Re: Mike Terry Proves --- How the requirements that Professor Sipser agreed to are exactly met

On 5/16/2025 10:40 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

On 5/16/25 10:33 AM, olcott wrote:

Mike does not agree that HHH(DD) gets the correct
answer. He does agree that an HHH derived from the
exact meaning of these words is correct:
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<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
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     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>
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On 5/14/2025 7:36 PM, Mike Terry wrote:
 > There is a natural (and correct) statement that Sipser
 > is far more likely (I'd say) to have agreed to.
 >
 > First you should understand the basic idea behind a
 > "Simulating Halt Decider" (*SHD*) that /partially/
 > simulates its input, while observing each simulation
 > step looking for certain halting/non-halting patterns
 > in the simulation.  A simple (working) example here
 > is an input which goes into a tight loop.
(Mike says much more about this)
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 If he so agrees with you, why are you arguing with him about what he said?
 

He made one key big mistake that has nothing to do
with the actual subject matter of this post that
you keep trying to weasel out of.

It is also clear from the quotes that Mike is NOT agreeing with your stateent, but you just don't understand him.
 

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