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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: DDD simulated by HHH cannot possibly halt (Halting Problem)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:59:25 -0500
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On 4/13/2025 3:54 AM, joes wrote:
> Am Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:56:32 -0500 schrieb olcott:
>> On 4/11/2025 3:24 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> On 11/04/2025 08:57, Mikko wrote:
> 
>>>> No proof of this principle has been shown so its use is not valid.
>>>
>>> No proof of Peano's axioms or Euclid's fifth postulate has been shown.
>>> That doesn't mean we can't use them.
>>> Mr Olcott can have his principle if he likes, but only by EITHER
>>> proving it (which, as you say, he has not yet done) OR by taking it as
>>> axiomatic, leaving the world of mainstream computer science behind him,
>>> constructing his own computational 'geometry' so to speak, and
>>> abandoning any claim to having overturned the Halting Problem. Navel
>>> contemplation beckons.
>>> Axioms are all very well, and he's free to invent as many as he wishes,
>>> but nobody else is obliged to accept them.
>>>
>> *Simulating termination analyzer Principle*
>> It is always correct for any simulating termination analyzer to stop
>> simulating and reject any input that would otherwise prevent its own
>> termination.
> Sure. Why doesn’t the STA simulate itself rejecting its input?
> 

Because that is a STUPID idea and categorically impossible
because the outermost HHH sees its needs to stop simulating
before any inner HHH can possibly see this.

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