• fuck chris

    From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 19:49:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? IDK >>>>>>>> FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just
    fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be
    so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why????


    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the safety,
    point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of
    existential trash


    All you are doing is just admitting that you know you logic is broken,
    so you need to move to nonsense.

    bro fuck u for encouraging an absolute troll like chris.

    fucking boomers never learned to communicate properly so ofc u fucking
    all failed to use the internet to converge on anything meaningful.
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 19:53:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 2:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 3:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just >>>>>>>> fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be >>>>>>>> so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the
    safety, point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of
    existential trash


    I set message filters in Thunderbird that
    erases all of his messages and does not
    allow any of them through in the future.

    The technical name for this is *plonk*


    maybe i'll do that,

    but i try really hard not to block people,

    because i don't want to develop a habit of it,

    as i'm trying to push myself to be as less wrong as possible ...


    So, you admit that you are wrong. The way to become less wrong is to

    ur such a fucking idiot u don't even know how big a fucking idiot you are

    listen to the problems people point out and work on fixing it, rather
    than trying to belittle them for pointing out your errors.

    u've pointed out nothing but bare claims after bare claim mixed in with
    a bunch of insults

    u'd be the dumbass shitting all over turing's paper if he was the one
    trying to propose anything right now


    All you are doing by your actions is proving that you are worse than
    Olcott.

    fucking useless fucking boomer tryign to assess truthiness by tone
    policing. you only wish there was a logical connection there, that would
    make it soooo easy for you
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 22:01:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/2025 9:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just
    fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be >>>>>>> so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the safety,
    point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of
    existential trash


    All you are doing is just admitting that you know you logic is broken,
    so you need to move to nonsense.

    bro fuck u for encouraging an absolute troll like chris.

    fucking boomers never learned to communicate properly so ofc u fucking
    all failed to use the internet to converge on anything meaningful.


    *There are at least three complete Trolls here --- best ignored*
    Chris M. Thomasson // 99% pure nonsense
    dbush and // 99% pure dogma with zero comprehension
    Richard Damon // 100% stuck in rebuttal mode and mean

    *These are good reviewers*
    Alan Mackenzie
    André G. Isaak
    Mikko
    Ben Bacarisse
    Mike Terry

    Kaz might give you a fair review too
    he is reasonable at least 1/3 of the time.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 20:02:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 7:53 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 2:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 3:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just >>>>>>>>> fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be >>>>>>>>> so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the
    safety, point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece
    of existential trash


    I set message filters in Thunderbird that
    erases all of his messages and does not
    allow any of them through in the future.

    The technical name for this is *plonk*


    maybe i'll do that,

    but i try really hard not to block people,

    because i don't want to develop a habit of it,

    as i'm trying to push myself to be as less wrong as possible ...


    So, you admit that you are wrong. The way to become less wrong is to

    ur such a fucking idiot u don't even know how big a fucking idiot you are

    listen to the problems people point out and work on fixing it, rather
    than trying to belittle them for pointing out your errors.

    u've pointed out nothing but bare claims after bare claim mixed in with
    a bunch of insults

    u'd be the dumbass shitting all over turing's paper if he was the one
    trying to propose anything right now


    All you are doing by your actions is proving that you are worse than
    Olcott.

    fucking useless fucking boomer tryign to assess truthiness by tone
    policing. you only wish there was a logical connection there, that would make it soooo easy for you


    like ur such a total fuckwit that u don't even acknowledge the potential
    for massive holes in ur understanding
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

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    ~ nick
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 20:23:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to
    define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications of
    what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical reflection
    to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the head,
    when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation to
    know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation, and with
    that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially possible
    and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his original
    paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access the full machine description, or how else the fuck is he
    doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he obviously can dump
    the machine description, in whatever format he has it in, to the tape
    when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that than cannot
    be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the initial tape
    state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access input of a particular transition, and therefore can dump
    that input to the tape when REFLECT is encountered, in whatever format
    he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more precisely
    he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer after putting 1-3
    on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY GIVES
    FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 22:42:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to
    define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications
    of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical reflection
    to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the head,
    when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation to
    know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation, and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially possible
    and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access the full machine description, or how else the fuck is he
    doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he obviously can dump
    the machine description, in whatever format he has it in, to the tape
    when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that than cannot
    be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the initial tape
    state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access input of a particular transition, and therefore can dump
    that input to the tape when REFLECT is encountered, in whatever format
    he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more precisely
    he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer after putting 1-3
    on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY GIVES
    FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 22:51:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 10:39 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    This is for Olcott and dart. Olcott asked what should HHH(DD) return?
    Well, check this shit out, lol:
    ______________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "HHH"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0
    10 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    20 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    30 P1 = P1 + 1
    40 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    50 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P0 = P0 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    ______________________________


    You can run it here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic

    ur a fucking psychopath
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 23:52:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/2025 10:51 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 10:39 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    This is for Olcott and dart. Olcott asked what should HHH(DD) return?
    Well, check this shit out, lol:
    ______________________________
    [snip]
    ______________________________


    You can run it here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic

    ur a fucking psychopath


    You can run the following code here:

    https://i.ibb.co/RTyX5XdS/image.png

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/

    _______________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "HHH"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0
    10 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    20 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    30 P0 = P0 + 1
    40 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    50 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    _______________________________

    Pretty simple? The A$ can be fuzzed to remove the human aspect... ;^)
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Oct 29 23:54:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/2025 11:52 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:51 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 10:39 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    This is for Olcott and dart. Olcott asked what should HHH(DD) return?
    Well, check this shit out, lol:
    ______________________________
    [snip]
    ______________________________


    You can run it here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic

    ur a fucking psychopath


    You can run the following code here:

    https://i.ibb.co/RTyX5XdS/image.png

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
    [...]

    Another funny run:

    https://i.ibb.co/W4KmnbBB/image.png

    ;^)

    Pretty simple? The A$ can be fuzzed to remove the human aspect... ;^)

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 01:09:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/2025 11:52 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "HHH"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0
    10 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    20 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    30 P0 = P0 + 1
    40 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    50 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1

    Try saying no, or something other than "YES" a couple of times, then say
    YES, the magic word, lol. Akin to Halt_Status returned from HHH(DD) in
    Olcotts crap? lol. Except my BASIC code can hit all paths... :^)
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 07:32:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to
    define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications
    of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical reflection
    to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them as
    having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM do
    add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the head,
    when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state and
    Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the tape in
    one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you can do
    what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer" instruction to
    a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current state
    and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be the input
    to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation to
    know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation, and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define.

    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are talking
    about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially possible
    and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where.

    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access the full machine description, or how else the fuck is he
    doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he obviously can dump
    the machine description, in whatever format he has it in, to the tape
    when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write on the
    pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it when
    he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that than cannot
    be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the initial tape
    state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information in,
    when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy


    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access input of a particular transition, and therefore can dump
    that input to the tape when REFLECT is encountered, in whatever format
    he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more precisely
    he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer after putting 1-3
    on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED to be
    the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the
    machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the input
    to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
    >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY GIVES
    FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave it.

    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the inner,
    then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input then before,
    and thus the program P isn't the required one. The "call" to the decider
    that P makes, must have the exact same input as when we directly call it
    for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of algorithms,
    which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look at
    the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state.

    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to
    run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer, couldn't be
    a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your
    logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.

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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 07:32:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 10:53 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 2:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 3:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just >>>>>>>>> fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be >>>>>>>>> so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the
    safety, point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece
    of existential trash


    I set message filters in Thunderbird that
    erases all of his messages and does not
    allow any of them through in the future.

    The technical name for this is *plonk*


    maybe i'll do that,

    but i try really hard not to block people,

    because i don't want to develop a habit of it,

    as i'm trying to push myself to be as less wrong as possible ...


    So, you admit that you are wrong. The way to become less wrong is to

    ur such a fucking idiot u don't even know how big a fucking idiot you are

    Nope, but I could say the same about you.

    I come up with new words to more finely define what I say,

    You can't, you can only resort to insults and vulgarities showing you
    have nothing to base yourself on.


    listen to the problems people point out and work on fixing it, rather
    than trying to belittle them for pointing out your errors.

    u've pointed out nothing but bare claims after bare claim mixed in with
    a bunch of insults

    But my claims have a real base, something you don't seem to understand.


    u'd be the dumbass shitting all over turing's paper if he was the one
    trying to propose anything right now


    No, because if he was trying to propose something new like you are doing
    he would either follow the basic rules of the existing system, or make
    it clear he was working on a new system.



    All you are doing by your actions is proving that you are worse than
    Olcott.

    fucking useless fucking boomer tryign to assess truthiness by tone
    policing. you only wish there was a logical connection there, that would make it soooo easy for you


    And thus you prove my claim.

    IF your statements had an actual logical connection, you could show it,
    but just like Olcott, you need words to mean something different than
    what the do to make your point.

    Mechanics can't create information out of no where, or hide them so they
    don't count.

    That is the domain of just lying.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 07:32:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 11:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 7:53 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 2:09 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 3:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just >>>>>>>>>> fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to >>>>>>>>>> be so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the
    safety, point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece >>>>>> of existential trash


    I set message filters in Thunderbird that
    erases all of his messages and does not
    allow any of them through in the future.

    The technical name for this is *plonk*


    maybe i'll do that,

    but i try really hard not to block people,

    because i don't want to develop a habit of it,

    as i'm trying to push myself to be as less wrong as possible ...


    So, you admit that you are wrong. The way to become less wrong is to

    ur such a fucking idiot u don't even know how big a fucking idiot you are

    listen to the problems people point out and work on fixing it, rather
    than trying to belittle them for pointing out your errors.

    u've pointed out nothing but bare claims after bare claim mixed in
    with a bunch of insults

    u'd be the dumbass shitting all over turing's paper if he was the one
    trying to propose anything right now


    All you are doing by your actions is proving that you are worse than
    Olcott.

    fucking useless fucking boomer tryign to assess truthiness by tone
    policing. you only wish there was a logical connection there, that
    would make it soooo easy for you


    like ur such a total fuckwit that u don't even acknowledge the potential
    for massive holes in ur understanding


    Oh, I admit what I don't know about, which is why I started with asking
    your HOW you claim to do what you claim.

    WHen you answer was just that you claim that it happens, you proved that
    you didn't know what you were talking about.

    It seems you project your own failures on other just like Olcott does.


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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 07:32:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 10:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just
    fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be >>>>>>> so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the safety,
    point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of
    existential trash


    All you are doing is just admitting that you know you logic is broken,
    so you need to move to nonsense.

    bro fuck u for encouraging an absolute troll like chris.

    fucking boomers never learned to communicate properly so ofc u fucking
    all failed to use the internet to converge on anything meaningful.


    WHo is the one not communicating.

    I guess if you are ignorant of the language of the field, people talking
    with the words of the field won't be inteligable. But that isn't a
    failure on them, but on you.

    When you decide to talk with the defined words, maybe you can make sense.
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  • From wij@wyniijj5@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 22:39:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 22:01 -0500, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 9:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND?
    IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be
    so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why????


    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the safety, point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of existential trash


    All you are doing is just admitting that you know you logic is broken, so you need to move to nonsense.

    bro fuck u for encouraging an absolute troll like chris.

    fucking boomers never learned to communicate properly so ofc u fucking
    all failed to use the internet to converge on anything meaningful.


    *There are at least three complete Trolls here --- best ignored*
    Chris M. Thomasson // 99% pure nonsense
    dbush and          // 99% pure dogma with zero comprehension
    Richard Damon      // 100% stuck in rebuttal mode and mean
    At the beginning, R.D. (and others) tireless explained the HP and the bugs of POOH. But you kept 'in rebuttal mode' to fabricate false report in response. All is left to quit responding to you or ... like R.D. did. I like what he did for me, so I don't have to. You are a true IDIOT and LIAR.
    Note: This is not defamation, your reputation IS so, what is FACT.

    *These are good reviewers*
    Alan Mackenzie
    André G. Isaak
    Mikko
    Ben Bacarisse
    Mike Terry

    Kaz might give you a fair review too
    he is reasonable at least 1/3 of the time.
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  • From wij@wyniijj5@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 22:50:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 22:39 +0800, wij wrote:
    On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 22:01 -0500, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 9:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND?
    IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just
    fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be
    so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why????


    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the safety,
    point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of existential trash


    All you are doing is just admitting that you know you logic is broken, so you need to move to nonsense.

    bro fuck u for encouraging an absolute troll like chris.

    fucking boomers never learned to communicate properly so ofc u fucking all failed to use the internet to converge on anything meaningful.


    *There are at least three complete Trolls here --- best ignored*
    Chris M. Thomasson // 99% pure nonsense
    dbush and          // 99% pure dogma with zero comprehension Richard Damon      // 100% stuck in rebuttal mode and mean

    At the beginning, R.D. (and others) tireless explained the HP and the bugs of POOH. But you kept 'in rebuttal mode' to fabricate false report in response. All is left to quit responding to you or ... like R.D. did. I like what he did
    for me, so I don't have to. You are a true IDIOT and LIAR.

    Note: This is not defamation, your reputation IS so, what is FACT.


    *These are good reviewers*
    Alan Mackenzie
    André G. Isaak
    Mikko
    Ben Bacarisse
    Mike Terry

    Kaz might give you a fair review too
    he is reasonable at least 1/3 of the time.
    Chris made a simple BASIC example:
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "The Olcott All-in-One Halt Decider!"
    10 INPUT "Shall I halt or not? " ; A$
    30 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    40 GOTO 10
    666 PRINT "OK!"
    Go figure it out from BASIC.
    Your 'profound logic' and POOH ares totally garbage.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 09:51:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 9:39 AM, wij wrote:
    On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 22:01 -0500, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 9:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just >>>>>>>>> fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be >>>>>>>>> so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the safety, >>>>> point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of
    existential trash


    All you are doing is just admitting that you know you logic is broken, >>>> so you need to move to nonsense.

    bro fuck u for encouraging an absolute troll like chris.

    fucking boomers never learned to communicate properly so ofc u fucking
    all failed to use the internet to converge on anything meaningful.


    *There are at least three complete Trolls here --- best ignored*
    Chris M. Thomasson // 99% pure nonsense
    dbush and          // 99% pure dogma with zero comprehension
    Richard Damon      // 100% stuck in rebuttal mode and mean

    At the beginning, R.D. (and others) tireless explained the HP and the bugs of POOH. But you kept 'in rebuttal mode' to fabricate false report in response. All is left to quit responding to you or ... like R.D. did. I like what he did
    for me, so I don't have to. You are a true IDIOT and LIAR.

    Note: This is not defamation, your reputation IS so, what is FACT.


    It is only a fact that you ether fail to pay
    close enough attention or do not know the C
    programming language very well or both.

    You were not placed on the good or bad list.


    *These are good reviewers*
    Alan Mackenzie
    André G. Isaak
    Mikko
    Ben Bacarisse
    Mike Terry

    Kaz might give you a fair review too
    he is reasonable at least 1/3 of the time.

    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 11:13:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to
    define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications >>>>>> of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM do
    add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state and
    Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the tape in
    one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you can do
    what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer" instruction to
    a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current state
    and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be the input
    to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation to
    know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation, and
    with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define.

    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head
    left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do
    this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where.

    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access the full machine description, or how else the fuck is he
    doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he obviously can
    dump the machine description, in whatever format he has it in, to the
    tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it when
    he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that than
    cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the initial
    tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information in,
    when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy


    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access input of a particular transition, and therefore can dump
    that input to the tape when REFLECT is encountered, in whatever format
    he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more precisely
    he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer after putting
    1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED to be
    the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the
    machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the input
    to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY GIVES
    FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave it.

    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the inner,
    then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input then before,
    and thus the program P isn't the required one. The "call" to the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input as when we directly call it
    for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look at
    the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state.

    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to
    run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer, couldn't be
    a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your
    logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible
    to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow instructions
    like that.

    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine description
    to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that beyond ur ability to follow instructions???

    u must have like an 80 IQ if 1-4 are so beyond ur conception that you
    need to write paragraphs on an apparently inability to do so LOL
    --
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    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 11:27:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to
    define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications >>>>>> of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation to
    know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation, and
    with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head
    left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do
    this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access the full machine description, or how else the fuck is he
    doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he obviously can
    dump the machine description, in whatever format he has it in, to the
    tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that than
    cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the initial
    tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then obviously
    he has access input of a particular transition, and therefore can dump
    that input to the tape when REFLECT is encountered, in whatever format
    he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more precisely
    he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer after putting
    1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY GIVES
    FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. u
    have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite
    improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically
    useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical mechanisms
    that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability that you
    are proposing.
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    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 13:52:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 1:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications >>>>>>> of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation
    to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head
    left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do
    this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else the
    fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he
    obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he has
    it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that
    than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the
    initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU
    DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. u
    have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.


    "effectively calculable" was the original term-of-the-art
    Now it is computable function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function

    /effectively compute/ has no term-of-the-art meaning.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically
    useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability that you
    are proposing.

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 19:05:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-10-30, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible
    to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    All of what you say above is literally done by embedded devs around the
    planet, daily, with JTAG debuggers and similar.

    It makes no sense as a product feature in the chip itself, beyond
    providing support for the debugging interface.

    But yes; someone could combine the JTAG debugger with the rest of
    the board and have some sort of product that does reflection.
    It's possible with the current tech.

    It would need the help of the second processor; the host would give
    it a command like "please stop me for a moment, and grab a snapshot
    of such and such state". Then when that is done, the snapshot can be
    downloaded to the host from the helper chip (or already available
    in memory).
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 14:17:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 2:05 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-30, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible
    to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    All of what you say above is literally done by embedded devs around the planet, daily, with JTAG debuggers and similar.

    It makes no sense as a product feature in the chip itself, beyond
    providing support for the debugging interface.

    But yes; someone could combine the JTAG debugger with the rest of
    the board and have some sort of product that does reflection.
    It's possible with the current tech.

    It would need the help of the second processor; the host would give
    it a command like "please stop me for a moment, and grab a snapshot
    of such and such state". Then when that is done, the snapshot can be downloaded to the host from the helper chip (or already available
    in memory).


    It may make more sense for a UTM do do reflection even
    on its own behavior. It could write each step that itself
    takes on a portion of its own tape.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 12:27:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 12:05 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-30, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible
    to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    All of what you say above is literally done by embedded devs around the planet, daily, with JTAG debuggers and similar.

    It makes no sense as a product feature in the chip itself, beyond
    providing support for the debugging interface.

    But yes; someone could combine the JTAG debugger with the rest of
    the board and have some sort of product that does reflection.
    It's possible with the current tech.

    It would need the help of the second processor; the host would give
    it a command like "please stop me for a moment, and grab a snapshot
    of such and such state". Then when that is done, the snapshot can be downloaded to the host from the helper chip (or already available
    in memory).


    great, glad we agree this is mechanically feasible 👌👌👌, not only with current tech, but also just like a dude with a pen and paper.

    meaning i can propose in theory the RTM with that functionality, since theoretical machines are just predicated on the intuition that they are mechanically feasible

    why do this?

    because it gives computations a *dependable* way to assert at what step
    of the overall runtime it is currently at.

    yeah, you could build this using arguments passed into the computation,
    but then you'd have to rely on the user to not lie about what it's
    passing it ...

    and that's just not an assumption we can make. the lie is expressible
    within computing so deciders need to handle it, and reflection is what
    gives them that power. the mechanisms of the machine itself cannot lie.
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 20:17:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-10-30, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    It may make more sense for a UTM do do reflection even
    on its own behavior. It could write each step that itself
    takes on a portion of its own tape.

    Wow, you really know your shit. I'm appointing you lead engineer on the project.

    Let's outline a 22 year plan.

    Status reports can be posted tri-daily to comp.theory.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 15:21:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 3:17 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-30, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    It may make more sense for a UTM do do reflection even
    on its own behavior. It could write each step that itself
    takes on a portion of its own tape.

    Wow, you really know your shit. I'm appointing you lead engineer on the project.

    Let's outline a 22 year plan.

    Status reports can be posted tri-daily to comp.theory.


    I have a 50% chance that my cancer will
    not come back in 5 years. The only way
    that I will live 22 more years is if
    Christ comes back and makes death no longer
    possible.
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 13:25:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 7:50 AM, wij wrote:
    On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 22:39 +0800, wij wrote:
    On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 22:01 -0500, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 9:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:46 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 1:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:42 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:53 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WRITE A SYMBOL OR MOVE THE TAPE AROUND? >>>>>>>>>>>> IDK FUCKING JUST HAPPENS...

    Because that *IS* what it is defined to do.


    wow you gishgallop special pleading dumbass motherfucker just >>>>>>>>>> fucking wow...

    rofl.


    so the turing machine can just work because *its* defined to be >>>>>>>>>> so, no need to explain how,

    but i need explain "how" RTMs beyond a definition because why???? >>>>>>>>>>

    Because you wanted more attention than the "moronic" Olcott?

    actually kill yourself


    You first? Deal. Lair paradox?

    literally buy a gun, load it, cock the hammer, switch off the safety, >>>>>> point it at ur head, and pull the trigger u literal piece of
    existential trash


    All you are doing is just admitting that you know you logic is broken, >>>>> so you need to move to nonsense.

    bro fuck u for encouraging an absolute troll like chris.

    fucking boomers never learned to communicate properly so ofc u fucking >>>> all failed to use the internet to converge on anything meaningful.


    *There are at least three complete Trolls here --- best ignored*
    Chris M. Thomasson // 99% pure nonsense
    dbush and          // 99% pure dogma with zero comprehension
    Richard Damon      // 100% stuck in rebuttal mode and mean

    At the beginning, R.D. (and others) tireless explained the HP and the bugs of
    POOH. But you kept 'in rebuttal mode' to fabricate false report in response. >> All is left to quit responding to you or ... like R.D. did. I like what he did
    for me, so I don't have to. You are a true IDIOT and LIAR.

    Note: This is not defamation, your reputation IS so, what is FACT.


    *These are good reviewers*
    Alan Mackenzie
    André G. Isaak
    Mikko
    Ben Bacarisse
    Mike Terry

    Kaz might give you a fair review too
    he is reasonable at least 1/3 of the time.

    Chris made a simple BASIC example:

    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "The Olcott All-in-One Halt Decider!"
    10 INPUT "Shall I halt or not? " ; A$
    30 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    40 GOTO 10
    666 PRINT "OK!"

    Go figure it out from BASIC.
    Your 'profound logic' and POOH ares totally garbage.


    :^)

    Also this fun thing is an interesting, rather absurd in a sense, HHH,
    Halting Halt Halter. For some reason it kind of seems like it might be a
    fun thing for students pondering on the halting problem to think
    about... ;^)

    ___________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "HHH"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0
    10 INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    20 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    30 P0 = P0 + 1
    40 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    50 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    ___________________________

    Simple, perhaps too simple for Olcott?
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 20:33:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-10-30, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications >>>>>>>> of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation >>>>> machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation
    to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head >>>> left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do
    this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36] >>>>
    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else the >>>> fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he
    obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he has >>>> it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that >>>> than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the
    initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU >>>> DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. u
    have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite
    improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /effectively
    compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.


    "effectively calculable" was the original term-of-the-art
    Now it is computable function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function

    No, imbecile. "Effectively calculable" is not an original term of
    art that has been replaced by "computable function".

    "Effectivcely calculable" is a nebulous concept famously invoked
    int the Church-Turing thesis.

    It has to stand apart from "computable function" in order for
    the thesis to make any sense.

    What the thesis is proposing is the hypothesis that any effective
    calculation method must be a Turing algorithm (which then makes it a
    computable function).

    The hypothesis is not proven; if it is false, then there can
    be "effective calculation" that is outside of Turing; i.e. not a
    computable function by our Turing-based definition of it.

    It's /probably true/. Every computational system we have come up
    with so far has been shown to be simulable by Turing machines.

    However, until the thesis is proven, we have to regard "effectively
    calcualble" as a nebulous term without a clear definition,
    and separate from "computable function".

    The thesis doesn't propose what an effective calculation might look like
    that is not Turing, only proposing that such calculations don't exist
    (in which case what they look like is a moot question).
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 13:36:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 7:51 AM, olcott wrote:
    [...]

    You were not placed on the good or bad list.

    Oh my. Now it thinks its Santa Claus. Or, perhaps Clause?

    [...]
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 20:45:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-10-30, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:17 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-30, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    It may make more sense for a UTM do do reflection even
    on its own behavior. It could write each step that itself
    takes on a portion of its own tape.

    Wow, you really know your shit. I'm appointing you lead engineer on the
    project.

    Let's outline a 22 year plan.

    Status reports can be posted tri-daily to comp.theory.


    I have a 50% chance that my cancer will
    not come back in 5 years. The only way
    that I will live 22 more years is if
    Christ comes back and makes death no longer
    possible.

    So you believe Christ can come back, but D is "totally killed"
    when H stops simulating it, LOL.

    Thou lying Judas! Mark it---before the cock crows, thou shalt
    reply to three people you have *plonk*-ed.
    --
    TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr
    Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal
    Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 13:57:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 1:52 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    For a .5 probability, my system should take 3 iterations for it to fin. Check this out... It's fuzzed and drives itself. Keep line 30 in mind.
    You can explore a different probability... :^)
    ____________________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "ct_dr_fuzz lol. ;^)"
    6 P0 = 0
    7 P1 = 0

    10 REM Fuzzer... ;^)
    20 A$ = "NOPE!"
    30 IF RND(1) < .5 THEN A$ = "YES"

    100 REM INPUT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    110 PRINT "Shall DD halt or not? " ; A$
    200 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    300 P0 = P0 + 1
    400 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    500 GOTO 10

    666 PRINT "OK!"
    667 P1 = P1 + 1
    700 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    710 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    720 IF P0 > 0 AND P1 > 0 GOTO 1000
    730 PRINT "ALL PATHS FAILED TO BE HIT!"
    740 GOTO 10


    1000
    1010 PRINT "FIN... All paths hit."
    1020 PRINT "NON_HALT P0 = "; P0
    1030 PRINT "HALT P1 = "; P1
    ____________________________


    It's fun to me. :^)

    ur fucking retard
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 14:00:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem using reflection... :^)

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 16:02:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 3:45 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-30, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:17 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-30, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
    It may make more sense for a UTM do do reflection even
    on its own behavior. It could write each step that itself
    takes on a portion of its own tape.

    Wow, you really know your shit. I'm appointing you lead engineer on the
    project.

    Let's outline a 22 year plan.

    Status reports can be posted tri-daily to comp.theory.


    I have a 50% chance that my cancer will
    not come back in 5 years. The only way
    that I will live 22 more years is if
    Christ comes back and makes death no longer
    possible.

    So you believe Christ can come back, but D is "totally killed"
    when H stops simulating it, LOL.

    Thou lying Judas! Mark it---before the cock crows, thou shalt
    reply to three people you have *plonk*-ed.


    If one pays close enough attention
    (no one ever does)
    Christ already said that he is never coming back.
    He says this in a very tricky way.
    He says that he is coming back only after
    an event that "never will be".
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 15:40:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem using reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 17:01:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 3:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem using
    reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)


    Your fantasy about me is very strange... Wow. Anyway, just make sure to
    code up your reflection solution to the halting problem. Show it to us!
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 17:13:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 5:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem
    using reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)


    Your fantasy about me is very strange... Wow. Anyway, just make sure to
    code up your reflection solution to the halting problem. Show it to us!

    theory is proven not demonstrated,

    unlike shoving a cock up ur ass, which is demonstrated rather than proven
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 17:31:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem
    using reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)


    Your fantasy about me is very strange... Wow. Anyway, just make sure
    to code up your reflection solution to the halting problem. Show it to
    us!

    theory is proven not demonstrated,

    unlike shoving a cock up ur ass, which is demonstrated rather than proven


    That should be your forward to a book somebody writes about you?
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 17:35:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 5:31 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem
    using reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)


    Your fantasy about me is very strange... Wow. Anyway, just make sure
    to code up your reflection solution to the halting problem. Show it
    to us!

    theory is proven not demonstrated,

    unlike shoving a cock up ur ass, which is demonstrated rather than proven


    That should be your forward to a book somebody writes about you?

    oh no i wrote some vulgar words on the internet in response to an
    incessantly retarded boomer troll,

    i'm sure posterity will care after how much ur generation fucked us more
    than you personally ever took it up the ass
    --
    hi, i'm nick! let's end war 🙃

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 17:37:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 5:35 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:31 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem
    using reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)


    Your fantasy about me is very strange... Wow. Anyway, just make sure
    to code up your reflection solution to the halting problem. Show it
    to us!

    theory is proven not demonstrated,

    unlike shoving a cock up ur ass, which is demonstrated rather than
    proven


    That should be your forward to a book somebody writes about you?

    oh no i wrote some vulgar words on the internet in response to an incessantly retarded boomer troll,

    i'm sure posterity will care after how much ur generation fucked us more than you personally ever took it up the ass


    You are a nice person right? ;^o
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 22:38:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications >>>>>>> of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them as
    having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM
    do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be
    equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state and
    Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the tape
    in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how
    you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you
    can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer" instruction
    to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current state
    and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be the input
    to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation
    to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have
    the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define.

    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head
    left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do
    this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system
    with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where.

    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else the
    fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he
    obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he has
    it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how
    to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write on
    the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it when
    he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that
    than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the
    initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information
    in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy


    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED to
    be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the
    machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the
    input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
      >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU
    DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave it.

    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input then
    before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The "call" to
    the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input as when we
    directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look at
    the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state.

    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to
    run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that
    description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program that
    actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer, couldn't
    be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your
    logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible
    to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.


    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow instructions
    like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are just showing your utter stupidity.


    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine description
    to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that beyond ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as defined.


    u must have like an 80 IQ if 1-4 are so beyond ur conception that you
    need to write paragraphs on an apparently inability to do so LOL


    Nope, I suspect mine is much higher than yours.

    I will note that you have yet to explain how you think you could do this either.

    All you seem to be able to do is just assume it can be done, but since
    you seem to not actually understand what a Turing machine is, even
    though you can quote some of the papers on them, as apparently you
    actually have no idea what they were talking about.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 20:58:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation >>>>> machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them
    as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM
    do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be
    equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state
    and Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the
    tape in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a
    feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how
    you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you
    can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer" instruction
    to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current state
    and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be the
    input to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation
    to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have
    the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define.

    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a
    head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just
    do this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system
    with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36] >>>
    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where.

    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else
    the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he
    obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he
    has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how
    to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write
    on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it
    when he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump
    the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information
    in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy


    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED to
    be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the
    machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the
    input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
      >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY
    YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave it. >>>
    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input then
    before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The "call" to
    the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input as when we
    directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look at
    the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state.

    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to
    run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that
    description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program
    that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer,
    couldn't be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your
    logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible
    to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.

    u can't actually prove the church-turing thesis, so u can't refute RTM abilities because TMs can't directly compute RTM machine descriptions.


    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur
    apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow
    instructions like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are just showing your utter stupidity.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION (AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW) MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE



    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine
    description to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that beyond
    ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as defined.

    the RTMs are defined to have access to the machine description that's
    being run at all times during the confirmation

    not only is this mechanically possible with real hardware, it's possible
    if a man with a paper and pencil if ur name is retarded richard



    u must have like an 80 IQ if 1-4 are so beyond ur conception that you
    need to write paragraphs on an apparently inability to do so LOL


    Nope, I suspect mine is much higher than yours.
    I will note that you have yet to explain how you think you could do
    this
    either.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE


    All you seem to be able to do is just assume it can be done, but since

    yes THAT'S HOW WE JUSTIFY TURING MACHINES AS WELL. we just assume the operations are possible because we can do then mechanically...

    ur just special pleading endlessly. u couldn't spot theoretical
    innovation even if took a shit in ur mouth while whacking u off...

    you seem to not actually understand what a Turing machine is, even

    a set of state transitions:

    (curState, symbolAtHead) -> (command, nextState)

    where command are the system transformations HEAD_LEFT or HEAD_RIGHT or WRITE_SYMBOL.

    for example:

    <q0,0,WRITE_1,q0>
    <q0,1,HEAD_RIGHT,q0>

    which will overwrite a tape with 1s (^ denotes where the head is):

    q0: 0
    ^
    q0: 1
    ^
    q0: 10
    ^
    q0: 11
    ^
    q0: 110
    ^

    u telling me i don't understand what a turing machine is just u
    blatantly lying about ur fellow human being in a convo,

    because ur honestly piece of totally disingenuous dogshit

    though you can quote some of the papers on them, as apparently you
    actually have no idea what they were talking about.

    all RTMs add is a new command variant REFLECT, which does things i've
    already repeated to you several times now. a really simple usage which
    just runs REFLECT and ends

    <q0,1,REFLECT,q1>

    q0: 1
    ^
    q1: <q0,1,REFLECT,q1>1q011
    ^
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    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 20:59:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 5:37 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 5:35 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:31 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem >>>>>>> using reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)


    Your fantasy about me is very strange... Wow. Anyway, just make
    sure to code up your reflection solution to the halting problem.
    Show it to us!

    theory is proven not demonstrated,

    unlike shoving a cock up ur ass, which is demonstrated rather than
    proven


    That should be your forward to a book somebody writes about you?

    oh no i wrote some vulgar words on the internet in response to an
    incessantly retarded boomer troll,

    i'm sure posterity will care after how much ur generation fucked us
    more than you personally ever took it up the ass


    You are a nice person right? ;^o

    you are most definitely not a nice person
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 04:50:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-10-31, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation >>>>>> machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them
    as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM
    do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be
    equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state
    and Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the
    tape in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a
    feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how
    you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you
    can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer" instruction >>>> to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current state >>>> and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be the
    input to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation >>>>> to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have
    the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define. >>>>
    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing >>>>> machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a
    head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just >>>>> do this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system
    with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36] >>>>
    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where.

    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else
    the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he >>>>> obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he
    has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how
    to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write
    on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it
    when he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump >>>>> the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information
    in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy >>>>

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED to >>>> be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the
    machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the
    input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
      >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY
    YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave it. >>>>
    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input then >>>> before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The "call" to
    the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input as when we
    directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look at >>>> the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state. >>>>
    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to
    run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that
    description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program
    that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer,
    couldn't be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your
    logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible
    to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.

    u can't actually prove the church-turing thesis, so u can't refute RTM abilities because TMs can't directly compute RTM machine descriptions.


    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur
    apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow
    instructions like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are just
    showing your utter stupidity.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION (AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW) MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE



    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine
    description to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that beyond
    ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as defined.

    the RTMs are defined to have access to the machine description that's
    being run at all times during the confirmation

    The only problem is that nobody has been able to come up with a
    computational system that hasn't been proven to be Turing equivalent.

    It's extremely unlikely that you're the first to invent machines with
    magic instructions for reflection and whatnot.

    If it were that easy to escape from Turing computation, someone would
    have done it.

    not only is this mechanically possible with real hardware, it's possible
    if a man with a paper and pencil if ur name is retarded richard

    As soon as you have "mechanicaally possible with real hardware"
    you probably have a Turing calculation, especially if the mechanics
    is symbol manipulation according to rules.

    As soon as your system is shown to be Turing, we know it succumbs
    to the undecidability of Turing halting by Turing machines.

    You think that if you have certain privilege levels or whatever
    with restricted access ot the magic instructions that you can somehow
    evade attempts at thwarting halting decisions.

    One problem is that if you have a Turing computational substrate,
    it can be used to program interpreters. Those interpreters can then
    be used to write programs about which we ask, does it halt?
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Oct 30 22:14:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 9:50 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-31, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation >>>>>>> machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them
    as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM >>>>> do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be
    equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state
    and Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the >>>>> tape in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a
    feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how >>>>> you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you >>>>> can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer" instruction >>>>> to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current state >>>>> and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be the
    input to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation >>>>>> to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation, >>>>>> and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have >>>>> the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define. >>>>>
    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply. >>>>>
    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing >>>>>> machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a
    head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just >>>>>> do this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system
    with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36] >>>>>
    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE >>>>>> NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS" >>>>>
    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where. >>>>>
    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else
    the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he >>>>>> obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he
    has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how >>>>> to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write
    on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it
    when he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump >>>>>> the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered. >>>>>
    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information
    in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy >>>>>

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED to >>>>> be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the >>>>> machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the
    input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
      >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY
    YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave it. >>>>>
    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input then >>>>> before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The "call" to >>>>> the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input as when we
    directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look at >>>>> the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state. >>>>>
    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to >>>>> run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that
    description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program
    that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer,
    couldn't be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your >>>>> logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible >>>> to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.

    u can't actually prove the church-turing thesis, so u can't refute RTM
    abilities because TMs can't directly compute RTM machine descriptions.


    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur
    apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow
    instructions like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are just >>> showing your utter stupidity.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION (AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW) MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE



    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine
    description to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that beyond >>>> ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as defined. >>
    the RTMs are defined to have access to the machine description that's
    being run at all times during the confirmation

    The only problem is that nobody has been able to come up with a
    computational system that hasn't been proven to be Turing equivalent.

    It's extremely unlikely that you're the first to invent machines with
    magic instructions for reflection and whatnot.

    If it were that easy to escape from Turing computation, someone would
    have done it.

    or u and the rest of this industry are actually complete fucking idiots

    not only is this mechanically possible with real hardware, it's possible
    if a man with a paper and pencil if ur name is retarded richard

    As soon as you have "mechanicaally possible with real hardware"
    you probably have a Turing calculation, especially if the mechanics
    is symbol manipulation according to rules.

    RTMs relationship with turing computation does not reduce down is or is
    not a TM computation.

    semantic paradoxes like the halting problem stem from a /mechanical/ limitation of TMs not /computational/


    As soon as your system is shown to be Turing, we know it succumbs
    to the undecidability of Turing halting by Turing machines.

    u would need to show a new form of undecidability


    You think that if you have certain privilege levels or whatever
    with restricted access ot the magic instructions that you can somehow
    evade attempts at thwarting halting decisions.

    it's not just "somehow", it follows from the ramifications of being able
    to decide in a context-aware manner


    One problem is that if you have a Turing computational substrate,
    it can be used to program interpreters. Those interpreters can then
    be used to write programs about which we ask, does it halt?


    RTMs being able to decide on how far down it is in a call chain, allows
    them to compute thru attempts are forming pathological programs

    ur not going to understand until u try to understand, which u haven't committed to yet
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 12:17:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 11:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them
    as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM
    do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be
    equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state
    and Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the
    tape in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a
    feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how
    you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you
    can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer"
    instruction to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current
    state and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be
    the input to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation >>>>> to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have
    the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define. >>>>
    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to
    turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can
    move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they
    mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system
    with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/
    [Tur36]

    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where.

    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else
    the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he >>>>> obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he
    has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how
    to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write
    on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it
    when he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously
    dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is
    encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information
    in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy >>>>

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED
    to be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the
    machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the
    input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
      >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY
    YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave
    it.

    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input
    then before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The
    "call" to the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input
    as when we directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look
    at the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state. >>>>
    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to
    run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that
    description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program
    that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer,
    couldn't be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your
    logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's
    possible to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.

    u can't actually prove the church-turing thesis, so u can't refute RTM abilities because TMs can't directly compute RTM machine descriptions.

    No, I can't, but your problem is that you system is just an attempt to
    break the requirements of Church-Turing.

    Church-Turing is about Computations, Things that produce a specific
    answer for the application of a specific algroithm to a specific input.

    Your "Reflection" is just a method to get a machine to depend on
    something that isn't part of its input, and thus isn't a Computation.

    Thus, your RTM do not qualify to be applied to Church-Turing.



    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur
    apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow
    instructions like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are
    just showing your utter stupidity.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION (AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW) MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE

    How do you do Reflection? You still havn't actually shown how to do it
    within the rules of the system.

    Part of your problem is you don't seem to KNOW the rules of the system,
    or even what the system is you are claiming to play in.

    Turing Machines have NO INTERNL MEMORY (other than the current state)
    and this is the essential thing that makes them be Computations.

    With no internal memory, how does it recall what the tape was at the
    begining?

    Where does it find this encoding of itself?

    Your whole premise is based on breaking the rules of the game, and thus
    you get thrown out of it.




    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine
    description to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that
    beyond ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as
    defined.

    the RTMs are defined to have access to the machine description that's
    being run at all times during the confirmation

    Which isn't allowed, since it doesn't necessarily exist. Do computer
    chips have access to the masks used to fabricate them?


    not only is this mechanically possible with real hardware, it's possible
    if a man with a paper and pencil if ur name is retarded richard

    No, it is not. Where does he find the initial contents of his stack of
    papers later on?

    How does he "encode" his instructions, if he doesn't know WHICH encoding
    to generate?

    Your problem is you assume that Turing Machines are always run on a
    specific UTM, but that isn't how it works, and it can't, as then, how
    would that UTM run?




    u must have like an 80 IQ if 1-4 are so beyond ur conception that you
    need to write paragraphs on an apparently inability to do so LOL


    Nope, I suspect mine is much higher than yours.
    I will note that you have yet to explain how you think you could do
    this
    either.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE

    No, you think you can, because you don't understand what you are trying
    to work with, because you are too ignorant, and to stupid to see your ignorance.



    All you seem to be able to do is just assume it can be done, but since

    yes THAT'S HOW WE JUSTIFY TURING MACHINES AS WELL. we just assume the operations are possible because we can do then mechanically...

    No, Turing Machines derive from their specification, and the Mathematics
    of the system show they work,

    Of course, it is based on the assumption that Logic works.

    Your problem is you don't seem to understand the requirements of a
    system to be classifies as a Computation, probably because there are subtleties like determinism that are beyound your minds ability to
    understand.


    ur just special pleading endlessly. u couldn't spot theoretical
    innovation even if took a shit in ur mouth while whacking u off...

    No, YOU are the one that doesn't understand requirements.

    yes, you can make your RTM, they just are not Turing Machine, and live
    outside the field of Computation Theory in how you use them.

    Your RTM programs are, in general, outside Computation Theory, just like arbitry C functions or segments of Computer Code. It only deals with
    code blocks that conform to the rules of Algorithms that meet the
    requirements of Computations, and thus generate results just from the
    "inputs" they have been given.

    With these restrictions, there are a lot of things we can talk about of
    the ability of such code.

    Note, most pieces of real useful computer code can be consisdered such a segment, *IF* we include all the data it accesses as part of its
    "input", as real computers are generally deterministic. What can't be
    handled are code segments that depend on randomness, (either Hardware
    Random number generators, or asyncronous interactations).


    you seem to not actually understand what a Turing machine is, even

    a set of state transitions:

    (curState, symbolAtHead) -> (command, nextState)

    where command are the system transformations HEAD_LEFT or HEAD_RIGHT or WRITE_SYMBOL.

    Nope, because they always write a "new symbol" (which might be the same)




    for example:

    <q0,0,WRITE_1,q0>
    <q0,1,HEAD_RIGHT,q0>

    which will overwrite a tape with 1s (^ denotes where the head is):

    q0: 0
        ^
    q0: 1
        ^
    q0: 10
         ^
    q0: 11
         ^
    q0: 110
          ^

    u telling me i don't understand what a turing machine is just u
    blatantly lying about ur fellow human being in a convo,

    So, where do you put in your instruction?

    Being able to parrot back the definition does not show understanding.


    because ur honestly piece of totally disingenuous dogshit

    No, you are, because you say you can do something, which you can't do.

    As I asked, how do you tell your RTM to do the dump with the encoding
    you just defined?


    though you can quote some of the papers on them, as apparently you
    actually have no idea what they were talking about.

    all RTMs add is a new command variant REFLECT, which does things i've already repeated to you several times now. a really simple usage which
    just runs REFLECT and ends


    So, is REFLECT a move left or move right? That was what the tape
    operation was defined to be.

    And, where does it get the data to write?


    The latter is the biggest problem. Giving your RTM storage to do this
    removes it from the class of machines defined to be Turing Machines, and
    makes it lose the essential property of Turing Machines that all code segements are computations.

    <q0,1,REFLECT,q1>

    q0: 1
        ^
    q1: <q0,1,REFLECT,q1>1q011
        ^


    But is <q0,1,REFLECT,q1> a valid set of symbols on the tape?

    Since the results of that operation, by your admission, depends on what
    has happened previously (as it writes the ORIGNIAL tape), the operation either:

    1) Isn't deterministic

    2) Based on information not currently available, as it wasn't actually
    stored anywhere

    3) Makes the code dependent on memory not part of its "input"

    or
    4) Makes part of the input not accessable to be defined by the code.

    Any of these breaks the analysis that makes Computation Theory useful.

    And, we get back to the original issue, since the behavior of the
    program described by the input to the decider doesn't depend on how the decider has been called, if it veries its output based on how it is
    called, it must be wrong.

    If the program described by the input isn't allowed to use a copy of the algorithm of the decider, you are just defining you system to be less
    than Turing Complete.

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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 12:17:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 1:14 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 9:50 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-10-31, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation >>>>>>>> machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them >>>>>> as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM >>>>>> do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be >>>>>> equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the >>>>>>> head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state >>>>>> and Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the >>>>>> tape in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a
    feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how >>>>>> you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you >>>>>> can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer" instruction >>>>>> to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current state >>>>>> and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be the
    input to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation >>>>>>> to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation, >>>>>>> and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting >>>>>>> problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have >>>>>> the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are
    define.

    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply. >>>>>>
    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing >>>>>>> machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a >>>>>>> head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just >>>>>>> do this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system >>>>>> with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition, >>>>>> changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ >>>>>>> [Tur36]

    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE >>>>>>> NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS" >>>>>>
    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where. >>>>>>
    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else >>>>>>> the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he >>>>>>> obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he >>>>>>> has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how >>>>>> to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write >>>>>> on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it
    when he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" >>>>>>> that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump >>>>>>> the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered. >>>>>>
    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information >>>>>> in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to >>>>>> copy


    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can >>>>>>> obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer >>>>>>> after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED to >>>>>> be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the >>>>>> machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the
    input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
       >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY >>>>>>> GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY >>>>>>> YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is >>>>>> about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing
    gave it.

    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input then >>>>>> before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The "call" to >>>>>> the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input as when we >>>>>> directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look at >>>>>> the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current
    state.

    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to >>>>>> run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that >>>>>> description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program
    that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer,
    couldn't be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your >>>>>> logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's possible >>>>> to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.

    u can't actually prove the church-turing thesis, so u can't refute RTM
    abilities because TMs can't directly compute RTM machine descriptions.


    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur >>>>> apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow
    instructions like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are
    just
    showing your utter stupidity.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION (AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW) MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE



    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine
    description to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that beyond >>>>> ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as
    defined.

    the RTMs are defined to have access to the machine description that's
    being run at all times during the confirmation

    The only problem is that nobody has been able to come up with a
    computational system that hasn't been proven to be Turing equivalent.

    It's extremely unlikely that you're the first to invent machines with
    magic instructions for reflection and whatnot.

    If it were that easy to escape from Turing computation, someone would
    have done it.

    or u and the rest of this industry are actually complete fucking idiots

    not only is this mechanically possible with real hardware, it's possible >>> if a man with a paper and pencil if ur name is retarded richard

    As soon as you have "mechanicaally possible with real hardware"
    you probably have a Turing calculation, especially if the mechanics
    is symbol manipulation according to rules.

    RTMs relationship with turing computation does not reduce down is or is
    not a TM computation.


    The problem is your RTMs are just like stored program computes, and can
    have code segments that are not computations. This doesn't make them
    greater by the Church-Turing Thesis, it puts such code segments outside
    its requirements.

    The requirements are about computing mappings on In -> Out.>
    semantic paradoxes like the halting problem stem from a /mechanical/ limitation of TMs not /computational/

    There isn't a "semantic paradox" in the Halting Problem, unless you are
    using the full definition of paradox as an APPARENT contradiction.

    The Halting Problem is not a contradiction, it just shows that at the
    level of power of Turing Machines, some "problems" that can be legally proposed (they have a definite mapping) can not be "Computed" by the system.

    The inability to Compute a problem is NOT a real issue with the system,
    or a contradiction, in fact, it becomes a necessity that make the system
    more powerful. Fully Computable system are by necessity weak.



    As soon as your system is shown to be Turing, we know it succumbs
    to the undecidability of Turing halting by Turing machines.

    u would need to show a new form of undecidability

    Nope, as your RTM can't perform a COMPUTATION that computes the Halting Mapping.





    You think that if you have certain privilege levels or whatever
    with restricted access ot the magic instructions that you can somehow
    evade attempts at thwarting halting decisions.

    it's not just "somehow", it follows from the ramifications of being able
    to decide in a context-aware manner

    Which can't be a computation, as the question doesn't depend on the
    context of asking the decider.

    Your problem is you are really just insisting that the decider be
    allowed to lie and give incorrect answers at times, and thus you are
    just admitting that you system is inconsistant.



    One problem is that if you have a Turing computational substrate,
    it can be used to program interpreters. Those interpreters can then
    be used to write programs about which we ask, does it halt?


    RTMs being able to decide on how far down it is in a call chain, allows
    them to compute thru attempts are forming pathological programs

    But, the answer doesn't depend on how far down they are in the call
    chain, and thus the correct answer can't depend on that.


    ur not going to understand until u try to understand, which u haven't committed to yet

    So, when are you going to understand the nature of objectie questions.
    It seems you logic is based on subjective truth only, and thus is
    naturally inconsistant.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 12:18:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the ramifications >>>>>>> of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation
    machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation
    to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a head
    left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just do
    this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else the
    fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he
    obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he has
    it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" that
    than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump the
    initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU
    DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. u
    have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically
    useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability that you
    are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try to
    redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong answers.

    Your "theory" is based on just throwing out the rules of the system, and
    thus destroy it and everything it CAN tell us about thing.

    The "Pathological Program", when the claimed decider actually exists as
    a program in the system, is also a actually existing program in the
    system, or the system is weaker than a Turing Machine.

    The "pathological Program" will have definite behavior, it will either
    halt or not, or the system itself doesn't define a definite behavior,
    and thus questions about behavior are just non-sense.

    The actual question about the program is asking about the behavior of
    that program when it is independenty run, and since such behavior
    doesn't have "context", the answer can't have context either. If this
    isn't true, then again, talking about program behavior, just isn't
    defined in your system.

    Since the correct answer doesn't change based on any context, the
    "decider" can't give different answers based on context, or it is just
    wrong, or you system accepts wrong answers as right, and thus your
    system isn't really logical.

    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part of
    the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not have any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the system. It
    comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of infinity problem
    we can create, then there are algorithms that could try to compute them,
    thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or even most, or the problems.

    This comes from the fact that the number of Algorithms is a countable infinity, as algrothims are defines as a finite set of instructions
    created from a finite set of operations, and thus can be enumerated with
    the Natural Numbers.

    But, the set of Problems are the full set of mappings from a Natural
    Number to another Natural Number, which is an uncountable set.

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 12:19:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 8:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:37 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 5:35 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:31 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 5:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 3:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:00 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 1:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    ur fucking retard

    Remember to keep working on your solution to the halting problem >>>>>>>> using reflection... :^)


    remember to keep shoving cocks down ur throat... :^)


    Your fantasy about me is very strange... Wow. Anyway, just make
    sure to code up your reflection solution to the halting problem.
    Show it to us!

    theory is proven not demonstrated,

    unlike shoving a cock up ur ass, which is demonstrated rather than
    proven


    That should be your forward to a book somebody writes about you?

    oh no i wrote some vulgar words on the internet in response to an
    incessantly retarded boomer troll,

    i'm sure posterity will care after how much ur generation fucked us
    more than you personally ever took it up the ass


    You are a nice person right? ;^o

    you are most definitely not a nice person


    I don't want you to kill yourself! wow. Btw, you should get to work and
    code up your solution to the halting problem using reflection. Happy Halloween! :^)

    Btw, when olcott starts comparing people to hitler wrt murdering
    millions of people because we know is code is non-sense, well, that
    pissed me off...
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 12:29:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your computation >>>>> machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation
    to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to turing
    machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can move a
    head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they mechanically just
    do this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ [Tur36] >>>>
    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else
    the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he
    obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he
    has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously dump
    the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY
    YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. u
    have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite
    improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /
    effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically
    useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical
    mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent
    context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting function
    irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability that
    you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try to
    redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be wrong
    about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no "right" answer.

    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to a
    situation that would only make that truth untrue?

    that's incredibly unfair of you

    #god
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 12:53:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/30/2025 8:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them
    as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a TM
    do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can be
    equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state
    and Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of the
    tape in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a
    feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED how
    you system works, as it is based on just assuming that "somehow" you
    can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer"
    instruction to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current
    state and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be
    the input to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation >>>>> to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't have
    the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are define. >>>>
    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to
    turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can
    move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they
    mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called.

    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system
    with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/
    [Tur36]

    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS"

    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where.

    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else
    the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he >>>>> obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he
    has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know how
    to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to write
    on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it
    when he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously
    dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is
    encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information
    in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to copy >>>>

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED
    to be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of the
    machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of the
    input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
      >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY
    YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is
    about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing gave
    it.

    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input
    then before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The
    "call" to the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input
    as when we directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look
    at the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state. >>>>
    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program to
    run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than that
    description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program
    that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer,
    couldn't be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn your
    logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's
    possible to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.

    u can't actually prove the church-turing thesis, so u can't refute RTM abilities because TMs can't directly compute RTM machine descriptions.


    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur
    apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow
    instructions like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are
    just showing your utter stupidity.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION (AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW) MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE



    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine
    description to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that
    beyond ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as
    defined.

    the RTMs are defined to have access to the machine description that's
    being run at all times during the confirmation

    not only is this mechanically possible with real hardware, it's possible
    if a man with a paper and pencil if ur name is retarded richard



    u must have like an 80 IQ if 1-4 are so beyond ur conception that you
    need to write paragraphs on an apparently inability to do so LOL


    Nope, I suspect mine is much higher than yours.
    I will note that you have yet to explain how you think you could do
    this
    either.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE
    [...]

    Code it up!

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 16:40:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 12:53 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 8:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 4:32 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    But they arn't TMs, and you can't add the feature and maintain them >>>>> as having the basic property of TMS.

    You don't seem to understand that this "simple modification" to a
    TM do add this is akin to adding to arithmatic the rule that 1 can
    be equal to 2.


    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the >>>>>> head, when that instruction is called:

    But TMs don't HAVE that sort of instructions.

    Their FULL array of operations is the mapping of the current state
    and Tape Symbol to the new state and tape symbol, plus a step of
    the tape in one direction of the other.

    There is not place in that format of "instruction" to add such a
    feature.

    That is why I keep telling you that you haven't actually DEFINED
    how you system works, as it is based on just assuming that
    "somehow" you can do what you want


    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    And where does it get that information from to do so?

    That is like saying there can be a "Get the right answer"
    instruction to a deterministic computation devide.

    Remember, Turing Machines have no memory other than the current
    state and the current contents of the tape, which is defined to be
    the input to that current state.


    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a
    computation to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of >>>>>> computation, and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like >>>>>> the halting problem.


    Call WHAT "REFLECT".

    Your problem is you don't understand that Turing Machines don't
    have the ability to have arbitrary instructions due to how they are >>>>> define.

    Just like they don't have instrucitons like Add or Call or Multiply. >>>>>
    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to
    turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can
    move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they
    mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called. >>>>>
    How?

    Note, Turing Machine are pure Mathematical constructs, in a system
    with defined rules.

    There is no operation defined to do what you want.

    All you are doing is showing you are as ignorant of what you are
    talking about as Olcot.


    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    There are no "mechanics" to a Turing Machine but state transition,
    changing the contents of the tape, and moving it a step.


    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/
    [Tur36]

    Right, so, how does that man do that operation?




    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE >>>>>> NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS" >>>>>
    Right, so how do you "mechanically" create information from no where. >>>>>
    The man has no "memory", except for what is on the papers.


    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else >>>>>> the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore
    he obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format >>>>>> he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    No, he has the book of instructions. he doesn't necessarily know
    how to convert those instructions into the notes he is allowed to
    write on the pieces of paper.

    He also doesn't remember what values the pile of papers had on it
    when he started,


    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously
    dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is
    encountered.

    Right, so even if you gave him a side bucket to put the information >>>>> in, when he starts this sub-operation, it begins by telling him to
    copy


    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can >>>>>> obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    But to where? Remember, the pile of papers, as a total, is DEFINED
    to be the input to the compuation.

    Thus, if the outer part of the operation made a note of state of
    the machine and put it into the pile of paper, it becomes part of
    the input to the sub-operation.

    But the sub-operation wasn't defined to have that as its input.

    It can't be a "hidden" pile that only comes out with a reflect
    instruction as there is defined that there isn't such a pile
      >
    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY >>>>>> YOU DORK

    Nope, because your description changes the input given, and thus is >>>>> about lying.

    Again, HOW does the "machine" do what you want with what Turing
    gave it.

    IF it passes that information down from the outer routine to the
    inner, then by DEFINITION that inner routine has a diffent input
    then before, and thus the program P isn't the required one. The
    "call" to the decider that P makes, must have the exact same input
    as when we directly call it for the answer.

    If not, then your system just fails to have proper reuse of
    algorithms, which makes it less than Turing Complete.


    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I am not confused, which is part of your issue, you refuse to look
    at the errors ppinted out.

    You aren't allowed to change the fundamental definitions without
    kicking yourself out of the field you claim to be in.

    Turing Machines have no private memory other than their current state. >>>>>
    The question is ONLY a function of the description of the program
    to run, and thus the decider CAN'T depend on anything other than
    that description, or the decider is by definition incorrect.

    Thus, even if you could define such a thing as a RTM, and program
    that actually tries to use that capability to affect its answer,
    couldn't be a correct halt decider.

    Any attempt to try to define it as such will fundamentally turn
    your logic system into an incoherent worthless mess.


    are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think it's
    possible to design a computer chip that can do simple things like:


    Didn't say that, I said you couldn't make a Turing Machine do that.

    I guess you just don't know what those words mean.

    1) dump the program it's running on demand?
    2) save the initial memory to an internal buffer to dump on demand?
    3) dump the current instruction address on demand?
    4) duplicate memory on demand????

    cause right now ur saying u can't imagine a computer chip doing that

    Nope, I said a Turing Machine, or a Computation couldn't do it.

    u can't actually prove the church-turing thesis, so u can't refute RTM
    abilities because TMs can't directly compute RTM machine descriptions.

    ;
    but that not only can you not imagine a computer chip doing that, ur
    apparently also too fucking retarded as a person to follow
    instructions like that.

    And if you think you have been talking about compuer chips, you are
    just showing your utter stupidity.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION (AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW) MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE



    idk richard, are you intelligent enough to write the machine
    description to a tape upon seeing a REFLECT command? or is that
    beyond ur ability to follow instructions???

    It is IMPOSSIBLE, as it requires information not in the machine as
    defined.

    the RTMs are defined to have access to the machine description that's
    being run at all times during the confirmation

    not only is this mechanically possible with real hardware, it's
    possible if a man with a paper and pencil if ur name is retarded richard



    u must have like an 80 IQ if 1-4 are so beyond ur conception that
    you need to write paragraphs on an apparently inability to do so LOL


    Nope, I suspect mine is much higher than yours.
    I will note that you have yet to explain how you think you could
    do this
    either.

    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE
    [...]

    Code it up!


    irrelevant to people who can think
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 17:11:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part of
    the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not have any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the system. It
    comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of infinity problem
    we can create, then there are algorithms that could try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a
    function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.

    u still are trying to inform of why i'm wrong without actually listening
    to what i'm saying. it's just hubris of u to think u can refute me
    without actually listening to what i've said.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 19:17:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/2025 7:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part
    of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not have
    any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the system.
    It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of infinity
    problem we can create, then there are algorithms that could try to
    compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or even most,
    or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.


    Yes me too. This has been the key focus of all my work
    for 28 years.

    u still are trying to inform of why i'm wrong without actually listening
    to what i'm saying. it's just hubris of u to think u can refute me
    without actually listening to what i've said.


    His ADD may be so bad that it is impossible for his to actually
    pay close attention to anything. I don't have ADD but I did
    find that carefully studying the exact same material 16 times
    did really deepen my understanding.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 17:57:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 9:17 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

    you seem to not actually understand what a Turing machine is, even

    a set of state transitions:

    (curState, symbolAtHead) -> (command, nextState)

    where command are the system transformations HEAD_LEFT or HEAD_RIGHT
    or WRITE_SYMBOL.

    Nope, because they always write a "new symbol" (which might be the same)

    again, let me fucking quote turing at you again. because ur a narrow
    minded fool arguing way outside his league:

    /A machine can be constructed to compute the sequence 010101... The
    machine is to have the four m-configurations "b" , "c" , "f" , "e" and
    is capable of printing "0" and "1". The behavior of the machine is
    described in the following table in which "R" means "the machine moves
    so that it scans the square immediately on the right of the one it was scanning previously". Similarly for "L". "E" means "the scanned symbol
    is erased" and "P" stands for "prints". This table (and all succeeding
    tables of the same kind) is to be understood to mean that for a
    configuration described in the first two columns the operations in the
    third column are carried out successively, and the machine then goes
    over into the m-configuration described in the last column. When the
    second column is left blank, it is understood that the behavior of the
    third and fourth columns applies for any symbol and for no symbol. The
    machine starts in the m-configuration b with a blank tape:/

    Configuration Behavior
    m-config symbol operations final-m-config
    b None P0,R c
    c None R e
    e None P1,R f
    f None R b

    [Tur36]

    turing's first example ever had states that both just *just* shifted the
    head as well as states that wrote with a shift. turing didn't even
    require a particular symbol at head (doing so just makes accept any)

    turing went further too:

    /If (contrary to the description in §1) we allow the letters L, R to
    appear more than once in the operations column we can simplify the table considerably./

    Configuration Behavior
    m-config symbol operations final-m-config
    b None P0 b
    b 0 R,R,P1 b
    b 1 R,R,P0 b

    [Tur36]

    turing was intelligent enough to "break" his own rule in his 2nd example
    to produce a more succinct definition ... succinctness is something u
    know fuck all about. turing uses this in the rest of paper and composes
    states the commit 10 or more operations at once. wow, first paper on
    computing and we're already batching operations.

    seriously richard, you would literally be a guy arguing turing himself
    was wrong because he doesn't fit some asinine overly-narrow definition
    of computing you seem have grasped onto ... why are you being so fucking stupid about everything???

    mabye u need to back the fuck off a bit with gishgallop, eh???. look at
    how much it takes to refute one line of ur chronic bullshit???
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 18:43:35 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 5:17 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 7:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part
    of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not have
    any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the
    system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of
    infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms that could
    try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or
    even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a
    function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact
    uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.


    Yes me too. This has been the key focus of all my work
    for 28 years.


    the problem is polcott, no one is going to accept an algo that doesn't
    give us an /effectively computable/ resolution to whether an input
    machine halts or not.

    so far you've just got something that's *just* computable, but it's not /effectively computable/ in respect deciding on whether an input machine
    halts or not.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 21:02:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/2025 8:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 5:17 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 7:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part
    of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not
    have any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the
    system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of
    infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms that could
    try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or
    even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a
    function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact
    uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.


    Yes me too. This has been the key focus of all my work
    for 28 years.


    the problem is polcott, no one is going to accept an algo that doesn't
    give us an /effectively computable/ resolution to whether an input
    machine halts or not.

    so far you've just got something that's *just* computable, but it's
    not /effectively computable/ in respect deciding on whether an input
    machine halts or not.


    The key most important point is that the halting
    problem itself has simply been flat out incorrect
    since its beginning.

    Turing machine deciders only compute on the basis
    of what is actually specified in their actual inputs.

    Prior to my 2016 innovation of a simulating halt
    decider (more precisely a termination analyzer)
    people had to way to determine that the input does
    specify an exact behavior.

    It like the idiots of humanity that to this day
    are trying to figure out whether the liar paradox
    is true or false. "This sentence is not true"
    has always been semantically incoherent.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 22:59:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the
    head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a computation >>>>> to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of computation,
    and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like the halting
    problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to
    turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can
    move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they
    mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/
    [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE
    NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS" >>>>>
    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else
    the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore he >>>>> obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format he
    has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously
    dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is
    encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can
    obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY
    YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. u
    have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite
    improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /
    effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically
    useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical
    mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent
    context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting function
    irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability that
    you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try to
    redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be wrong
    about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no "right" answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every actual H.

    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to a situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed algorithm.

    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to be uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all inputs.
    Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider that wants to
    try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input.

    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a decider
    steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input is different for
    every possible decider, and thus, by the time the question can be asked,
    the deciders result for that input was already determined by its
    algorithm. For the decider it isn't a matter of being "truthful", it is
    just doing what it was programmed to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is applied, and claiming that it will give the right answer when it doesn't shows that
    his claim wasn't truthful.


    that's incredibly unfair of you

    #god


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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 23:13:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 8:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part
    of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not have
    any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the system.
    It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of infinity
    problem we can create, then there are algorithms that could try to
    compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or even most,
    or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.

    u still are trying to inform of why i'm wrong without actually listening
    to what i'm saying. it's just hubris of u to think u can refute me
    without actually listening to what i've said.


    So, what is your problem with Semantic Algorithms having problems.
    Semanatic problems just fall into that case of the explosion of cases,
    which leads to uncomputability.

    Note, nothing says that we can't give a semantic answer for a LOT of the possible inputs, just that there will always exist some input that is an
    edge case that pushes us to need infinite time to resolve.

    It shows that the language the semantics are framed in are powerful
    enough to allow for these unresolvable cases.

    Think of it this way, by our definitions, we have a countable infinte
    number of possible inputs. The decision process needs to divide these
    into categories, and at least one of those categories will need to be countably infinite in size.

    The language of Computations is powerful enough that for a non-trivial property, at least one of those infinite categories turns out to not be decided fully in finite steps, but there is some bounded relationship
    such that for any finite number of steps, and infinte number of members
    will remain to be decided.

    The lack of COMPLETE computability of Semantic Properties is an
    indication of the POWER of creating programs, that grows faster than the ability to analyze them.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 20:16:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 7:59 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is to >>>>>>>>>>> define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the >>>>>> head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a
    computation to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of >>>>>> computation, and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like >>>>>> the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to
    turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can
    move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they
    mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called. >>>>>>
    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his
    original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/
    [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON THE >>>>>> NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE TRANSITIONS" >>>>>>
    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else >>>>>> the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore
    he obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format >>>>>> he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer"
    that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously
    dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is
    encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can >>>>>> obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer
    after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY
    GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY >>>>>> YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. u
    have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite
    improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /
    effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically
    useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical
    mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent
    context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting function
    irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability that
    you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try to
    redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be wrong
    about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no "right"
    answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every actual H.

    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to a
    situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed algorithm.

    right, and context can be an input to the determinism

    console.trace() isn't nondeterministic, it's context dependent


    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to be uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all inputs. Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider that wants to
    try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input.

    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a decider steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input is different for every possible decider, and thus, by the time the question can be asked,
    the deciders result for that input was already determined by its
    algorithm. For the decider it isn't a matter of being "truthful", it is
    just doing what it was programmed to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is applied, and claiming that it will give the right answer when it doesn't shows that
    his claim wasn't truthful.


    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und) on
    this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    and the resolution is just to give a non-answer, so i split the decider
    into two halves and made false a non-answer. it cannot be a
    contradiction because it doesn't give information /in that moment/ about
    und() to contradict.

    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is required
    to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /truthful/ to do so.

    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just
    continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    it's like u never learned what a coherent argument is ... u just learned
    how to barely stick together facts u memorized.
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 23:20:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 8:17 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 7:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part
    of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not have
    any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the
    system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of
    infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms that could
    try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or
    even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a
    function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact
    uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.


    Yes me too. This has been the key focus of all my work
    for 28 years.

    Except you don't understand that Semantics means words have meaning, and
    you can't change it.

    Thus, "the behavior of the program decribed by the input" means exactly
    what it says, even if you don't understand it and think it can't mean
    that as you think that isn't a property of the input.

    That you don't understand the abstraction of a representation is your
    own stupidity.

    That you don't understand what a computation is, even after years of it
    being explained show again how stupid you are.

    Your problem STARTS with category errors, because you don't understand
    the basic words.

    The decider and the program given as input are DEFINED to be
    Computations, and thus are a single definite thing. (THe decider is arbitrarily chosen from an infinte set, but isn't itself an infinite
    set). Thus, the decider and the input program do what they do, and you
    can't look at some other behavior that they don't do.

    Hypothesising a longer simulatiin of the input doesn't change the code
    in the input, which includes the code of the decider it was built on.

    If that seems crazy to you, it is because you yourself are ignorant, not
    that the system is wrong.


    u still are trying to inform of why i'm wrong without actually
    listening to what i'm saying. it's just hubris of u to think u can
    refute me without actually listening to what i've said.


    His ADD may be so bad that it is impossible for his to actually
    pay close attention to anything. I don't have ADD but I did
    find that carefully studying the exact same material 16 times
    did really deepen my understanding.


    No, I do listen, but when I ask for a definition, and none is provided,
    it just shows that you are talking out of ignorance.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 20:28:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 8:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part
    of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not have
    any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the
    system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of
    infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms that could
    try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or
    even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a
    function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact
    uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.

    u still are trying to inform of why i'm wrong without actually
    listening to what i'm saying. it's just hubris of u to think u can
    refute me without actually listening to what i've said.


    So, what is your problem with Semantic Algorithms having problems.

    that we aren't proving our production code as semantically correct???
    ... that's really fucking stupid

    also we exploded our computing infrastructure far beyond necessary cause
    we have no theoretical way to pair down everything as turing equivalence
    falls under semantic algos, so we don't have a general way to compute semantic/turing equivalence.
    Semanatic problems just fall into that case of the explosion of cases,
    which leads to uncomputability.

    actually the only actual proofs of uncomputability rests on really
    simple cases, as they need to be actually understandable.


    Note, nothing says that we can't give a semantic answer for a LOT of the possible inputs, just that there will always exist some input that is an edge case that pushes us to need infinite time to resolve.

    right and getting the philosophy wrong messes us up.

    i hate have to explain to people that getting truth correct is in fact necessary beyond all possible reason i could give.


    It shows that the language the semantics are framed in are powerful
    enough to allow for these unresolvable cases.

    or maybe godel was wrong too. it's not like we did anything of note with godel's incompleteness.

    "oh we know our limits now" ... OR MAYBE WE JUST SHOT OURSELVES IN THE
    FOOT U FUCKIND TARD

    anyways, I'M NOT TRYING TO DIRECTLY REFUTING GODEL, as least i don't
    know so.

    i'm concerned primarily with computing, not all of math. tho i am
    directly refuting turing's support of godel.


    Think of it this way, by our definitions, we have a countable infinte
    number of possible inputs. The decision process needs to divide these
    into categories, and at least one of those categories will need to be countably infinite in size.

    The language of Computations is powerful enough that for a non-trivial property, at least one of those infinite categories turns out to not be decided fully in finite steps, but there is some bounded relationship
    such that for any finite number of steps, and infinte number of members
    will remain to be decided.

    The lack of COMPLETE computability of Semantic Properties is an
    indication of the POWER of creating programs, that grows faster than the ability to analyze them.

    gishgallop, and i don't fucking care about creating programs we can't
    even analyze???

    seriously, what is so fascinating about a bunch of creations we provable
    can never do anything with??? and what in the fuck is going on in
    computing theory???
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 23:33:35 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 11:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:59 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is >>>>>>>>>>>> to define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one.

    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single
    instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at the >>>>>>> head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a
    computation to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime of >>>>>>> computation, and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes like >>>>>>> the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to
    turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can >>>>>>> move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they
    mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called. >>>>>>>
    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially
    possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his >>>>>>> original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a >>>>>>> machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ >>>>>>> [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON
    THE NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE
    TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how else >>>>>>> the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? therefore >>>>>>> he obviously can dump the machine description, in whatever format >>>>>>> he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" >>>>>>> that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously >>>>>>> dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is
    encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and
    therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he can >>>>>>> obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more
    precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer >>>>>>> after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY >>>>>>> GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING ESSAY >>>>>>> YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong


    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution.
    u have something that's executable for sure, and that is a definite >>>>> improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /
    effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically
    useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical
    mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent
    context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting
    function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability
    that you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try to
    redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be wrong
    about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no "right"
    answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every actual H.

    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to a
    situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed algorithm.

    right, and context can be an input to the determinism

    console.trace() isn't nondeterministic, it's context dependent


    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to be
    uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all inputs.
    Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider that wants to
    try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input.

    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a
    decider steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input is
    different for every possible decider, and thus, by the time the
    question can be asked, the deciders result for that input was already
    determined by its algorithm. For the decider it isn't a matter of
    being "truthful", it is just doing what it was programmed to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is applied,
    and claiming that it will give the right answer when it doesn't shows
    that his claim wasn't truthful.


    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und) on
    this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Which isn't a computation if your symbology means that halts is taken
    from the context that the symbol und is used in.

    Sorry, you are just showing you don't know the meaning of the words.


    and the resolution is just to give a non-answer, so i split the decider
    into two halves and made false a non-answer. it cannot be a
    contradiction because it doesn't give information /in that moment/ about und() to contradict.

    But since you are starting with the same category error of Olcott, you
    get the same nonsense he does.

    The category for the input to a Halt Decider is the representation of a Computation.

    By DEFINITION, this has a FULLY defined algorithm, and thus NOT a closure.

    If you want to try to define your own theory of computation that uses a broader defintion, go ahead, the problem is you will find you can do
    litle with it, and that the semantic paradox you are complaining about
    is totally due to you altered definition of a computation.


    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    Since your input is a category error for the actual Computation Theory
    as classical defined, your results don't apply.


    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is required
    to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /truthful/ to do so.

    So, if you want to try to talk about this, you first need to try to
    develop a basic theory about context dependent Computations, to see if
    it can actually be useful for anything.


    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    Again, once you admit that you aren't working in the Classical
    Computation Theory, go ahead, just do the ground work to show what you
    idea can do, and don't claim it actually applies to the classical thoery.


    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    The problem is in your system, the basic question of "Does the Program
    Halt?" doesn't have a simple answer, as the behavior of the program
    depends on its context.

    We now need to ask, does this program, in this context halt (where the
    context needs to be fully defined, and not itself context dependent).

    Once you do that, then we need to provide the halt decider the context
    of the input, and the answer will agian be independent of the context of asking the decider, only of the context given to the decider, and again
    that particular H will give the wrong answer to the pathological
    program, by the nature of its construction.

    This just shows that program creation has more power that program analysis.


    it's like u never learned what a coherent argument is ... u just learned
    how to barely stick together facts u memorized.


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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 23:42:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 10:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 8:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 5:17 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 7:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential
    part of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System
    not have any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of >>>>> the system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class >>>>> of infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms that
    could try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for
    all, or even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate
    a function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact
    uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.


    Yes me too. This has been the key focus of all my work
    for 28 years.


    the problem is polcott, no one is going to accept an algo that doesn't
    give us an /effectively computable/ resolution to whether an input
    machine halts or not.

    so far you've just got something that's *just* computable, but it's
    not /effectively computable/ in respect deciding on whether an input
    machine halts or not.


    The key most important point is that the halting
    problem itself has simply been flat out incorrect
    since its beginning.

    No, you just don't understand the question.


    Turing machine deciders only compute on the basis
    of what is actually specified in their actual inputs.

    And that input specifies the full algorithm and input of the
    computation, which fully defines semantically the behavior of the
    computation in question, and thus it is a valid thing to ask about.

    The problem is you have the definition backwards. The decider CAN only
    perform the mechanical computation from the input it was given, but the CORRECTNESS of its decision is based on the mapping defined for that
    input, which isn't "computationally limited".

    You just seem to have a blindspot for the concept of needing to be correct.


    Prior to my 2016 innovation of a simulating halt
    decider (more precisely a termination analyzer)
    people had to way to determine that the input does
    specify an exact behavior.

    WRONG. The behavior of the input is specified by the problem to be the behavior of the program being asked about.

    If the input doesn't specify that, then you converted the input orogram incorrect.

    If you can't represent that for the input program, then you decider just failes to meet the requirements. We KNOW that it is possible to make a
    program that does get that property from a representation, as we have
    the Universal Turing Machine, which can recreate that property.

    So, your claim that the input doesn't have that meaning just says you
    did something wrong, as by the problem statement, it must.


    It like the idiots of humanity that to this day
    are trying to figure out whether the liar paradox
    is true or false. "This sentence is not true"
    has always been semantically incoherent.


    Which just shows your stupidity, as that isn't a question many people
    look at. It just seems that you don't understand how logic works, and
    how it a premise creates a proof that the liar paradox has a logical
    value, then that premise must be false.

    But, since that is beyond what categorical logic can handle, it is
    beyound your understanding.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 20:52:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 8:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:59 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is >>>>>>>>>>>>> to define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the
    ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing.

    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one. >>>>>>>>>
    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical
    reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single >>>>>>>> instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at >>>>>>>> the head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a
    computation to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime >>>>>>>> of computation, and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes >>>>>>>> like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to >>>>>>>> turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs can >>>>>>>> move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they
    mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is called. >>>>>>>>
    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially >>>>>>>> possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his >>>>>>>> original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number >>>>>>>> to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ >>>>>>>> [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON >>>>>>>> THE NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE
    TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access the full machine description, or how
    else the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions???
    therefore he obviously can dump the machine description, in
    whatever format he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a "buffer" >>>>>>>> that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can obviously >>>>>>>> dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever REFLECT is
    encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then
    obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and >>>>>>>> therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he >>>>>>>> can obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or more >>>>>>>> precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the buffer >>>>>>>> after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING ULTIMATELY >>>>>>>> GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS FUCKING
    ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong >>>>>>>>

    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way solution. >>>>>> u have something that's executable for sure, and that is a
    definite improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /
    effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner.

    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and* epistemically >>>>>> useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical
    mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent
    context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting
    function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability
    that you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try to >>>>> redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be wrong
    about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no "right"
    answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every actual H.

    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to a
    situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed
    algorithm.

    right, and context can be an input to the determinism

    console.trace() isn't nondeterministic, it's context dependent


    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to be
    uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all
    inputs. Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider that
    wants to try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input.

    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a
    decider steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input is
    different for every possible decider, and thus, by the time the
    question can be asked, the deciders result for that input was already
    determined by its algorithm. For the decider it isn't a matter of
    being "truthful", it is just doing what it was programmed to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is applied,
    and claiming that it will give the right answer when it doesn't shows
    that his claim wasn't truthful.


    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und)
    on this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Which isn't a computation if your symbology means that halts is taken
    from the context that the symbol und is used in.

    Sorry, you are just showing you don't know the meaning of the words.


    and the resolution is just to give a non-answer, so i split the
    decider into two halves and made false a non-answer. it cannot be a
    contradiction because it doesn't give information /in that moment/
    about und() to contradict.

    But since you are starting with the same category error of Olcott, you
    get the same nonsense he does.

    The category for the input to a Halt Decider is the representation of a Computation.

    By DEFINITION, this has a FULLY defined algorithm, and thus NOT a closure.

    If you want to try to define your own theory of computation that uses a broader defintion, go ahead, the problem is you will find you can do
    litle with it, and that the semantic paradox you are complaining about
    is totally due to you altered definition of a computation.

    right why do u keep asserting ur existential fuckup is more correct than
    a working decider on the matter???



    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    Since your input is a category error for the actual Computation Theory
    as classical defined, your results don't apply.

    classic computing theory doesn't have a halt decider defined tho ... u
    only have a halting function, not a decider. the decider is *disproven*
    and therefore cannot be defined as per consensus theory.

    u fucking retard.

    u keep asserting SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST is somehow more
    correct than SOMETHING THAT CAN EXIST



    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is
    required to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /
    truthful/ to do so.

    So, if you want to try to talk about this, you first need to try to
    develop a basic theory about context dependent Computations, to see if
    it can actually be useful for anything.

    i fucking already did. u just aren't reading cause ur too busy trying to
    show off how big a fucking retard u can be.



    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    Again, once you admit that you aren't working in the Classical
    Computation Theory, go ahead, just do the ground work to show what you
    idea can do, and don't claim it actually applies to the classical thoery.


    RTMs can compute everything TMs can... but gain an additional ability to compute semantic facts about those computations because they can handle
    what classically forms an undecidable paradox.


    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just
    continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    The problem is in your system, the basic question of "Does the Program Halt?" doesn't have a simple answer, as the behavior of the program
    depends on its context.

    that's just the inherent complexity of dealing with self-referential
    decision where the output of that decision in turn effects the decision
    u tried to made.

    in most cases (everything not self-referential) the deciders behavior is
    quite simple. even in self-referential cases if the output of the
    decider doesn't effect the decision then it's still simple. only in the
    case where the deciders output affects the context it's deciding upon
    does this complexity come in ... and that's just inherent inescapable complexity.

    which is fine, it's not actually that bad.

    also in practice we would never write programs that take a decision on
    itself to then contradict it ... that's fucking impractical as shit and
    serves no useful purpose. i'm just trying to unblock theory so we can
    get some fucking philosophical coherence up in the bitch.
    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 00:04:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 11:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential part
    of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System not
    have any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of the
    system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class of
    infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms that could
    try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for all, or
    even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate a
    function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact
    uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.

    u still are trying to inform of why i'm wrong without actually
    listening to what i'm saying. it's just hubris of u to think u can
    refute me without actually listening to what i've said.


    So, what is your problem with Semantic Algorithms having problems.

    that we aren't proving our production code as semantically
    correct??? ... that's really fucking stupid

    Doesn't say that.

    It says that the proof program might not be able to answer for EVERY
    possible input.

    Many correct programs can be proved correct, and many programs with
    errors can have the error pointed out.

    As I said, uncomputability doesn't mean that NO inputs can be decided,
    just not ALL inputs.

    For practical systems, you want the system to never lie, just sometimes
    report that the input is too complicated for it.


    also we exploded our computing infrastructure far beyond necessary cause
    we have no theoretical way to pair down everything as turing equivalence falls under semantic algos, so we don't have a general way to compute semantic/turing equivalence.
    Semanatic problems just fall into that case of the explosion of cases,
    which leads to uncomputability.

    actually the only actual proofs of uncomputability rests on really
    simple cases, as they need to be actually understandable.

    Many of the proof use simple case to be easy to understand, but they are
    also simple cases that are clearly artificial and you can ask why would
    I want to know that.

    Some, like the Busy Beaver problem, aren't so simple, until you start to
    work on them and realize the hard part because halt deciding ends up
    being part of them.



    Note, nothing says that we can't give a semantic answer for a LOT of
    the possible inputs, just that there will always exist some input that
    is an edge case that pushes us to need infinite time to resolve.

    right and getting the philosophy wrong messes us up.

    Which means you need to understand the philosophy to keep that from
    happening. The key thing about how semantics are defined, is that it
    MIGHT take infinite time to determine it, as it become internally sort
    of recursive.


    i hate have to explain to people that getting truth correct is in fact necessary beyond all possible reason i could give.

    Part of the problem is that fundamentally we CAN'T get truth right in
    all cases. We can avoid error, but sometimes we need to live with that
    we don't know the answer, and perhaps CAN'T know it.



    It shows that the language the semantics are framed in are powerful
    enough to allow for these unresolvable cases.

    or maybe godel was wrong too. it's not like we did anything of note with godel's incompleteness.

    Sure we did. Godel pointing out the incompleteness of logic allowed
    people to realize it was ok to stop looking for every answer, but admit
    it might not be knowable within the current bounds.

    There are a number of branches of mathematics based on this, where we
    have some conjecture we can't determine if it is true or not, so they
    went ahead a set up two system, one where it is true, and one where it
    is false, to see what difference it makes.


    "oh we know our limits now" ... OR MAYBE WE JUST SHOT OURSELVES IN THE
    FOOT U FUCKIND TARD

    anyways, I'M NOT TRYING TO DIRECTLY REFUTING GODEL, as least i don't
    know so.

    i'm concerned primarily with computing, not all of math. tho i am
    directly refuting turing's support of godel.

    And the point to remember, just because a given problem is uncomputable, doesn't mean that many of the cases of the problem are not determinable.

    You just need to remember to put some "work limit" to the analysis, and
    give up, or try a diffent way if you reach it.

    The interesting point is that while almost all "problems" (based on percentable of possible mapping) are uncomputable, most of the problems
    we care about are computable, or computablle enough for our needs.



    Think of it this way, by our definitions, we have a countable infinte
    number of possible inputs. The decision process needs to divide these
    into categories, and at least one of those categories will need to be
    countably infinite in size.

    The language of Computations is powerful enough that for a non-trivial
    property, at least one of those infinite categories turns out to not
    be decided fully in finite steps, but there is some bounded
    relationship such that for any finite number of steps, and infinte
    number of members will remain to be decided.

    The lack of COMPLETE computability of Semantic Properties is an
    indication of the POWER of creating programs, that grows faster than
    the ability to analyze them.

    gishgallop, and i don't fucking care about creating programs we can't
    even analyze???

    seriously, what is so fascinating about a bunch of creations we provable
    can never do anything with??? and what in the fuck is going on in
    computing theory???


    Remember, Computation Theory started before there were computers, and
    actually was an exploration into the ability and limits of mathematical
    logic.

    At the time, it was hoped that Computation Theory was going to be able
    to be the grand unifier of Mathematical logic, to answer the troubling questions that were coming up in Mathematics. It was thought that it
    should be possible to create a computation that, at least theoretically,
    could be given a logical theory, and it would output if it was true or
    not. Uncomputability showed that this couldn't be done in general, which allowed a mindset change for the field.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 00:11:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 8:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:17 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

    you seem to not actually understand what a Turing machine is, even

    a set of state transitions:

    (curState, symbolAtHead) -> (command, nextState)

    where command are the system transformations HEAD_LEFT or HEAD_RIGHT
    or WRITE_SYMBOL.

    Nope, because they always write a "new symbol" (which might be the same)

    again, let me fucking quote turing at you again. because ur a narrow
    minded fool arguing way outside his league:

    /A machine can be constructed to compute the sequence 010101... The
    machine is to have the four m-configurations "b" , "c" , "f" , "e" and
    is capable of printing "0" and "1". The behavior of the machine is
    described in the following table in which "R" means "the machine moves
    so that it scans the square immediately on the right of the one it was scanning previously". Similarly for "L". "E" means "the scanned symbol
    is erased" and "P" stands for "prints". This table (and all succeeding tables of the same kind) is to be understood to mean that for a configuration described in the first two columns the operations in the
    third column are carried out successively, and the machine then goes
    over into the m-configuration described in the last column. When the
    second column is left blank, it is understood that the behavior of the
    third and fourth columns applies for any symbol and for no symbol. The machine starts in the m-configuration b with a blank tape:/

      Configuration            Behavior
    m-config   symbol    operations  final-m-config
       b        None       P0,R          c
       c        None       R             e
       e        None       P1,R          f
       f        None       R             b

    [Tur36]

    turing's first example ever had states that both just *just* shifted the head as well as states that wrote with a shift. turing didn't even
    require a particular symbol at head (doing so just makes accept any)

    turing went further too:

    /If (contrary to the description in §1) we allow the letters L, R to
    appear more than once in the operations column we can simplify the table considerably./

      Configuration            Behavior
    m-config   symbol    operations  final-m-config
       b        None       P0           b
       b         0         R,R,P1       b
       b         1         R,R,P0       b

    [Tur36]

    turing was intelligent enough to "break" his own rule in his 2nd example
    to produce a more succinct definition ... succinctness is something u
    know fuck all about. turing uses this in the rest of paper and composes states the commit 10 or more operations at once. wow, first paper on computing and we're already batching operations.

    seriously richard, you would literally be a guy arguing turing himself
    was wrong because he doesn't fit some asinine overly-narrow definition
    of computing you seem have grasped onto ... why are you being so fucking stupid about everything???

    mabye u need to back the fuck off a bit with gishgallop, eh???. look at
    how much it takes to refute one line of ur chronic bullshit???


    Ok, so why do you think this structure can do what you want?

    Again, it seems you can parrot the words, and manipulate them, but you
    still don't understand the deeper level that there is no way that a
    Turing Machine can have your new instruction added without breaking its fundamental property.

    As an analogy, you show you can drive a car, and claim that shows that
    you have enough understand of a car to talk about how to Turbo-Boost it
    to get 10,000 miles to the gallon.

    We can easily show how a machine as described by Turing can do the
    things it does within the physical model of the person with an
    instruction book to follow mechanically following the instructions,
    reading data from a pile of papers, and writing results on said pile.

    In this model, the instruciton book is the state transition table of the machine, and the pile of papers is the tape.

    Once the person starts, how does he do your new instruction, without
    breaking the semantics of the procedure.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 00:12:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 7:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 12:53 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 8:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE
    [...]

    Code it up!


    irrelevant to people who can think


    The answer of the person who can't.
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 04:20:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und) on
    this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Yes there is; the correct answer is ¬halts(und). The logical negation
    of whatever halts(und) decides.

    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is required
    to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /truthful/ to do so.

    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    If contexts are represenable in a Turing substrate, then everything
    succumbs to Turing incomputability of halting.

    If contexts are not representable in Turing, then the
    model-with-contexts is either effectievely computable non-Turing, or
    else contexts are just imaginary, like magic oracles.

    If they are imaginary, you only have a thought experiment.
    (In which Turing-plus-contexts machines can decide Turing
    halting, but so what?)

    If you find some computational model with contexts which is effective,
    but beyond Turing, then /that/ is the big deal; delegate the halting
    cruft to others. You are important because you've done what nobody else
    has done before: you found an effective method of computation that is
    not Turing! So you go to conference sall over the world where you are
    flocked by groupies. Fuck halting, at that point, you know?
    --
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 00:33:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 11:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:59 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the >>>>>>>>>>>>> ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing. >>>>>>>>>>>
    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your
    computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one. >>>>>>>>>>
    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical >>>>>>>>> reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs)

    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single >>>>>>>>> instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at >>>>>>>>> the head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a
    computation to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime >>>>>>>>> of computation, and with that it can subvert semantic paradoxes >>>>>>>>> like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to >>>>>>>>> turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs >>>>>>>>> can move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they >>>>>>>>> mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is >>>>>>>>> called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially >>>>>>>>> possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from his >>>>>>>>> original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number >>>>>>>>> to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions/ >>>>>>>>> [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON >>>>>>>>> THE NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE >>>>>>>>> TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>> obviously he has access the full machine description, or how >>>>>>>>> else the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? >>>>>>>>> therefore he obviously can dump the machine description, in >>>>>>>>> whatever format he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>> obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a
    "buffer" that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can >>>>>>>>> obviously dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever
    REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>> obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and >>>>>>>>> therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is
    encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he >>>>>>>>> can obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or >>>>>>>>> more precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the >>>>>>>>> buffer after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING
    ULTIMATELY GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS >>>>>>>>> FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong >>>>>>>>>

    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way
    solution. u have something that's executable for sure, and that >>>>>>> is a definite improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't /
    effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner. >>>>>>>
    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and*
    epistemically useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical
    mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent >>>>>>> context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting
    function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability >>>>>>> that you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try
    to redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong
    answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be wrong >>>>> about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no "right"
    answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every actual H. >>>>
    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to a >>>>> situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed
    algorithm.

    right, and context can be an input to the determinism

    console.trace() isn't nondeterministic, it's context dependent


    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to be
    uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all
    inputs. Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider that
    wants to try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input.

    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a
    decider steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input is
    different for every possible decider, and thus, by the time the
    question can be asked, the deciders result for that input was
    already determined by its algorithm. For the decider it isn't a
    matter of being "truthful", it is just doing what it was programmed
    to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is applied,
    and claiming that it will give the right answer when it doesn't
    shows that his claim wasn't truthful.


    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und)
    on this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Which isn't a computation if your symbology means that halts is taken
    from the context that the symbol und is used in.

    Sorry, you are just showing you don't know the meaning of the words.


    and the resolution is just to give a non-answer, so i split the
    decider into two halves and made false a non-answer. it cannot be a
    contradiction because it doesn't give information /in that moment/
    about und() to contradict.

    But since you are starting with the same category error of Olcott, you
    get the same nonsense he does.

    The category for the input to a Halt Decider is the representation of
    a Computation.

    By DEFINITION, this has a FULLY defined algorithm, and thus NOT a
    closure.

    If you want to try to define your own theory of computation that uses
    a broader defintion, go ahead, the problem is you will find you can do
    litle with it, and that the semantic paradox you are complaining about
    is totally due to you altered definition of a computation.

    right why do u keep asserting ur existential fuckup is more correct than
    a working decider on the matter???

    Because it doesn't give the right answer per the original problem.

    If you want to be clear that you aren't working on that problem, or even working under that system, go ahead, just make sure you fully define
    what you are doing and try to show where it is useful.




    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    Since your input is a category error for the actual Computation Theory
    as classical defined, your results don't apply.

    classic computing theory doesn't have a halt decider defined tho ... u
    only have a halting function, not a decider. the decider is *disproven*
    and therefore cannot be defined as per consensus theory.

    u fucking retard.

    u keep asserting SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST is somehow more
    correct than SOMETHING THAT CAN EXIST

    The DEFINITION of a Halting Decider exists.

    The fact that the definiton is not realizable, proves the theory.

    To call something a Halt Decider that doesn't meet the definition, is
    just a lie, making the person making the claim just a liar.

    We can easily DEFINE things that don't exist.>


    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is
    required to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /
    truthful/ to do so.

    So, if you want to try to talk about this, you first need to try to
    develop a basic theory about context dependent Computations, to see if
    it can actually be useful for anything.

    i fucking already did. u just aren't reading cause ur too busy trying to show off how big a fucking retard u can be.

    No you haven't, unless you consider your claim that is the equivalent of defining that 1 == 2 is a definition.

    DESCRIBING what you want to do is NOT the same as DEFINING how to do it.

    Your RTM exist no more that the Halt Decider, as nothing that fully
    meets those requirements can exist, as your "definition" is self-contradictory, as "Turing Machine" don't have the ability to do
    what you want them to do.




    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    Again, once you admit that you aren't working in the Classical
    Computation Theory, go ahead, just do the ground work to show what you
    idea can do, and don't claim it actually applies to the classical thoery.


    RTMs can compute everything TMs can... but gain an additional ability to compute semantic facts about those computations because they can handle
    what classically forms an undecidable paradox.

    Only if you don't use that unimplementable instruction.

    If you do assume it can be implements, and use it, then they are no
    longer doing a Computation.

    So, they can't compute anything new, as to use that feature means they
    are no longer computing.

    Your problem is in part, you don't understand what a computation is.



    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just
    continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    The problem is in your system, the basic question of "Does the Program
    Halt?" doesn't have a simple answer, as the behavior of the program
    depends on its context.

    that's just the inherent complexity of dealing with self-referential decision where the output of that decision in turn effects the decision
    u tried to made.

    But, being deterministic machines, it can't. Of course, once they cease
    to be computing because the did the invalid action, who can tell what
    they are doing, it just isn't computing.


    in most cases (everything not self-referential) the deciders behavior is quite simple. even in self-referential cases if the output of the
    decider doesn't effect the decision then it's still simple. only in the
    case where the deciders output affects the context it's deciding upon
    does this complexity come in ... and that's just inherent inescapable complexity.

    which is fine, it's not actually that bad.

    also in practice we would never write programs that take a decision on itself to then contradict it ... that's fucking impractical as shit and serves no useful purpose. i'm just trying to unblock theory so we can
    get some fucking philosophical coherence up in the bitch.

    Which just shows that, in practice, we don't mind that we can't solve
    the pathological cases, so things might be computable-enough to be
    useful, just not fully-computable (which is just called computable).

    But, once you break the rules and make your systems not follow the basic definitions of Computations, they cease to be useful for things that
    need Computations.

    And if you try to define that wrong answers are considered right, your
    system becomes basically worthless.

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 22:11:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 7:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 8:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 5:17 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 7:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential
    part of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System
    not have any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope of >>>>> the system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher class >>>>> of infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms that
    could try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm for
    all, or even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate
    a function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact
    uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a problem
    with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic paradoxes.


    Yes me too. This has been the key focus of all my work
    for 28 years.


    the problem is polcott, no one is going to accept an algo that doesn't
    give us an /effectively computable/ resolution to whether an input
    machine halts or not.

    so far you've just got something that's *just* computable, but it's
    not /effectively computable/ in respect deciding on whether an input
    machine halts or not.


    The key most important point is that the halting
    problem itself has simply been flat out incorrect
    since its beginning.

    Turing machine deciders only compute on the basis
    of what is actually specified in their actual inputs.

    nah see i'm proposing a way to compute thru semantic paradoxes while not invaliding the halting problem of wanting to compute whether the machine described by the input does indeed halt or not.

    i don't need this messy business of trying extract the semantics of the "string that describes a machine" from the semantics of the "machine
    that is described"

    all you need is context dependent deciders that simple don't emit
    information in a semantic paradox situation. there's no "truth" possible
    in such a situation, so there's no "wrong" answer richard gets so butt
    hurt over.


    Prior to my 2016 innovation of a simulating halt
    decider (more precisely a termination analyzer)
    people had to way to determine that the input does
    specify an exact behavior.

    It like the idiots of humanity that to this day
    are trying to figure out whether the liar paradox
    is true or false. "This sentence is not true"
    has always been semantically incoherent.

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 22:51:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 9:12 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 12:53 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 8:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL
    TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE
    [...]

    Code it up!


    irrelevant to people who can think


    The answer of the person who can't.

    yeah cause polcott coding up his sure fucking convinced u guys!

    do you guys have ANY fucking self-awareness???

    ur just wasting my time with a red herring as u have no intention of
    actually trying to understand what i'm saying
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 23:05:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 9:20 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und) on
    this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Yes there is; the correct answer is ¬halts(und). The logical negation
    of whatever halts(und) decides.

    the correct answer is to give the opposite of it's own answer???

    literal nonsense, and contrary to the consensus argument that it's an undecidable problem with no executable runtime, and therefore halts()
    doesn't exist, so the program can't exist. the consensus is that the
    answer doesn't exist.


    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is required
    to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /truthful/ to do so.

    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just
    continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    If contexts are represenable in a Turing substrate, then everything
    succumbs to Turing incomputability of halting.

    If contexts are not representable in Turing, then the
    model-with-contexts is either effectievely computable non-Turing, or
    else contexts are just imaginary, like magic oracles.

    false dichotomy

    like i'm even open to being wrong, but like u need to work with the
    system in order to show a contradiction with the system itself, just not assume the contradiction will happen.

    If they are imaginary, you only have a thought experiment.
    (In which Turing-plus-contexts machines can decide Turing
    halting, but so what?)

    REFLECT is completely mechanically demonstrable operation with a pen and paper, i demonstrated it in a post here already, justifying it's
    theoretical existence

    REFLECT gives a semantic decider the ability to know it's calling
    context, which gives it the ability to return a context dependent answer.


    If you find some computational model with contexts which is effective,
    but beyond Turing, then /that/ is the big deal; delegate the halting
    cruft to others. You are important because you've done what nobody else
    has done before: you found an effective method of computation that is
    not Turing! So you go to conference sall over the world where you are
    flocked by groupies. Fuck halting, at that point, you know?

    it's a mild extension of TMs, like i've explained to you a ton of times already
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 31 23:18:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 9:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:59 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem?


    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is to define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your >>>>>>>>>>> computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one. >>>>>>>>>>>
    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical >>>>>>>>>> reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs) >>>>>>>>>>
    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single >>>>>>>>>> instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at >>>>>>>>>> the head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a
    computation to know exactly where it is in the overall runtime >>>>>>>>>> of computation, and with that it can subvert semantic
    paradoxes like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to >>>>>>>>>> turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs >>>>>>>>>> can move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they >>>>>>>>>> mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is >>>>>>>>>> called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-evidentially >>>>>>>>>> possible and therefore mathematically feasible.*

    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from >>>>>>>>>> his original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real
    number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of
    conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY ON >>>>>>>>>> THE NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE STATE >>>>>>>>>> TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>> obviously he has access the full machine description, or how >>>>>>>>>> else the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? >>>>>>>>>> therefore he obviously can dump the machine description, in >>>>>>>>>> whatever format he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is >>>>>>>>>> encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>> obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a
    "buffer" that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can can >>>>>>>>>> obviously dump the initial tape state to the tape whenever >>>>>>>>>> REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>> obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and >>>>>>>>>> therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is >>>>>>>>>> encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he >>>>>>>>>> can obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or >>>>>>>>>> more precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from the >>>>>>>>>> buffer after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING
    ULTIMATELY GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ HIS >>>>>>>>>> FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong >>>>>>>>>>

    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way
    solution. u have something that's executable for sure, and that >>>>>>>> is a definite improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't / >>>>>>>> effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner. >>>>>>>>
    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and*
    epistemically useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical >>>>>>>> mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent >>>>>>>> context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting
    function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability >>>>>>>> that you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try >>>>>>> to redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong
    answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be
    wrong about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no
    "right" answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every
    actual H.

    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to >>>>>> a situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed
    algorithm.

    right, and context can be an input to the determinism

    console.trace() isn't nondeterministic, it's context dependent


    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to be
    uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all
    inputs. Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider
    that wants to try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input. >>>>>
    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a
    decider steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input is
    different for every possible decider, and thus, by the time the
    question can be asked, the deciders result for that input was
    already determined by its algorithm. For the decider it isn't a
    matter of being "truthful", it is just doing what it was programmed >>>>> to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is applied, >>>>> and claiming that it will give the right answer when it doesn't
    shows that his claim wasn't truthful.


    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und)
    on this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Which isn't a computation if your symbology means that halts is taken
    from the context that the symbol und is used in.

    Sorry, you are just showing you don't know the meaning of the words.


    and the resolution is just to give a non-answer, so i split the
    decider into two halves and made false a non-answer. it cannot be a
    contradiction because it doesn't give information /in that moment/
    about und() to contradict.

    But since you are starting with the same category error of Olcott,
    you get the same nonsense he does.

    The category for the input to a Halt Decider is the representation of
    a Computation.

    By DEFINITION, this has a FULLY defined algorithm, and thus NOT a
    closure.

    If you want to try to define your own theory of computation that uses
    a broader defintion, go ahead, the problem is you will find you can
    do litle with it, and that the semantic paradox you are complaining
    about is totally due to you altered definition of a computation.

    right why do u keep asserting ur existential fuckup is more correct
    than a working decider on the matter???

    Because it doesn't give the right answer per the original problem.

    it gives you the right answer in all the places that the information of
    that answer is actually usable, and it does so generally.

    you are holding onto some notion of wanting a "right" answer where no
    right answer can exist, and that's just bizarre because with that desire
    u lose the ability to generally get a "right" answer in first place.

    ur throwing the fucking baby out with the bathwater dude,

    it's fucking stupid


    If you want to be clear that you aren't working on that problem, or even working under that system, go ahead, just make sure you fully define
    what you are doing and try to show where it is useful.


    i'm not building a separate form of computing, i'm upgrading what we have




    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    Since your input is a category error for the actual Computation
    Theory as classical defined, your results don't apply.

    classic computing theory doesn't have a halt decider defined tho ... u
    only have a halting function, not a decider. the decider is
    *disproven* and therefore cannot be defined as per consensus theory.

    u fucking retard.

    u keep asserting SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST is somehow more
    correct than SOMETHING THAT CAN EXIST

    The DEFINITION of a Halting Decider exists.

    The fact that the definiton is not realizable, proves the theory.

    To call something a Halt Decider that doesn't meet the definition, is
    just a lie, making the person making the claim just a liar.

    just like there's more than one way to ask the same question, there's
    more than one way to define a halting decider, which is the interface
    into an algorithm, not the algorithm itself.

    the one i'm proposing can actually generally exist, unlike the classical definition.

    it's really that simple.


    We can easily DEFINE things that don't exist.>


    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is
    required to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /
    truthful/ to do so.

    So, if you want to try to talk about this, you first need to try to
    develop a basic theory about context dependent Computations, to see
    if it can actually be useful for anything.

    i fucking already did. u just aren't reading cause ur too busy trying
    to show off how big a fucking retard u can be.

    No you haven't, unless you consider your claim that is the equivalent of defining that 1 == 2 is a definition.

    DESCRIBING what you want to do is NOT the same as DEFINING how to do it.

    ur special pleading is just so mindnumbingly boring. i DEFINED my
    mechanics in MORE detail that turing did his, and yet u arbitrarily
    reject it as "describing" which seems like a made up distinction here.

    sometimes i really do feel like just buying a gun a shooting myself,
    cause i really am stuck on a planet of fucking idiots.

    y must u endlessly torture me so with ur fucking idiocracy?
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 00:08:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/31/25 9:11 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:17 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

    you seem to not actually understand what a Turing machine is, even

    a set of state transitions:

    (curState, symbolAtHead) -> (command, nextState)

    where command are the system transformations HEAD_LEFT or HEAD_RIGHT
    or WRITE_SYMBOL.

    Nope, because they always write a "new symbol" (which might be the same)

    again, let me fucking quote turing at you again. because ur a narrow
    minded fool arguing way outside his league:

    /A machine can be constructed to compute the sequence 010101... The
    machine is to have the four m-configurations "b" , "c" , "f" , "e" and
    is capable of printing "0" and "1". The behavior of the machine is
    described in the following table in which "R" means "the machine moves
    so that it scans the square immediately on the right of the one it was
    scanning previously". Similarly for "L". "E" means "the scanned symbol
    is erased" and "P" stands for "prints". This table (and all succeeding
    tables of the same kind) is to be understood to mean that for a
    configuration described in the first two columns the operations in the
    third column are carried out successively, and the machine then goes
    over into the m-configuration described in the last column. When the
    second column is left blank, it is understood that the behavior of the
    third and fourth columns applies for any symbol and for no symbol. The
    machine starts in the m-configuration b with a blank tape:/

       Configuration            Behavior
    m-config   symbol    operations  final-m-config
        b        None       P0,R          c
        c        None       R             e
        e        None       P1,R          f
        f        None       R             b

    [Tur36]

    turing's first example ever had states that both just *just* shifted
    the head as well as states that wrote with a shift. turing didn't even
    require a particular symbol at head (doing so just makes accept any)

    turing went further too:

    /If (contrary to the description in §1) we allow the letters L, R to
    appear more than once in the operations column we can simplify the
    table considerably./

       Configuration            Behavior
    m-config   symbol    operations  final-m-config
        b        None       P0           b
        b         0         R,R,P1       b
        b         1         R,R,P0       b

    [Tur36]

    turing was intelligent enough to "break" his own rule in his 2nd
    example to produce a more succinct definition ... succinctness is
    something u know fuck all about. turing uses this in the rest of paper
    and composes states the commit 10 or more operations at once. wow,
    first paper on computing and we're already batching operations.

    seriously richard, you would literally be a guy arguing turing himself
    was wrong because he doesn't fit some asinine overly-narrow definition
    of computing you seem have grasped onto ... why are you being so
    fucking stupid about everything???

    mabye u need to back the fuck off a bit with gishgallop, eh???. look
    at how much it takes to refute one line of ur chronic bullshit???


    Ok, so why do you think this structure can do what you want?

    by adding an additional operation: REFLECT


    Again, it seems you can parrot the words, and manipulate them, but you
    still don't understand the deeper level that there is no way that a
    Turing Machine can have your new instruction added without breaking its fundamental property.

    random insult


    As an analogy, you show you can drive a car, and claim that shows that
    you have enough understand of a car to talk about how to Turbo-Boost it
    to get 10,000 miles to the gallon.


    false analogy

    We can easily show how a machine as described by Turing can do the
    things it does within the physical model of the person with an
    instruction book to follow mechanically following the instructions,
    reading data from a pile of papers, and writing results on said pile.

    and that person can follow the instruction to write down the machine description on the tape when REFLECT is the command.


    In this model, the instruciton book is the state transition table of the machine, and the pile of papers is the tape.

    Once the person starts, how does he do your new instruction, without breaking the semantics of the procedure.

    i'm sorry are you asking how does he write down the "instruction book"
    to the tape???

    BY WRITING DOWN THE SYMBOLS ON THE FUCKING TAPE YOU FUCKING MORON

    WHAT IN THE FUCK IS REMOTELY UNCLEAR ABOUT THIS???
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 08:04:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/1/2025 12:11 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:02 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 8:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 5:17 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 7:11 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    The non-computablity of some problem is a natural and essential
    part of the system, and the only way to make a Computation System >>>>>> not have any non-comutable problem is to GREATLY limit the scope
    of the system. It comes from the fact that there are is a higher
    class of infinity problem we can create, then there are algorithms >>>>>> that could try to compute them, thus we CAN'T create an algorirhm >>>>>> for all, or even most, or the problems.

    actually in the process of refuting turing's paper i do demonstrate >>>>> a function remaining uncomputable, and that's integral.

    just because semantics can be decided upon does not refute the fact >>>>> uncomputable functions exist.

    i don't have a problem with uncomputable functions, i have a
    problem with semantics algorithms not existing because of semantic
    paradoxes.


    Yes me too. This has been the key focus of all my work
    for 28 years.


    the problem is polcott, no one is going to accept an algo that
    doesn't give us an /effectively computable/ resolution to whether an
    input machine halts or not.

    so far you've just got something that's *just* computable, but it's
    not /effectively computable/ in respect deciding on whether an input
    machine halts or not.


    The key most important point is that the halting
    problem itself has simply been flat out incorrect
    since its beginning.

    Turing machine deciders only compute on the basis
    of what is actually specified in their actual inputs.

    nah see i'm proposing a way to compute thru semantic paradoxes while not invaliding the halting problem of wanting to compute whether the machine described by the input does indeed halt or not.

    i don't need this messy business of trying extract the semantics of the "string that describes a machine" from the semantics of the "machine
    that is described"


    Ultimately you must extract the semantics of the string
    to address the original halting problem. Extracting the
    semantics of the string merely means determining whether
    the corresponding machine will halt or not.

    You can approach this in at least one of two ways.
    Within the theory of computation or a work-around
    that does things such as change the problem definition.
    Everyone took my work as the latter.

    Now it looks like the original problem definition
    is like requiring the purely mental object of a
    Turing machine to physically bake a birthday cake.

    all you need is context dependent deciders that simple don't emit information in a semantic paradox situation. there's no "truth" possible
    in such a situation, so there's no "wrong" answer richard gets so butt
    hurt over.


    I thought of that 20 years ago. Its still out
    there on Google Groups and https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.theory&y=0&r=0&p=598
    You can see that even back in 2004 my posts were much
    more popular than all the rest. 253 replies.


    Prior to my 2016 innovation of a simulating halt
    decider (more precisely a termination analyzer)
    people had to way to determine that the input does
    specify an exact behavior.

    It like the idiots of humanity that to this day
    are trying to figure out whether the liar paradox
    is true or false. "This sentence is not true"
    has always been semantically incoherent.



    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 08:08:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/1/2025 12:51 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:12 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 12:53 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 8:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL >>>>> TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE
    [...]

    Code it up!


    irrelevant to people who can think


    The answer of the person who can't.

    yeah cause polcott coding up his sure fucking convinced u guys!

    do you guys have ANY fucking self-awareness???

    ur just wasting my time with a red herring as u have no intention of actually trying to understand what i'm saying


    Most here are stuck in rebuttal mode.
    Richard is so stuck in rebuttal mode that he
    absolutely and positively cannot face verified facts.

    This may have been that his ADD is so bad that he
    is physically incapable of paying 100% complete
    attention to the exact words that have been said.

    I always took this to be the deception of strawman.
    It might be that he cannot possibly form an
    accurate paraphrase because that requires more
    attention span than he ever has.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 09:19:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/1/25 3:08 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:11 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:57 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:17 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

    you seem to not actually understand what a Turing machine is, even >>>>>
    a set of state transitions:

    (curState, symbolAtHead) -> (command, nextState)

    where command are the system transformations HEAD_LEFT or
    HEAD_RIGHT or WRITE_SYMBOL.

    Nope, because they always write a "new symbol" (which might be the
    same)

    again, let me fucking quote turing at you again. because ur a narrow
    minded fool arguing way outside his league:

    /A machine can be constructed to compute the sequence 010101... The
    machine is to have the four m-configurations "b" , "c" , "f" , "e"
    and is capable of printing "0" and "1". The behavior of the machine
    is described in the following table in which "R" means "the machine
    moves so that it scans the square immediately on the right of the one
    it was scanning previously". Similarly for "L". "E" means "the
    scanned symbol is erased" and "P" stands for "prints". This table
    (and all succeeding tables of the same kind) is to be understood to
    mean that for a configuration described in the first two columns the
    operations in the third column are carried out successively, and the
    machine then goes over into the m-configuration described in the last
    column. When the second column is left blank, it is understood that
    the behavior of the third and fourth columns applies for any symbol
    and for no symbol. The machine starts in the m-configuration b with a
    blank tape:/

       Configuration            Behavior
    m-config   symbol    operations  final-m-config
        b        None       P0,R          c
        c        None       R             e
        e        None       P1,R          f
        f        None       R             b

    [Tur36]

    turing's first example ever had states that both just *just* shifted
    the head as well as states that wrote with a shift. turing didn't
    even require a particular symbol at head (doing so just makes accept
    any)

    turing went further too:

    /If (contrary to the description in §1) we allow the letters L, R to
    appear more than once in the operations column we can simplify the
    table considerably./

       Configuration            Behavior
    m-config   symbol    operations  final-m-config
        b        None       P0           b
        b         0         R,R,P1       b
        b         1         R,R,P0       b

    [Tur36]

    turing was intelligent enough to "break" his own rule in his 2nd
    example to produce a more succinct definition ... succinctness is
    something u know fuck all about. turing uses this in the rest of
    paper and composes states the commit 10 or more operations at once.
    wow, first paper on computing and we're already batching operations.

    seriously richard, you would literally be a guy arguing turing
    himself was wrong because he doesn't fit some asinine overly-narrow
    definition of computing you seem have grasped onto ... why are you
    being so fucking stupid about everything???

    mabye u need to back the fuck off a bit with gishgallop, eh???. look
    at how much it takes to refute one line of ur chronic bullshit???


    Ok, so why do you think this structure can do what you want?

    by adding an additional operation: REFLECT

    Which needs information that does not exist in the machine,

    In other words, it depends on "Magic".



    Again, it seems you can parrot the words, and manipulate them, but you
    still don't understand the deeper level that there is no way that a
    Turing Machine can have your new instruction added without breaking
    its fundamental property.

    random insult

    Your good at that, which just shows your lack of fundamentals.



    As an analogy, you show you can drive a car, and claim that shows that
    you have enough understand of a car to talk about how to Turbo-Boost
    it to get 10,000 miles to the gallon.


    false analogy

    What is wrong about it. You showed how to USE a Turing Machine, but not
    how it could possible have the information you want it to have.


    We can easily show how a machine as described by Turing can do the
    things it does within the physical model of the person with an
    instruction book to follow mechanically following the instructions,
    reading data from a pile of papers, and writing results on said pile.

    and that person can follow the instruction to write down the machine description on the tape when REFLECT is the command.

    A Turing Machine can be given instruction to write out a speciific representation of itself, but if it is a submachine, it doesn't know
    about that.

    It can not write down what the tape was when it started.

    And, telling a sub-machine that it is a sub-machine is a violation of
    the concept of a computation, so that can't be allowed without breaking
    that essental property of Turing Machines.

    You whole idea seems based on the idea that you want to abolish the
    sanctity of the Computations to be repeatable.



    In this model, the instruciton book is the state transition table of
    the machine, and the pile of papers is the tape.

    Once the person starts, how does he do your new instruction, without
    breaking the semantics of the procedure.

    i'm sorry are you asking how does he write down the "instruction book"
    to the tape???

    BY WRITING DOWN THE SYMBOLS ON THE FUCKING TAPE YOU FUCKING MORON

    WHAT IN THE FUCK IS REMOTELY UNCLEAR ABOUT THIS???


    But they are using diffent "symbol sets"/languages.

    The papers are to record DATA, typically NUMBERS.
    THe instructions are in a formalize human language.

    IT seems you don't understand that native difference.

    If you understand the difference, Turing Machine are defined more like a Harvard Architecture, the instructions are in a different memory (and in
    this case even a different type) than the data.

    The "problem" with telling the machine to dump its algorithm, is that
    there are many (infinte) ways to encode that algorithm into the data,
    andyou need to know which encoding you want.

    The "Native" code being run isn't itself a suitable symbolic description.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 09:19:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/1/25 1:51 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:12 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 12:53 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/30/2025 8:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/30/25 7:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    THE FACT WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THE REFLECTION AS I'VE DEFINED SEVERAL >>>>> TIMES NOW MECHANICALLY, IS WHAT JUSTIFIES RTMs THEORETICAL EXISTENCE
    [...]

    Code it up!


    irrelevant to people who can think


    The answer of the person who can't.

    yeah cause polcott coding up his sure fucking convinced u guys!

    So, are you admitting you are as bad at programming a Olcott?


    do you guys have ANY fucking self-awareness???

    Sure, do you?


    ur just wasting my time with a red herring as u have no intention of actually trying to understand what i'm saying


    The fact you think it is a red herring shows you don't understand the
    problem.

    Sorry, your problem is you don't seem to know what you are talking about
    and are stuck (like Olcott) believing your own lies.
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  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 09:19:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/1/25 2:18 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:59 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer

    Well, how do you solve the halting problem? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is to define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your >>>>>>>>>>>> computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical >>>>>>>>>>> reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs) >>>>>>>>>>>
    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a single >>>>>>>>>>> instruction that dumps *all* this information to the tape, at >>>>>>>>>>> the head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a >>>>>>>>>>> computation to know exactly where it is in the overall
    runtime of computation, and with that it can subvert semantic >>>>>>>>>>> paradoxes like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification to >>>>>>>>>>> turing machines, not a computational one. much like how RTMs >>>>>>>>>>> can move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the tape ... they >>>>>>>>>>> mechanically just do this operation when the instruction is >>>>>>>>>>> called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-
    evidentially possible and therefore mathematically feasible.* >>>>>>>>>>>
    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from >>>>>>>>>>> his original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real >>>>>>>>>>> number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of
    conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY >>>>>>>>>>> ON THE NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE >>>>>>>>>>> STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>>> obviously he has access the full machine description, or how >>>>>>>>>>> else the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? >>>>>>>>>>> therefore he obviously can dump the machine description, in >>>>>>>>>>> whatever format he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is >>>>>>>>>>> encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>>> obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a >>>>>>>>>>> "buffer" that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can >>>>>>>>>>> can obviously dump the initial tape state to the tape
    whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>>> obviously he has access input of a particular transition, and >>>>>>>>>>> therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT is >>>>>>>>>>> encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in.

    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... he >>>>>>>>>>> can obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. or >>>>>>>>>>> more precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump from >>>>>>>>>>> the buffer after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING
    ULTIMATELY GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ >>>>>>>>>>> HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong >>>>>>>>>>>

    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way
    solution. u have something that's executable for sure, and that >>>>>>>>> is a definite improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't / >>>>>>>>> effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner. >>>>>>>>>
    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and*
    epistemically useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical >>>>>>>>> mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically coherent >>>>>>>>> context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting >>>>>>>>> function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere executability >>>>>>>>> that you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and try >>>>>>>> to redefine the question, and allow your machine to give wrong >>>>>>>> answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be
    wrong about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no >>>>>>> "right" answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every
    actual H.

    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully to >>>>>>> a situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed
    algorithm.

    right, and context can be an input to the determinism

    console.trace() isn't nondeterministic, it's context dependent


    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to be >>>>>> uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all
    inputs. Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider
    that wants to try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input. >>>>>>
    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a
    decider steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input is >>>>>> different for every possible decider, and thus, by the time the
    question can be asked, the deciders result for that input was
    already determined by its algorithm. For the decider it isn't a
    matter of being "truthful", it is just doing what it was
    programmed to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is
    applied, and claiming that it will give the right answer when it
    doesn't shows that his claim wasn't truthful.


    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of
    halts(und) on this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Which isn't a computation if your symbology means that halts is
    taken from the context that the symbol und is used in.

    Sorry, you are just showing you don't know the meaning of the words.


    and the resolution is just to give a non-answer, so i split the
    decider into two halves and made false a non-answer. it cannot be a >>>>> contradiction because it doesn't give information /in that moment/
    about und() to contradict.

    But since you are starting with the same category error of Olcott,
    you get the same nonsense he does.

    The category for the input to a Halt Decider is the representation
    of a Computation.

    By DEFINITION, this has a FULLY defined algorithm, and thus NOT a
    closure.

    If you want to try to define your own theory of computation that
    uses a broader defintion, go ahead, the problem is you will find you
    can do litle with it, and that the semantic paradox you are
    complaining about is totally due to you altered definition of a
    computation.

    right why do u keep asserting ur existential fuckup is more correct
    than a working decider on the matter???

    Because it doesn't give the right answer per the original problem.

    it gives you the right answer in all the places that the information of
    that answer is actually usable, and it does so generally.

    In other words, your logic says it is ok to be wrong in some cases, if
    you can give a "good excuse" why it is ok to be wrong there.

    All that does is destroy the meaning of "Correct".


    you are holding onto some notion of wanting a "right" answer where no
    right answer can exist, and that's just bizarre because with that desire
    u lose the ability to generally get a "right" answer in first place.

    Because it *DOES* have a proper definition.

    ALWAYS means ALWAYS, not just where I want it.


    ur throwing the fucking baby out with the bathwater dude,

    it's fucking stupid

    Nope, because for actual problems like Busy Beaver, which again asks
    about for results from ALL possible machihes with specific criteria,
    that pattern might just coencidentally occur.



    If you want to be clear that you aren't working on that problem, or
    even working under that system, go ahead, just make sure you fully
    define what you are doing and try to show where it is useful.


    i'm not building a separate form of computing, i'm upgrading what we have

    In other words, you are admitting you are lying.

    It is a VIOLATION of the meaning of the words to change the meaning of
    the word as already used.

    You "upgrade" a system by adding new ideas without removing or changing
    any of the old.

    If you need to remove or change something, you have a new system.
    DEFINITION.

    Again, all you are doing is admitting that you system is based on you
    claiming the right to lie about what you are doing, by ignoring the
    rules of the system.





    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    Since your input is a category error for the actual Computation
    Theory as classical defined, your results don't apply.

    classic computing theory doesn't have a halt decider defined tho ...
    u only have a halting function, not a decider. the decider is
    *disproven* and therefore cannot be defined as per consensus theory.

    u fucking retard.

    u keep asserting SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST is somehow more
    correct than SOMETHING THAT CAN EXIST

    The DEFINITION of a Halting Decider exists.

    The fact that the definiton is not realizable, proves the theory.

    To call something a Halt Decider that doesn't meet the definition, is
    just a lie, making the person making the claim just a liar.

    just like there's more than one way to ask the same question, there's
    more than one way to define a halting decider, which is the interface
    into an algorithm, not the algorithm itself.

    Right, but if they are semantically different, it isn't the same question.


    the one i'm proposing can actually generally exist, unlike the classical definition.

    But only is a Computation System that is broken, because programs don't reliable produce the same answer when run.

    Once you allow things to lie, you have destroyed the concept of truth.


    it's really that simple.

    Yes, allowing lying seems simple until you need to count on something.



    We can easily DEFINE things that don't exist.>


    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is
    required to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /
    truthful/ to do so.

    So, if you want to try to talk about this, you first need to try to
    develop a basic theory about context dependent Computations, to see
    if it can actually be useful for anything.

    i fucking already did. u just aren't reading cause ur too busy trying
    to show off how big a fucking retard u can be.

    No you haven't, unless you consider your claim that is the equivalent
    of defining that 1 == 2 is a definition.

    DESCRIBING what you want to do is NOT the same as DEFINING how to do it.

    ur special pleading is just so mindnumbingly boring. i DEFINED my
    mechanics in MORE detail that turing did his, and yet u arbitrarily
    reject it as "describing" which seems like a made up distinction here.

    NO YOU HAVEN'T.

    You have PRESUMED an ability on the machine that can not actually be implemented on it without breaking it.

    Your "Definition" is the equivalent of defining that for this work, I
    will consider 1 to be equal to 2.


    sometimes i really do feel like just buying a gun a shooting myself,
    cause i really am stuck on a planet of fucking idiots.

    y must u endlessly torture me so with ur fucking idiocracy?


    I could say the same to you. Why are you so stuck on insisting on things
    that are not.

    Computations, as defined, can't change their answers for the same input. PERIOD.

    To insist they can is just to admit you are just a lunatic.
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 16:37:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:20 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und) on
    this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Yes there is; the correct answer is ¬halts(und). The logical negation
    of whatever halts(und) decides.

    the correct answer is to give the opposite of it's own answer???

    The correct answer isn't /to give/ anything; it just /is/

    E.g. halts(und) returns false, then und is terminating and so
    the correct answer is true.

    literal nonsense, and contrary to the consensus argument that it's an undecidable problem with no executable runtime, and therefore halts() doesn't exist, so the program can't exist. the consensus is that the
    answer doesn't exist.

    What doesn't exist is a total halting decider.

    und can exist with halts as a partial decider, which gives an
    an incorrect answer for halts(und).

    Because for no possible halts can there be an und such that halts(und)
    is correct, no halts can be total.

    Stop insisting that halts is a the total halting decider which cannot
    exist, allowing it to be a partial halting decider which cannot be
    total, and the apparent paradox goes away. und then exists and has a
    defnite halting status, which is opposite to whatever that partial
    decider says.

    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is required >>> to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /truthful/ to do so. >>>
    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just
    continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    If contexts are represenable in a Turing substrate, then everything
    succumbs to Turing incomputability of halting.

    If contexts are not representable in Turing, then the
    model-with-contexts is either effectievely computable non-Turing, or
    else contexts are just imaginary, like magic oracles.

    false dichotomy

    Well, trichotomy, by my count.

    - contexts are Turing (1)
    - contexts are not Turing:
    - somehow effectively computable (2)
    - not computable (3)

    What possibility have I unintentionally left out?

    like i'm even open to being wrong, but like u need to work with the
    system in order to show a contradiction with the system itself, just not assume the contradiction will happen.

    If they are imaginary, you only have a thought experiment.
    (In which Turing-plus-contexts machines can decide Turing
    halting, but so what?)

    REFLECT is completely mechanically demonstrable operation with a pen and paper, i demonstrated it in a post here already, justifying it's
    theoretical existence

    OK, that points to it being embeddable in Turing
    computation. Which then points to undecidabiity.

    REFLECT gives a semantic decider the ability to know it's calling
    context, which gives it the ability to return a context dependent answer.

    If you find some computational model with contexts which is effective,
    but beyond Turing, then /that/ is the big deal; delegate the halting
    cruft to others. You are important because you've done what nobody else
    has done before: you found an effective method of computation that is
    not Turing! So you go to conference sall over the world where you are
    flocked by groupies. Fuck halting, at that point, you know?

    it's a mild extension of TMs,

    If it is mechanically demonstrable with pen and paper, then it isn't
    an extension of TM.

    like i've explained to you a ton of times
    already

    I mostly don't follow those threads.

    I remember that your extension tries to make halting decidable by
    implement security measures with regard to access and manipulaton of
    context, so that it cannot be reified and turned into a function
    argument.

    Halting is about functions, and your idea is to have syntactic
    limitations which create a sandbox that prevents the treatment of all
    the moving parts as pure functions with no context.

    In the system, programs are not able to explore questions like what does
    this function calculate with this explicit argument, under this specific context.

    I think that very limitation itself then makes halting
    practically undecidable within the system.

    Functions can depend on their context. That context can make some
    instances of them halting and others not, even with all the explicit
    arguments being the same. Thus we cannot ask whether a function halts;
    it has to be, does it halt /in what calling context/.

    You have it so that the H(D) within the diagnoal case D is in a
    different context from a H(D) invocation elsewhere which makes them
    different, excusing why they might produce different values.
    But that situation means programs can't calculate the halting of
    anything, due to every calculation being polluted by context that
    they can't pin down.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 09:37:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/1/25 6:19 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 11/1/25 2:18 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 8:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 11:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 7:59 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/31/25 3:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:18 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/30/25 2:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 8:42 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 10:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 6:45 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/29/25 12:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/29/25 4:29 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 11:23 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 10/28/25 9:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/28/25 6:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/28/2025 5:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]
    not my argument u fucking useless boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Well, how do you solve the halting problem? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    with reflection, something u lack as a useless fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer


    Which you can't say how to do, because your only answer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is to define that you can.

    we haven't even gotten the point of working out the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ramifications of what i've defined,

    Because you haven't actually defined what you are doing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    blatant lie

    Really, show where you have ACTUALLY fully defined your >>>>>>>>>>>>> computation machine to a level you can actually analyize one. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    TMs with a modification, specifically adding full mechanical >>>>>>>>>>>> reflection to TMs in order to produce Reflective TMs (RTMs) >>>>>>>>>>>>
    adding full mechanical reflection just means it gets a >>>>>>>>>>>> single instruction that dumps *all* this information to the >>>>>>>>>>>> tape, at the head, when that instruction is called:

    1) machine description
    2) initial tape state
    3) current instruction
    4) current tape state

    call it REFLECT, if u will... this information allows a >>>>>>>>>>>> computation to know exactly where it is in the overall >>>>>>>>>>>> runtime of computation, and with that it can subvert
    semantic paradoxes like the halting problem.

    you have to understand this is a *mechanical* modification >>>>>>>>>>>> to turing machines, not a computational one. much like how >>>>>>>>>>>> RTMs can move a head left/right, or write 0/1 to the
    tape ... they mechanically just do this operation when the >>>>>>>>>>>> instruction is called.

    *these mechanics are (relatively) simple and self-
    evidentially possible and therefore mathematically feasible.* >>>>>>>>>>>>
    BUT, let me try a step deeper, and quote turing at you from >>>>>>>>>>>> his original paper on computable numbers:

    /We may compare a man in the process of computing a real >>>>>>>>>>>> number to a
    machine which is only capable of a finite number of
    conditions/ [Tur36]

    THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR TURING MACHINES RESTS SQUARELY >>>>>>>>>>>> ON THE NOTION OF "CAN A MAN MECHANICALLY UNDERTAKE THESE >>>>>>>>>>>> STATE TRANSITIONS"

    1) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>>>> obviously he has access the full machine description, or how >>>>>>>>>>>> else the fuck is he doing any of these state transitions??? >>>>>>>>>>>> therefore he obviously can dump the machine description, in >>>>>>>>>>>> whatever format he has it in, to the tape when REFLECT is >>>>>>>>>>>> encountered.

    2) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>>>> obviously he can to the side save the initial tape in a >>>>>>>>>>>> "buffer" that than cannot be overwritten. with that he can >>>>>>>>>>>> can obviously dump the initial tape state to the tape >>>>>>>>>>>> whenever REFLECT is encountered.

    3) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation, then >>>>>>>>>>>> obviously he has access input of a particular transition, >>>>>>>>>>>> and therefore can dump that input to the tape when REFLECT >>>>>>>>>>>> is encountered, in whatever format he encounters it in. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    4) if a man is running thru the steps of a computation ... >>>>>>>>>>>> he can obviously duplicate the tape when REFLECT is called. >>>>>>>>>>>> or more precisely he can save it into a buffer, and dump >>>>>>>>>>>> from the buffer after putting 1-3 on the tape.

    THAT IS THE SAME LEVEL OF FORMAT JUSTIFICATION TURING >>>>>>>>>>>> ULTIMATELY GIVES FOR ANY COMPUTING MACHINE. SERIOUSLY READ >>>>>>>>>>>> HIS FUCKING ESSAY YOU DORK

    please tell me where u are confused, not how u think i'm wrong >>>>>>>>>>>>

    I can finally see the gist of what you are saying
    and it seems to be very similar to my idea.

    like i've said polcott, i consider you having a half-way
    solution. u have something that's executable for sure, and >>>>>>>>>> that is a definite improvement over total undecidability.

    but it's not totally epistemically useful, it still doesn't / >>>>>>>>>> effectively compute/ the halting function in a *general* manner. >>>>>>>>>>
    i'm proposing something that's both executable *and*
    epistemically useful for that purpose.

    the RTM i'm proposing here is just the underlying theoretical >>>>>>>>>> mechanisms that can be used to produce a theoretically
    coherent context-dependent decider,

    which can then be used to /effectively compute/ the halting >>>>>>>>>> function irrespective of semantic paradoxes ...

    something that is in total a step beyond the mere
    executability that you are proposing.


    No, the problem you have is that you make the same error and >>>>>>>>> try to redefine the question, and allow your machine to give >>>>>>>>> wrong answers.

    it's not a "wrong" answer if it contains no information to be >>>>>>>> wrong about, and it's only given in a situation where there's no >>>>>>>> "right" answer.

    But their is a right answer for every actual D based on every
    actual H.

    It just isn't the answer that H gives.


    how is it reasonable to expect a decider to respond truthfully >>>>>>>> to a situation that would only make that truth untrue

    Because deciders are just deterministic processes with a fixed
    algorithm.

    right, and context can be an input to the determinism

    console.trace() isn't nondeterministic, it's context dependent


    Note, the system DOES understand that some problems turn out to >>>>>>> be uncomputable, so no decider exists that can be correct for all >>>>>>> inputs. Nothing wrong with that, it just means that any decider >>>>>>> that wants to try to claim to solve it will be wrong for some input. >>>>>>>
    The key point here is the question can't be asked until after a >>>>>>> decider steps up to make the claim, as the prove-it-wrong input >>>>>>> is different for every possible decider, and thus, by the time
    the question can be asked, the deciders result for that input was >>>>>>> already determined by its algorithm. For the decider it isn't a >>>>>>> matter of being "truthful", it is just doing what it was
    programmed to do.

    It becomes a matter of correctness, not truthfulness.

    It is the creator of the algoritm to which truthfulness is
    applied, and claiming that it will give the right answer when it >>>>>>> doesn't shows that his claim wasn't truthful.


    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of
    halts(und) on this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Which isn't a computation if your symbology means that halts is
    taken from the context that the symbol und is used in.

    Sorry, you are just showing you don't know the meaning of the words. >>>>>

    and the resolution is just to give a non-answer, so i split the
    decider into two halves and made false a non-answer. it cannot be >>>>>> a contradiction because it doesn't give information /in that
    moment/ about und() to contradict.

    But since you are starting with the same category error of Olcott,
    you get the same nonsense he does.

    The category for the input to a Halt Decider is the representation
    of a Computation.

    By DEFINITION, this has a FULLY defined algorithm, and thus NOT a
    closure.

    If you want to try to define your own theory of computation that
    uses a broader defintion, go ahead, the problem is you will find
    you can do litle with it, and that the semantic paradox you are
    complaining about is totally due to you altered definition of a
    computation.

    right why do u keep asserting ur existential fuckup is more correct
    than a working decider on the matter???

    Because it doesn't give the right answer per the original problem.

    it gives you the right answer in all the places that the information
    of that answer is actually usable, and it does so generally.

    In other words, your logic says it is ok to be wrong in some cases, if
    you can give a "good excuse" why it is ok to be wrong there.

    All that does is destroy the meaning of "Correct".


    you are holding onto some notion of wanting a "right" answer where no
    right answer can exist, and that's just bizarre because with that
    desire u lose the ability to generally get a "right" answer in first
    place.

    Because it *DOES* have a proper definition.

    ALWAYS means ALWAYS, not just where I want it.

    i can't believe ur a chief engineer asking for correctness where

    a) it has no practical usecase

    b) it ends up neutering ur theoretical ability to generally handle the
    problem

    ur demanding to be able to shoot urself in ur foot over some decider
    that can't even exist.

    weird fetish bro



    ur throwing the fucking baby out with the bathwater dude,

    it's fucking stupid

    Nope, because for actual problems like Busy Beaver, which again asks
    about for results from ALL possible machihes with specific criteria,
    that pattern might just coencidentally occur.



    If you want to be clear that you aren't working on that problem, or
    even working under that system, go ahead, just make sure you fully
    define what you are doing and try to show where it is useful.


    i'm not building a separate form of computing, i'm upgrading what we have

    In other words, you are admitting you are lying.

    It is a VIOLATION of the meaning of the words to change the meaning of
    the word as already used.

    You "upgrade" a system by adding new ideas without removing or changing
    any of the old.

    If you need to remove or change something, you have a new system. DEFINITION.

    like adding a new operation BY DEFINITION???

    honestly idk if ur just in denial, too senior to take criticism anymore,
    or just shoved a stick too far ur butthole,

    but suggesting i'm not changing anything when i've spent pages trying to define a very particular change, even given it's a label RTM is just completely disingenuous of you.

    i'm insulted at the lack of consideration i'm getting here, clearly u
    have no willingness to engaging in genuine discussion, cause ur just
    blatantly lying about my position.

    how can u offer me any meaningful feedback if ur just gunna blatantly
    lie about my position???


    Again, all you are doing is admitting that you system is based on you claiming the right to lie about what you are doing, by ignoring the
    rules of the system.





    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but >>>>>> that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    Since your input is a category error for the actual Computation
    Theory as classical defined, your results don't apply.

    classic computing theory doesn't have a halt decider defined tho ...
    u only have a halting function, not a decider. the decider is
    *disproven* and therefore cannot be defined as per consensus theory.

    u fucking retard.

    u keep asserting SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST is somehow more
    correct than SOMETHING THAT CAN EXIST

    The DEFINITION of a Halting Decider exists.

    The fact that the definiton is not realizable, proves the theory.

    To call something a Halt Decider that doesn't meet the definition, is
    just a lie, making the person making the claim just a liar.

    just like there's more than one way to ask the same question, there's
    more than one way to define a halting decider, which is the interface
    into an algorithm, not the algorithm itself.

    Right, but if they are semantically different, it isn't the same question.


    the one i'm proposing can actually generally exist, unlike the
    classical definition.

    But only is a Computation System that is broken, because programs don't reliable produce the same answer when run.

    Once you allow things to lie, you have destroyed the concept of truth.


    it's really that simple.

    Yes, allowing lying seems simple until you need to count on something.



    We can easily DEFINE things that don't exist.>


    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is
    required to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /
    truthful/ to do so.

    So, if you want to try to talk about this, you first need to try to >>>>> develop a basic theory about context dependent Computations, to see >>>>> if it can actually be useful for anything.

    i fucking already did. u just aren't reading cause ur too busy
    trying to show off how big a fucking retard u can be.

    No you haven't, unless you consider your claim that is the equivalent
    of defining that 1 == 2 is a definition.

    DESCRIBING what you want to do is NOT the same as DEFINING how to do it. >>>
    ur special pleading is just so mindnumbingly boring. i DEFINED my
    mechanics in MORE detail that turing did his, and yet u arbitrarily
    reject it as "describing" which seems like a made up distinction here.

    NO YOU HAVEN'T.

    You have PRESUMED an ability on the machine that can not actually be implemented on it without breaking it.

    i'm intelligent enough to write down the machine description to the tape
    when i see the operation REFLECT, and therefore accept the defined ability

    i get that ur apparently too fucking retarded to do that, and therefore
    don't accept it.


    Your "Definition" is the equivalent of defining that for this work, I
    will consider 1 to be equal to 2.


    sometimes i really do feel like just buying a gun a shooting myself,
    cause i really am stuck on a planet of fucking idiots.

    y must u endlessly torture me so with ur fucking idiocracy?


    I could say the same to you. Why are you so stuck on insisting on things that are not.

    Computations, as defined, can't change their answers for the same input. PERIOD.

    To insist they can is just to admit you are just a lunatic.

    right, printing stack traces actually isn't part of computing. every
    time we step thru debugging we're doing theoretically indescribable
    magic, according to richard
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    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 11:28:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/1/25 9:37 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:20 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und) on >>>> this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Yes there is; the correct answer is ¬halts(und). The logical negation
    of whatever halts(und) decides.

    the correct answer is to give the opposite of it's own answer???

    The correct answer isn't /to give/ anything; it just /is/

    halts() is a total decider, ur now just ignoring what i defined()


    E.g. halts(und) returns false, then und is terminating and so
    the correct answer is true.

    literal nonsense, and contrary to the consensus argument that it's an
    undecidable problem with no executable runtime, and therefore halts()
    doesn't exist, so the program can't exist. the consensus is that the
    answer doesn't exist.

    What doesn't exist is a total halting decider.

    und can exist with halts as a partial decider, which gives an
    an incorrect answer for halts(und).

    Because for no possible halts can there be an und such that halts(und)
    is correct, no halts can be total.

    Stop insisting that halts is a the total halting decider which cannot
    exist, allowing it to be a partial halting decider which cannot be
    total, and the apparent paradox goes away. und then exists and has a
    defnite halting status, which is opposite to whatever that partial
    decider says.

    great now ur arguing polcott is right.

    the problem with a set of partial deciders is that the resolution isn't /effectively computable/. with "partial" deciders then the question
    becomes which partial decider is correct: u've just kicked the can down
    the road


    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is required >>>> to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /truthful/ to do so. >>>>
    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just
    continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    If contexts are represenable in a Turing substrate, then everything
    succumbs to Turing incomputability of halting.

    If contexts are not representable in Turing, then the
    model-with-contexts is either effectievely computable non-Turing, or
    else contexts are just imaginary, like magic oracles.

    false dichotomy

    Well, trichotomy, by my count.

    - contexts are Turing (1)
    - contexts are not Turing:
    - somehow effectively computable (2)
    - not computable (3)

    What possibility have I unintentionally left out?

    like i'm even open to being wrong, but like u need to work with the
    system in order to show a contradiction with the system itself, just not
    assume the contradiction will happen.

    If they are imaginary, you only have a thought experiment.
    (In which Turing-plus-contexts machines can decide Turing
    halting, but so what?)

    REFLECT is completely mechanically demonstrable operation with a pen and
    paper, i demonstrated it in a post here already, justifying it's
    theoretical existence

    OK, that points to it being embeddable in Turing
    computation. Which then points to undecidabiity.

    or ur just assuming a false dichotomy

    the TM limitation is mechanical, not computational. classical theory
    only supposes about computational limitations, there's no notion of
    mechanical limitation.

    but the mechanical, not computational, limitation means:

    - TMs can simulate RTMs
    - RTMs don't fix the problems with TMs
    - it doesn't matter that they don't because RTMs can compute
    everything TMs do + have increased power

    what i'm doing is trivializing TMs undecidability, not resolving it. but
    this overall resolves the halting problem by providing a mechanical improvement that can allow theory to escape limitations stemming from
    the liar's paradox being encoded into machines


    REFLECT gives a semantic decider the ability to know it's calling
    context, which gives it the ability to return a context dependent answer.

    If you find some computational model with contexts which is effective,
    but beyond Turing, then /that/ is the big deal; delegate the halting
    cruft to others. You are important because you've done what nobody else
    has done before: you found an effective method of computation that is
    not Turing! So you go to conference sall over the world where you are
    flocked by groupies. Fuck halting, at that point, you know?

    it's a mild extension of TMs,

    If it is mechanically demonstrable with pen and paper, then it isn't
    an extension of TM.

    no idea what u mean here, TMs are likewise also demonstrable with a pen
    and paper, and that was turing's original justification for their
    feasibility


    like i've explained to you a ton of times
    already

    I mostly don't follow those threads.

    I remember that your extension tries to make halting decidable by
    implement security measures with regard to access and manipulaton of
    context, so that it cannot be reified and turned into a function
    argument.

    Halting is about functions, and your idea is to have syntactic
    limitations which create a sandbox that prevents the treatment of all
    the moving parts as pure functions with no context.

    In the system, programs are not able to explore questions like what does
    this function calculate with this explicit argument, under this specific context.

    I think that very limitation itself then makes halting
    practically undecidable within the system.

    Functions can depend on their context. That context can make some
    instances of them halting and others not, even with all the explicit arguments being the same. Thus we cannot ask whether a function halts;
    it has to be, does it halt /in what calling context/.

    only if it involves a REFLECT command, otherwise it's not possible to be dependent on context.


    You have it so that the H(D) within the diagnoal case D is in a
    different context from a H(D) invocation elsewhere which makes them different, excusing why they might produce different values.
    But that situation means programs can't calculate the halting of
    anything, due to every calculation being polluted by context that
    they can't pin down.


    the reason u still can't construct a pathological program is the decider
    is still context-aware. it always has the non-answer option to avoid
    semantic paradox to matter what ur trying to compute.

    if u could prove a semantic paradox, then it could also avoid that paradox
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  • From Kaz Kylheku@643-408-1753@kylheku.com to comp.theory on Sat Nov 1 20:26:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 11/1/25 9:37 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 10/31/25 9:20 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-01, dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    there's no "correct" answer to a pathological question of halts(und) on >>>>> this line:

    und = () -> halts(und) && loop_forever()

    Yes there is; the correct answer is ¬halts(und). The logical negation >>>> of whatever halts(und) decides.

    the correct answer is to give the opposite of it's own answer???

    The correct answer isn't /to give/ anything; it just /is/

    halts() is a total decider, ur now just ignoring what i defined()

    I'm obviously aware of how you defined it.

    If you initially impose the definition "halts is the name of a total
    decider", then you arrive at a contradiction: halts cannot be
    deciding und, as required of a total decider.

    So then, the definition is a kind of proposition, which is shown false;
    it does not hold.

    But what is the logical opposite of the proposition "halts is the name
    of a total decider?" It is not: "halts does not exist", but simply:
    "halts is /not/ the name of a total decider".

    A halts can exist just fine, just not as a total decider.

    Stop insisting that halts is a the total halting decider which cannot
    exist, allowing it to be a partial halting decider which cannot be
    total, and the apparent paradox goes away. und then exists and has a
    defnite halting status, which is opposite to whatever that partial
    decider says.

    great now ur arguing polcott is right.

    Not really; he has never agreed with the above!

    the problem with a set of partial deciders is that the resolution isn't /effectively computable/. with "partial" deciders then the question
    becomes which partial decider is correct: u've just kicked the can down
    the road

    Yes; because no combination of partial deciders gives you a total
    decider.

    We can trivially form a set of partial deciders which has complete
    coverage:

    H_0 := (P) -> 0

    H_1 := (P) -> 1

    H_0 correctly decides all non-terminating inputs. H_1 correctly
    decides all terminating inputs. So one of these two is always
    correct! (Notice how I'm not saying anything more informative
    than "a machine always halts or does not halt").

    We don't know which decider is the right one for which input.

    We need a third decider H whch decides whether to use H_0
    or H_1.

    This example may look silly: because what is H, but simply
    a decider which has to determine whether to returh 0 or 1
    (which are only trivially disguised as H_0(P) and H_1(P))?

    But this idea generalizes. No matter what kind of partial deciders we
    have, or how many, deciding which one is correct for which input is
    equivalent to deciding halting.

    The result of combining partial deciders will always be a decider
    that can be shown not to be total.

    The can is indeed always kicked down the road.

    yes this does mean maybe /false/ could be returned everywhere, but
    that's not fucking interesting ... nor does it give /effective
    computability/ in regards to the halting question.

    which is the point of the context-dependent decider. halts() is required >>>>> to return /true/ only whereever both /possible/ and /truthful/ to do so. >>>>>
    if u don't agree with this, that's fine...

    but you actually need to construct a contradiction, you can't just
    continually make bare assertions that it's a contradiction.

    If contexts are represenable in a Turing substrate, then everything
    succumbs to Turing incomputability of halting.

    If contexts are not representable in Turing, then the
    model-with-contexts is either effectievely computable non-Turing, or
    else contexts are just imaginary, like magic oracles.

    false dichotomy

    Well, trichotomy, by my count.

    - contexts are Turing (1)
    - contexts are not Turing:
    - somehow effectively computable (2)
    - not computable (3)

    What possibility have I unintentionally left out?

    like i'm even open to being wrong, but like u need to work with the
    system in order to show a contradiction with the system itself, just not >>> assume the contradiction will happen.

    If they are imaginary, you only have a thought experiment.
    (In which Turing-plus-contexts machines can decide Turing
    halting, but so what?)

    REFLECT is completely mechanically demonstrable operation with a pen and >>> paper, i demonstrated it in a post here already, justifying it's
    theoretical existence

    OK, that points to it being embeddable in Turing
    computation. Which then points to undecidabiity.

    or ur just assuming a false dichotomy

    If your mechanical pencil-and-paper calculations are shown to be Turing, anything rendered using those calculations is Turing. It is not
    a dichotomy, true or false.

    the TM limitation is mechanical, not computational. classical theory
    only supposes about computational limitations, there's no notion of mechanical limitation.

    Are you talking about analog computation with continuous quantities,
    and such?

    So your pencil-and-paper calculations are actually perhaps geometric,
    like compass-and-ruler derivations?

    but the mechanical, not computational, limitation means:

    - TMs can simulate RTMs
    - RTMs don't fix the problems with TMs
    - it doesn't matter that they don't because RTMs can compute
    everything TMs do + have increased power

    If TMs can simulate RTMs then they do not have increased power.

    They may have increased "expressive power", which is something only
    relevant to how "nice" they are to write applications in.

    A different Turing model can also have better efficiency; i.e the best
    way of solving a problem in one kind of machine may have exponential
    time whereas another can express a solution that is polynomial.

    Since

    - ugly code that correctly solves a problem halts,
    - inefficient code that correctly solves a problem halts,

    neither expressive power nor efficiency are relevant in halting.

    what i'm doing is trivializing TMs undecidability, not resolving it. but this overall resolves the halting problem by providing a mechanical improvement that can allow theory to escape limitations stemming from
    the liar's paradox being encoded into machines

    (If you want to talk Olcott, /that/'s a great narrative:
    "halting problem implies liar paradox.")


    REFLECT gives a semantic decider the ability to know it's calling
    context, which gives it the ability to return a context dependent answer. >>>
    If you find some computational model with contexts which is effective, >>>> but beyond Turing, then /that/ is the big deal; delegate the halting
    cruft to others. You are important because you've done what nobody else >>>> has done before: you found an effective method of computation that is
    not Turing! So you go to conference sall over the world where you are
    flocked by groupies. Fuck halting, at that point, you know?

    it's a mild extension of TMs,

    If it is mechanically demonstrable with pen and paper, then it isn't
    an extension of TM.

    no idea what u mean here, TMs are likewise also demonstrable with a pen
    and paper, and that was turing's original justification for their feasibility

    (What I mean that it's just TM, and not an extension.)

    Functions can depend on their context. That context can make some
    instances of them halting and others not, even with all the explicit
    arguments being the same. Thus we cannot ask whether a function halts;
    it has to be, does it halt /in what calling context/.

    only if it involves a REFLECT command, otherwise it's not possible to be dependent on context.

    So if only deciders are allowed to use REFLECT, but the inputs
    are not allowed to use REFLECT, then indeed it is impossible for an
    input to contradict a decider which uses REFLECT.

    But then deciders are not deciding everything; they are deciding
    only those inputs that don't use REFLECT.
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