Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dbush Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: HHH(DDD) correctly determines the halt status of its input according to this specification Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 17:16:09 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: <100316p$2mbr6$10@dont-email.me> References: <1001fms$29d3f$1@dont-email.me> <1002l5k$2ke1m$1@dont-email.me> <1002pj0$2ldvf$1@dont-email.me> <1002q95$2le74$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 23:16:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="794812149fd3df87a1483ec84874242e"; logging-data="2830182"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+hov2HVfREFK09faV7QDbE" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:uRg0y9GV1LqPfRWHXgQueTX1AVY= In-Reply-To: <1002q95$2le74$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US On 5/14/2025 3:17 PM, olcott wrote: > On 5/14/2025 2:06 PM, Mike Terry wrote: >> On 14/05/2025 18:50, Mike Terry wrote: >>> On 14/05/2025 08:11, vallor wrote: >>>> Spent a couple of hours reading back the last few days of posts. >>>> Huboy, >>>> what a train wreck.  (But like a train wreck, it's hard to look >>>> away, which might explain how this has been going on for 20(?) years.) >>>> >>>> I want to thank both Richard's, wij, dbush, Mike, Keith, Fred, >>>> Mikko, and anybody else I've forgotten for trying to explain to >>>> Mr. Olcott and Mr. Flibble how you all see their claims.  I wanted to >>>> point out three things: >>>> >>>> a) Mr. Olcott claims his HHH simulator detects an non-terminating >>>> input and halts.  But others (I forget who) report that -- due >>>> to a bug -- D would actually terminate on its own.  His HHH >>>> simulator therefore gives the wrong answer. >>> >>> Not really due to a bug.  D actually /does/ terminate on its own, and >>> that's a consequence of PO's intended design.  (Yes, there are bugs, >>> but D's coding is what PO intended.) >>> >> Hmm, I thought some more about this.  What's considered a bug (rather >> than e.g. a design error) is entirely dependent on the program's >> specification. > > void DDD() > { >   HHH(DDD); >   return; > } > > >     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 > And *yet again* you lie by implying Sipser agrees with your interpretation of the above when definitive proof has been repeatedly provided that he did not: On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 2:41:27 PM UTC-5, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > I exchanged emails with him about this. He does not agree with anything > substantive that PO has written. I won't quote him, as I don't have > permission, but he was, let's say... forthright, in his reply to me. Your dishonesty knows no bounds.