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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: Re: HHH(DD) --- COMPUTE ACTUAL MAPPING FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:03:08 +0100
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On 16/04/2025 01:38, olcott wrote:
> It is moronic that people insist on ignoring
> the pathological relationship that DD specifies that changes the
> behavior of DD to make this behavior DIFFERENT THAN THE BEHAVIOR
> OF THE DIRECT EXECUTION !!!

It doesn't matter. It only matters whether it gets the answer 
right, which it can't (if you are correctly modelling the problem 
correctly) because the Halting Problem is essentially a trick 
problem for which there's /no/ right answer. "A strange game", as 
Joshua said. "The only winning move is not to play."

One other point - the people you're talking to are /not/ morons. 
They are intelligent, educated people who are doing their best to 
help you around your evident misunderstanding of the Halting 
Problem. You may believe them to be mistaken, but to continue to 
treat them with disdain is not the best way to retain your 
audience and suggests to the world at large that you're a 
lightweight who never outgrew adolescence.

Please, for your own sake, try growing up. Learn to treat your 
interlocutors with a little common decency, and think about what 
they're telling you. Truth is not a democracy, but when a lot of 
very smart people tell you you're wrong and /no/body has come on 
board, it's time to think long and hard about your position.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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