Re: Mr Flibble

On 4/22/2025 9:43 AM, Andy Walker wrote:

The "real" Mr Flibble is a malevolent penguin.  I wonder why contributors
take him so seriously?  If you want to debate with a penguin, that's your
prerogative, but to me it makes more sense to add several pinches of salt
and smile or groan as appropriate to everything he writes.  He has a knack
for writing things that are just about plausible, which is enviable, but
one response to anything interesting is surely enough?
 

He has changed his ways and gained deep insight
into the halting problem from knowing nothing
about it one year ago. USENET messages show his
recent initial lack of understanding.
His whole idea of "category error" is a new way of
saying the same thing that I and computer science
professor Eric Hehner have been saying for a while.
Saying it this new way is material progress on the
halting problem.
His signalling halt decider is also a useful new
idea.
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