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On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3)

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First post2022-05-05 17:50 +0100
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  On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-05 17:50 +0100
    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 13:58 -0500
      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-05 20:56 +0100
        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 17:15 -0500
          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-06 02:43 +0100
            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 20:59 -0500
              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-06 04:08 +0100
    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-05 20:51 +0100
      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-05 20:52 +0100
        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-05 21:15 +0100
          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-05 21:16 +0100
        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 16:35 -0500
      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 16:37 -0500
        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-06 02:38 +0100
          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 20:42 -0500
            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-06 03:59 +0100
    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-05 22:33 -0400
      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-06 15:02 +0100
        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Python <python@example.invalid> - 2022-05-06 16:18 +0200
          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 11:55 -0500
        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-07 12:52 +0300
          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-07 13:42 +0100
            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-07 16:59 +0300
              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-07 15:06 +0100
                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-07 17:16 +0300
                  Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-07 15:20 +0100
                    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-07 18:13 +0300
                      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-07 16:19 +0100
                        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-07 11:03 -0500
                        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-07 23:41 +0100
                          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-07 23:43 +0100
                            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-07 19:59 -0400
                              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 01:01 +0100
                                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-07 20:18 -0400
                                  Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 01:55 +0100
                        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-08 11:31 +0300
                          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 09:49 +0100
                            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-08 13:00 +0300
                              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 12:57 +0100
                            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-08 07:45 -0400
                              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 13:02 +0100
                                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-08 08:31 -0400
                                  Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 13:39 +0100
                                    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-08 14:10 -0400
                                      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 20:06 +0100
                                        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-08 15:39 -0400
                                          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 21:14 +0100
                                            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-08 17:40 -0400
                                              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-08 23:04 +0100
                                                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-09 00:26 +0100
                                                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-08 19:40 -0400
                                                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 10:55 -0500
                                                  Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 20:13 -0400
                                    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 10:51 -0500
                                      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-09 18:31 +0100
                                        Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 12:36 -0500
                                          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 20:15 -0400
                                      Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 20:14 -0400
                            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 10:49 -0500
                              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-09 18:31 +0100
                                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 12:37 -0500
                          Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 10:47 -0500
                            Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-09 19:33 +0300
                              Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 11:36 -0500
                                Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 20:17 -0400
                    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-07 11:06 -0500
    Re: On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3) Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-06 16:39 +0300

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#49731 — On recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3)

FromMr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc>
Date2022-05-05 17:50 +0100
SubjectOn recursion and infinite recursion (reprise #3)
Message-ID<20220505175034.0000253c@reddwarf.jmc>
This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
word games.

The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
proof [Wikipedia, 2022].

The categories involved in the category error are the decider and that
which is being decided.  Currently extant  attempts to conflate the
decider with that which is being decided are infinitely recursive and
thus invalid.

/Flibble

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#49753

Fromolcott <polcott2@gmail.com>
Date2022-05-05 13:58 -0500
Message-ID<t516nq$1u4$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#49731
On 5/5/2022 11:50 AM, Mr Flibble wrote:
> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
> word games.
> 
> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
> due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
> from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
> in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
> proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
> 
> The categories involved in the category error are the decider and that
> which is being decided.  Currently extant  attempts to conflate the
> decider with that which is being decided are infinitely recursive and
> thus invalid.
> 
> /Flibble
> 

Proof of this is that the halting theorem has the exactly same 
self-contradictory pattern as the Liar Paradox.

For any program f that might determine if programs halt, a 
"pathological" program g, called with some input, can pass its own 
source and its input to f and then specifically do the opposite of what 
f predicts g will do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

-- 
Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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#49757

FromBen <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Date2022-05-05 20:56 +0100
Message-ID<87ee17ois3.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
In reply to#49753
olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:

> Proof of this is that the halting theorem has the exactly same
> self-contradictory pattern as the Liar Paradox.
>
> For any program f that might determine if programs halt, a
> "pathological" program g, called with some input, can pass its own
> source and its input to f and then specifically do the opposite of
> what f predicts g will do.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

So finally you agree that no single TM can decide TM halting???  How
long has it taken you to get to this point?

-- 
Ben.
"le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n’en a pas"
Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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#49778

Fromolcott <polcott2@gmail.com>
Date2022-05-05 17:15 -0500
Message-ID<t51ia8$t3s$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#49757
On 5/5/2022 2:56 PM, Ben wrote:
> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Proof of this is that the halting theorem has the exactly same
>> self-contradictory pattern as the Liar Paradox.
>>
>> For any program f that might determine if programs halt, a
>> "pathological" program g, called with some input, can pass its own
>> source and its input to f and then specifically do the opposite of
>> what f predicts g will do.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
> 
> So finally you agree that no single TM can decide TM halting???  How
> long has it taken you to get to this point?
> 

H1(P,P)==true is empirically proven to be correct
H(P,P)==false is empirically proven to be correct

You keep trying to get away with a halt decider that computes the 
mapping from non-inputs even when you know this is incorrect.

-- 
Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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#49797

FromBen <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Date2022-05-06 02:43 +0100
Message-ID<871qx7mo5e.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
In reply to#49778
olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/5/2022 2:56 PM, Ben wrote:
>> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Proof of this is that the halting theorem has the exactly same
>>> self-contradictory pattern as the Liar Paradox.
>>>
>>> For any program f that might determine if programs halt, a
>>> "pathological" program g, called with some input, can pass its own
>>> source and its input to f and then specifically do the opposite of
>>> what f predicts g will do.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
>> So finally you agree that no single TM can decide TM halting???  How
>> long has it taken you to get to this point?
>
> H1(P,P)==true is empirically proven to be correct
> H(P,P)==false is empirically proven to be correct
>
> You keep trying to get away with a halt decider that computes the
> mapping from non-inputs even when you know this is incorrect.

Any conclusion I can form this is unkind.  You are either dishonest and
are intentionally misrepresenting what other people write, or you are so
lost that even after 18 years you don't know what that halting problem
is.

-- 
Ben.
"le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n’en a pas"
Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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#49801

Fromolcott <polcott2@gmail.com>
Date2022-05-05 20:59 -0500
Message-ID<t51vep$gnk$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#49797
On 5/5/2022 8:43 PM, Ben wrote:
> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 5/5/2022 2:56 PM, Ben wrote:
>>> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Proof of this is that the halting theorem has the exactly same
>>>> self-contradictory pattern as the Liar Paradox.
>>>>
>>>> For any program f that might determine if programs halt, a
>>>> "pathological" program g, called with some input, can pass its own
>>>> source and its input to f and then specifically do the opposite of
>>>> what f predicts g will do.
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
>>> So finally you agree that no single TM can decide TM halting???  How
>>> long has it taken you to get to this point?
>>
>> H1(P,P)==true is empirically proven to be correct
>> H(P,P)==false is empirically proven to be correct
>>
>> You keep trying to get away with a halt decider that computes the
>> mapping from non-inputs even when you know this is incorrect.
> 
> Any conclusion I can form this is unkind.  You are either dishonest and
> are intentionally misrepresenting what other people write, or you are so
> lost that even after 18 years you don't know what that halting problem
> is.
> 

I am not trying to be unkind. When people happily disagree with verified 
facts I construe that as playing head games for sadistic pleasure. Those 
people really need a strong (at least metaphorical) slap in the face.

It is a proven fact that H(P,P) and H1(P,P) do correctly compute the 
mapping from their input parameters to the halt status specified by 
these inputs.

-- 
Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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#49822

FromBen <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Date2022-05-06 04:08 +0100
Message-ID<87h7639x2y.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
In reply to#49801
olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/5/2022 8:43 PM, Ben wrote:
>> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 5/5/2022 2:56 PM, Ben wrote:
>>>> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Proof of this is that the halting theorem has the exactly same
>>>>> self-contradictory pattern as the Liar Paradox.
>>>>>
>>>>> For any program f that might determine if programs halt, a
>>>>> "pathological" program g, called with some input, can pass its own
>>>>> source and its input to f and then specifically do the opposite of
>>>>> what f predicts g will do.
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
>>>> So finally you agree that no single TM can decide TM halting???  How
>>>> long has it taken you to get to this point?
>>>
>>> H1(P,P)==true is empirically proven to be correct
>>> H(P,P)==false is empirically proven to be correct
>>>
>>> You keep trying to get away with a halt decider that computes the
>>> mapping from non-inputs even when you know this is incorrect.
>>
>> Any conclusion I can form this is unkind.  You are either dishonest and
>> are intentionally misrepresenting what other people write, or you are so
>> lost that even after 18 years you don't know what that halting problem
>> is.
>
> I am not trying to be unkind.

I meant that I had no option but to be unkind.  I can't see any
interpretation of your post that does show you up as wither dishonest or
ignorant.

> When people happily disagree with verified facts I construe that as
> playing head games for sadistic pleasure. Those people really need a
> strong (at least metaphorical) slap in the face.
>
> It is a proven fact that H(P,P) and H1(P,P) do correctly compute the
> mapping from their input parameters to the halt status specified by
> these inputs.

No it's not.  You have not even stated what this new mantra of yours
means.  What's not in dispute is that H(P,P) == false even though P(P)
halts.  You dispute that this means that H is not a halt decoder (for
this one case) because, I think, you claim that we can't legitimately
specify that H(X,Y) should report on the halting of X(Y).  You could
have said that 18 years ago, but then we'd have ignored you.

-- 
Ben.
"le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n’en a pas"
Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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#49755

FromBen <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Date2022-05-05 20:51 +0100
Message-ID<87k0azoj0e.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
In reply to#49731
Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:

> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
> word games.
>
> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
> due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
> from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
> in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
> proof [Wikipedia, 2022].

Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read it,
have you?

-- 
Ben.

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#49756

FromMr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc>
Date2022-05-05 20:52 +0100
Message-ID<20220505205238.0000442a@reddwarf.jmc>
In reply to#49755
On Thu, 05 May 2022 20:51:29 +0100
Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
> 
> > This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to
> > play word games.
> >
> > The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
> > other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is
> > invalid due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965]
> > that arises not from a function call-like infinite recursion but
> > from a category error in the form of an invalid (erroneous)
> > infinite recursion present in the proof [Wikipedia, 2022].  
> 
> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read
> it, have you?
 
Keep up. See my other reply "On Strachey".

/Flibble

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#49759

FromBen <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Date2022-05-05 21:15 +0100
Message-ID<87wnezn3cm.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
In reply to#49756
Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:

> On Thu, 05 May 2022 20:51:29 +0100
> Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
>> 
>> > This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to
>> > play word games.
>> >
>> > The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>> > other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is
>> > invalid due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965]
>> > that arises not from a function call-like infinite recursion but
>> > from a category error in the form of an invalid (erroneous)
>> > infinite recursion present in the proof [Wikipedia, 2022].  
>> 
>> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read
>> it, have you?
>  
> Keep up. See my other reply "On Strachey".

If you have something to say, say it here.

-- 
Ben.

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#49760

FromMr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc>
Date2022-05-05 21:16 +0100
Message-ID<20220505211606.000057ef@reddwarf.jmc>
In reply to#49759
On Thu, 05 May 2022 21:15:05 +0100
Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 05 May 2022 20:51:29 +0100
> > Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> >  
> >> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
> >>   
> >> > This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to
> >> > play word games.
> >> >
> >> > The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon
> >> > which other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived)
> >> > is invalid due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey,
> >> > 1965] that arises not from a function call-like infinite
> >> > recursion but from a category error in the form of an invalid
> >> > (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the proof [Wikipedia,
> >> > 2022].    
> >> 
> >> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't
> >> read it, have you?  
> >  
> > Keep up. See my other reply "On Strachey".  
> 
> If you have something to say, say it here.
 
No.

/Flibble

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#49766

Fromolcott <polcott2@gmail.com>
Date2022-05-05 16:35 -0500
Message-ID<t51fv5$as4$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#49756
On 5/5/2022 2:52 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
> On Thu, 05 May 2022 20:51:29 +0100
> Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
>>
>>> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to
>>> play word games.
>>>
>>> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>>> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is
>>> invalid due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965]
>>> that arises not from a function call-like infinite recursion but
>>> from a category error in the form of an invalid (erroneous)
>>> infinite recursion present in the proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
>>
>> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read
>> it, have you?
>   
> Keep up. See my other reply "On Strachey".
> 
> /Flibble
> 

ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS, WITH AN APPLICATION TO
THE ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM By A. M. TURING. (1936)
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

It wasn't called the halting problem until 1958
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235222082100050X

-- 
Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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#49767

Fromolcott <polcott2@gmail.com>
Date2022-05-05 16:37 -0500
Message-ID<t51g3l$as4$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#49755
On 5/5/2022 2:51 PM, Ben wrote:
> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
> 
>> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
>> word games.
>>
>> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
>> due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
>> from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
>> in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
>> proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
> 
> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read it,
> have you?
> 

Modern computer scientists would tend to disagree:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235222082100050X

-- 
Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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#49794

FromBen <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Date2022-05-06 02:38 +0100
Message-ID<877d6zmod9.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
In reply to#49767
olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/5/2022 2:51 PM, Ben wrote:
>> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
>> 
>>> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
>>> word games.
>>>
>>> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>>> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
>>> due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
>>> from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
>>> in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
>>> proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
>> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read it,
>> have you?
>
> Modern computer scientists would tend to disagree:
> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235222082100050X

What?  You cite a paper that says exactly what I am saying.

Of course you are not clear about who you think "modern computer
scientists would tend to disagree" with, but if it were Mr Silly Name
you should have replied to his post not mine.

-- 
Ben.
"le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n’en a pas"
Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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#49796

Fromolcott <polcott2@gmail.com>
Date2022-05-05 20:42 -0500
Message-ID<t51udn$9co$4@dont-email.me>
In reply to#49794
On 5/5/2022 8:38 PM, Ben wrote:
> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 5/5/2022 2:51 PM, Ben wrote:
>>> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
>>>
>>>> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
>>>> word games.
>>>>
>>>> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>>>> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
>>>> due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
>>>> from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
>>>> in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
>>>> proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
>>> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read it,
>>> have you?
>>
>> Modern computer scientists would tend to disagree:
>> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235222082100050X
> 
> What?  You cite a paper that says exactly what I am saying.
> 
> Of course you are not clear about who you think "modern computer
> scientists would tend to disagree" with, but if it were Mr Silly Name
> you should have replied to his post not mine.
> 

Everyone understands that Turing's 1936 paper establishes the halting 
theorem.

-- 
Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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#49821

FromBen <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Date2022-05-06 03:59 +0100
Message-ID<87mtfv9xid.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
In reply to#49796
olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/5/2022 8:38 PM, Ben wrote:
>> olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 5/5/2022 2:51 PM, Ben wrote:
>>>> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
>>>>> word games.
>>>>>
>>>>> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>>>>> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
>>>>> due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
>>>>> from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
>>>>> in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
>>>>> proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
>>>> Turing's paper does not prove the halting theorem.  You haven't read it,
>>>> have you?
>>>
>>> Modern computer scientists would tend to disagree:
>>> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235222082100050X
>>
>> What?  You cite a paper that says exactly what I am saying.
>>
>> Of course you are not clear about who you think "modern computer
>> scientists would tend to disagree" with, but if it were Mr Silly Name
>> you should have replied to his post not mine.
>
> Everyone understands that Turing's 1936 paper establishes the halting
> theorem.

For some meanings of "establishes" they do indeed.  I'm not sure what or
who you think "modern computer scientists would tend to disagree" with
anymore.

-- 
Ben.
"le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n’en a pas"
Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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#49807

FromRichard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org>
Date2022-05-05 22:33 -0400
Message-ID<5O%cK.17$wYy9.0@fx11.iad>
In reply to#49731
On 5/5/22 12:50 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to play
> word games.
> 
> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is invalid
> due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965] that arises not
> from a function call-like infinite recursion but from a category error
> in the form of an invalid (erroneous) infinite recursion present in the
> proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
> 
> The categories involved in the category error are the decider and that
> which is being decided.  Currently extant  attempts to conflate the
> decider with that which is being decided are infinitely recursive and
> thus invalid.
> 
> /Flibble
> 

The "Program" is NOT iovalid for infinite recursion, because the program 
doesn't HAVE ANY recursion.

The "recursion" that happens is in the potential decider, so if anything 
your argument just PROVES the Theorem, not refutes it.

YOU are the one making a category error, by calling the impossible to 
decide program as having an attribute that it doesn't have.

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#49846

FromMr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc>
Date2022-05-06 15:02 +0100
Message-ID<20220506150253.00007c7f@reddwarf.jmc>
In reply to#49807
On Thu, 5 May 2022 22:33:36 -0400
Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:

> On 5/5/22 12:50 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
> > This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to
> > play word games.
> > 
> > The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
> > other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is
> > invalid due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965]
> > that arises not from a function call-like infinite recursion but
> > from a category error in the form of an invalid (erroneous)
> > infinite recursion present in the proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
> > 
> > The categories involved in the category error are the decider and
> > that which is being decided.  Currently extant  attempts to
> > conflate the decider with that which is being decided are
> > infinitely recursive and thus invalid.
> > 
> > /Flibble
> >   
> 
> The "Program" is NOT iovalid for infinite recursion, because the
> program doesn't HAVE ANY recursion.

The category error (as in invalid infinite recursion) is in the
definition of the proof itself; we are not talking about a function
call-like infinite recursion executed at runtime.

> 
> The "recursion" that happens is in the potential decider, so if
> anything your argument just PROVES the Theorem, not refutes it.

The decider could never be compiled and run in the first place due to
the category error in the definition of the proof.

> 
> YOU are the one making a category error, by calling the impossible to 
> decide program as having an attribute that it doesn't have.

Nope. The problem here is that you are a clueless wonder, as Olcott
would put it.

/Flibble

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#49847

FromPython <python@example.invalid>
Date2022-05-06 16:18 +0200
Message-ID<t53ao6$33j$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#49846
Mr Flibble wrote:
> On Thu, 5 May 2022 22:33:36 -0400
> Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/5/22 12:50 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
>>> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to
>>> play word games.
>>>
>>> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>>> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is
>>> invalid due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965]
>>> that arises not from a function call-like infinite recursion but
>>> from a category error in the form of an invalid (erroneous)
>>> infinite recursion present in the proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
>>>
>>> The categories involved in the category error are the decider and
>>> that which is being decided.  Currently extant  attempts to
>>> conflate the decider with that which is being decided are
>>> infinitely recursive and thus invalid.
>>>
>>> /Flibble
>>>    
>>
>> The "Program" is NOT iovalid for infinite recursion, because the
>> program doesn't HAVE ANY recursion.
> 
> The category error (as in invalid infinite recursion) is in the
> definition of the proof itself; we are not talking about a function
> call-like infinite recursion executed at runtime.
> 
>>
>> The "recursion" that happens is in the potential decider, so if
>> anything your argument just PROVES the Theorem, not refutes it.
> 
> The decider could never be compiled and run in the first place due to
> the category error in the definition of the proof.
> 
>>
>> YOU are the one making a category error, by calling the impossible to
>> decide program as having an attribute that it doesn't have.
> 
> Nope. The problem here is that you are a clueless wonder, as Olcott
> would put it.
> 
> /Flibble
> 

https://xkcd.com/386/

Ben Bacarisse is a real mathematician, you are the random guy spouting
nonsense on the Internet. Nobody cares of your shit.



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#49855

Fromolcott <polcott2@gmail.com>
Date2022-05-06 11:55 -0500
Message-ID<t53ju8$ens$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#49847
On 5/6/2022 9:18 AM, Python wrote:
> Mr Flibble wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 May 2022 22:33:36 -0400
>> Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/5/22 12:50 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
>>>> This post is mostly for the benefit of Richard Damon who likes to
>>>> play word games.
>>>>
>>>> The primary halting problem theorem proof [Turing, 1936] (upon which
>>>> other currently extant halting problem proofs are derived) is
>>>> invalid due to an invalid "impossible program" [Strachey, 1965]
>>>> that arises not from a function call-like infinite recursion but
>>>> from a category error in the form of an invalid (erroneous)
>>>> infinite recursion present in the proof [Wikipedia, 2022].
>>>>
>>>> The categories involved in the category error are the decider and
>>>> that which is being decided.  Currently extant  attempts to
>>>> conflate the decider with that which is being decided are
>>>> infinitely recursive and thus invalid.
>>>>
>>>> /Flibble
>>>
>>> The "Program" is NOT iovalid for infinite recursion, because the
>>> program doesn't HAVE ANY recursion.
>>
>> The category error (as in invalid infinite recursion) is in the
>> definition of the proof itself; we are not talking about a function
>> call-like infinite recursion executed at runtime.
>>
>>>
>>> The "recursion" that happens is in the potential decider, so if
>>> anything your argument just PROVES the Theorem, not refutes it.
>>
>> The decider could never be compiled and run in the first place due to
>> the category error in the definition of the proof.
>>
>>>
>>> YOU are the one making a category error, by calling the impossible to
>>> decide program as having an attribute that it doesn't have.
>>
>> Nope. The problem here is that you are a clueless wonder, as Olcott
>> would put it.
>>
>> /Flibble
>>
> 
> https://xkcd.com/386/
> 
> Ben Bacarisse is a real mathematician, you are the random guy spouting
> nonsense on the Internet. Nobody cares of your shit.

Incomplete(T) ↔ ∃φ ((T ⊬ φ) ∧ (T ⊬ ¬φ)).

Ben said that G is provable not knowing that the core of the 1931 Gödel 
incompleteness theorem is that G is unprovable.

Gödel says:
We are therefore confronted with a proposition which asserts its own 
unprovability.





-- 
Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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