Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.quux.org!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Damon Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Incorrect requirements --- Computing the mapping from the input to HHH(DD) Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 22:38:18 -0400 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <8fdac931ef3b717fd740dced158a2e54a2486748@i2pn2.org> References: <11cc09876004107c47467b9481f614f45f450f2c.camel@gmail.com> <674a661e498281cca55b322cbd5905a1988a6171.camel@gmail.com> <088556c03067d8de7184bf88dd01cc6b8c99ba1b.camel@gmail.com> <09cea75db07408dc9203aca3fb74408ad3a095b4.camel@gmail.com> <853816e160c7b3fe75c71f0728e72989d9fb2e41.camel@gmail.com> <87cycdojyq.fsf@bsb.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 03:53:49 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="124170"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="diqKR1lalukngNWEqoq9/uFtbkm5U+w3w6FQ0yesrXg"; User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 On 5/12/25 1:23 PM, olcott wrote: > On 5/12/2025 11:46 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> wij writes: >> >>> On Sat, 2025-05-10 at 20:56 -0500, olcott wrote: >>>> On 5/10/2025 8:44 PM, wij wrote: >> ... >>>>> Try to convert it to TM language to know you know nothing. >> ... >>>>> To refute the HP, you need to understand what it exactly means in TM. >>>> >>>> I have known this for 22 years. >>> >>> A working TM. Build it explicitly from transition function, then explain >>> your derivation. You know nothing. >> >> He did, in 2018, claim to have exactly such a thing: >> >>    "Everyone has claimed that H on input pair (Ĥ, Ĥ) meeting the Linz >>    specs does not exist. I now have a fully encoded pair of Turing >>    Machines H / Ĥ proving them wrong." >> >>    "I [...] encoded all of the exact TMD instructions of the Linz Turing >>    machine H that correctly decides halting for its fully encoded input >>    pair: (Ĥ, Ĥ)." >> >>    "I provide the exact ⊢* wildcard states after the Linz H.q0 and after >>    Ĥ.qx (Linz incorrectly uses q0 twice) showing exactly how the actual >>    Linz H would correctly decide the actual Linz (Ĥ, Ĥ)." >> >> Of course, no such "fully encoded Turing Machines" were ever produced. >> He spent months rowing back this claim, eventually settling on the >> notion that he was using "poetic licence" rather than admit he was wrong. >> > > >     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 > >     H can abort its simulation of D and correctly report that D >     specifies a non-halting sequence of configurations. > > > On 10/17/2022 10:23 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > > ...D(D) would not halt unless H stops the simulation. > > H /can/ correctly determine this silly criterion (in this one case)... > > Which means the correct simulation of the exact input D that was given to H, which WILL use the algorithm of that H, so if H ultimately return non-halting, as you claim is correct, then the correct emulation (which isn't done by H) will show that, and thus H is wrong. Your problem is your "D" ends up not being the required program, and neither is your H. Thus, your whole argument is based on category errors and lies.