   
   > argument to this dame function.   
      
   Shoud that response be rejectd as an ad nominem or as a straw man?   
      
   Anyway, given that HHH is what it is in GithHub, the C semantics say   
   that the argument to HHH is a pointer to DD and that DD halts.   
      
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   Mikko   
      
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