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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hypothetical possibilities V2
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:32:36 -0500
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On 7/23/2024 2:20 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 2024-07-22 16:08:31 +0000, olcott said:
> 
>> void DDD()
>> {
>>    HHH(DDD);
>>    return;
>> }
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>>    HHH(DDD);
>> }
>>
>> Of the two hypothetical possible ways that HHH can be encoded:
>> (a) HHH(DDD) is encoded to abort its simulation.
>> (b) HHH(DDD) is encoded to never abort its simulation.
>>
>> We can know that (b) is wrong because this fails to meet the design 
>> requirement that HHH must itself halt.
>>
>> We also know that any simulation that must be aborted to prevent the 
>> infinite execution of the simulator is necessarily a non-halting input.
> 
> What was wrong in the original "Hypothetical possibilities"?
> How is V2 fixed?
> 

I don't know. One of the readers got confused so I rewrote it.

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