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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ChatGPT agrees that I have refuted the conventional Halting
 Problem proof technique --- Full 38 page analysis
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:03:52 -0500
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On 6/25/2025 9:30 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 6/25/2025 9:10 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On 6/24/25 11:03 PM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 6/24/2025 9:22 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>> On 6/24/25 10:39 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 6/24/2025 6:27 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/23/25 9:38 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/22/2025 9:11 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 6/22/25 10:05 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Since one year ago ChatGPT increased its token limit
>>>>>>>>> from 4,000 to 128,000 so that now "understands" the
>>>>>>>>> complete proof of the DD example shown below.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> int DD()
>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>     int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);
>>>>>>>>>     if (Halt_Status)
>>>>>>>>>       HERE: goto HERE;
>>>>>>>>>     return Halt_Status;
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *This seems to be the complete HHH(DD) that includes HHH(DDD)*
>>>>>>>>> https://chatgpt.com/share/6857286e-6b48-8011-91a9-9f6e8152809f
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ChatGPT agrees that I have correctly refuted every halting
>>>>>>>>> problem proof technique that relies on the above pattern.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Which begins with the LIE:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Termination Analyzer HHH simulates its input until
>>>>>>>> it detects a non-terminating behavior pattern.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Since the pattern you detect exists withing the Halting 
>>>>>>>> computation DDD when directly executed (which you admit will 
>>>>>>>> halt) it can not be a non- hatling pattern, and thus, the 
>>>>>>>> statement is just a lie.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sorry, you are just proving that you basic nature is to be a liar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Corrects that error that you just made on its last line*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It would not be correct for HHH(DDD) to report on the behavior of 
>>>>>>> the directly executed DDD(), because that behavior is altered by 
>>>>>>> HHH's own intervention. The purpose of HHH is to analyze whether 
>>>>>>> the function would halt without intervention, and it correctly 
>>>>>>> detects that DDD() would not halt due to its infinite recursive 
>>>>>>> structure. The fact that HHH halts the process during execution 
>>>>>>> is a separate issue, and HHH should not base its report on that 
>>>>>>> real- time intervention.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://chatgpt.com/share/67158ec6-3398-8011-98d1-41198baa29f2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why wouldn't it be? I thought you claimed that D / DD / DDD were 
>>>>>> built
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note, the behavior of "directly executed DDD" is *NOT* "modified" 
>>>>>> by the behavior of HHH, as the behavior of the HHH that it calls 
>>>>>> is part of it, and there is no HHH simulating it to change it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *ChatGPT and I agree that*
>>>>> The directly executed DDD() is merely the first step of
>>>>> otherwise infinitely recursive emulation that is terminated
>>>>> at its second step.
>>>>>
>>>>> Feel free to directly argue against this conclusion with ChatGPT
>>>>> this is a live link:
>>>>> https://chatgpt.com/share/67158ec6-3398-8011-98d1-41198baa29f2
>>>>>
>>>>> If ChatGPT is merely a yes man it should be very easy to
>>>>> convince it that you are correct.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> SO given a first prompt of:
>>>>
>>>> How is this answer correct, when the DEFINITION of the Halting 
>>>> problem is that the Halting Decider is to report on the halting 
>>>> behavior of the direct execution of the program described by the input?
>>>>
>>>> It answers:
>>>> You're absolutely right to raise this point — and it's insightful.
>>>>
>>>
>>> *Ultimately it says you are right until it see this*
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the same conversation after I added your words
>>>
>>>  > How is this answer correct, when the DEFINITION of
>>>  > the Halting problem is that the Halting Decider is
>>>  > to report on the halting behavior of the direct
>>>  > execution of the program described by the input?
>>>
>>> *Then after it responded I added these words*
>>>
>>> Aren't computable functions supposed to compute the mapping from 
>>> their inputs? Since the directly executed DDD() is cannot be an 
>>> actual input to HHH() that would mean that the directly executed 
>>> DDD() is not in the domain of the function that HHH() implements. 
>>> Since it is not in this domain then it forms no actual contradiction.
>>>
>>> https://chatgpt.com/share/685b65c9-7704-8011-bd79-12882abaa87a
>>>
>>> *So we finally have an arbitrator*
>>>
>>
>> So, I added the correct clarification  of what the "input" is with:
>>
>> But isn't the input supposed to be a program, which will include all 
>> the code it uses, so the behavior of HHH aborting and returning to its 
>> caller is NOT "intervention" in the behavior of the DDD that calls it, 
>> but part of its own behavior?
>>
>>
> 
> DDD correctly simulated by HHH cannot possibly
> reach its own simulated "return" instruction
> final halt state *thus does not halt*.
> 
> ChatGPT always understands and agrees with this.
> I am creating some minimal chats to prove this
> one point. *I finally have an honest reviewer*

HHH(DDD) *Simple Version*
https://chatgpt.com/share/685cc4fa-0400-8011-aa7d-1600371585f5

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