Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Ben fails to understand Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:06:56 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <8735bpq5jh.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <667d8d81cab22f1619657d4db28f52ffd5d3c2cc@i2pn2.org> <99e374c37feadfc0a36fec61f19b780a0de7a7e7@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:06:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8ec8ab09a9c087279b96ae2505557d8c"; logging-data="2976975"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX180nfecIpRdyfhxijLOTXHQ" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:rm8ti0+i+lMjijTGPS12545iOBQ= In-Reply-To: <99e374c37feadfc0a36fec61f19b780a0de7a7e7@i2pn2.org> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3167 On 7/4/2024 11:05 AM, Richard Damon wrote: > On 7/4/24 11:40 AM, olcott wrote: >> On 7/4/2024 10:14 AM, joes wrote: >>> Am Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:25:29 -0500 schrieb olcott: >>>> On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>>>> Python writes: >>>>>>     [comment: as D halts, the simulation is faulty, Pr. Sipser has >>>>>> been >>>>>>      fooled by Olcott shell game confusion "pretending to >>>>>> simulate" and >>>>>>      "correctly simulate"] >>>>> I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H (it's >>>>> trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines that P(P) >>>>> *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.  He knows and accepts >>>>> that >>>>> P(P) actually does stop.  The wrong answer is justified by what would >>>>> happen if H (and hence a different P) where not what they actually >>>>> are. >>> You seem to like this quote. Do you agree with it? >>> >> >> >>      If simulating halt decider H correctly simulates its input D >>      until H correctly determines that its simulated D would never >>      stop running unless aborted then >> >>      H can abort its simulation of D and correctly report that D >>      specifies a non-halting sequence of configurations. >> >> >> The first half of the quote agrees that the Sisper approved >> criteria has been met, thus unless professor Sipser is wrong >> H is correct to reject D as non-halting. >> > > Nope. Since you LIE about what Professor Sipser means by the first part, > you are shown to be just a stupid liar. > Ben agreed that the first part has been met therefore the second part entailed. -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer