Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Simulation vs. Execution in the Halting Problem Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 14:44:59 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: <101njbr$7qau$2@dont-email.me> References: <101a7uv$3vfam$5@dont-email.me> <101br7m$db03$1@dont-email.me> <101cjk7$hfof$7@dont-email.me> <101e8ak$vhu7$1@dont-email.me> <101etan$14dr4$2@dont-email.me> <101fbth$173bb$13@dont-email.me> <101fcgj$19e5f$2@dont-email.me> <101fia9$1cj4h$1@dont-email.me> <101fl5a$1dfmq$1@dont-email.me> <101fvok$1gaq8$1@dont-email.me> <101g68s$1i7tb$1@dont-email.me> <101g7ph$1iik6$1@dont-email.me> <101gaht$1j464$1@dont-email.me> <101ghl0$1p48p$1@dont-email.me> <101gjb3$1p7o2$1@dont-email.me> <101hsdt$2806l$1@dont-email.me> <101lodi$3pbm3$1@dont-email.me> <101mqoh$2ji$1@dont-email.me> <101n4t1$3oc4$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:45:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f7236405f11469ad97f9c31a5094e4ab"; logging-data="256350"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18WXqlW8ttqVoUgMzhhX2a3" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:aj9iYOIv6ZVj8UvcwvNR8Q3y9HM= Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250603-0, 6/2/2025), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: <101n4t1$3oc4$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 3249 On 6/3/2025 10:38 AM, Mike Terry wrote: > On 03/06/2025 13:45, dbush wrote: >> On 6/2/2025 10:58 PM, Mike Terry wrote: >>> Even if presented with /direct observations/ contradicting his >>> position, PO can (will) just invent new magical thinking that only he >>> is smart enough to understand, in order to somehow justify his busted >>> intuitions. >> >> My favorite is that the directly executed D(D) doesn't halt even >> though it looks like it does: >> >> >> On 1/24/24 19:18, olcott wrote: >>  > The directly executed D(D) reaches a final state and exits normally. >>  > BECAUSE ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE SAME COMPUTATION HAS BEEN ABORTED, >>  > Thus meeting the correct non-halting criteria if any step of >>  > a computation must be aborted to prevent its infinite execution >>  > then this computation DOES NOT HALT (even if it looks like it does). > > Right - magical thinking. > Like I said until you pay enough attention it may seem that way. I know that I am correct because I can see all of the details of a semantic tautology. void DDD() { HHH(DDD); return; } The *input* to simulating termination analyzer HHH(DDD) specifies recursive simulation that can never reach its *simulated "return" instruction final halt state* *Every rebuttal to this changes the words* -- Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer