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   olcott to Richard Damon   
   Re: Very simple first principles showing   
   10 Dec 25 20:19:47   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, comp.ai.philosophy, sci.math   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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