• Re: Proof that DDD specifies non-halting behavior --- Mike is not payin

    From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat Aug 17 12:33:05 2024
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 22:03, Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 8/16/2024 2:11 PM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 07:57, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
            <BIG SNIP>
    It is clear that olcott does not really read what I write. (Or is
    very short of memory.)
    I never said such a thing.
    I repeatedly told that the simulating HHH aborted when the
    simulated HHH had only one cycle to go. I never said that the
    simulated HHH reached it abort and halted.
    In fact, I said that the fact that the simulation fails to reach
    the abort and halt of the simulated HHH proves that the simulation
    is incomplete and incorrect, because a complete simulation (such as
    by HHH1) shows that the simulated HHH would abort and halt.

    It now becomes clear that you either never understood what I said,
    or your memory is indeed very short.
    Give it some time to think about what I say, try to escape from
    rebuttal mode, instead of ignoring it immediately.

    That's all correct.  Going further I'll suggest that PO really
    doesn't "understand" /anything/ with an abstract / logical /
    mathematical content.  He can't understand definitions or their role
    in proofs, or the role of proofs in establishing knowledge.  I'm not
    kidding or being rude or anything like that - it's simply the way
    his brain works.  *Of course* PO does not "really read what you
    write". Surely you must have at least suspected this for a long
    time?!  [I don't notice any problem with PO's memory.]

    For PO it's all just "things he thinks are true", aka his
    intuitions. Those will not change as a result of any reasoning
    presented to him, because, literally, PO does not register any
    reasoning going on. It's impossible to fully imagine "what it's like
    to be PO", just like a seeing person can't /truly/ imagine how say a
    blind person or schizophrenic perceives the world - but as a
    starter, imagine you're hearing a foreign language and don't
    understand the words being used. OK, you recognise the odd word
    through repetition, and over time you've formed your own (incomplete
    and often incorrect) opinions of "what the words are to do with",
    but that's all.  You convince yourself you understand "what the
    words actually mean" but that's a delusion!  When people reply to
    what you say, you don't "understand" what they're really saying.
    ok, you recognise some of the keywords, and can tell from the tone
    of the reply whether they are agreeing or disagreeing with you, but
    that's about it!  You recognise some of the common objections people
    bring up, and over time you've developed stock phrases to repeat
    back to them, but there's no "logic" involved.  You don't think all
    this is strange, because it's always been this way for you.  You
    don't even realise it's different for everybody else...

    The analogy isn't perfect, because as a foreigner you would still be
    fully capable of reasoning, and you would realise that you don't
    understand key points and so on.  Instead of a lack of language
    understanding, the analogy should use a "lack of reasoning ability"
    theme or something equally fundamental, but that's not a common
    situation people can appreciate - practically /everybody/ in our
    lives that we interact with has an ability to reason correctly,
    understand definitions, understand what people are saying to them
    and what their beliefs are etc..  But PO is really not like all
    those normal people!

    If you expect to suddenly convince PO he is wrong, that won't
    happen. How to dispell a false intuition without using reasoning?
    If you expect to prove that PO is wrong, hey that's easy enough, but
    not really needed!  Nobody with any understanding of HP problem is
    taken in by PO's duffer speak.  Eventually most posters just get
    bored repeating the same explanations to him over and over, and umm
    stop doing it.  [It can take years to get tothat point...]

    Perhaps a case could be made that continually demanding PO "proves"
    his claims is a form of "cruel and unusual punishment" as everybody
    here by now must appreciate that's far beyond his intellectual
    capabilities.  Or as a worst case, perhaps it might be compared with
    "taunting" a mentally handicapped (or at least mentally ill) person,
    which is obviously not nice at all.  But PO will not recognise that
    he is in that position, and the "taunters" only suspect, rather than
    truly believe, that this is in fact the scenario.  So no harm done
    perhaps.

    I think other posters here must wonder about this from time to time,
    but the thought makes them uncomfortable - if PO really /can't/
    reason like normal people, then what would be the /point/ in
    constantly arguing [note: arguing, not debating/discussing] all this
    with him over and over and over?  This brings into question their
    own behaviour...  Easier perhaps to fall back on lazy thinking and
    just call him a liar, lazy, willfully ignorant and so on.

    Perhaps the kindest approach would just be to let him get on with
    it? For PO, I feel he has abandoned his life plan of publishing his
    claims in a peer reviewed journal.  Instead I think he has settled
    for maintaining/reinforcing his delusions of geniushood for whatever
    time remains in his life.

    I know some will not like this approach - PO is not a nice person;
    he is arrogant, self deluded, and insults posters to say nothing of
    those such as Turing/Godel/Tarski who have spent their lives
    thinking deeply about things and carefully developing their ideas.
    It may seem Wrong that PO could live his life casually insulting
    such people, and then die without getting any come-uppance; it's
    just ... not ... fair !!!  :)

    I understand that, but suggest that none of that really matters.
    People cannot change PO into something that he isn't.  When he dies,
    his mistakes will be quickly forgotten and the world will just
    carries on. No harm done...
    I agree with virtually every word you wrote above. However, I think
    there is another ingredient mixed into PO that should not be
    overlooked: he is extraordinarily lonesome. He is not a nice person,
    as you have observed, and the way his mind works precludes rational
    and/or friendly conversation. So he has no friends and he both wants
    human contact (even electronically - how modern) and to pay back
    those who shun him and treat him as the mental defective that he
    probably is.

    So this is his social life; all of it. It is also the torture chamber
    and in his mind he's the dungeon master. His method of torturing all
    others is never providing positive feedback to those who want to help
    improve him. Besides himself, most of the other long term
    participants in these forums think of themselves as white nights. And
    they are thwarted at every turn and that makes them try harder so PO
    wins every encounter in the end.

    Yes, PO must have a pretty solitary life with little real social contact.

    You're right about the "white night" thing.  Initially it's reasonable
    that people encountering PO think they can help him simply by
    explaining his mistakes.  That was my first thought too.  But over
    time most people come to realise their continued involvement wrt PO
    achieves nothing useful whatsoever.  That's not to say there are /no/
    good reasons for continued involvement.  A case in point would be
    Richard, who has said he is of an age where he believes continually
    correcting PO's errors is a way of keeping his mind active, and I
    don't think he expects anything he is doing will "help" PO, or even
    help other readers.

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious about
    the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I just
    enjoy mucking about with different code hence my curiosity. Also I
    have the white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions that I can
    help PO. Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on groups like
    alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically students who were
    motivated to learn and so listened to what the regulars had to say.
    Compare that to sci.math which has almost no students, and instead has
    dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely /not/ to learn anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit of
    others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that weeks of
    time are being wasted /through some simple miscommunication/ with PO.
    I've been around longer than the current (relative) newcommers [not as
    long as you and Ben I think], so I have more context for what PO is
    trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines
    that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.


    *This is a simpler version that*
    *defines correctly simulated in*
    *a way that has no correct rebuttal*

    void DDD()
    {
      HHH(DDD);
    }

    _DDD()
    [00002172] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
    [00002173] 8bec       mov ebp,esp   ; housekeeping
    [00002175] 6872210000 push 00002172 ; push DDD
    [0000217a] e853f4ffff call 000015d2 ; call HHH(DDD)
    [0000217f] 83c404     add esp,+04
    [00002182] 5d         pop ebp
    [00002183] c3         ret
    Size in bytes:(0018) [00002183]

    *It is a basic fact that DDD emulated by HHH according to*
    *the semantics of the x86 language cannot possibly stop*
    *running unless aborted* (out of memory error excluded)

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
        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.
    </MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>


    Which is just a repeating of the lies that have been disproven, showing
    that you don't understand the words you say,

    The input DDD can't be just those bytes, or it is just a category error.

    And H can't correctly determine that result, because that isn't what
    actually happens if H attempts to presume it can use the second
    paragraph, as the first aragraph pertains to the dertmination of the
    full program behavior of DDD, including the effects that might happen if
    the H is uses tries to use that second paragraph, since that *IS* the H
    that it calls.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat Aug 17 12:53:34 2024
    On 8/17/24 12:37 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 22:03, Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 8/16/2024 2:11 PM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 07:57, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
            <BIG SNIP>
    It is clear that olcott does not really read what I write. (Or is >>>>>>> very short of memory.)
    I never said such a thing.
    I repeatedly told that the simulating HHH aborted when the
    simulated HHH had only one cycle to go. I never said that the
    simulated HHH reached it abort and halted.
    In fact, I said that the fact that the simulation fails to reach >>>>>>> the abort and halt of the simulated HHH proves that the
    simulation is incomplete and incorrect, because a complete
    simulation (such as by HHH1) shows that the simulated HHH would
    abort and halt.

    It now becomes clear that you either never understood what I
    said, or your memory is indeed very short.
    Give it some time to think about what I say, try to escape from
    rebuttal mode, instead of ignoring it immediately.

    That's all correct.  Going further I'll suggest that PO really
    doesn't "understand" /anything/ with an abstract / logical /
    mathematical content.  He can't understand definitions or their
    role in proofs, or the role of proofs in establishing knowledge.
    I'm not kidding or being rude or anything like that - it's simply
    the way his brain works.  *Of course* PO does not "really read
    what you write". Surely you must have at least suspected this for
    a long time?!  [I don't notice any problem with PO's memory.]

    For PO it's all just "things he thinks are true", aka his
    intuitions. Those will not change as a result of any reasoning
    presented to him, because, literally, PO does not register any
    reasoning going on. It's impossible to fully imagine "what it's
    like to be PO", just like a seeing person can't /truly/ imagine
    how say a blind person or schizophrenic perceives the world - but
    as a starter, imagine you're hearing a foreign language and don't
    understand the words being used. OK, you recognise the odd word
    through repetition, and over time you've formed your own
    (incomplete and often incorrect) opinions of "what the words are
    to do with", but that's all.  You convince yourself you understand >>>>>> "what the words actually mean" but that's a delusion!  When people >>>>>> reply to what you say, you don't "understand" what they're really
    saying. ok, you recognise some of the keywords, and can tell from
    the tone of the reply whether they are agreeing or disagreeing
    with you, but that's about it!  You recognise some of the common
    objections people bring up, and over time you've developed stock
    phrases to repeat back to them, but there's no "logic" involved.
    You don't think all this is strange, because it's always been this >>>>>> way for you.  You don't even realise it's different for everybody >>>>>> else...

    The analogy isn't perfect, because as a foreigner you would still
    be fully capable of reasoning, and you would realise that you
    don't understand key points and so on.  Instead of a lack of
    language understanding, the analogy should use a "lack of
    reasoning ability" theme or something equally fundamental, but
    that's not a common situation people can appreciate - practically
    /everybody/ in our lives that we interact with has an ability to
    reason correctly, understand definitions, understand what people
    are saying to them and what their beliefs are etc..  But PO is
    really not like all those normal people!

    If you expect to suddenly convince PO he is wrong, that won't
    happen. How to dispell a false intuition without using reasoning?
    If you expect to prove that PO is wrong, hey that's easy enough,
    but not really needed!  Nobody with any understanding of HP
    problem is taken in by PO's duffer speak.  Eventually most posters >>>>>> just get bored repeating the same explanations to him over and
    over, and umm stop doing it.  [It can take years to get tothat
    point...]

    Perhaps a case could be made that continually demanding PO
    "proves" his claims is a form of "cruel and unusual punishment" as >>>>>> everybody here by now must appreciate that's far beyond his
    intellectual capabilities.  Or as a worst case, perhaps it might
    be compared with "taunting" a mentally handicapped (or at least
    mentally ill) person, which is obviously not nice at all.  But PO >>>>>> will not recognise that he is in that position, and the "taunters" >>>>>> only suspect, rather than truly believe, that this is in fact the
    scenario.  So no harm done perhaps.

    I think other posters here must wonder about this from time to
    time, but the thought makes them uncomfortable - if PO really /
    can't/ reason like normal people, then what would be the /point/
    in constantly arguing [note: arguing, not debating/discussing] all >>>>>> this with him over and over and over?  This brings into question
    their own behaviour...  Easier perhaps to fall back on lazy
    thinking and just call him a liar, lazy, willfully ignorant and so >>>>>> on.

    Perhaps the kindest approach would just be to let him get on with
    it? For PO, I feel he has abandoned his life plan of publishing
    his claims in a peer reviewed journal.  Instead I think he has
    settled for maintaining/reinforcing his delusions of geniushood
    for whatever time remains in his life.

    I know some will not like this approach - PO is not a nice person; >>>>>> he is arrogant, self deluded, and insults posters to say nothing
    of those such as Turing/Godel/Tarski who have spent their lives
    thinking deeply about things and carefully developing their ideas. >>>>>> It may seem Wrong that PO could live his life casually insulting
    such people, and then die without getting any come-uppance; it's
    just ... not ... fair !!!  :)

    I understand that, but suggest that none of that really matters.
    People cannot change PO into something that he isn't.  When he
    dies, his mistakes will be quickly forgotten and the world will
    just carries on. No harm done...
    I agree with virtually every word you wrote above. However, I think
    there is another ingredient mixed into PO that should not be
    overlooked: he is extraordinarily lonesome. He is not a nice
    person, as you have observed, and the way his mind works precludes
    rational and/or friendly conversation. So he has no friends and he
    both wants human contact (even electronically - how modern) and to
    pay back those who shun him and treat him as the mental defective
    that he probably is.

    So this is his social life; all of it. It is also the torture
    chamber and in his mind he's the dungeon master. His method of
    torturing all others is never providing positive feedback to those
    who want to help improve him. Besides himself, most of the other
    long term participants in these forums think of themselves as white
    nights. And they are thwarted at every turn and that makes them try
    harder so PO wins every encounter in the end.

    Yes, PO must have a pretty solitary life with little real social
    contact.

    You're right about the "white night" thing.  Initially it's
    reasonable that people encountering PO think they can help him
    simply by explaining his mistakes.  That was my first thought too.
    But over time most people come to realise their continued
    involvement wrt PO achieves nothing useful whatsoever.  That's not
    to say there are /no/ good reasons for continued involvement.  A
    case in point would be Richard, who has said he is of an age where
    he believes continually correcting PO's errors is a way of keeping
    his mind active, and I don't think he expects anything he is doing
    will "help" PO, or even help other readers.

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious
    about the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I
    just enjoy mucking about with different code hence my curiosity.
    Also I have the white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions that
    I can help PO. Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on groups
    like alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically students who
    were motivated to learn and so listened to what the regulars had to
    say. Compare that to sci.math which has almost no students, and
    instead has dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely /not/ to learn
    anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit
    of others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that
    weeks of time are being wasted /through some simple
    miscommunication/ with PO. I've been around longer than the current
    (relative) newcommers [not as long as you and Ben I think], so I
    have more context for what PO is trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines
    that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.


    *This is a simpler version that*
    *defines correctly simulated in*
    *a way that has no correct rebuttal*

    void DDD()
    {
       HHH(DDD);
    }

    _DDD()
    [00002172] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
    [00002173] 8bec       mov ebp,esp   ; housekeeping
    [00002175] 6872210000 push 00002172 ; push DDD
    [0000217a] e853f4ffff call 000015d2 ; call HHH(DDD)
    [0000217f] 83c404     add esp,+04
    [00002182] 5d         pop ebp
    [00002183] c3         ret
    Size in bytes:(0018) [00002183]

    *It is a basic fact that DDD emulated by HHH according to*
    *the semantics of the x86 language cannot possibly stop*
    *running unless aborted* (out of memory error excluded)

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
         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.
    </MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>


    Which is just a repeating of the lies that have been disproven,
    showing that you don't understand the words you say,

    The input DDD can't be just those bytes, or it is just a category error.


    You continue to change the exact words that I actually said
    as your basis of rebuttal.


    But your exact words are just meaningless drivel, based on the idea that
    you are allowed to redefine words to mean something different than what
    they mean.


    For instance, you want the subject phrase "DDD emulated by HHH" to refer
    to the emulation of DDD by HHH, instead of the behavior of the DDD which happens to be emulated by HHH, that behavior being DEFINED as what the
    actual program does, which means it needs to be an actual program, which
    by your setup and claims, it isn't.

    Sorry, but all you are showing is that you don't understand that your
    exact words are just a lie by being non-sense that you claim to be a
    true sentence.

    This just shows how much of an idiot you are.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat Aug 17 13:30:35 2024
    On 8/17/24 1:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious
    about the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I
    just enjoy mucking about with different code hence my curiosity.
    Also I have the white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions that
    I can help PO. Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on groups
    like alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically students who
    were motivated to learn and so listened to what the regulars had to
    say. Compare that to sci.math which has almost no students, and
    instead has dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely /not/ to learn
    anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit
    of others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that
    weeks of time are being wasted /through some simple
    miscommunication/ with PO. I've been around longer than the current
    (relative) newcommers [not as long as you and Ben I think], so I
    have more context for what PO is trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines
    that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    Ben said that my criteria has been met that cannot
    possibly be correctly interpreted to mean that my
    criteria has not been met.


    Nope, again, you don't understand what Ben is saying, because you don't actually understand what you are saying.

    Ben is saying that no D will halt if the H it is calling isn't defined
    to abort its simulation.

    Thus, if H ISN'T a decider in the classical sense, but a meta-program
    that tries to decide on meta-programs that call meta-program, then we
    can conclude that your "template" D will not halt unless its H is
    defined to abort its simulation and return 0.

    But, that is NOT the Halting Problem that you were talking about, as
    that isn't a meta-program taking meta-programs as an input, but is an
    actual program that takes an actual program as an input.

    And if this particular H aborts and returns 0, then this particular D
    will Halt, and thus this particular H was just wrong, as the correct
    behavor of this D IS TO HALT, and doesn't need to be aborted, because
    the H that you have defined aborted a different instantiation of D and
    returns that non-halting answer to THIS instantiation of D, which then
    halts.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat Aug 17 13:24:01 2024
    On 8/17/24 1:05 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:53 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:37 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 22:03, Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 8/16/2024 2:11 PM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 07:57, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
            <BIG SNIP>
    It is clear that olcott does not really read what I write. (Or >>>>>>>>> is very short of memory.)
    I never said such a thing.
    I repeatedly told that the simulating HHH aborted when the
    simulated HHH had only one cycle to go. I never said that the >>>>>>>>> simulated HHH reached it abort and halted.
    In fact, I said that the fact that the simulation fails to
    reach the abort and halt of the simulated HHH proves that the >>>>>>>>> simulation is incomplete and incorrect, because a complete
    simulation (such as by HHH1) shows that the simulated HHH would >>>>>>>>> abort and halt.

    It now becomes clear that you either never understood what I >>>>>>>>> said, or your memory is indeed very short.
    Give it some time to think about what I say, try to escape from >>>>>>>>> rebuttal mode, instead of ignoring it immediately.

    That's all correct.  Going further I'll suggest that PO really >>>>>>>> doesn't "understand" /anything/ with an abstract / logical /
    mathematical content.  He can't understand definitions or their >>>>>>>> role in proofs, or the role of proofs in establishing knowledge. >>>>>>>> I'm not kidding or being rude or anything like that - it's
    simply the way his brain works.  *Of course* PO does not "really >>>>>>>> read what you write". Surely you must have at least suspected
    this for a long time?!  [I don't notice any problem with PO's >>>>>>>> memory.]

    For PO it's all just "things he thinks are true", aka his
    intuitions. Those will not change as a result of any reasoning >>>>>>>> presented to him, because, literally, PO does not register any >>>>>>>> reasoning going on. It's impossible to fully imagine "what it's >>>>>>>> like to be PO", just like a seeing person can't /truly/ imagine >>>>>>>> how say a blind person or schizophrenic perceives the world -
    but as a starter, imagine you're hearing a foreign language and >>>>>>>> don't understand the words being used. OK, you recognise the odd >>>>>>>> word through repetition, and over time you've formed your own
    (incomplete and often incorrect) opinions of "what the words are >>>>>>>> to do with", but that's all.  You convince yourself you
    understand "what the words actually mean" but that's a delusion! >>>>>>>> When people reply to what you say, you don't "understand" what >>>>>>>> they're really saying. ok, you recognise some of the keywords, >>>>>>>> and can tell from the tone of the reply whether they are
    agreeing or disagreeing with you, but that's about it!  You
    recognise some of the common objections people bring up, and
    over time you've developed stock phrases to repeat back to them, >>>>>>>> but there's no "logic" involved. You don't think all this is
    strange, because it's always been this way for you.  You don't >>>>>>>> even realise it's different for everybody else...

    The analogy isn't perfect, because as a foreigner you would
    still be fully capable of reasoning, and you would realise that >>>>>>>> you don't understand key points and so on.  Instead of a lack of >>>>>>>> language understanding, the analogy should use a "lack of
    reasoning ability" theme or something equally fundamental, but >>>>>>>> that's not a common situation people can appreciate -
    practically /everybody/ in our lives that we interact with has >>>>>>>> an ability to reason correctly, understand definitions,
    understand what people are saying to them and what their beliefs >>>>>>>> are etc.. But PO is really not like all those normal people!

    If you expect to suddenly convince PO he is wrong, that won't
    happen. How to dispell a false intuition without using
    reasoning? If you expect to prove that PO is wrong, hey that's >>>>>>>> easy enough, but not really needed!  Nobody with any
    understanding of HP problem is taken in by PO's duffer speak.
    Eventually most posters just get bored repeating the same
    explanations to him over and over, and umm stop doing it.  [It >>>>>>>> can take years to get tothat point...]

    Perhaps a case could be made that continually demanding PO
    "proves" his claims is a form of "cruel and unusual punishment" >>>>>>>> as everybody here by now must appreciate that's far beyond his >>>>>>>> intellectual capabilities.  Or as a worst case, perhaps it might >>>>>>>> be compared with "taunting" a mentally handicapped (or at least >>>>>>>> mentally ill) person, which is obviously not nice at all.  But >>>>>>>> PO will not recognise that he is in that position, and the
    "taunters" only suspect, rather than truly believe, that this is >>>>>>>> in fact the scenario.  So no harm done perhaps.

    I think other posters here must wonder about this from time to >>>>>>>> time, but the thought makes them uncomfortable - if PO really / >>>>>>>> can't/ reason like normal people, then what would be the /point/ >>>>>>>> in constantly arguing [note: arguing, not debating/discussing] >>>>>>>> all this with him over and over and over?  This brings into
    question their own behaviour...  Easier perhaps to fall back on >>>>>>>> lazy thinking and just call him a liar, lazy, willfully ignorant >>>>>>>> and so on.

    Perhaps the kindest approach would just be to let him get on
    with it? For PO, I feel he has abandoned his life plan of
    publishing his claims in a peer reviewed journal.  Instead I
    think he has settled for maintaining/reinforcing his delusions >>>>>>>> of geniushood for whatever time remains in his life.

    I know some will not like this approach - PO is not a nice
    person; he is arrogant, self deluded, and insults posters to say >>>>>>>> nothing of those such as Turing/Godel/Tarski who have spent
    their lives thinking deeply about things and carefully
    developing their ideas. It may seem Wrong that PO could live his >>>>>>>> life casually insulting such people, and then die without
    getting any come- uppance; it's just ... not ... fair !!!  :) >>>>>>>>
    I understand that, but suggest that none of that really matters. >>>>>>>> People cannot change PO into something that he isn't.  When he >>>>>>>> dies, his mistakes will be quickly forgotten and the world will >>>>>>>> just carries on. No harm done...
    I agree with virtually every word you wrote above. However, I
    think there is another ingredient mixed into PO that should not
    be overlooked: he is extraordinarily lonesome. He is not a nice
    person, as you have observed, and the way his mind works
    precludes rational and/or friendly conversation. So he has no
    friends and he both wants human contact (even electronically -
    how modern) and to pay back those who shun him and treat him as
    the mental defective that he probably is.

    So this is his social life; all of it. It is also the torture
    chamber and in his mind he's the dungeon master. His method of
    torturing all others is never providing positive feedback to
    those who want to help improve him. Besides himself, most of the >>>>>>> other long term participants in these forums think of themselves >>>>>>> as white nights. And they are thwarted at every turn and that
    makes them try harder so PO wins every encounter in the end.

    Yes, PO must have a pretty solitary life with little real social
    contact.

    You're right about the "white night" thing.  Initially it's
    reasonable that people encountering PO think they can help him
    simply by explaining his mistakes.  That was my first thought too. >>>>>> But over time most people come to realise their continued
    involvement wrt PO achieves nothing useful whatsoever.  That's not >>>>>> to say there are /no/ good reasons for continued involvement.  A
    case in point would be Richard, who has said he is of an age where >>>>>> he believes continually correcting PO's errors is a way of keeping >>>>>> his mind active, and I don't think he expects anything he is doing >>>>>> will "help" PO, or even help other readers.

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious
    about the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I >>>>>> just enjoy mucking about with different code hence my curiosity.
    Also I have the white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions
    that I can help PO. Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on
    groups like alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically
    students who were motivated to learn and so listened to what the
    regulars had to say. Compare that to sci.math which has almost no
    students, and instead has dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely >>>>>> /not/ to learn anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit >>>>>> of others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that
    weeks of time are being wasted /through some simple
    miscommunication/ with PO. I've been around longer than the
    current (relative) newcommers [not as long as you and Ben I
    think], so I have more context for what PO is trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you
    are just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines >>>>>  > that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.


    *This is a simpler version that*
    *defines correctly simulated in*
    *a way that has no correct rebuttal*

    void DDD()
    {
       HHH(DDD);
    }

    _DDD()
    [00002172] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
    [00002173] 8bec       mov ebp,esp   ; housekeeping
    [00002175] 6872210000 push 00002172 ; push DDD
    [0000217a] e853f4ffff call 000015d2 ; call HHH(DDD)
    [0000217f] 83c404     add esp,+04
    [00002182] 5d         pop ebp
    [00002183] c3         ret
    Size in bytes:(0018) [00002183]

    *It is a basic fact that DDD emulated by HHH according to*
    *the semantics of the x86 language cannot possibly stop*
    *running unless aborted* (out of memory error excluded)

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022> >>>>>      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.
    </MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022> >>>>>

    Which is just a repeating of the lies that have been disproven,
    showing that you don't understand the words you say,

    The input DDD can't be just those bytes, or it is just a category
    error.


    You continue to change the exact words that I actually said
    as your basis of rebuttal.


    But your exact words are just meaningless drivel, based on the idea
    that you are allowed to redefine words to mean something different
    than what they mean.


    Not when you have consistently failed to show the details
    of this execution trace when challenged to do so for three
    years:

    DDD emulated by HHH according the semantics of the x86
    language that does stop without being aborted by HHH.


    But it isn't HHH that makes that correct emulation, as HHH creates only
    a partial emulation.

    And, I can't show the actual correct emulation of DDD until you create
    an HHH that meets your requrement of being a pure function and not use
    any external input.

    Note, If you take your 200 page trace and just change the first couple
    of lines to rather than be of main, are the exact same equivalent of
    DDD, and the instructions of main emulated after HHH returns to be the equivalent instruction of DDD, then that *IS* the correct emulation of
    DDD that shows that it will halt even if THAT EMULATION is not aborted
    (since it wasn't).

    Your problem is you confuse the "DDD emulated by HHH" which is the
    behavior of the program DDD, which is the DDD that HHH was given to
    emulate, with what should be described as "The Emulation of DDD by HHH"
    which would talk of the emulation that HHH die.

    It seems this confusion is INTENTIONAL, as if you make it clear that you
    are only talking of the PARTIAL emulation done by HHH, of course it
    doens't prevent that DDD from halting afterwards, like it does.

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat Aug 17 13:46:44 2024
    On 8/17/24 1:40 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 12:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 1:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious
    about the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I >>>>>> just enjoy mucking about with different code hence my curiosity.
    Also I have the white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions
    that I can help PO. Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on
    groups like alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically
    students who were motivated to learn and so listened to what the
    regulars had to say. Compare that to sci.math which has almost no
    students, and instead has dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely >>>>>> /not/ to learn anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit >>>>>> of others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that
    weeks of time are being wasted /through some simple
    miscommunication/ with PO. I've been around longer than the
    current (relative) newcommers [not as long as you and Ben I
    think], so I have more context for what PO is trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you
    are just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines >>>>>  > that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    Ben said that my criteria has been met that cannot
    possibly be correctly interpreted to mean that my
    criteria has not been met.


    Nope, again, you don't understand what Ben is saying, because you
    don't actually understand what you are saying.

    Ben is saying that no D will halt if the H it is calling isn't defined
    to abort its simulation.


    *More than that is is agreeing that this criteria has been met*

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
        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



    Nope, as explained, Professor Sipser is talking about programs that have program sas inputs and the correct determination of what the program
    that the input will do.

    Since D will Halt if the H it calls returns non-halting, it is
    impossible for that H to correctly determine that a CORRECT (and thus
    complete) simulation of D would never stop running.

    Sorry, you are just proving your stupidity, and that you stupidity
    doesn't understand your stupidity, which makes it the worse kind of
    stupidity.

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sat Aug 17 14:36:59 2024
    On 8/17/24 2:08 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 12:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 1:40 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 12:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 1:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious >>>>>>>> about the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and >>>>>>>> I just enjoy mucking about with different code hence my
    curiosity. Also I have the white night syndrome I guess - but no >>>>>>>> illusions that I can help PO. Most of my early days on Usenet
    were spent on groups like alt.math.undergrad, where posters were >>>>>>>> typically students who were motivated to learn and so listened >>>>>>>> to what the regulars had to say. Compare that to sci.math which >>>>>>>> has almost no students, and instead has dozens of cranks whose >>>>>>>> aim is definitely /not/ to learn anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible
    benefit of others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to >>>>>>>> me that weeks of time are being wasted /through some simple
    miscommunication/ with PO. I've been around longer than the
    current (relative) newcommers [not as long as you and Ben I
    think], so I have more context for what PO is trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you
    are just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H >>>>>>>  > (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines >>>>>>>  > that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    Ben said that my criteria has been met that cannot
    possibly be correctly interpreted to mean that my
    criteria has not been met.


    Nope, again, you don't understand what Ben is saying, because you
    don't actually understand what you are saying.

    Ben is saying that no D will halt if the H it is calling isn't
    defined to abort its simulation.


    *More than that is is agreeing that this criteria has been met*

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
         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



    Nope, as explained, Professor Sipser is talking about programs that
    have program sas inputs and the correct determination of what the
    program that the input will do.


    If you want to get technical professor Sipser was never
    about about programs he was only talking about computable
    functions.

    Can't be, because Computable Functions are just a Mathematical Mapping
    that happen to have a program that computes them. YOu can't give a
    "Function" conputable or not as the input to a decider, only a finite
    string that can represent something, like a program.

    You can't necessarily express a Function, computable or otherwise, as a
    finite string, unless you "compress" it by making a program that
    computes it, and then the input is the program, not the function.

    You are just showing how little you understand what you are talking about.


    In any case Ben did agree that my criteria has been met
    and there is no way to deny this that is not a lie.


    Nope.

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  • From Mikko@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Sun Aug 18 11:23:04 2024
    On 2024-08-17 16:33:05 +0000, Richard Damon said:

    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 22:03, Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 8/16/2024 2:11 PM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 07:57, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
            <BIG SNIP>
    It is clear that olcott does not really read what I write. (Or is very >>>>>> short of memory.)
    I never said such a thing.
    I repeatedly told that the simulating HHH aborted when the simulated >>>>>> HHH had only one cycle to go. I never said that the simulated HHH
    reached it abort and halted.
    In fact, I said that the fact that the simulation fails to reach the >>>>>> abort and halt of the simulated HHH proves that the simulation is
    incomplete and incorrect, because a complete simulation (such as by >>>>>> HHH1) shows that the simulated HHH would abort and halt.

    It now becomes clear that you either never understood what I said, or >>>>>> your memory is indeed very short.
    Give it some time to think about what I say, try to escape from
    rebuttal mode, instead of ignoring it immediately.

    That's all correct.  Going further I'll suggest that PO really doesn't >>>>> "understand" /anything/ with an abstract / logical / mathematical
    content.  He can't understand definitions or their role in proofs, or >>>>> the role of proofs in establishing knowledge.  I'm not kidding or being >>>>> rude or anything like that - it's simply the way his brain works.  *Of >>>>> course* PO does not "really read what you write". Surely you must have >>>>> at least suspected this for a long time?!  [I don't notice any problem >>>>> with PO's memory.]

    For PO it's all just "things he thinks are true", aka his intuitions. >>>>> Those will not change as a result of any reasoning presented to him, >>>>> because, literally, PO does not register any reasoning going on. It's >>>>> impossible to fully imagine "what it's like to be PO", just like a
    seeing person can't /truly/ imagine how say a blind person or
    schizophrenic perceives the world - but as a starter, imagine you're >>>>> hearing a foreign language and don't understand the words being used. >>>>> OK, you recognise the odd word through repetition, and over time you've >>>>> formed your own (incomplete and often incorrect) opinions of "what the >>>>> words are to do with", but that's all.  You convince yourself you
    understand "what the words actually mean" but that's a delusion!  When >>>>> people reply to what you say, you don't "understand" what they're
    really saying. ok, you recognise some of the keywords, and can tell >>>>> from the tone of the reply whether they are agreeing or disagreeing
    with you, but that's about it!  You recognise some of the common
    objections people bring up, and over time you've developed stock
    phrases to repeat back to them, but there's no "logic" involved.  You >>>>> don't think all this is strange, because it's always been this way for >>>>> you.  You don't even realise it's different for everybody else...

    The analogy isn't perfect, because as a foreigner you would still be >>>>> fully capable of reasoning, and you would realise that you don't
    understand key points and so on.  Instead of a lack of language
    understanding, the analogy should use a "lack of reasoning ability"
    theme or something equally fundamental, but that's not a common
    situation people can appreciate - practically /everybody/ in our lives >>>>> that we interact with has an ability to reason correctly, understand >>>>> definitions, understand what people are saying to them and what their >>>>> beliefs are etc..  But PO is really not like all those normal people! >>>>>
    If you expect to suddenly convince PO he is wrong, that won't happen. >>>>> How to dispell a false intuition without using reasoning? If you
    expect to prove that PO is wrong, hey that's easy enough, but not
    really needed!  Nobody with any understanding of HP problem is taken in >>>>> by PO's duffer speak.  Eventually most posters just get bored repeating >>>>> the same explanations to him over and over, and umm stop doing it.  [It >>>>> can take years to get tothat point...]

    Perhaps a case could be made that continually demanding PO "proves" his >>>>> claims is a form of "cruel and unusual punishment" as everybody here by >>>>> now must appreciate that's far beyond his intellectual capabilities.  >>>>> Or as a worst case, perhaps it might be compared with "taunting" a
    mentally handicapped (or at least mentally ill) person, which is
    obviously not nice at all.  But PO will not recognise that he is in >>>>> that position, and the "taunters" only suspect, rather than truly
    believe, that this is in fact the scenario.  So no harm done perhaps. >>>>>
    I think other posters here must wonder about this from time to time, >>>>> but the thought makes them uncomfortable - if PO really /can't/ reason >>>>> like normal people, then what would be the /point/ in constantly
    arguing [note: arguing, not debating/discussing] all this with him over >>>>> and over and over?  This brings into question their own behaviour...  >>>>> Easier perhaps to fall back on lazy thinking and just call him a liar, >>>>> lazy, willfully ignorant and so on.

    Perhaps the kindest approach would just be to let him get on with it? >>>>> For PO, I feel he has abandoned his life plan of publishing his claims >>>>> in a peer reviewed journal.  Instead I think he has settled for
    maintaining/reinforcing his delusions of geniushood for whatever time >>>>> remains in his life.

    I know some will not like this approach - PO is not a nice person; he >>>>> is arrogant, self deluded, and insults posters to say nothing of those >>>>> such as Turing/Godel/Tarski who have spent their lives thinking deeply >>>>> about things and carefully developing their ideas. It may seem Wrong >>>>> that PO could live his life casually insulting such people, and then >>>>> die without getting any come-uppance; it's just ... not ... fair !!!  :) >>>>>
    I understand that, but suggest that none of that really matters. People >>>>> cannot change PO into something that he isn't.  When he dies, his
    mistakes will be quickly forgotten and the world will just carries on. >>>>> No harm done...
    I agree with virtually every word you wrote above. However, I think
    there is another ingredient mixed into PO that should not be
    overlooked: he is extraordinarily lonesome. He is not a nice person, as >>>> you have observed, and the way his mind works precludes rational and/or >>>> friendly conversation. So he has no friends and he both wants human
    contact (even electronically - how modern) and to pay back those who
    shun him and treat him as the mental defective that he probably is.

    So this is his social life; all of it. It is also the torture chamber
    and in his mind he's the dungeon master. His method of torturing all
    others is never providing positive feedback to those who want to help
    improve him. Besides himself, most of the other long term participants >>>> in these forums think of themselves as white nights. And they are
    thwarted at every turn and that makes them try harder so PO wins every >>>> encounter in the end.

    Yes, PO must have a pretty solitary life with little real social contact. >>>
    You're right about the "white night" thing.  Initially it's reasonable
    that people encountering PO think they can help him simply by
    explaining his mistakes.  That was my first thought too.  But over time >>> most people come to realise their continued involvement wrt PO achieves
    nothing useful whatsoever.  That's not to say there are /no/ good
    reasons for continued involvement.  A case in point would be Richard,
    who has said he is of an age where he believes continually correcting
    PO's errors is a way of keeping his mind active, and I don't think he
    expects anything he is doing will "help" PO, or even help other readers. >>>
    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious about
    the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I just enjoy
    mucking about with different code hence my curiosity. Also I have the
    white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions that I can help PO.
    Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on groups like
    alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically students who were
    motivated to learn and so listened to what the regulars had to say.
    Compare that to sci.math which has almost no students, and instead has
    dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely /not/ to learn anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit of
    others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that weeks of
    time are being wasted /through some simple miscommunication/ with PO.
    I've been around longer than the current (relative) newcommers [not as
    long as you and Ben I think], so I have more context for what PO is
    trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines
    that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.


    *This is a simpler version that*
    *defines correctly simulated in*
    *a way that has no correct rebuttal*

    void DDD()
    {
      HHH(DDD);
    }

    _DDD()
    [00002172] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
    [00002173] 8bec       mov ebp,esp   ; housekeeping
    [00002175] 6872210000 push 00002172 ; push DDD
    [0000217a] e853f4ffff call 000015d2 ; call HHH(DDD)
    [0000217f] 83c404     add esp,+04
    [00002182] 5d         pop ebp
    [00002183] c3         ret
    Size in bytes:(0018) [00002183]

    *It is a basic fact that DDD emulated by HHH according to*
    *the semantics of the x86 language cannot possibly stop*
    *running unless aborted* (out of memory error excluded)

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
        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.
    </MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>


    Which is just a repeating of the lies that have been disproven, showing
    that you don't understand the words you say,

    The input DDD can't be just those bytes, or it is just a category error.

    One problem in these discussion is that the term "input" has no formal definition and its informal meaning is vague, like informal meanings
    usually are.

    --
    Mikko

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  • From Mikko@21:1/5 to olcott on Sun Aug 18 12:23:01 2024
    On 2024-08-17 17:40:24 +0000, olcott said:

    On 8/17/2024 12:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 1:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious about >>>>>> the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I just enjoy >>>>>> mucking about with different code hence my curiosity. Also I have the >>>>>> white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions that I can help PO. >>>>>> Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on groups like
    alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically students who were >>>>>> motivated to learn and so listened to what the regulars had to say. >>>>>> Compare that to sci.math which has almost no students, and instead has >>>>>> dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely /not/ to learn anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit of >>>>>> others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that weeks of >>>>>> time are being wasted /through some simple miscommunication/ with PO. >>>>>> I've been around longer than the current (relative) newcommers [not as >>>>>> long as you and Ben I think], so I have more context for what PO is >>>>>> trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines >>>>>  > that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    Ben said that my criteria has been met that cannot
    possibly be correctly interpreted to mean that my
    criteria has not been met.


    Nope, again, you don't understand what Ben is saying, because you don't
    actually understand what you are saying.

    Ben is saying that no D will halt if the H it is calling isn't defined
    to abort its simulation.


    *More than that is is agreeing that this criteria has been met*

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
    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

    That is two criteria. Where did Ben agree with the sencod one?

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    Mikko

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  • From Mikko@21:1/5 to olcott on Sun Aug 18 12:20:59 2024
    On 2024-08-17 17:09:54 +0000, olcott said:

    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:

    For some time at the beginning I continued because I was curious about >>>> the details of what PO had coded (his x86utm program), and I just enjoy >>>> mucking about with different code hence my curiosity. Also I have the
    white night syndrome I guess - but no illusions that I can help PO.
    Most of my early days on Usenet were spent on groups like
    alt.math.undergrad, where posters were typically students who were
    motivated to learn and so listened to what the regulars had to say.
    Compare that to sci.math which has almost no students, and instead has >>>> dozens of cranks whose aim is definitely /not/ to learn anything!

    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit of
    others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that weeks of
    time are being wasted /through some simple miscommunication/ with PO.
    I've been around longer than the current (relative) newcommers [not as >>>> long as you and Ben I think], so I have more context for what PO is
    trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines
    that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    Ben said that my criteria has been met that cannot
    possibly be correctly interpreted to mean that my
    criteria has not been met.

    What Ben said is just an opinion. An opinion does not prove anything.

    --
    Mikko

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sun Aug 18 13:30:17 2024
    On 8/18/24 8:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/18/2024 3:23 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2024-08-17 16:33:05 +0000, Richard Damon said:

    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit
    of others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that
    weeks of time are being wasted /through some simple
    miscommunication/ with PO. I've been around longer than the current
    (relative) newcommers [not as long as you and Ben I think], so I
    have more context for what PO is trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.



    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines
    that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    *This is a simpler version that*
    *defines correctly simulated in*
    *a way that has no correct rebuttal*

    void DDD()
    {
      HHH(DDD);
    }

    _DDD()
    [00002172] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
    [00002173] 8bec       mov ebp,esp   ; housekeeping
    [00002175] 6872210000 push 00002172 ; push DDD
    [0000217a] e853f4ffff call 000015d2 ; call HHH(DDD)
    [0000217f] 83c404     add esp,+04
    [00002182] 5d         pop ebp
    [00002183] c3         ret
    Size in bytes:(0018) [00002183]

    *It is a basic fact that DDD emulated by HHH according to*
    *the semantics of the x86 language cannot possibly stop*
    *running unless aborted* (out of memory error excluded)

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
        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.
    </MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022> >>>>

    Which is just a repeating of the lies that have been disproven,
    showing that you don't understand the words you say,

    The input DDD can't be just those bytes, or it is just a category error.

    One problem in these discussion is that the term "input" has no formal
    definition and its informal meaning is vague, like informal meanings
    usually are.


    The input to HHH is its parameter of the machine address of
    DDD in the shared memory space of Halt7.obj loaded into memory. https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm/blob/master/Halt7.c



    And thus the input to HHH isn't the bytes you try to pass off as it but
    ALL of the code of Halt7.obj, so every HHH sees a DIFFERENT input so you
    can't use the results of one to try to provide data for a different one
    without making the mistake of talking about cats by looking at 10 story
    office buildings.

    This means that the ONLY HHH that the above applies to is when HHH is non-aborting, and every HHH that does abort, can't use that, as its DDD
    doesn't call the needed HHH, but itself.

    This means that DDD is Halting, if, and only if, HHH aborts its
    emulation and returns, or DDD is non-halting, if, and only if, HHH NEVER
    aborts its emulation.

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  • From Mikko@21:1/5 to olcott on Mon Aug 19 12:26:17 2024
    On 2024-08-18 12:34:34 +0000, olcott said:

    On 8/18/2024 4:20 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2024-08-17 17:09:54 +0000, olcott said:

    On 8/17/2024 11:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.


    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines >>>>>  > that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    Ben said that my criteria has been met that cannot
    possibly be correctly interpreted to mean that my
    criteria has not been met.

    What Ben said is just an opinion. An opinion does not prove anything.


    Ben understood the tautology that I prove in my other thread.
    [Anyone that disagrees with this is not telling the truth ---V2]

    That doesn't make his opinion anything but an opinion.

    --
    Mikko

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  • From Mikko@21:1/5 to olcott on Mon Aug 19 12:34:45 2024
    On 2024-08-18 12:58:00 +0000, olcott said:

    On 8/18/2024 3:23 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 2024-08-17 16:33:05 +0000, Richard Damon said:

    On 8/17/24 12:27 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 8/17/2024 11:17 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    If I post here these days it is generally for the possible benefit of >>>>> others conversing with PO - e.g. perhaps it seems to me that weeks of >>>>> time are being wasted /through some simple miscommunication/ with PO. >>>>> I've been around longer than the current (relative) newcommers [not as >>>>> long as you and Ben I think], so I have more context for what PO is
    trying to say,

    *Yet you persistently fail to agree with Ben on this*


    Because you just don't understand what Ben said here, because you are
    just too stupid.



    On 10/14/2022 7:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    I don't think that is the shell game.  PO really /has/ an H
    (it's trivial to do for this one case) that correctly determines
    that P(P) *would* never stop running *unless* aborted.
    ...
    But H determines (correctly) that D would not halt if it
    were not halted.  That much is a truism.



    *This is a simpler version that*
    *defines correctly simulated in*
    *a way that has no correct rebuttal*

    void DDD()
    {
      HHH(DDD);
    }

    _DDD()
    [00002172] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
    [00002173] 8bec       mov ebp,esp   ; housekeeping
    [00002175] 6872210000 push 00002172 ; push DDD
    [0000217a] e853f4ffff call 000015d2 ; call HHH(DDD)
    [0000217f] 83c404     add esp,+04
    [00002182] 5d         pop ebp
    [00002183] c3         ret
    Size in bytes:(0018) [00002183]

    *It is a basic fact that DDD emulated by HHH according to*
    *the semantics of the x86 language cannot possibly stop*
    *running unless aborted* (out of memory error excluded)

    <MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
        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.
    </MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022> >>>>

    Which is just a repeating of the lies that have been disproven, showing
    that you don't understand the words you say,

    The input DDD can't be just those bytes, or it is just a category error.

    One problem in these discussion is that the term "input" has no formal
    definition and its informal meaning is vague, like informal meanings
    usually are.


    The input to HHH is its parameter of the machine address of
    DDD in the shared memory space of Halt7.obj loaded into memory. https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm/blob/master/Halt7.c

    That is one meaning of the word "input" thata can be used in certain situations. A more (but still not fully) general meaning is that an
    input is anything used in a computation that is not a part of the
    algrithm or a reuslt by an aleady executed part of the computation.
    It may also mean the content of any memory location or register that
    is read before it is written. Sometimes it is useful to have separate
    terms for different kinds of inputs such as "permitted input" and
    "formal input" and "actual input", or whatever one happens to need.

    --
    Mikko

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