Re: My reviewers think that halt deciders must report on the behavior of their caller

Op 07.jul.2025 om 05:12 schreef olcott:

On 7/6/2025 9:09 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

On 7/6/25 4:06 PM, olcott wrote:

On 7/6/2025 12:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

On 7/6/25 11:19 AM, olcott wrote:

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void DDD()
{
   HHH(DDD);
   return;
}
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*EVERY BOT FIGURES THIS OUT ON ITS OWN*

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No, it just isn't smart enough to detect that you lied in your premise.
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There is no way that DDD simulated by HHH (according
to the semantics of the C programming language)
can possibly reach its own "return" statement final
halt state.

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And there is no way for HHH to correctly simulate its input and return an answer
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You insistence that a non-terminating input be simulated
until non-existent completion is especially nuts because
you have been told about this dozens of times.
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What the F is wrong with you?
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It seems you don't understand those words.
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I don't say that the decider needs to simulate the input to completion, but that it needs to be able to actually PROVE that if this exact input WAS given to a correct simultor (which won't be itself, since it isn't doing the complete simulation) will run for an unbounded number of steps.
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 No decider is ever allowed to report on anything
besides the actual behavior that its input actually
specifies.
 

And HHH does not do that. The input specifies a halting program, because it includes the abort code. But HHH gives up before it reaches that part of the specification and the final halt state.