Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: The philosophy of computation reformulates existing ideas on a new basis --- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:26:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:26:16 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2dbd9b6f7d5f1796d3ffd574bf3f0b27"; logging-data="2271832"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/L/v1H2P3YB/qkc0BuLCXa" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:elRp4m13R2JxG68kiOwqnCB2AW0= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241030-2, 10/30/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3127 On 10/30/2024 6:17 AM, Andy Walker wrote: > On 30/10/2024 03:50, Jeff Barnett wrote: >> You may have noticed that the moron responded to your message in >> less than 10 minutes. Do you think he read the material before >> responding? A good troll would have waited a few hours before >> answering. > >     I doubt whether Peter is either a moron or a troll.  Rather, as > I have previously pointed out, he is playing "Fetch" with anyone who is > prepared to play [which I am not, and nor are most other readers here]. > A troll would perpetrate a somewhat cranky idea and then sit back an > watch everyone else argue to and fro without participating further, other > than to stoke the fires occasionally.  Peter will reply instantly to > anyone who will reply to him.  So, sadly, though less instantly, will > several others.  I suspect they are rather lonely attention seekers, > but as I am not a psychiatrist this is not a professional opinion. > void DDD() { HHH(DDD); return; } *That people fail to agree with this and also fail to* *correctly point out any error seems to indicate dishonestly* *or lack of technical competence* DDD emulated by HHH according to the semantics of the x86 language cannot possibly reach its own "return" instruction whether or not any HHH ever aborts its emulation of DDD. -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer