Re: What it would take... People to address my points with reasoning instead of rhetoric

On 5/14/2025 12:32 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 14/05/2025 18:17, olcott wrote:

On 5/14/2025 10:44 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 14/05/2025 16:32, olcott wrote:
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It is nuts to propose the idea of a universal
halt decider when we know that there are some
things that can only be decided by an infinite
computation.

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It is precisely because Alan Turing proposed the idea of a universal halt decider that we know that there are some things that can only be decided by an infinite computation.
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That has nothing to do with any of the
conventional proofs that the halting
problem has no solution.
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It is never "yes it can be done in an infinite number of steps"

 I was just echoing your wording and I got lazy. Your strawman, not mine.
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I never had any straw-man within the actual subject
matter than I have been discussing.
How the conventional proofs of the halting problem
are wrong.
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