Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Everyone here seems to consistently lie about this Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 05:57:49 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:57:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="49c3b1279a491a49cbaeec74f647ee34"; logging-data="2936775"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Jjo4yVloWBGjQPcjdnNuR" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vuf4OrsKdjJn4EK3ixNLdlWrr7U= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3265 On 8/2/2024 3:24 AM, Fred. Zwarts wrote: > Op 02.aug.2024 om 04:09 schreef olcott: >> *This algorithm is used by all the simulating termination analyzers* >> >>      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. >> > > No problem to agree with that. The only problem is that no correct > simulation has been shown. So this does not help you. > >> >> DDD is correctly emulated by HHH according to the x86 >> language semantics of DDD and HHH including when DDD >> emulates itself emulating DDD >> >> *UNTIL* > > Indeed, until it deviates from the semantics of the x86 language. > >> >> HHH correctly determines that never aborting this >> emulation would cause DDD and HHH to endlessly repeat. > > No, HHH thinks that two recursions is enough to decide that there is an > infinite recursion, It fails to see that one cycle later the simulation > would halt without abort. You must be an actual moon. When every HHH waits on the next one none of them ever abort. > So, the abort is premature. It skips the last few instructions of the > program, hiding in this way that the simulation would halt. > In other words, HHH cannot possibly simulate itself correctly. > > Olcott really, really wants it to be correct, but he has no evidence for > it, but he thinks that ignoring the errors that have been pointed out > helps. He also thinks that repeating many times without evidence that it > is correct will make it correct. > He keeps dreaming that the HHH that does not halt, plays a role in the > simulation of a HHH that aborts and halts. > But dreams are no substitute for fact, nor for logic. -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer