Re: DDD simulated by HHH cannot possibly halt (Halting Problem) --- mindless robots

On 4/14/2025 7:33 AM, joes wrote:

Am Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:46:20 -0500 schrieb olcott:

Such an HHH works fine when the input DD is not attempting to do the
opposite of whatever this HHH reports. This is not a problem though. DD
merely changes its own behavior through the pathological self-reference
that it implements.

DD doesn’t change anything. It is completeley determined by the return
value of HHH. Either it halts or it doesn’t, and HHH returns the wrong
result.
 

Then HHH simply reports on this changed behavior. HHH need not even know
that DD is calling itself. It only need to know that the behavior of DD
would prevent its own termination.

If HHH reports on what DD *would* do *if* HHH returned the other value,
that’s changing the input. (HHH doesn’t „know” anything at all.)
 

Hypothetical freaking possibilities of alternatives is
not a very difficult thing. I don't understand why its so
hard for you.
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