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   dart200 to olcott   
   Re: I am first to have fully refuted the   
   06 Dec 25 08:41:13   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, sci.math   
   From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 12/6/25 4:16 AM, olcott wrote:   
   > On 12/6/2025 1:34 AM, dart200 wrote:   
   >> On 12/5/25 5:31 PM, Richard Damon wrote:   
   >>> On 12/4/25 3:22 AM, dart200 wrote:   
   >>>> keep in mind: all real TMs exist, undecidable machines do not exist.   
   >>>   
   >>> But "Undecidability" isn't about a particular "machine", but about a   
   >>> general problem, a total MAPPING of the (infinite) set of inputs to   
   >>> there respective output. It is the statement that there can not exist   
   >>> a "Program" (as defined by the theory, which are finite definite   
   >>> algorithms) that can recreate the mapping.   
   >>>   
   >>> For halting, every given program is know to either halt or not, the   
   >>> problem is to be able to universally give that answer correctly in   
   >>> finite time. THAT can't be done (universally, i.e. for any possible   
   >>> input machine).   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> see, if we do not have a general halting decider then there must be   
   >>>> some input machine L, which is the first machine in the full   
   >>>> enumeration who's halting semantics cannot be decided up for some   
   >>>> kind of semantics (like halting).   
   >>>   
   >>> No, it means that for every machine in that enumeration, there is a   
   >>> machine that it will give a wrong answer to (or fail to answer), and   
   >>   
   >> let me boil this down:   
   >>   
   >> all "proven" examples of what are actually hypothetical machines that   
   >> could not be decided upon, not only do not exist, they actually could   
   >> not exist... and therefore they *do not* and *will not* come up in a   
   >> full enumeration of machines   
   >>   
   >> so what is the *real* example of a machine that demonstrably cannot be   
   >> decided upon???   
   >>   
   >> if you tell me: look at these hypothetical undecidable machine that   
   >> cannot exist, but from that we can just extrapolate *real* forms of   
   >> such machines that certainly can exist ... ???   
   >>   
   >> but like ok, if ur so certain they *must* exist, what is an example of   
   >> one???   
   >>   
   >> i'm not buying this whole if hypotheticals can be presented, then   
   >> certainly *real* variations of it exist ... where else would   
   >> hypothesizing about something just like fucking imply non-hypothetical   
   >> forms of it actually exist as real constructs???   
   >>   
   >>> what that input machine is, can very well differ depending on which   
   >>> machine in the enumeration you are looking at.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> well, first off: all the proofs for undecidability use purely   
   >>>> hypothetical machines, which then are declared to not exist, so none   
   >>>> of those machines could be *real* machine L.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not "ALL", but the classic one. and the input derived WOULD BE a real   
   >>> machine if the decider it was built on was an actual machine.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> so what is this proposed non-hypothetical *real* machine L that then   
   >>>> cannot be decided?   
   >>>   
   >>> But that isn't the claim. It isn't that there is a specific machine L   
   >>> that can't be decided, and in fact, there can't be such a machine, as   
   >>> there are two poor deciders, we can all Yes, and No, that always   
   >>> answer for every input their given answer, ONE of those MUST be   
   >>> right, so there can not be a single specific machine that all get wrong.   
   >>>   
   >>> That idea is just part of Peter Olcotts stupidity and misunderstanding.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> and could that machine L even exist?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> let's say someone found that limit L and demonstrated this property   
   >>>> that it cannot be decided upon by a halting decider ... but then   
   >>>> next step in undecidable proofs is to declare the machine's non-   
   >>>> existence, because an undecidable machine is also not a   
   >>>> deterministic machine, which ultimately contradicts the fact that   
   >>>> this limit machine L was suppose to actually *exist*, so how could   
   >>>> it ever exist?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> and if the limit machine L does not actually exist, then how are TM   
   >>>> semantics not generally decidable???   
   >>>>   
   >>>> good god guys, it's so tiring arguing against what is seemingly   
   >>>> irreconcilable nonsense. but bring it on my dudes, how do u think   
   >>>> i'm wrong this time???   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> And your problem he is you are working on the wrong problem, because   
   >>> "someone" has spewed out so much misinformaiton that he has reduced   
   >>> the intelligence of the world.   
   >>   
   >> no bro, please read this carefully: these really are my own thots that   
   >> i've mostly developed on my own without much external validation   
   >> anywhere. polcott is an interesting character, but we haven't yet seen   
   >> eye to eye enough for much influence to happen either way   
   >>   
   >> unlike polcott, i'm personally not sure what to do about godel's   
   >> incompleteness, and i'm not making claims about it because it's just   
   >> outside the scope i'm trying to address   
   >>   
   >> i'm trying to address the theory of computing, not math as a whole   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> The problem isn't that some given machine can't be decided if it   
   >>> halts or not, but that for every machine that claims to be a decider,   
   >>> there will be an input for which it gives the wrong answer, or it   
   >>> fails to answers.   
   >>   
   >> i know this is hard to really consider:   
   >>   
   >> what is an example of a *real machine that exists*, where this   
   >> behavior demonstrably happens???   
   >>   
   >> sure you can throw around hypothetical examples of undecidable   
   >> machines all day long, i've spent a lot of time considering them   
   >> myself, probably more than you actually...   
   >>   
   >> but like what about a *real* machine, that *actually exists*???   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Now, a side effect of this fact, it becomes true that there exists   
   >>> some machine/input combinations that we can not know if they halt or   
   >>> not, but another side effect of this is we can't tell if a given   
   >>> machine is one of them, as by definition any machine we can't know if   
   >>> it halts or not, must be non-halting, as any halting machine can be   
   >>> proven to halt, just by running it for enough steps.   
   >>   
   >> honestly richard, i think i just stumbled right into a core   
   >> contradiction baked into the theory of computing that has gone almost   
   >> entirely unnoticed besides a few "cranks" on the internet,   
   >>   
   >> none of which have put it so succinctly like i've done so in the last day   
   >>   
   >   
   > It looks like I am first to have fully refuted the Halting Problem   
   > and Gödel's Incompleteness. They are both in the same paper.   
   >   
   > https://www.researchgate.net/   
   > publication/398375553_Halting_Problem_Proof_Counter-   
   > Example_is_Isomorphic_to_the_Liar_Paradox   
   >   
      
   i'm not really refuting the halting problem there, rather presenting a   
   fundamental contradiction with rejecting the premise of a general   
   halting deciders, namely that non-existent machines would exist   
      
      
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