• Re: on ignoring the undecidable

    From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 09:34:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 9:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
    my proposal starts with the reminder that *no* machine computes a
    unique function. for every function that is computed, there is a
    whole (infinite) class of machines that are functionally equivalent
    (same input -> same output behavior).

    Fine


    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is
    the simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Something you would need to PROVE.

    And, something of not particular value since determining the
    equivalence class of a given machine is non-computable.


    why? the paradox structures do not actually contribute to the output
    (since deciders themselves do not create output for the rCLcallingrCY
    machine), they are just sort of junk computation that selects a
    particular execution branch (or blocks entirely), a result which can
    exist without that paradox fluff being involved.

    Not really a proof, but a presumption.

    And remember, the "output" of the "paradoxical" machine includes its
    possible deciding to not halt.

    And again, it doesn't help you answer the actual question.


    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or !P
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machine!P()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property !P

    -a-a // undecidable by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine!P()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    huh, i guess i kinda get why this wasnrCOt really spotted before. as
    far as i can tell, classical computing theory normally recognizes
    three kinds of classifiers:


    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface

    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (block if UNDECIDABLE)

    Not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* Couldn't decide.

    yes, i'm aware that undecidability is *always* in respect to particular inputs for particular interfaces, as for any true classifier one can construct input that it can decide on

    No, "Undeciable" is an attribute of a PROBLEM, that says that any
    attemped full decider will always fail for some input. That input does
    not need to be the same for every decider.

    "Inputs" are not "DECIDABLE" as the domain of deciablity is PROBLEMS not INPUTS.

    Thus, you definition is just a categorical ERROR.

    Your "awareness" is just an error.




    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P
    -a-a-a-a (block if either UNDECIDABLE)

    Again, not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* couldn't decide.

    yes that's what the return value means, the input was UNDECIDABLE in
    respect to the classifier being asked the question

    And if you could tell that you were going to be wrong, you could correct yourself and not be wrong in the first place.


    Also, not iff, just if I was able to decide it had.

    lol, that is like the ONE useful comment in ur entire post here. i
    honestly went back and made that more precise for whereever i post this next. i guess that's worth digging thru ur endless gishgallop-a EfaiEfyeEfo2Efai


    As, for a proper question, all inputs either have P or !P

    (Like all machines Halt or do not halt, there is no other possibility)


    ... so the paradoxes (involving either a classical recognizer or
    partial decider) always result in a blocking, non-returning program
    making this thesis still valid, but less interesting/compelling.

    Right, PARTIAL halt deciders are know to be able to be made, so not
    even "less-interesting" but not interesting unless you can show that
    you can answer a comparative reasonable amount of answers.

    Just another method, without comparing to the existing, just isn't
    interesting at all.


    i have instead been working on the logical interface for alternative
    classifiers. one example are the context-aware classifiers irCOve been
    previously posting quite a bit on, but letrCOs consider a less general
    classifier that might exist on TMs alone, what irCOm calling a partial
    recognizer:

    But the problem is that such things end up not being "Computation" and
    thus outside of the field.

    begging the ct-thesis again

    But the proof of it being non-computable isn't based on CT, but on the definition of a computation.

    It seems you don't understand that abstraction, because you just don't understand what you are talking about.





    -a-a partial recognizer
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P AND is DECIDABLE
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P OR is UNDECIDABLE

    Again, All inputs will either have P or !P, and your criteria isn't
    "is it decidable", but can I determine the answer.

    yes, whether the particular input is DECIDABLE by the particular
    classifier returning the answer

    But DECIDABILITY isn't about the input.

    Your problem is you are just showing you don't know the language you are trying to talk.



    The problem is that "Decidablity" isn't really a property of a specific

    see, it's weird that you acknowledge earlier that it's that particular inputs that cause UNDECIDABLE returns for particular interfaces...

    but here u revert to this red herring of also being able to talk about undecidability in terms of whole problems as if that "refutes" anything

    I guess you don't understand logic and proofs.

    Since we can show that we can make an specific input for ANY decider,
    thaty it will get wrong, we can thus prove that there does not exist a
    decider that gets every input right.

    I guess that property of Qualifiers, since it needs using real logic, is beyond you.

    That the decider gets a particular input wrong isn't about
    "Decidability" but about "Correctness". (But since correctness seems out
    of you understand, that is an understandable confusion).




    input, but of the problem as a whole. HALTING, as a problem, is
    undecidable, as we can create an input for ANY specific decider that
    it will get wrong.

    sorry, what will a partial recognizer get wrong?

    It is "Wrong" if it gives the wrong answer, and not right when it
    doesn't answer.

    As I said, if you are admitting to just doing PARTIAL deciding, you
    really need to compare your results to what current theory can already do.




    in this case if we consider undP() from above ... deciderP(undP)
    would return FALSE because undP is UNDECIDABLE by deciderP(). but
    that doesnrCOt mean the program isnrCOt runnable. it certainly is, and
    when u do run it, it will have the functional behavior of machineP().
    which may even halt, mind you,

    WHich isn't the definition of "Undeciable" as it isn't undeciable by a
    specific machine.

    definist fallacy: it doesn't matter if we can also use the term to
    describe problems ... we can also use it to describe the problem in
    regards to specific input, because it's always specific input that cause
    the problem for specific interfaces. as for any true classifier one can define a surely decidable result.

    In other words, you are just admitting to yourself using the definist
    fallacy, because you are ADMITTING to changing the definiton of the word
    to forward your goal.




    ...thererCOs this weird notion floating around that because halting
    machines are certainly enumerable, therefore itrCOs not possible to
    create an undecidable halting machine. but thatrCOs not actually true,
    paradoxes are constructed in regards to *specific* interfaces
    (classes of functionally equivalent machines), not general ability.
    therefore, despite the fact we can enumerate out all halting
    machines, itrCOs still possible to construct a halting machine that is
    also a paradox in respect to some property classifier like
    deciderP(). anyways...

    Enumerable, but not effectively enumerable, or computationally
    enumerable.

    excuse me, halting machines are effectively enumerable

    Try to prove it.

    Remember, to be effectively enumerable, you need to show that your
    procedure *WILL* enumerate all of them.


    and i don't like distinction. if there is no effective method to
    enumerate something, i don't like calling it enumer-able. i get that
    classic computing theory would disagree ... but i don't see the justification of calling something able-to-be-enumerate if there cannot
    be an effective procedure to enumerate it

    Then you have a problem with basic logic. The Axiom of Choice creates "enumerable" sets that are not effectively



    THe paradoxes are NOT constructed to an "interface", but to an
    instance, as programs don't use just an interface, but need to use an
    implementation of that interface to BE a program.

    i defined what i mean by interface here, please read correctly

    Right, and your definition of interface doesn't create PROGRAMS when used.

    You just don't understand how Programs/Algorithms are defined.



    If just defined to an interface, you don't yet have a program, just a
    template for a program. This seems to be one of you fundamental
    problems in understanding.

    paradoxes can be constructed in regards to interfaces rather that full problems, that's turing did in his original proof given that he was
    talking about an interface that can't even implemented

    Yes, we create a paradox by defining a template to create programs. But
    the template isn't the input, only the actual program created from it.

    And, reversing the program to its template is not computable in general.




    atm irCOd like to point out that undP(), despite being undecidable by
    deciderP() in regards to property P, is functionally equivalent to
    machineP() when run and therefore must have property P. and i hope
    you can now start to see how the paradox construction prevents the
    machine from being the simplest in its class of functionally
    equivalent machine. ultimately such a binary paradox is formed by
    having two branches which opposing semantic properties, selected
    specifically by the opposing return value of a classifier for to a
    particular property. the paradox machine will either run one of those
    branches (making it functionally equivalent to the branch that is
    run) or block on the classifier call (making it functionally
    equivalent to a basic infinite loop). therefore the paradox *cannot*
    be the simplest machine in its class of functionally equivalent
    machines.

    As I say, even if you claim is true, it doesn't help you decide on a
    given input. And since determining the "equivalence class" of a given
    machine is uncomputable, it isn't useful to you.


    why does this matter? because therefore there exists not only a
    turing complete subset of machines that has no paradoxical machines,
    but a minimal turing complete subset containing only the least
    complex form of any given function computation, that has no machine
    which might cause *any* classifier to be unable to classify it.

    But an uncomputable subset, and thus not a useful one.


    but can we decide on such a minimal turing complete subset? the gut
    reaction from 99.99% of you will be a hard no, also undecidable!! Efyn
    and continue to get all butthurt over the mere suggestion that turing
    was wrong about literally anything ever. but look, that
    undecidability is *just another form* of the same tired old semantic
    paradox that has been plaguing computing since turing wrote the first
    paper on computable numbers, and therefore *it also need not be
    included within a minimal turing complete subset.*

    Again, the problem is that working on a Turing Complete Subset doesn't
    answer the problem, especially when said subset isn't itself
    computable or effectifvely enumeratable.

    bro i get that u don't want to understand this because my god that
    amount of shit talk u'll have to take back is beyond my personal understanding since i haven't been shitposting about it for literally decades...

    but i'm building a proof against semantic paradoxes in general,
    *including the turing equivalence paradox*

    But, to assume you can do something you can't do just proves that you
    can't actually prove what you are trying to prove.




    we can form this subset by utilizing a partial non-functional-
    equivalence recognizer that focuses on computing when two machines do
    not compute the same function. such a classifier will have the
    interface:

    -a-a not_func_eq = (machineA, machineB) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machineA does NOT compute the same function as machineB >>> -a-a-a-a-a-a AND such decision is DECIDABLE,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine A does compute the same function as machineB
    -a-a-a-a-a-a OR such decision is UNDECIDABLE,
    -a-a }


    Again, "Decidable" isn't the right word here, and deteremining that it

    definist fallacy: language is an evolving thing, and DECIDABLE/
    UNDECIDABLE input are what create undecidable problems in the first
    place, so i think the usage is *entirely* valid and u won't convince otherwise

    Nope, in fact it is the definist fallacy to change meaning in a formal
    system.

    I suppose part of your problem is you don't understand what a formal
    system is.


    is "undecidable" as you are trying to define it, isn't itself
    decidable, so you can't know to return false.

    bare assertion: so post example u lazy fuck

    In other words, you insist on proof that Russel's teapot doens't exist.


    Thus, this function might not answer for some inputs, or might falsely
    define two machines as equivalent that are not, and thus you didn't
    compute a complete set.

    ur not gunna be able to paradox the paradox detection logic, that's the
    key that makes this work. why?

    But primarily because you can't "paradox" something that doesn't exixt.

    You are effectively asking me to prove that Russel's Teapot can't exist.
    As the paper shows, the onus is on YOU to prove that you can do what you claim, not on me to show you can't.


    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to whether
    it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the perspective of
    a particular partial recognizer call the input can be one of 4
    permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for the
    halting problem, and based on a category error with the term DECIDABLE.

    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right"
    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.



    as we then iterate across the full enumeration of turing machines, we
    can use not_func_eq() as a filter to create a minimal turing complete
    subset:

    But, since the output is an INFINITE set, it will never finish.

    please refer to turing's paper /on computable numbers/ for techniques on
    how to delineate "output" for non-terminating computations

    Which is a different class of computations from the Halting Problem.

    You can't just mix the two system.


    i shouldn't have to say that, cause i already explained that once to you

    but as a ugly mf 70yo "chief engineer" u probably have the early stages dementia already


    Just shows how little you know.

    I think YOU are showing signs of early onset dementia, since you keep on trying to misuse words when a perfectly suitable one exists.



    -a-a () -> {
    -a-a-a-a min_tc_subset = []
    -a-a-a-a for (n = 0; true; n++) {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if (
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // test only runnable machines
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a runnable(n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // must test TRUE against all prior machines in the list >>> -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a && min_tc_subset.all(m -> not_func_eq(m,n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a min_tc_subset.push(n)
    -a-a-a-a }
    -a-a }






    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 7 09:42:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    All of the other undecidability cases
    are the same just much less obviously so.

    In other words, you are ADMITTING that "Truth" is an undeciable question?

    That is a step in the right direction, if you understand what you just said.

    What answer does it give for Godel's G? The statement that there does
    not exist a number g that satisfied the given relationship he builds in
    his proof.

    It turns out there is no proof of that statement in the base system.

    It turns out that there is no number that satisfies the relationship, so
    you can't show a counter example or prove that one exists.

    It turns out that you can't even prove that you can't even do one of the
    first two in the base system, thus you can't say by Proof-Theoretic
    Semantics that it is not-well-founded, as you can't prove THAT statement.

    Statements like G are just outside the domain of a Proof-Theoretic
    Semantics understanding, but most statements in mathematics look just
    like it, so are also outside of Proof-Theoretic understanding until they
    are somehow solved outside of it and the answer is brought in.

    Thus, Proof-Theoretic Semantics just is a "incomplete" logic system when dealing with mathematics.



    On 2/6/2026 8:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
    my proposal starts with the reminder that *no* machine computes a
    unique function. for every function that is computed, there is a whole
    (infinite) class of machines that are functionally equivalent (same
    input -> same output behavior).

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is
    the simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    why? the paradox structures do not actually contribute to the output
    (since deciders themselves do not create output for the rCLcallingrCY
    machine), they are just sort of junk computation that selects a
    particular execution branch (or blocks entirely), a result which can
    exist without that paradox fluff being involved.

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or !P
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machine!P()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property !P

    -a-a // undecidable by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine!P()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    huh, i guess i kinda get why this wasnrCOt really spotted before. as far
    as i can tell, classical computing theory normally recognizes three
    kinds of classifiers:


    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface

    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (block if UNDECIDABLE)

    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P
    -a-a-a-a (block if either UNDECIDABLE)

    ... so the paradoxes (involving either a classical recognizer or
    partial decider) always result in a blocking, non-returning program
    making this thesis still valid, but less interesting/compelling.

    i have instead been working on the logical interface for alternative
    classifiers. one example are the context-aware classifiers irCOve been
    previously posting quite a bit on, but letrCOs consider a less general
    classifier that might exist on TMs alone, what irCOm calling a partial
    recognizer:

    -a-a partial recognizer
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P AND is DECIDABLE
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P OR is UNDECIDABLE

    in this case if we consider undP() from above ... deciderP(undP) would
    return FALSE because undP is UNDECIDABLE by deciderP(). but that
    doesnrCOt mean the program isnrCOt runnable. it certainly is, and when u
    do run it, it will have the functional behavior of machineP(). which
    may even halt, mind you,

    ...thererCOs this weird notion floating around that because halting
    machines are certainly enumerable, therefore itrCOs not possible to
    create an undecidable halting machine. but thatrCOs not actually true,
    paradoxes are constructed in regards to *specific* interfaces (classes
    of functionally equivalent machines), not general ability. therefore,
    despite the fact we can enumerate out all halting machines, itrCOs still
    possible to construct a halting machine that is also a paradox in
    respect to some property classifier like deciderP(). anyways...

    atm irCOd like to point out that undP(), despite being undecidable by
    deciderP() in regards to property P, is functionally equivalent to
    machineP() when run and therefore must have property P. and i hope you
    can now start to see how the paradox construction prevents the machine
    from being the simplest in its class of functionally equivalent
    machine. ultimately such a binary paradox is formed by having two
    branches which opposing semantic properties, selected specifically by
    the opposing return value of a classifier for to a particular
    property. the paradox machine will either run one of those branches
    (making it functionally equivalent to the branch that is run) or block
    on the classifier call (making it functionally equivalent to a basic
    infinite loop). therefore the paradox *cannot* be the simplest machine
    in its class of functionally equivalent machines.

    why does this matter? because therefore there exists not only a turing
    complete subset of machines that has no paradoxical machines, but a
    minimal turing complete subset containing only the least complex form
    of any given function computation, that has no machine which might
    cause *any* classifier to be unable to classify it.

    but can we decide on such a minimal turing complete subset? the gut
    reaction from 99.99% of you will be a hard no, also undecidable!! Efyn
    and continue to get all butthurt over the mere suggestion that turing
    was wrong about literally anything ever. but look, that undecidability
    is *just another form* of the same tired old semantic paradox that has
    been plaguing computing since turing wrote the first paper on
    computable numbers, and therefore *it also need not be included within
    a minimal turing complete subset.*

    we can form this subset by utilizing a partial non-functional-
    equivalence recognizer that focuses on computing when two machines do
    not compute the same function. such a classifier will have the interface:

    -a-a not_func_eq = (machineA, machineB) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machineA does NOT compute the same function as machineB
    -a-a-a-a-a-a AND such decision is DECIDABLE,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine A does compute the same function as machineB
    -a-a-a-a-a-a OR such decision is UNDECIDABLE,
    -a-a }


    as we then iterate across the full enumeration of turing machines, we
    can use not_func_eq() as a filter to create a minimal turing complete
    subset:

    -a-a () -> {
    -a-a-a-a min_tc_subset = []
    -a-a-a-a for (n = 0; true; n++) {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if (
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // test only runnable machines
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a runnable(n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // must test TRUE against all prior machines in the list
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a && min_tc_subset.all(m -> not_func_eq(m,n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a min_tc_subset.push(n)
    -a-a-a-a }
    -a-a }





    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Feb 7 09:07:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"<br>
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 7 11:33:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of the
    non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but violates
    the principle of the excluded middle.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Sat Feb 7 10:43:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/2026 10:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of
    the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but violates
    the principle of the excluded middle.

    When we extend formal systems to include formalized
    natural language we often encounter expressions that
    are not truth apt.

    Conventional logic and math have been paralyzed for
    many decades by trying to force-fit semantically
    ill-formed expressions into the box of True or False.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"<br>
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 10:21:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/2026 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 9:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
    my proposal starts with the reminder that *no* machine computes a
    unique function. for every function that is computed, there is a
    whole (infinite) class of machines that are functionally equivalent
    (same input -> same output behavior).

    Fine


    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is
    the simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Something you would need to PROVE.

    And, something of not particular value since determining the
    equivalence class of a given machine is non-computable.


    why? the paradox structures do not actually contribute to the output
    (since deciders themselves do not create output for the rCLcallingrCY >>>> machine), they are just sort of junk computation that selects a
    particular execution branch (or blocks entirely), a result which can
    exist without that paradox fluff being involved.

    Not really a proof, but a presumption.

    And remember, the "output" of the "paradoxical" machine includes its
    possible deciding to not halt.

    And again, it doesn't help you answer the actual question.


    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or !P
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machine!P()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property !P

    -a-a // undecidable by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine!P()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    huh, i guess i kinda get why this wasnrCOt really spotted before. as
    far as i can tell, classical computing theory normally recognizes
    three kinds of classifiers:


    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface

    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (block if UNDECIDABLE)

    Not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* Couldn't decide.

    yes, i'm aware that undecidability is *always* in respect to
    particular inputs for particular interfaces, as for any true
    classifier one can construct input that it can decide on

    No, "Undeciable" is an attribute of a PROBLEM, that says that any
    attemped full decider will always fail for some input. That input does
    not need to be the same for every decider.

    "Inputs" are not "DECIDABLE" as the domain of deciablity is PROBLEMS not INPUTS.

    Thus, you definition is just a categorical ERROR.

    Your "awareness" is just an error.




    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P
    -a-a-a-a (block if either UNDECIDABLE)

    Again, not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* couldn't decide.

    yes that's what the return value means, the input was UNDECIDABLE in
    respect to the classifier being asked the question

    And if you could tell that you were going to be wrong, you could correct yourself and not be wrong in the first place.


    Also, not iff, just if I was able to decide it had.

    lol, that is like the ONE useful comment in ur entire post here. i
    honestly went back and made that more precise for whereever i post
    this next. i guess that's worth digging thru ur endless gishgallop-a Efai >> EfyeEfo2Efai


    As, for a proper question, all inputs either have P or !P

    (Like all machines Halt or do not halt, there is no other possibility)


    ... so the paradoxes (involving either a classical recognizer or
    partial decider) always result in a blocking, non-returning program
    making this thesis still valid, but less interesting/compelling.

    Right, PARTIAL halt deciders are know to be able to be made, so not
    even "less-interesting" but not interesting unless you can show that
    you can answer a comparative reasonable amount of answers.

    Just another method, without comparing to the existing, just isn't
    interesting at all.


    i have instead been working on the logical interface for alternative
    classifiers. one example are the context-aware classifiers irCOve been >>>> previously posting quite a bit on, but letrCOs consider a less general >>>> classifier that might exist on TMs alone, what irCOm calling a partial >>>> recognizer:

    But the problem is that such things end up not being "Computation"
    and thus outside of the field.

    begging the ct-thesis again

    But the proof of it being non-computable isn't based on CT, but on the definition of a computation.

    It seems you don't understand that abstraction, because you just don't understand what you are talking about.





    -a-a partial recognizer
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P AND is DECIDABLE
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P OR is UNDECIDABLE

    Again, All inputs will either have P or !P, and your criteria isn't
    "is it decidable", but can I determine the answer.

    yes, whether the particular input is DECIDABLE by the particular
    classifier returning the answer

    But DECIDABILITY isn't about the input.

    Your problem is you are just showing you don't know the language you are trying to talk.



    The problem is that "Decidablity" isn't really a property of a specific

    see, it's weird that you acknowledge earlier that it's that particular
    inputs that cause UNDECIDABLE returns for particular interfaces...

    but here u revert to this red herring of also being able to talk about
    undecidability in terms of whole problems as if that "refutes" anything

    I guess you don't understand logic and proofs.

    Since we can show that we can make an specific input for ANY decider,
    thaty it will get wrong, we can thus prove that there does not exist a decider that gets every input right.

    I guess that property of Qualifiers, since it needs using real logic, is beyond you.

    That the decider gets a particular input wrong isn't about
    "Decidability" but about "Correctness". (But since correctness seems out
    of you understand, that is an understandable confusion).




    input, but of the problem as a whole. HALTING, as a problem, is
    undecidable, as we can create an input for ANY specific decider that
    it will get wrong.

    sorry, what will a partial recognizer get wrong?

    It is "Wrong" if it gives the wrong answer, and not right when it
    doesn't answer.

    As I said, if you are admitting to just doing PARTIAL deciding, you
    really need to compare your results to what current theory can already do.




    in this case if we consider undP() from above ... deciderP(undP)
    would return FALSE because undP is UNDECIDABLE by deciderP(). but
    that doesnrCOt mean the program isnrCOt runnable. it certainly is, and >>>> when u do run it, it will have the functional behavior of
    machineP(). which may even halt, mind you,

    WHich isn't the definition of "Undeciable" as it isn't undeciable by
    a specific machine.

    definist fallacy: it doesn't matter if we can also use the term to
    describe problems ... we can also use it to describe the problem in
    regards to specific input, because it's always specific input that
    cause the problem for specific interfaces. as for any true classifier
    one can define a surely decidable result.

    In other words, you are just admitting to yourself using the definist fallacy, because you are ADMITTING to changing the definiton of the word
    to forward your goal.




    ...thererCOs this weird notion floating around that because halting
    machines are certainly enumerable, therefore itrCOs not possible to
    create an undecidable halting machine. but thatrCOs not actually true, >>>> paradoxes are constructed in regards to *specific* interfaces
    (classes of functionally equivalent machines), not general ability.
    therefore, despite the fact we can enumerate out all halting
    machines, itrCOs still possible to construct a halting machine that is >>>> also a paradox in respect to some property classifier like
    deciderP(). anyways...

    Enumerable, but not effectively enumerable, or computationally
    enumerable.

    excuse me, halting machines are effectively enumerable

    Try to prove it.

    Remember, to be effectively enumerable, you need to show that your
    procedure *WILL* enumerate all of them.


    and i don't like distinction. if there is no effective method to
    enumerate something, i don't like calling it enumer-able. i get that
    classic computing theory would disagree ... but i don't see the
    justification of calling something able-to-be-enumerate if there
    cannot be an effective procedure to enumerate it

    Then you have a problem with basic logic. The Axiom of Choice creates "enumerable" sets that are not effectively



    THe paradoxes are NOT constructed to an "interface", but to an
    instance, as programs don't use just an interface, but need to use an
    implementation of that interface to BE a program.

    i defined what i mean by interface here, please read correctly

    Right, and your definition of interface doesn't create PROGRAMS when used.

    You just don't understand how Programs/Algorithms are defined.



    If just defined to an interface, you don't yet have a program, just a
    template for a program. This seems to be one of you fundamental
    problems in understanding.

    paradoxes can be constructed in regards to interfaces rather that full
    problems, that's turing did in his original proof given that he was
    talking about an interface that can't even implemented

    Yes, we create a paradox by defining a template to create programs. But
    the template isn't the input, only the actual program created from it.

    And, reversing the program to its template is not computable in general.




    atm irCOd like to point out that undP(), despite being undecidable by >>>> deciderP() in regards to property P, is functionally equivalent to
    machineP() when run and therefore must have property P. and i hope
    you can now start to see how the paradox construction prevents the
    machine from being the simplest in its class of functionally
    equivalent machine. ultimately such a binary paradox is formed by
    having two branches which opposing semantic properties, selected
    specifically by the opposing return value of a classifier for to a
    particular property. the paradox machine will either run one of
    those branches (making it functionally equivalent to the branch that
    is run) or block on the classifier call (making it functionally
    equivalent to a basic infinite loop). therefore the paradox *cannot*
    be the simplest machine in its class of functionally equivalent
    machines.

    As I say, even if you claim is true, it doesn't help you decide on a
    given input. And since determining the "equivalence class" of a given
    machine is uncomputable, it isn't useful to you.


    why does this matter? because therefore there exists not only a
    turing complete subset of machines that has no paradoxical machines,
    but a minimal turing complete subset containing only the least
    complex form of any given function computation, that has no machine
    which might cause *any* classifier to be unable to classify it.

    But an uncomputable subset, and thus not a useful one.


    but can we decide on such a minimal turing complete subset? the gut
    reaction from 99.99% of you will be a hard no, also undecidable!! Efyn >>>> and continue to get all butthurt over the mere suggestion that
    turing was wrong about literally anything ever. but look, that
    undecidability is *just another form* of the same tired old semantic
    paradox that has been plaguing computing since turing wrote the
    first paper on computable numbers, and therefore *it also need not
    be included within a minimal turing complete subset.*

    Again, the problem is that working on a Turing Complete Subset
    doesn't answer the problem, especially when said subset isn't itself
    computable or effectifvely enumeratable.

    bro i get that u don't want to understand this because my god that
    amount of shit talk u'll have to take back is beyond my personal
    understanding since i haven't been shitposting about it for literally
    decades...

    but i'm building a proof against semantic paradoxes in general,
    *including the turing equivalence paradox*

    But, to assume you can do something you can't do just proves that you
    can't actually prove what you are trying to prove.




    we can form this subset by utilizing a partial non-functional-
    equivalence recognizer that focuses on computing when two machines
    do not compute the same function. such a classifier will have the
    interface:

    -a-a not_func_eq = (machineA, machineB) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machineA does NOT compute the same function as machineB >>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a AND such decision is DECIDABLE,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine A does compute the same function as machineB >>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a OR such decision is UNDECIDABLE,
    -a-a }


    Again, "Decidable" isn't the right word here, and deteremining that it

    definist fallacy: language is an evolving thing, and DECIDABLE/
    UNDECIDABLE input are what create undecidable problems in the first
    place, so i think the usage is *entirely* valid and u won't convince
    otherwise

    Nope, in fact it is the definist fallacy to change meaning in a formal system.

    I suppose part of your problem is you don't understand what a formal
    system is.


    is "undecidable" as you are trying to define it, isn't itself
    decidable, so you can't know to return false.

    bare assertion: so post example u lazy fuck

    In other words, you insist on proof that Russel's teapot doens't exist.


    Thus, this function might not answer for some inputs, or might
    falsely define two machines as equivalent that are not, and thus you
    didn't compute a complete set.

    ur not gunna be able to paradox the paradox detection logic, that's
    the key that makes this work. why?

    But primarily because you can't "paradox" something that doesn't exixt.

    You are effectively asking me to prove that Russel's Teapot can't exist.
    As the paper shows, the onus is on YOU to prove that you can do what you claim, not on me to show you can't.


    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can be
    one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a particular
    classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the law of
    excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for the halting problem, and based on a category error with the term DECIDABLE.

    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right"
    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL implementation is to just return FALSE.



    as we then iterate across the full enumeration of turing machines,
    we can use not_func_eq() as a filter to create a minimal turing
    complete subset:

    But, since the output is an INFINITE set, it will never finish.

    please refer to turing's paper /on computable numbers/ for techniques
    on how to delineate "output" for non-terminating computations

    Which is a different class of computations from the Halting Problem.

    You can't just mix the two system.


    i shouldn't have to say that, cause i already explained that once to you

    but as a ugly mf 70yo "chief engineer" u probably have the early
    stages dementia already


    Just shows how little you know.

    I think YOU are showing signs of early onset dementia,

    Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Good point!

    since you keep on trying to misuse words when a perfectly suitable
    one > exists.

    So, I think that may be what's called a conversational Double entendre.

    These types of wordings are frequently used in this group, together with repetition of certain other phrases, mostly by boomers, but sometimes by
    new kids stopping by for a chat.

    So, it's probably not dementia. Some people just feel better when they
    have someone to talk to.

    So, let's be clear: Time is an illusion.




    -a-a () -> {
    -a-a-a-a min_tc_subset = []
    -a-a-a-a for (n = 0; true; n++) {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if (
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // test only runnable machines
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a runnable(n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // must test TRUE against all prior machines in the list >>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a && min_tc_subset.all(m -> not_func_eq(m,n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a min_tc_subset.push(n)
    -a-a-a-a }
    -a-a }







    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Creon@creon@creon.earth to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 19:15:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    At Sat, 7 Feb 2026 10:21:12 -0800, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Good point!

    since you keep on trying to misuse words when a perfectly suitable
    one > exists.

    So, I think that may be what's called a conversational Double entendre.

    These types of wordings are frequently used in this group, together with repetition of certain other phrases, mostly by boomers, but sometimes by
    new kids stopping by for a chat.

    So, it's probably not dementia. Some people just feel better when they
    have someone to talk to.

    So, let's be clear: Time is an illusion.

    Learn to trim, ya West Coast computer geek!

    And: If time is an illusion, what keeps everything from
    happening at once? Huh? Ever think of *that*?

    [snip]
    --
    -c System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 Mem: 258G
    OS: Linux 6.18.9 D: Mint 22.3 DE: Xfce 4.18 (X11)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Ti (24G) (580.105.08)
    "Useless Invention: Reduced calorie water."
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 12:06:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/2026 11:15 AM, Creon wrote:
    At Sat, 7 Feb 2026 10:21:12 -0800, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Good point!
    >
    > since you keep on trying to misuse words when a perfectly suitable
    one > exists.
    >
    So, I think that may be what's called a conversational Double entendre.

    These types of wordings are frequently used in this group, together with
    repetition of certain other phrases, mostly by boomers, but sometimes by
    new kids stopping by for a chat.

    So, it's probably not dementia. Some people just feel better when they
    have someone to talk to.

    So, let's be clear: Time is an illusion.

    Learn to trim, ya West Coast computer geek!

    That's one solution. However, anyone with dementia would probably not be
    able to do that, especially when they are obviously in a time warp.
    And: If time is an illusion, what keeps everything from
    happening at once? Huh?

    Because Time is curved, just like Einstein said?

    For more than a century, physics has struggled to say what time actually
    is. This struggle is not philosophical nitpicking. It sits at the heart
    of some of the deepest problems in science.

    Ever think of *that*?

    According to recent reports, Time arises from information.

    "Every interaction, such as two particles crashing, writes information
    into the universe. These imprints accumulate. Because they cannot be
    erased, they define a natural ordering of events. Earlier states are
    those with fewer informational records. Later states are those with
    more." - Florian Neukart, Leiden University

    https://studyfinds.org/is-time-reality-physics-revolution/

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Sat Feb 7 15:56:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 11:43 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 10:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of
    the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but violates
    the principle of the excluded middle.

    When we extend formal systems to include formalized
    natural language we often encounter expressions that
    are not truth apt.

    In other words, you don't know what you are talking about.

    "Statements" in the formal logic system need to be statements in the
    language of the formal logic system itself, and not just a "natural
    language" side statement. We might use natural language to express
    things, but in the system, we need to actually be able to formally right
    that statement.

    Thus, while we may use "words" to express the statement of G, the actual formal statement will use the language of the system.


    Conventional logic and math have been paralyzed for
    many decades by trying to force-fit semantically
    ill-formed expressions into the box of True or False.


    Nope. You are just too stupid to understand what you are talking about.

    I guess to you, mathematics is just "ill-formed" because it doesn't fit
    into your view of the world, because it FORCES the world to have
    unprovable truths which you stupid mind can't comprehend since you can't
    tell the difference between knowledge and truth.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 13:09:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 9:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
    my proposal starts with the reminder that *no* machine computes a
    unique function. for every function that is computed, there is a
    whole (infinite) class of machines that are functionally equivalent
    (same input -> same output behavior).

    Fine


    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is
    the simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Something you would need to PROVE.

    And, something of not particular value since determining the
    equivalence class of a given machine is non-computable.


    why? the paradox structures do not actually contribute to the output
    (since deciders themselves do not create output for the rCLcallingrCY >>>> machine), they are just sort of junk computation that selects a
    particular execution branch (or blocks entirely), a result which can
    exist without that paradox fluff being involved.

    Not really a proof, but a presumption.

    And remember, the "output" of the "paradoxical" machine includes its
    possible deciding to not halt.

    And again, it doesn't help you answer the actual question.


    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or !P
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machine!P()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property !P

    -a-a // undecidable by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine!P()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    huh, i guess i kinda get why this wasnrCOt really spotted before. as
    far as i can tell, classical computing theory normally recognizes
    three kinds of classifiers:


    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface

    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (block if UNDECIDABLE)

    Not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* Couldn't decide.

    yes, i'm aware that undecidability is *always* in respect to
    particular inputs for particular interfaces, as for any true
    classifier one can construct input that it can decide on

    No, "Undeciable" is an attribute of a PROBLEM, that says that any
    attemped full decider will always fail for some input. That input does
    not need to be the same for every decider.

    "Inputs" are not "DECIDABLE" as the domain of deciablity is PROBLEMS not INPUTS.

    Thus, you definition is just a categorical ERROR.

    definist fallacy


    Your "awareness" is just an error.




    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P
    -a-a-a-a (block if either UNDECIDABLE)

    Again, not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* couldn't decide.

    yes that's what the return value means, the input was UNDECIDABLE in
    respect to the classifier being asked the question

    And if you could tell that you were going to be wrong, you could correct yourself and not be wrong in the first place.

    what??? what a bizarre claim lol, why do u think that?

    the ability to answer "correctly" is obviously independent of an ability
    to know you can't answer "correctly", one only needs to put urself in
    place of the classifier algo to understand that. if u can't do that, it
    might be an indication for a lacking ability to view things from
    multiple angles.



    Also, not iff, just if I was able to decide it had.

    lol, that is like the ONE useful comment in ur entire post here. i
    honestly went back and made that more precise for whereever i post
    this next. i guess that's worth digging thru ur endless gishgallop-a Efai >> EfyeEfo2Efai


    As, for a proper question, all inputs either have P or !P

    (Like all machines Halt or do not halt, there is no other possibility)


    ... so the paradoxes (involving either a classical recognizer or
    partial decider) always result in a blocking, non-returning program
    making this thesis still valid, but less interesting/compelling.

    Right, PARTIAL halt deciders are know to be able to be made, so not
    even "less-interesting" but not interesting unless you can show that
    you can answer a comparative reasonable amount of answers.

    Just another method, without comparing to the existing, just isn't
    interesting at all.


    i have instead been working on the logical interface for alternative
    classifiers. one example are the context-aware classifiers irCOve been >>>> previously posting quite a bit on, but letrCOs consider a less general >>>> classifier that might exist on TMs alone, what irCOm calling a partial >>>> recognizer:

    But the problem is that such things end up not being "Computation"
    and thus outside of the field.

    begging the ct-thesis again

    But the proof of it being non-computable isn't based on CT, but on the definition of a computation.

    where did that definition of computation you continually speak of come
    from and who formalized it?


    It seems you don't understand that abstraction, because you just don't understand what you are talking about.





    -a-a partial recognizer
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P AND is DECIDABLE
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P OR is UNDECIDABLE

    Again, All inputs will either have P or !P, and your criteria isn't
    "is it decidable", but can I determine the answer.

    yes, whether the particular input is DECIDABLE by the particular
    classifier returning the answer

    But DECIDABILITY isn't about the input.

    Your problem is you are just showing you don't know the language you are trying to talk.

    definist fallacy




    The problem is that "Decidablity" isn't really a property of a specific

    see, it's weird that you acknowledge earlier that it's that particular
    inputs that cause UNDECIDABLE returns for particular interfaces...

    but here u revert to this red herring of also being able to talk about
    undecidability in terms of whole problems as if that "refutes" anything

    I guess you don't understand logic and proofs.

    Since we can show that we can make an specific input for ANY decider,
    thaty it will get wrong, we can thus prove that there does not exist a decider that gets every input right.

    bare assertion: post proof of something the partial recognizer gets
    "wrong" in regards to it's interface.

    something u never do, u think u can just keep making vague arguments
    without actually constructing machines. well, i mean, it's a free
    country, and i guess u can keep trying that... but i certainly won't
    stand the test of time richard.


    I guess that property of Qualifiers, since it needs using real logic, is beyond you.

    That the decider gets a particular input wrong isn't about
    "Decidability" but about "Correctness". (But since correctness seems out
    of you understand, that is an understandable confusion).


    input, but of the problem as a whole. HALTING, as a problem, is
    undecidable, as we can create an input for ANY specific decider that
    it will get wrong.

    sorry, what will a partial recognizer get wrong?

    It is "Wrong" if it gives the wrong answer, and not right when it
    doesn't answer.

    random claims of "right" and "wrong" don't mean anything to me. what is
    the specific input it gets "wrong"??? and how is it wrong in regards to
    the interface i've specified?


    As I said, if you are admitting to just doing PARTIAL deciding, you
    really need to compare your results to what current theory can already do.




    in this case if we consider undP() from above ... deciderP(undP)
    would return FALSE because undP is UNDECIDABLE by deciderP(). but
    that doesnrCOt mean the program isnrCOt runnable. it certainly is, and >>>> when u do run it, it will have the functional behavior of
    machineP(). which may even halt, mind you,

    WHich isn't the definition of "Undeciable" as it isn't undeciable by
    a specific machine.

    definist fallacy: it doesn't matter if we can also use the term to
    describe problems ... we can also use it to describe the problem in
    regards to specific input, because it's always specific input that
    cause the problem for specific interfaces. as for any true classifier
    one can define a surely decidable result.

    In other words, you are just admitting to yourself using the definist fallacy, because you are ADMITTING to changing the definiton of the word
    to forward your goal.

    ... yes? words can have multiple meanings richard. i'm reusing the word because it fits: UNDECIDABLE inputs the underlying cause of UNDECIDABLE problems, the two are invariable linked and explaining this is mind
    numbingly boring

    why am i stuck on such a fking EfniEfiA





    ...thererCOs this weird notion floating around that because halting
    machines are certainly enumerable, therefore itrCOs not possible to
    create an undecidable halting machine. but thatrCOs not actually true, >>>> paradoxes are constructed in regards to *specific* interfaces
    (classes of functionally equivalent machines), not general ability.
    therefore, despite the fact we can enumerate out all halting
    machines, itrCOs still possible to construct a halting machine that is >>>> also a paradox in respect to some property classifier like
    deciderP(). anyways...

    Enumerable, but not effectively enumerable, or computationally
    enumerable.

    excuse me, halting machines are effectively enumerable

    Try to prove it.

    dovetailing algos are wildly accepted wtf are you talking about?


    Remember, to be effectively enumerable, you need to show that your
    procedure *WILL* enumerate all of them.


    and i don't like distinction. if there is no effective method to
    enumerate something, i don't like calling it enumer-able. i get that
    classic computing theory would disagree ... but i don't see the
    justification of calling something able-to-be-enumerate if there
    cannot be an effective procedure to enumerate it

    Then you have a problem with basic logic. The Axiom of Choice creates "enumerable" sets that are not effectively

    idk anything about that really. nor do i particular care about that
    within computing, which is about things we have effective methods for




    THe paradoxes are NOT constructed to an "interface", but to an
    instance, as programs don't use just an interface, but need to use an
    implementation of that interface to BE a program.

    i defined what i mean by interface here, please read correctly

    Right, and your definition of interface doesn't create PROGRAMS when used.

    You just don't understand how Programs/Algorithms are defined.



    If just defined to an interface, you don't yet have a program, just a
    template for a program. This seems to be one of you fundamental
    problems in understanding.

    paradoxes can be constructed in regards to interfaces rather that full
    problems, that's turing did in his original proof given that he was
    talking about an interface that can't even implemented

    Yes, we create a paradox by defining a template to create programs. But
    the template isn't the input, only the actual program created from it.

    And, reversing the program to its template is not computable in general.




    atm irCOd like to point out that undP(), despite being undecidable by >>>> deciderP() in regards to property P, is functionally equivalent to
    machineP() when run and therefore must have property P. and i hope
    you can now start to see how the paradox construction prevents the
    machine from being the simplest in its class of functionally
    equivalent machine. ultimately such a binary paradox is formed by
    having two branches which opposing semantic properties, selected
    specifically by the opposing return value of a classifier for to a
    particular property. the paradox machine will either run one of
    those branches (making it functionally equivalent to the branch that
    is run) or block on the classifier call (making it functionally
    equivalent to a basic infinite loop). therefore the paradox *cannot*
    be the simplest machine in its class of functionally equivalent
    machines.

    As I say, even if you claim is true, it doesn't help you decide on a
    given input. And since determining the "equivalence class" of a given
    machine is uncomputable, it isn't useful to you.


    why does this matter? because therefore there exists not only a
    turing complete subset of machines that has no paradoxical machines,
    but a minimal turing complete subset containing only the least
    complex form of any given function computation, that has no machine
    which might cause *any* classifier to be unable to classify it.

    But an uncomputable subset, and thus not a useful one.


    but can we decide on such a minimal turing complete subset? the gut
    reaction from 99.99% of you will be a hard no, also undecidable!! Efyn >>>> and continue to get all butthurt over the mere suggestion that
    turing was wrong about literally anything ever. but look, that
    undecidability is *just another form* of the same tired old semantic
    paradox that has been plaguing computing since turing wrote the
    first paper on computable numbers, and therefore *it also need not
    be included within a minimal turing complete subset.*

    Again, the problem is that working on a Turing Complete Subset
    doesn't answer the problem, especially when said subset isn't itself
    computable or effectifvely enumeratable.

    bro i get that u don't want to understand this because my god that
    amount of shit talk u'll have to take back is beyond my personal
    understanding since i haven't been shitposting about it for literally
    decades...

    but i'm building a proof against semantic paradoxes in general,
    *including the turing equivalence paradox*

    But, to assume you can do something you can't do just proves that you
    can't actually prove what you are trying to prove.

    trying to use the proof i'm undercutting as proof against my attempt to undercut it, is begging the question richard

    i know u'll never accept that and will take ur ignorance to the grave,

    so future readers do be advised:

    don't be a dick eh???

    #god





    we can form this subset by utilizing a partial non-functional-
    equivalence recognizer that focuses on computing when two machines
    do not compute the same function. such a classifier will have the
    interface:

    -a-a not_func_eq = (machineA, machineB) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machineA does NOT compute the same function as machineB >>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a AND such decision is DECIDABLE,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine A does compute the same function as machineB >>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a OR such decision is UNDECIDABLE,
    -a-a }


    Again, "Decidable" isn't the right word here, and deteremining that it

    definist fallacy: language is an evolving thing, and DECIDABLE/
    UNDECIDABLE input are what create undecidable problems in the first
    place, so i think the usage is *entirely* valid and u won't convince
    otherwise

    Nope, in fact it is the definist fallacy to change meaning in a formal system.

    i'm not "changing" the definition, i'm adding an addition definition for
    a concept is essentially the same thing from a different angle

    i'm allowed to do that, language isn't a set in stone kind of things. to
    make advances we will have to adjust the language we use to describe
    things. DUH


    I suppose part of your problem is you don't understand what a formal
    system is.

    i suppose u don't understand what language is



    is "undecidable" as you are trying to define it, isn't itself
    decidable, so you can't know to return false.

    bare assertion: so post example u lazy fuck

    In other words, you insist on proof that Russel's teapot doens't exist

    YES, I'M INSISTING ON THAT PROOF RICHARD

    the proofs for undecidability within computing all involve the classic
    decider interface ... great that's not a realizable interface. we all
    know that, i'm not rejecting that

    but like i've already explained in the post: that only contradicts a particular interface, it does not contradict *other* interfaces or
    "general ability"



    Thus, this function might not answer for some inputs, or might
    falsely define two machines as equivalent that are not, and thus you
    didn't compute a complete set.

    ur not gunna be able to paradox the paradox detection logic, that's
    the key that makes this work. why?

    But primarily because you can't "paradox" something that doesn't exixt.

    YES YOU CAN RICHARD, ALL THE PROOFS FOR UNDECIDABLE DEMONSTRATE A
    PARADOX FOR SOMETHING THAT IS THEN CLAIMED TO NOT EXIST...

    my fucking god, u are literally just walking up ur own asshole at this
    point eh???

    can u actually read the whole post before responding????


    You are effectively asking me to prove that Russel's Teapot can't exist.
    As the paper shows, the onus is on YOU to prove that you can do what you claim, not on me to show you can't.


    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can be
    one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a particular
    classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the law of
    excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for the halting problem, and based on a category error with the term DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong because
    not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like is 100% a
    definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking the
    syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the
    contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL implementation is to just return FALSE.

    no ur just willfully retarded




    as we then iterate across the full enumeration of turing machines,
    we can use not_func_eq() as a filter to create a minimal turing
    complete subset:

    But, since the output is an INFINITE set, it will never finish.

    please refer to turing's paper /on computable numbers/ for techniques
    on how to delineate "output" for non-terminating computations

    Which is a different class of computations from the Halting Problem.

    You can't just mix the two system.

    total nonsequitor



    i shouldn't have to say that, cause i already explained that once to you

    but as a ugly mf 70yo "chief engineer" u probably have the early
    stages dementia already


    Just shows how little you know.

    I think YOU are showing signs of early onset dementia, since you keep on trying to misuse words when a perfectly suitable one exists.

    no u




    -a-a () -> {
    -a-a-a-a min_tc_subset = []
    -a-a-a-a for (n = 0; true; n++) {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if (
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // test only runnable machines
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a runnable(n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // must test TRUE against all prior machines in the list >>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a && min_tc_subset.all(m -> not_func_eq(m,n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a min_tc_subset.push(n)
    -a-a-a-a }
    -a-a }






    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Sat Feb 7 22:16:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 7 14:25:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic?
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 15:52:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can be
    one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the
    law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for the
    halting problem, and based on a category error with the term DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong because
    not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking the
    syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the
    contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE for
    all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines it does
    return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    AND are DECIDABLE input

    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill this contract bro
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 22:49:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 4:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 9:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
    my proposal starts with the reminder that *no* machine computes a
    unique function. for every function that is computed, there is a
    whole (infinite) class of machines that are functionally equivalent >>>>> (same input -> same output behavior).

    Fine


    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is >>>>> the simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Something you would need to PROVE.

    And, something of not particular value since determining the
    equivalence class of a given machine is non-computable.


    why? the paradox structures do not actually contribute to the
    output (since deciders themselves do not create output for the
    rCLcallingrCY machine), they are just sort of junk computation that >>>>> selects a particular execution branch (or blocks entirely), a
    result which can exist without that paradox fluff being involved.

    Not really a proof, but a presumption.

    And remember, the "output" of the "paradoxical" machine includes its
    possible deciding to not halt.

    And again, it doesn't help you answer the actual question.


    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or !P
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machine!P()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property !P

    -a-a // undecidable by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine!P()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    huh, i guess i kinda get why this wasnrCOt really spotted before. as >>>>> far as i can tell, classical computing theory normally recognizes
    three kinds of classifiers:


    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface

    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P (always DECIDABLE)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P (block if UNDECIDABLE)

    Not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* Couldn't decide.

    yes, i'm aware that undecidability is *always* in respect to
    particular inputs for particular interfaces, as for any true
    classifier one can construct input that it can decide on

    No, "Undeciable" is an attribute of a PROBLEM, that says that any
    attemped full decider will always fail for some input. That input does
    not need to be the same for every decider.

    "Inputs" are not "DECIDABLE" as the domain of deciablity is PROBLEMS
    not INPUTS.

    Thus, you definition is just a categorical ERROR.

    definist fallacy


    Your "awareness" is just an error.




    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P
    -a-a-a-a (block if either UNDECIDABLE)

    Again, not "UNDECIDABLE", but *I* couldn't decide.

    yes that's what the return value means, the input was UNDECIDABLE in
    respect to the classifier being asked the question

    And if you could tell that you were going to be wrong, you could
    correct yourself and not be wrong in the first place.

    what??? what a bizarre claim lol, why do u think that?

    the ability to answer "correctly" is obviously independent of an ability
    to know you can't answer "correctly", one only needs to put urself in
    place of the classifier algo to understand that. if u can't do that, it might be an indication for a lacking ability to view things from
    multiple angles.



    Also, not iff, just if I was able to decide it had.

    lol, that is like the ONE useful comment in ur entire post here. i
    honestly went back and made that more precise for whereever i post
    this next. i guess that's worth digging thru ur endless gishgallop
    Efai EfyeEfo2Efai


    As, for a proper question, all inputs either have P or !P

    (Like all machines Halt or do not halt, there is no other possibility) >>>>

    ... so the paradoxes (involving either a classical recognizer or
    partial decider) always result in a blocking, non-returning program >>>>> making this thesis still valid, but less interesting/compelling.

    Right, PARTIAL halt deciders are know to be able to be made, so not
    even "less-interesting" but not interesting unless you can show that
    you can answer a comparative reasonable amount of answers.

    Just another method, without comparing to the existing, just isn't
    interesting at all.


    i have instead been working on the logical interface for
    alternative classifiers. one example are the context-aware
    classifiers irCOve been previously posting quite a bit on, but letrCOs >>>>> consider a less general classifier that might exist on TMs alone,
    what irCOm calling a partial recognizer:

    But the problem is that such things end up not being "Computation"
    and thus outside of the field.

    begging the ct-thesis again

    But the proof of it being non-computable isn't based on CT, but on the
    definition of a computation.

    where did that definition of computation you continually speak of come
    from and who formalized it?


    It seems you don't understand that abstraction, because you just don't
    understand what you are talking about.





    -a-a partial recognizer
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input has P AND is DECIDABLE
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input has !P OR is UNDECIDABLE

    Again, All inputs will either have P or !P, and your criteria isn't
    "is it decidable", but can I determine the answer.

    yes, whether the particular input is DECIDABLE by the particular
    classifier returning the answer

    But DECIDABILITY isn't about the input.

    Your problem is you are just showing you don't know the language you
    are trying to talk.

    definist fallacy


    No, you are just a fallacy fallacy that doesn't understand logic,

    Thus NOTHING you say is worth listening to.




    The problem is that "Decidablity" isn't really a property of a specific >>>
    see, it's weird that you acknowledge earlier that it's that
    particular inputs that cause UNDECIDABLE returns for particular
    interfaces...

    but here u revert to this red herring of also being able to talk
    about undecidability in terms of whole problems as if that "refutes"
    anything

    I guess you don't understand logic and proofs.

    Since we can show that we can make an specific input for ANY decider,
    thaty it will get wrong, we can thus prove that there does not exist a
    decider that gets every input right.

    bare assertion: post proof of something the partial recognizer gets
    "wrong" in regards to it's interface.

    Its interface is nonsense, as it misuses the word "Decidable".



    something u never do, u think u can just keep making vague arguments
    without actually constructing machines. well, i mean, it's a free
    country, and i guess u can keep trying that... but i certainly won't
    stand the test of time richard.

    Right, YOUR work will just die with you, as it is just worthless.



    I guess that property of Qualifiers, since it needs using real logic,
    is beyond you.

    That the decider gets a particular input wrong isn't about
    "Decidability" but about "Correctness". (But since correctness seems
    out of you understand, that is an understandable confusion).


    input, but of the problem as a whole. HALTING, as a problem, is
    undecidable, as we can create an input for ANY specific decider that
    it will get wrong.

    sorry, what will a partial recognizer get wrong?

    It is "Wrong" if it gives the wrong answer, and not right when it
    doesn't answer.

    random claims of "right" and "wrong" don't mean anything to me. what is
    the specific input it gets "wrong"??? and how is it wrong in regards to
    the interface i've specified?

    Since your definition is nonsense, as you misuse the term Decidable, you
    need to define an actual instance of your decider to show what you MEAN
    by your nonsense.

    Since "Halting" is undecidable, your interface, when applied to P being Halting, is trivially satisfied by always answering false.



    As I said, if you are admitting to just doing PARTIAL deciding, you
    really need to compare your results to what current theory can already
    do.




    in this case if we consider undP() from above ... deciderP(undP)
    would return FALSE because undP is UNDECIDABLE by deciderP(). but
    that doesnrCOt mean the program isnrCOt runnable. it certainly is, and >>>>> when u do run it, it will have the functional behavior of
    machineP(). which may even halt, mind you,

    WHich isn't the definition of "Undeciable" as it isn't undeciable by
    a specific machine.

    definist fallacy: it doesn't matter if we can also use the term to
    describe problems ... we can also use it to describe the problem in
    regards to specific input, because it's always specific input that
    cause the problem for specific interfaces. as for any true classifier
    one can define a surely decidable result.

    In other words, you are just admitting to yourself using the definist
    fallacy, because you are ADMITTING to changing the definiton of the
    word to forward your goal.

    ... yes? words can have multiple meanings richard. i'm reusing the word because it fits: UNDECIDABLE inputs the underlying cause of UNDECIDABLE problems, the two are invariable linked and explaining this is mind numbingly boring

    why am i stuck on such a fking EfniEfiA





    ...thererCOs this weird notion floating around that because halting >>>>> machines are certainly enumerable, therefore itrCOs not possible to >>>>> create an undecidable halting machine. but thatrCOs not actually
    true, paradoxes are constructed in regards to *specific* interfaces >>>>> (classes of functionally equivalent machines), not general ability. >>>>> therefore, despite the fact we can enumerate out all halting
    machines, itrCOs still possible to construct a halting machine that >>>>> is also a paradox in respect to some property classifier like
    deciderP(). anyways...

    Enumerable, but not effectively enumerable, or computationally
    enumerable.

    excuse me, halting machines are effectively enumerable

    Try to prove it.

    dovetailing algos are wildly accepted wtf are you talking about?


    Remember, to be effectively enumerable, you need to show that your
    procedure *WILL* enumerate all of them.


    and i don't like distinction. if there is no effective method to
    enumerate something, i don't like calling it enumer-able. i get that
    classic computing theory would disagree ... but i don't see the
    justification of calling something able-to-be-enumerate if there
    cannot be an effective procedure to enumerate it

    Then you have a problem with basic logic. The Axiom of Choice creates
    "enumerable" sets that are not effectively

    idk anything about that really. nor do i particular care about that
    within computing, which is about things we have effective methods for




    THe paradoxes are NOT constructed to an "interface", but to an
    instance, as programs don't use just an interface, but need to use
    an implementation of that interface to BE a program.

    i defined what i mean by interface here, please read correctly

    Right, and your definition of interface doesn't create PROGRAMS when
    used.

    You just don't understand how Programs/Algorithms are defined.



    If just defined to an interface, you don't yet have a program, just
    a template for a program. This seems to be one of you fundamental
    problems in understanding.

    paradoxes can be constructed in regards to interfaces rather that
    full problems, that's turing did in his original proof given that he
    was talking about an interface that can't even implemented

    Yes, we create a paradox by defining a template to create programs.
    But the template isn't the input, only the actual program created from
    it.

    And, reversing the program to its template is not computable in general.




    atm irCOd like to point out that undP(), despite being undecidable by >>>>> deciderP() in regards to property P, is functionally equivalent to
    machineP() when run and therefore must have property P. and i hope
    you can now start to see how the paradox construction prevents the
    machine from being the simplest in its class of functionally
    equivalent machine. ultimately such a binary paradox is formed by
    having two branches which opposing semantic properties, selected
    specifically by the opposing return value of a classifier for to a
    particular property. the paradox machine will either run one of
    those branches (making it functionally equivalent to the branch
    that is run) or block on the classifier call (making it
    functionally equivalent to a basic infinite loop). therefore the
    paradox *cannot* be the simplest machine in its class of
    functionally equivalent machines.

    As I say, even if you claim is true, it doesn't help you decide on a
    given input. And since determining the "equivalence class" of a
    given machine is uncomputable, it isn't useful to you.


    why does this matter? because therefore there exists not only a
    turing complete subset of machines that has no paradoxical
    machines, but a minimal turing complete subset containing only the
    least complex form of any given function computation, that has no
    machine which might cause *any* classifier to be unable to classify >>>>> it.

    But an uncomputable subset, and thus not a useful one.


    but can we decide on such a minimal turing complete subset? the gut >>>>> reaction from 99.99% of you will be a hard no, also undecidable!!
    Efyn and continue to get all butthurt over the mere suggestion that >>>>> turing was wrong about literally anything ever. but look, that
    undecidability is *just another form* of the same tired old
    semantic paradox that has been plaguing computing since turing
    wrote the first paper on computable numbers, and therefore *it also >>>>> need not be included within a minimal turing complete subset.*

    Again, the problem is that working on a Turing Complete Subset
    doesn't answer the problem, especially when said subset isn't itself
    computable or effectifvely enumeratable.

    bro i get that u don't want to understand this because my god that
    amount of shit talk u'll have to take back is beyond my personal
    understanding since i haven't been shitposting about it for literally
    decades...

    but i'm building a proof against semantic paradoxes in general,
    *including the turing equivalence paradox*

    But, to assume you can do something you can't do just proves that you
    can't actually prove what you are trying to prove.

    trying to use the proof i'm undercutting as proof against my attempt to undercut it, is begging the question richard

    i know u'll never accept that and will take ur ignorance to the grave,

    so future readers do be advised:

    don't be a dick eh???

    #god





    we can form this subset by utilizing a partial non-functional-
    equivalence recognizer that focuses on computing when two machines
    do not compute the same function. such a classifier will have the
    interface:

    -a-a not_func_eq = (machineA, machineB) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machineA does NOT compute the same function as machineB >>>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a AND such decision is DECIDABLE,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine A does compute the same function as machineB >>>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a OR such decision is UNDECIDABLE,
    -a-a }


    Again, "Decidable" isn't the right word here, and deteremining that it

    definist fallacy: language is an evolving thing, and DECIDABLE/
    UNDECIDABLE input are what create undecidable problems in the first
    place, so i think the usage is *entirely* valid and u won't convince
    otherwise

    Nope, in fact it is the definist fallacy to change meaning in a formal
    system.

    i'm not "changing" the definition, i'm adding an addition definition for
    a concept is essentially the same thing from a different angle

    i'm allowed to do that, language isn't a set in stone kind of things. to make advances we will have to adjust the language we use to describe
    things. DUH


    I suppose part of your problem is you don't understand what a formal
    system is.

    i suppose u don't understand what language is



    is "undecidable" as you are trying to define it, isn't itself
    decidable, so you can't know to return false.

    bare assertion: so post example u lazy fuck

    In other words, you insist on proof that Russel's teapot doens't exist

    YES, I'M INSISTING ON THAT PROOF RICHARD

    the proofs for undecidability within computing all involve the classic decider interface ... great that's not a realizable interface. we all
    know that, i'm not rejecting that

    but like i've already explained in the post: that only contradicts a particular interface, it does not contradict *other* interfaces or
    "general ability"



    Thus, this function might not answer for some inputs, or might
    falsely define two machines as equivalent that are not, and thus you
    didn't compute a complete set.

    ur not gunna be able to paradox the paradox detection logic, that's
    the key that makes this work. why?

    But primarily because you can't "paradox" something that doesn't exixt.

    YES YOU CAN RICHARD, ALL THE PROOFS FOR UNDECIDABLE DEMONSTRATE A
    PARADOX FOR SOMETHING THAT IS THEN CLAIMED TO NOT EXIST...

    my fucking god, u are literally just walking up ur own asshole at this
    point eh???

    can u actually read the whole post before responding????


    You are effectively asking me to prove that Russel's Teapot can't
    exist. As the paper shows, the onus is on YOU to prove that you can do
    what you claim, not on me to show you can't.


    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can be
    one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the
    law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for the
    halting problem, and based on a category error with the term DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong because
    not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking the
    syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the
    contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    no ur just willfully retarded




    as we then iterate across the full enumeration of turing machines,
    we can use not_func_eq() as a filter to create a minimal turing
    complete subset:

    But, since the output is an INFINITE set, it will never finish.

    please refer to turing's paper /on computable numbers/ for techniques
    on how to delineate "output" for non-terminating computations

    Which is a different class of computations from the Halting Problem.

    You can't just mix the two system.

    total nonsequitor



    i shouldn't have to say that, cause i already explained that once to you >>>
    but as a ugly mf 70yo "chief engineer" u probably have the early
    stages dementia already


    Just shows how little you know.

    I think YOU are showing signs of early onset dementia, since you keep
    on trying to misuse words when a perfectly suitable one exists.

    no u




    -a-a () -> {
    -a-a-a-a min_tc_subset = []
    -a-a-a-a for (n = 0; true; n++) {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if (
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // test only runnable machines
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a runnable(n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a // must test TRUE against all prior machines in the list >>>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a && min_tc_subset.all(m -> not_func_eq(m,n)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a min_tc_subset.push(n)
    -a-a-a-a }
    -a-a }








    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 22:49:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can be
    one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the
    law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for
    the halting problem, and based on a category error with the term
    DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong
    because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like is
    100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking the
    syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the
    contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE for
    all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines it does
    return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose answer
    turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting, such input
    can not be detected as such, as determining that actually decides them
    (since the only unknowable inputs are non-halting).


    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill this contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE is
    also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded critera, as
    its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus is "UNDECIADBLE"
    for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 7 20:39:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can
    be one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the
    law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for
    the halting problem, and based on a category error with the term
    DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong
    because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like is
    100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking the
    syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the
    contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE for
    all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines it does
    return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a-a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    DEFINIST FALLACY


    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    a "decidable problem" is just one where all inputs are DECIDABLE.

    yes, that is an additional way to use the word, but because
    "un/decidable inputs" and "un/decidable problem" are intimately related
    i see fit to use them that way. u can disagree with my word choice, but calling me wrong over my word choice is a classic DEFINIST FALLACY. that
    you must be really comfortable with using.


    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose answer
    turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting, such input
    can not be detected as such, as determining that actually decides them (since the only unknowable inputs are non-halting).

    unfortunately this is a mistaken understanding of the nature of
    decidability. an input can be decidable to one classifier while being undecidable to another classifer.

    one CAN create a halting machine that is still an UNDECIDABLE input in
    regards to some other semantic property P, i sketched out such a program several times now.

    here's another in regards to whether an input machine executes an add operation or not:

    adds = (machine) -> {
    TRUE if machine performs an add computation
    AND machine is a DECIDABLE input,
    FALSE if machine does not perform an add computation
    OR machine is an UNDECIDABLE input,
    }

    und_add = () -> {
    if ( adds(und_add) == FALSE)
    print 1+1
    else
    print 0
    }

    adds(und_add)->FALSE, because und_add is not a DECIDABLE input to
    adds(), so therefore adds cannot return the truth that it does execute
    an integer add operation. however, this is quite clearly a halting
    function, and halts() is entirely able to return: halts(und_add)->TRUE



    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill this
    contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    it's pretty mind blowing you u think just willfully ignoring my
    specification and call it a refutation


    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE is
    also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded critera, as
    its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus is "UNDECIADBLE"
    for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Sun Feb 8 05:23:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic?


    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be simplified,
    and that too, etc... until it has a negative number of q-states, an
    arbitrarily large negative number.

    That contradicts the definition of a machine which is that it has a
    graph over the q-states requiring at least a non-negative number of
    q-states.

    each machine in the set of paradoxical machines is paradoxical in /that/
    way in addition to whichever way you intended, so there are none in it.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 8 04:49:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the >>>> simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic?


    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed class,
    the simplest machine will not be paradoxical
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 00:48:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so?

    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks
    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or !P
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machine!P() - machine that has property !P

    // undecidable by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machine!P()
    else
    machineP()
    }

    This does not help. For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about
    und37t?

    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic
    paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does undP;
    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied. But you
    haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 8 20:05:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so?

    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then
    return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've
    tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which
    includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic
    paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does undP;

    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input undP) or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that i've specified thus far:

    classical decider:
    TRUE iff input is P
    FALSE iff input is NP
    (always DECIDABLE input)
    impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    classical recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    partial decider:
    TRUE if input is P
    FALSE if input is NP
    (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    partial recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied. But you haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Mon Feb 9 07:51:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 11:39 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can >>>>>> be one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the >>>>>> law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for
    the halting problem, and based on a category error with the term
    DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong
    because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like
    is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking the
    syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right" >>>>
    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the
    contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE for
    all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines it does
    return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a-a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    DEFINIST FALLACY


    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    a "decidable problem" is just one where all inputs are DECIDABLE.

    yes, that is an additional way to use the word, but because "un/
    decidable inputs" and "un/decidable problem" are intimately related i
    see fit to use them that way. u can disagree with my word choice, but calling me wrong over my word choice is a classic DEFINIST FALLACY. that
    you must be really comfortable with using.


    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose answer
    turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting, such input
    can not be detected as such, as determining that actually decides them
    (since the only unknowable inputs are non-halting).

    unfortunately this is a mistaken understanding of the nature of decidability. an input can be decidable to one classifier while being undecidable to another classifer.

    one CAN create a halting machine that is still an UNDECIDABLE input in regards to some other semantic property P, i sketched out such a program several times now.

    here's another in regards to whether an input machine executes an add operation or not:

    -a adds = (machine) -> {
    -a-a-a TRUE if machine performs an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a AND machine is a DECIDABLE input,
    -a-a-a FALSE if machine does not perform an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a OR machine is an UNDECIDABLE input,
    -a }

    -a und_add = () -> {
    -a-a-a if ( adds(und_add) == FALSE)
    -a-a-a-a-a print 1+1
    -a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a print 0
    -a }

    adds(und_add)->FALSE, because und_add is not a DECIDABLE input to
    adds(), so therefore adds cannot return the truth that it does execute
    an integer add operation. however, this is quite clearly a halting
    function, and halts() is entirely able to return: halts(und_add)->TRUE



    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill
    this contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    it's pretty mind blowing you u think just willfully ignoring my specification and call it a refutation


    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE is
    also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the
    base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded
    critera, as its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus is
    "UNDECIADBLE" for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Mon Feb 9 07:51:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/7/26 11:39 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to
    whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the
    perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can >>>>>> be one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate the >>>>>> law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for
    the halting problem, and based on a category error with the term
    DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong
    because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like
    is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking the
    syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right" >>>>
    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the
    contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE for
    all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines it does
    return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a-a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    DEFINIST FALLACY


    Yes, exactly, BY YOU.

    Changing the definition to try to make you point is just a fallacy.

    But perhaps, that logic is beyond you,\.


    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    a "decidable problem" is just one where all inputs are DECIDABLE.

    Nope. There is no requirement that an undeciable problem must have an
    instance that can not be decided, and in fact, such a case is
    impossible, as for any input where we know the answer, you can always
    make a partial decider that gets the right answer for it, but just
    comparing the input to that case and returning the know answer.


    yes, that is an additional way to use the word, but because "un/
    decidable inputs" and "un/decidable problem" are intimately related i
    see fit to use them that way. u can disagree with my word choice, but calling me wrong over my word choice is a classic DEFINIST FALLACY. that
    you must be really comfortable with using.


    No, it is an INCORRECT way to use the word, making it just a definist
    fallacy.

    It assumes properties that are not.


    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose answer
    turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting, such input
    can not be detected as such, as determining that actually decides them
    (since the only unknowable inputs are non-halting).

    unfortunately this is a mistaken understanding of the nature of decidability. an input can be decidable to one classifier while being undecidable to another classifer.

    Which makes it no longer a property of the input, and thus not something
    that CAN be computable from the input.


    one CAN create a halting machine that is still an UNDECIDABLE input in regards to some other semantic property P, i sketched out such a program several times now.

    No, you sketched out frameworks based on computing uncomputable properties.


    here's another in regards to whether an input machine executes an add operation or not:

    -a adds = (machine) -> {
    -a-a-a TRUE if machine performs an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a AND machine is a DECIDABLE input,
    -a-a-a FALSE if machine does not perform an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a OR machine is an UNDECIDABLE input,
    -a }

    -a und_add = () -> {
    -a-a-a if ( adds(und_add) == FALSE)
    -a-a-a-a-a print 1+1
    -a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a print 0
    -a }




    adds(und_add)->FALSE, because und_add is not a DECIDABLE input to
    adds(), so therefore adds cannot return the truth that it does execute
    an integer add operation. however, this is quite clearly a halting
    function, and halts() is entirely able to return: halts(und_add)->TRUE

    THe problem is that und_add isn't a program, as it calls a non-function
    adds, that isn't a program because it doesn't define HOW it gets its answer.

    EVERY actual implementation of adds taht does meet your specification
    (and thus returns an answer) creates an und_add() that has a definite
    value of what your "adds" property claims to compute, and thus, the
    input itself isn't "undecidable", just incorrectly decided by that adds.

    If that is your definition of "Undecidable" the always returning false
    is a trivial correct solution, as either the input DOES NOT have that property, and thus false is the correct answer, or the input DOES have
    that property, and thus this decider will be wrong by the base
    definition of the property, and thus correct because it was
    "Undecidable" to it.




    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill
    this contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    it's pretty mind blowing you u think just willfully ignoring my specification and call it a refutation

    But the problem is your specification is based on lying about what a
    word means, and using two different meanings for it.

    When we fix the meaning to just a single meaning, either the
    specificaiton is meaningless, or it becomes trivial.

    Your problem is you don't understand that "program" include ALL their algorith, and thus are built on INSTANCES of your interface, not just generically on the interface.



    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE is
    also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the
    base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded
    critera, as its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus is
    "UNDECIADBLE" for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?



    Note this question. Until you answer it, without using duplicity, you
    are just admitting you are basing you "logic" on illogic.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 07:51:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/8/26 7:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is >>>>> the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic?


    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed class,
    the simplest machine will not be paradoxical


    But you can't actually prove it.

    Part of the issue is you are looking at only a simple subset of
    "paradoxical" machines, that can be reduced to trival machines
    themselves, since they take no input.

    If we define your decider H to take a descirption of the program, and
    its input, then the paradoxical program becomes:


    D(i) ->
    IF (H(D,i) says Halts) Loop forever
    ELSE Return

    then D(D) becomes a paradoxical calculation, but, since the behavior of
    the madchine D is fully defined by what H does, there is no reason to
    beleive that this machine can be simplified to something simpler than H, unless H is itself not in its simplest form.

    Once your input can't be reduced to a triviality, your logic goes away.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 07:51:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/8/26 11:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so?

    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one?-a Can
    you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    But it assumes you CAN define your deciderP

    You give an EXAMPLE, but not a DEFINITION.

    Probably because you don't understand what a definition is.


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical about
    und37t?

    considering:

    -a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then
    return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which
    includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic
    paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does undP;

    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input undP) or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    And, as been pointed out, "Partial Decider" solutions are know to exist,
    so you don't add anything except complexity.


    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that i've specified thus far:

    -a classical decider:
    -a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Which is just based on a BAD definition, as "inputs" don't have a
    "DECIDABLE" property.

    It seems you don't even understand what a "property" of an input is.


    -a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    -a partial decider:
    -a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied.-a But you
    haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Mon Feb 9 16:57:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 07/02/2026 18:43, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 10:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of
    the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but violates
    the principle of the excluded middle.

    When we extend formal systems to include formalized
    natural language we often encounter expressions that
    are not truth apt.

    Conventional logic and math have been paralyzed for
    many decades by trying to force-fit semantically
    ill-formed expressions into the box of True or False.

    Logic is not paralyzed. Separating semantics from inference rules
    ensures that semantic problems don't affect the study of proofs
    and provability.
    --
    Mikko
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math on Mon Feb 9 09:36:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/2026 8:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 18:43, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 10:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of
    the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but
    violates the principle of the excluded middle.

    When we extend formal systems to include formalized
    natural language we often encounter expressions that
    are not truth apt.

    Conventional logic and math have been paralyzed for
    many decades by trying to force-fit semantically
    ill-formed expressions into the box of True or False.

    Logic is not paralyzed. Separating semantics from inference rules
    ensures that semantic problems don't affect the study of proofs
    and provability.


    Then you end up with screwy stuff such as the psychotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott<br><br>

    My 28 year goal has been to make <br>
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"<br>
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.<br><br>

    This required establishing a new foundation<br>
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 01:37:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so?
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?

    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't
    define it.

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about
    und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to
    define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem

    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines
    that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical machines".
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 18:23:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the >>>> simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so?
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?

    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask

    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a "definition". but i
    guess, if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on
    usenet?

    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's theorum.
    we can stick with that for now


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than >>> 37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about
    und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity
    classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37 >> execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the >> permutations there.

    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to
    define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which includes >> the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem

    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines
    that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty
    fucking nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't
    decide on all the machines. the state of computing is honestly in
    fucking shambles and having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    anyways, i specified other examples of classifiers which can exist in
    place of deciderP(), which u then didn't respond to, and even deleted
    from your quoted reply,

    so i'll have to assume ur just bent on pulling a strawman cause ur
    incapable of responding at any further depth
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 18:27:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 11:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the >>>> simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so?

    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I don't want >>> to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one?-a Can
    you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    But it assumes you CAN define your deciderP

    You give an EXAMPLE, but not a DEFINITION.

    Probably because you don't understand what a definition is.


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than >>> 37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical about
    und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then
    return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say
    i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which
    includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic
    paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does undP;

    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input undP)
    or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    And, as been pointed out, "Partial Decider" solutions are know to exist,
    so you don't add anything except complexity.


    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that i've
    specified thus far:

    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Which is just based on a BAD definition, as "inputs" don't have a "DECIDABLE" property.

    It seems you don't even understand what a "property" of an input is.

    richard: please explain why a definist fallacy is a fallacy



    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a-a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied.-a But you >>> haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.



    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 18:59:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 7:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine
    is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic?


    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed class,
    the simplest machine will not be paradoxical


    But you can't actually prove it.

    Part of the issue is you are looking at only a simple subset of "paradoxical" machines, that can be reduced to trival machines
    themselves, since they take no input.

    If we define your decider H to take a descirption of the program, and
    its input, then the paradoxical program becomes:


    D(i) ->
    -a IF (H(D,i) says Halts) Loop forever
    -a ELSE Return

    then D(D) becomes a paradoxical calculation, but, since the behavior of
    the madchine D is fully defined by what H does, there is no reason to beleive that this machine can be simplified to something simpler than H, unless H is itself not in its simplest form.

    D(D) doesn't actually exist if H(D,i) is a decider. it doesn't need to
    be filtered out.

    if H(D,i) is a partial recognizer it will return FALSE causing D(D) to
    Return, making it equivalent to Return.

    i'm not sure yet what to do about D(i), but technically the set of computations that take no input is equivalent in completeness to the set
    of the computations that take input. if we can filter them out of the
    no-input computation, then we ought to be able to filter out
    computations that take input to


    Once your input can't be reduced to a triviality, your logic goes away.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 22:47:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 9:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 11:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is >>>>> the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so?

    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I don't want >>>> to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one?-a Can >>>> you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to being >>>> clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    But it assumes you CAN define your deciderP

    You give an EXAMPLE, but not a DEFINITION.

    Probably because you don't understand what a definition is.


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more
    than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical about >>>> und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then
    return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say
    i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which
    includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic
    paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does undP;

    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input undP)
    or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    And, as been pointed out, "Partial Decider" solutions are know to
    exist, so you don't add anything except complexity.


    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that i've
    specified thus far:

    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Which is just based on a BAD definition, as "inputs" don't have a
    "DECIDABLE" property.

    It seems you don't even understand what a "property" of an input is.

    richard: please explain why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    The "definist fallacy" is REDEFINING a definition to make your arguement.

    Note, you don't "Redefine" a definition when you use the ACTUAL definition.

    YOU are the one trying to change the definition, so the one using the falacious logic.

    Part of your problem is you don't know what the words you use actually
    mean, so you "redefine" them, making you arguemet fallacious.

    For instance, your "Property" you try to call "Deciable" below, isn't
    actually a property of the input, as even as you describe, it depends on
    the decider it is given to.

    Thus it is only a property of the pair (input, decider) or a kind of "subjective" property. When we what to know a property of something, we
    want it to be an OBJECTIVE property, so we know how WE would see it if
    we processed it. We don't care about what some random decider sees as a subjective property.

    If you want to try to build a field that uses such subjective
    properties, go ahead, but you will need to show that it is good for
    actually doing something. And that is going to be a tough task.




    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a-a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied.-a But you >>>> haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.






    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math on Mon Feb 9 22:47:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 10:36 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/9/2026 8:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 18:43, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 10:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of >>>>>> the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but
    violates the principle of the excluded middle.

    When we extend formal systems to include formalized
    natural language we often encounter expressions that
    are not truth apt.

    Conventional logic and math have been paralyzed for
    many decades by trying to force-fit semantically
    ill-formed expressions into the box of True or False.

    Logic is not paralyzed. Separating semantics from inference rules
    ensures that semantic problems don't affect the study of proofs
    and provability.


    Then you end up with screwy stuff such as the psychotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion


    And what is wrong with that?

    It means if you allow one contradiction into your system as being a
    truth, you get a lot of them.

    I think your problem is you just don't understand what it actually
    means, because you just don't understand how logic works, because you naturally think contridictions are just normal things since you don't understand what truth is.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 22:47:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 9:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 7:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine >>>>>>> is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic?


    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be
    simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed
    class, the simplest machine will not be paradoxical


    But you can't actually prove it.

    Part of the issue is you are looking at only a simple subset of
    "paradoxical" machines, that can be reduced to trival machines
    themselves, since they take no input.

    If we define your decider H to take a descirption of the program, and
    its input, then the paradoxical program becomes:


    D(i) ->
    -a-a IF (H(D,i) says Halts) Loop forever
    -a-a ELSE Return

    then D(D) becomes a paradoxical calculation, but, since the behavior
    of the madchine D is fully defined by what H does, there is no reason
    to beleive that this machine can be simplified to something simpler
    than H, unless H is itself not in its simplest form.

    D(D) doesn't actually exist if H(D,i) is a decider. it doesn't need to
    be filtered out.

    ??? How can D(D) not exist?

    I showed how to build D if your H exists.

    And of course, if D exists, you can represent it to D too.


    if H(D,i) is a partial recognizer it will return FALSE causing D(D) to Return, making it equivalent to Return.

    So, H(D,D) returned the wrong answer, as D(D) halts, and does so in a
    way that is clearly provable, and thus deciable.


    i'm not sure yet what to do about D(i), but technically the set of computations that take no input is equivalent in completeness to the set
    of the computations that take input. if we can filter them out of the no-input computation, then we ought to be able to filter out
    computations that take input to

    Which just shows your confusion. While every program / input pair has a no-input algorith that gives the same answer, they are NOT "equivalent"
    sets of machines.

    Computations, by DEFINITION, are the application of an algorithm to an
    input. And you system that tries to define only working with no-input
    machines is by definition working on a trivialized set.

    Remember, the whole concept of these things is attempting to compute
    mappings, and you "no-input" machines can only compute a trivial mapping
    to a single constant.



    Once your input can't be reduced to a triviality, your logic goes away.



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 21:06:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 11:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine
    is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so?

    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks >>>>
    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I don't >>>>> want
    to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one?-a Can >>>>> you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to being >>>>> clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    But it assumes you CAN define your deciderP

    You give an EXAMPLE, but not a DEFINITION.

    Probably because you don't understand what a definition is.


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more >>>>> than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical about >>>>> und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then
    return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say
    i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which
    includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic
    paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does undP; >>>>
    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input undP)
    or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    And, as been pointed out, "Partial Decider" solutions are know to
    exist, so you don't add anything except complexity.


    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that
    i've specified thus far:

    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Which is just based on a BAD definition, as "inputs" don't have a
    "DECIDABLE" property.

    It seems you don't even understand what a "property" of an input is.

    richard: please explain why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    The "definist fallacy" is REDEFINING a definition to make your arguement.

    i'm using UN/DECIDABLE to describe a concept that was not yet defined,
    so i'm expanding on the definition of the word in an explicit manner


    Note, you don't "Redefine" a definition when you use the ACTUAL definition.

    YOU are the one trying to change the definition, so the one using the falacious logic.

    see this doesn't actually get at why a fallacy is a fallacy and is a superficial take on why a fallacy is a fallacy, much like the rest of ur
    takes


    Part of your problem is you don't know what the words you use actually
    mean, so you "redefine" them, making you arguemet fallacious.

    i can use words in novel ways, that's fine. that does not make my
    argument a fallacy. i'm not redefining terms for convenience of the
    argument, i'm extending the definition of the term to describe something
    that does not already have a definition ... so i picked a word that is *heavily* intertwined with what i'm trying to describe

    the reason your committing a fallacy is because ur attacking *how* i'm
    saying not *what* i'm saying. ur taking my argument and trying to inject
    the "proper" definition to call it wrong ...

    when that doesn't actually address my argument


    For instance, your "Property" you try to call "Deciable" below, isn't actually a property of the input, as even as you describe, it depends on
    the decider it is given to.

    it's a property of the input in respect to the classifier it paradoxes,
    yes ... but that's still a property of the input *based on it's
    objective construction*

    (for it were constructed differently, like without any classifier calls,
    that property of being undecidable disappears)

    and the classifier only considers decidability in respect to it's own execution, ofc


    Thus it is only a property of the pair (input, decider) or a kind of "subjective" property. When we what to know a property of something, we
    want it to be an OBJECTIVE property, so we know how WE would see it if
    we processed it. We don't care about what some random decider sees as a subjective property.

    it's objectively subjective Efn+ deal with it


    If you want to try to build a field that uses such subjective

    this is still just TM computing, i'm not even extending TMs with this argument. the fundamentals of computability just hasn't been fleshed out
    all that well

    properties, go ahead, but you will need to show that it is good for
    actually doing something. And that is going to be a tough task.




    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a-a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied.-a But >>>>> you
    haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.






    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 9 22:01:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 7:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine >>>>>>>> is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic?


    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be
    simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed
    class, the simplest machine will not be paradoxical


    But you can't actually prove it.

    Part of the issue is you are looking at only a simple subset of
    "paradoxical" machines, that can be reduced to trival machines
    themselves, since they take no input.

    If we define your decider H to take a descirption of the program, and
    its input, then the paradoxical program becomes:


    D(i) ->
    -a-a IF (H(D,i) says Halts) Loop forever
    -a-a ELSE Return

    then D(D) becomes a paradoxical calculation, but, since the behavior
    of the madchine D is fully defined by what H does, there is no reason
    to beleive that this machine can be simplified to something simpler
    than H, unless H is itself not in its simplest form.

    D(D) doesn't actually exist if H(D,i) is a decider. it doesn't need to
    be filtered out.

    ??? How can D(D) not exist?

    cause H(D,i) as a classical decider does not exist, as that is not an implementable interface


    I showed how to build D if your H exists.

    And of course, if D exists, you can represent it to D too.


    if H(D,i) is a partial recognizer it will return FALSE causing D(D) to
    Return, making it equivalent to Return.

    So, H(D,D) returned the wrong answer, as D(D) halts, and does so in a
    way that is clearly provable, and thus deciable.

    yes richard, the fact one particular partial recognizer can't classify a machine does not stop other partial recognizers from classifying the
    machine.

    undecidability proofs are only against a particular interface, not
    general ability...

    and none of them stop us from generally proving an outcome because
    machines can't reference our output to contradict it



    i'm not sure yet what to do about D(i), but technically the set of
    computations that take no input is equivalent in completeness to the
    set of the computations that take input. if we can filter them out of
    the no-input computation, then we ought to be able to filter out
    computations that take input to

    Which just shows your confusion. While every program / input pair has a no-input algorith that gives the same answer, they are NOT "equivalent"
    sets of machines.

    Computations, by DEFINITION, are the application of an algorithm to an

    what are machines that have no input then??? not computations???

    input. And you system that tries to define only working with no-input machines is by definition working on a trivialized set.

    Remember, the whole concept of these things is attempting to compute mappings, and you "no-input" machines can only compute a trivial mapping
    to a single constant.

    but except every singe possible computational output exists in no-input
    subset of machine




    Once your input can't be reduced to a triviality, your logic goes away.



    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Mon Feb 9 22:13:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 11:39 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to >>>>>>> whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the >>>>>>> perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input can >>>>>>> be one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate
    the law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider for >>>>>> the halting problem, and based on a category error with the term
    DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong
    because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like
    is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking
    the syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this right" >>>>>
    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating the >>>>> contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE
    for all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines it
    does return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a-a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    DEFINIST FALLACY


    Yes, exactly, BY YOU.

    Changing the definition to try to make you point is just a fallacy.

    i'm reusing the word to describe a slightly different, but highly
    dependent concept. please attack the semantics of the *concept* itself,
    not the particular syntax i used to describe it.

    wish u know why a definist fallacy is a fallacy


    But perhaps, that logic is beyond you,\.


    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    a "decidable problem" is just one where all inputs are DECIDABLE.

    Nope. There is no requirement that an undeciable problem must have an instance that can not be decided, and in fact, such a case is

    if an undecidable problem does not have an undecidable input at some
    point ... then how is the problem undecidable???

    honestly richard u really are walking up ur own asshole at this point

    impossible, as for any input where we know the answer, you can always
    make a partial decider that gets the right answer for it, but just
    comparing the input to that case and returning the know answer.


    yes, that is an additional way to use the word, but because "un/
    decidable inputs" and "un/decidable problem" are intimately related i
    see fit to use them that way. u can disagree with my word choice, but
    calling me wrong over my word choice is a classic DEFINIST FALLACY.
    that you must be really comfortable with using.


    No, it is an INCORRECT way to use the word, making it just a definist fallacy.

    It assumes properties that are not.


    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose answer
    turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting, such input
    can not be detected as such, as determining that actually decides
    them (since the only unknowable inputs are non-halting).

    unfortunately this is a mistaken understanding of the nature of
    decidability. an input can be decidable to one classifier while being
    undecidable to another classifer.

    Which makes it no longer a property of the input, and thus not something that CAN be computable from the input.


    one CAN create a halting machine that is still an UNDECIDABLE input in
    regards to some other semantic property P, i sketched out such a
    program several times now.

    No, you sketched out frameworks based on computing uncomputable properties.


    here's another in regards to whether an input machine executes an add
    operation or not:

    -a-a adds = (machine) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machine performs an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a AND machine is a DECIDABLE input,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine does not perform an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a OR machine is an UNDECIDABLE input,
    -a-a }

    -a-a und_add = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( adds(und_add) == FALSE)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 1+1
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 0
    -a-a }




    adds(und_add)->FALSE, because und_add is not a DECIDABLE input to
    adds(), so therefore adds cannot return the truth that it does execute
    an integer add operation. however, this is quite clearly a halting
    function, and halts() is entirely able to return: halts(und_add)->TRUE

    THe problem is that und_add isn't a program, as it calls a non-function adds, that isn't a program because it doesn't define HOW it gets its
    answer.

    my fucking god can u be less of a pissant?


    EVERY actual implementation of adds taht does meet your specification
    (and thus returns an answer) creates an und_add() that has a definite
    value of what your "adds" property claims to compute, and thus, the
    input itself isn't "undecidable", just incorrectly decided by that adds.

    it's not "incorrect" classification, as FALSE does not indicate a
    specific classification

    it's just not classified. it's a failure to classify, because the input
    is UNDECIDABLE in regards to adds


    If that is your definition of "Undecidable" the always returning false

    i have already explain why that's not a solution to a partial recognizer multiple times already u dope

    is a trivial correct solution, as either the input DOES NOT have that property, and thus false is the correct answer, or the input DOES have
    that property, and thus this decider will be wrong by the base
    definition of the property, and thus correct because it was
    "Undecidable" to it.




    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill
    this contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    it's pretty mind blowing you u think just willfully ignoring my
    specification and call it a refutation

    But the problem is your specification is based on lying about what a
    word means, and using two different meanings for it.

    TRYING TO USE A RELATED WORD TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING THAT HAS *NO CURRENT DEFINITION* IS NOT LYING YOU MOTHERFUCKING DELUSIONAL TWAT

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS FUCKING SPECIES MY FUCKING GOD WHY ARE YOU ALL SO
    GOD DAMN FORSAKENLY RETARDED???


    When we fix the meaning to just a single meaning, either the
    specificaiton is meaningless, or it becomes trivial.

    Your problem is you don't understand that "program" include ALL their algorith, and thus are built on INSTANCES of your interface, not just generically on the interface.



    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE is
    also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the
    base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded
    critera, as its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus is
    "UNDECIADBLE" for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?


    Note this question. Until you answer it, without using duplicity, you
    are just admitting you are basing you "logic" on illogic.

    IF IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE PARTIAL RECOGNIZER TO RETURN THE CORRECT CLASSIFICATION, IT *MUST* DO SO

    adds( (x) -> x+x ) returning FALSE is *NOT* correct as per the
    specification *i* defined

    HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I NEED TO REPEAT THIS BEFORE IT GETS THRU UR MASSIVELY THICK SKULL?????
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math on Tue Feb 10 11:06:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 09/02/2026 17:36, olcott wrote:
    On 2/9/2026 8:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 18:43, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 10:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain of >>>>>> the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live.


    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but
    violates the principle of the excluded middle.

    When we extend formal systems to include formalized
    natural language we often encounter expressions that
    are not truth apt.

    Conventional logic and math have been paralyzed for
    many decades by trying to force-fit semantically
    ill-formed expressions into the box of True or False.

    Logic is not paralyzed. Separating semantics from inference rules
    ensures that semantic problems don't affect the study of proofs
    and provability.

    Then you end up with screwy stuff such as the psychotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

    That you call it psychotic does not make it less useful. Often an
    indirect proof is simpler than a direct one, and therefore more
    convincing. But without the priciple of explosion it might be
    harder or even impossible to find one, depending on what there is
    instead.
    --
    Mikko
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 12:38:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

    [ .... ]

    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines
    that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical
    machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty
    fucking nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't
    decide on all the machines. the state of computing is honestly in
    fucking shambles and having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    anyways, i specified other examples of classifiers which can exist in
    place of deciderP(), which u then didn't respond to, and even deleted
    from your quoted reply,

    so i'll have to assume ur just bent on pulling a strawman cause ur
    incapable of responding at any further depth

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff to
    students over several decades. He'll have encountered arguments such as
    yours many times. It seems he was trying to bring you to a firm base for further discussion. "Paradoxical machine" is not a standard term of the
    art, so it seems only fair to ask you to define exactly what you mean.

    As for "further depth", Ben could easily lead you to material you would
    not follow. Me neither.

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic,sci.math,comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 05:21:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 02/10/2026 01:06 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/02/2026 17:36, olcott wrote:
    On 2/9/2026 8:57 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 18:43, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 10:33 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 10:07 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 2/7/2026 8:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/6/26 11:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    When a truth predicate is given the input:
    "What time is it?"
    and is required to say True or False
    the only correct answer is BAD INPUT

    Nope, as the statement is NOT "True", thus it is false.

    Unless you are asserting that logic doesn't exist in the domain
    of the non-contray excluded middle where most logic assumes to live. >>>>>>>

    Dead obvious Type mismatch error.


    And "Type mismatches" are not true statements.

    I guess you are admitting that you system isn't "binary", but
    violates the principle of the excluded middle.

    When we extend formal systems to include formalized
    natural language we often encounter expressions that
    are not truth apt.

    Conventional logic and math have been paralyzed for
    many decades by trying to force-fit semantically
    ill-formed expressions into the box of True or False.

    Logic is not paralyzed. Separating semantics from inference rules
    ensures that semantic problems don't affect the study of proofs
    and provability.

    Then you end up with screwy stuff such as the psychotic
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

    That you call it psychotic does not make it less useful. Often an
    indirect proof is simpler than a direct one, and therefore more
    convincing. But without the priciple of explosion it might be
    harder or even impossible to find one, depending on what there is
    instead.


    It's not to deny there are many routes up the mountain.

    Neither is it to deny that there are all the ways down.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 09:26:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

    [ .... ]

    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines
    that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical
    machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty
    fucking nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't
    decide on all the machines. the state of computing is honestly in
    fucking shambles and having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    anyways, i specified other examples of classifiers which can exist in
    place of deciderP(), which u then didn't respond to, and even deleted
    from your quoted reply,

    so i'll have to assume ur just bent on pulling a strawman cause ur
    incapable of responding at any further depth

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff to
    students over several decades. He'll have encountered arguments such as yours many times. It seems he was trying to bring you to a firm base for further discussion. "Paradoxical machine" is not a standard term of the

    because "the art" hasn't discussed what i'm getting at

    art, so it seems only fair to ask you to define exactly what you mean.

    As for "further depth", Ben could easily lead you to material you would
    not follow. Me neither.

    certainly not with childish argumentative techniques like cutting out
    and ignoring huge sections of my replies


    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 20:04:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

    [ .... ]

    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines >>>> that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical >>>> machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty
    fucking nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't
    decide on all the machines. the state of computing is honestly in
    fucking shambles and having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    anyways, i specified other examples of classifiers which can exist in
    place of deciderP(), which u then didn't respond to, and even deleted
    from your quoted reply,

    so i'll have to assume ur just bent on pulling a strawman cause ur
    incapable of responding at any further depth

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff to
    students over several decades. He'll have encountered arguments such as
    yours many times. It seems he was trying to bring you to a firm base for
    further discussion. "Paradoxical machine" is not a standard term of the
    art, ...

    because "the art" hasn't discussed what i'm getting at

    How would you even know this, apart from by being told by a knowledgeable expert?

    Ben was trying to discern what you were getting at. I've just had
    another look at your opening post in this thread, and it's anything but
    easy to understand. You use the phrase "paradoxical machine" but you
    don't actually define it.

    If you can't define it, it will likely be an inconsistent notion unlikely
    to lead to anything new and coherent. Hence Ben's request. He was
    trying to help you express yourself clearly.

    art, so it seems only fair to ask you to define exactly what you mean.

    As for "further depth", Ben could easily lead you to material you would
    not follow. Me neither.

    certainly not with childish argumentative techniques like cutting out
    and ignoring huge sections of my replies

    You've got to give him a chance to come back to later sections of your
    post. One thing at a time!

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 15:32:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

    [ .... ]

    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines >>>>> that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical >>>>> machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty
    fucking nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't
    decide on all the machines. the state of computing is honestly in
    fucking shambles and having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    anyways, i specified other examples of classifiers which can exist in
    place of deciderP(), which u then didn't respond to, and even deleted
    from your quoted reply,

    so i'll have to assume ur just bent on pulling a strawman cause ur
    incapable of responding at any further depth

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff to
    students over several decades. He'll have encountered arguments such as >>> yours many times. It seems he was trying to bring you to a firm base for >>> further discussion. "Paradoxical machine" is not a standard term of the >>> art, ...

    because "the art" hasn't discussed what i'm getting at

    How would you even know this, apart from by being told by a knowledgeable expert?

    unless you got a specific discussion/paper/author to look into, this is
    just gaslighting

    like i've had it with chucklefucks just assuming our academic system is functional as it stands, and that everything in regards to the
    fundamentals of computing has been fully fleshed out thus far

    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them. machine paradoxes like the basic halting problem do not rule out "algorithmic
    ability" they just indicate an *interface* that cannot be implemented, a distinction that wouldn't have meant anything in 1936 when turing came
    up with the first undecidability problem


    Ben was trying to discern what you were getting at. I've just had
    another look at your opening post in this thread, and it's anything but
    easy to understand. You use the phrase "paradoxical machine" but you
    don't actually define it.

    any machine that involves a semantic paradox by querying a classifier
    (like a classic decider) and then doing the opposite of the semantics indicated by the classifier's return, forming a paradox very much in the
    same vain as the liar's paradox

    und = () -> if ( halts(und) ) loop()

    is for example a paradoxical machine, specifically one that specifically demonstrates the halting problem

    and if u think the self-reference is a problem ... it's not. it's just syntactic sugar for a quine.


    If you can't define it, it will likely be an inconsistent notion unlikely
    to lead to anything new and coherent. Hence Ben's request. He was
    trying to help you express yourself clearly.

    i didn't get a single constructive idea out of anything he's said thus far

    richard's been kinda useful, but still incredibly antagonistic and
    almost never constructive


    art, so it seems only fair to ask you to define exactly what you mean.

    As for "further depth", Ben could easily lead you to material you would
    not follow. Me neither.

    certainly not with childish argumentative techniques like cutting out
    and ignoring huge sections of my replies

    You've got to give him a chance to come back to later sections of your
    post. One thing at a time!

    i won't hold my breath
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Tue Feb 10 23:30:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 1:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 11:39 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and
    independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards to >>>>>>>> whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from the >>>>>>>> perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the input >>>>>>>> can be one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a
    particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate >>>>>>>> the law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider
    for the halting problem, and based on a category error with the >>>>>>> term DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong
    because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd like >>>>>> is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking
    the syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this
    right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating
    the contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL
    implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE
    for all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines
    it does return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a-a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    DEFINIST FALLACY


    Yes, exactly, BY YOU.

    Changing the definition to try to make you point is just a fallacy.

    i'm reusing the word to describe a slightly different, but highly
    dependent concept. please attack the semantics of the *concept* itself,
    not the particular syntax i used to describe it.

    You mean you are MISUSING the term that has a proper definition.

    As I pointed out, what you are describing isn't a "property" of the
    input, as it isn't dependent on just the input.


    wish u know why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    But YOU just admitted that you are the one doing the definist fallacy,
    as YOU are the one using a biased definition, not the REAL definition of
    the term.



    But perhaps, that logic is beyond you,\.


    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    a "decidable problem" is just one where all inputs are DECIDABLE.

    Nope. There is no requirement that an undeciable problem must have an
    instance that can not be decided, and in fact, such a case is

    if an undecidable problem does not have an undecidable input at some
    point ... then how is the problem undecidable???

    Because it is a property of the PROBLEM, not the individual inputs.

    What is so hard to imagine that?


    honestly richard u really are walking up ur own asshole at this point

    Nope, you are just showing you don't really know what you are talking about.


    impossible, as for any input where we know the answer, you can always
    make a partial decider that gets the right answer for it, but just
    comparing the input to that case and returning the know answer.


    yes, that is an additional way to use the word, but because "un/
    decidable inputs" and "un/decidable problem" are intimately related i
    see fit to use them that way. u can disagree with my word choice, but
    calling me wrong over my word choice is a classic DEFINIST FALLACY.
    that you must be really comfortable with using.


    No, it is an INCORRECT way to use the word, making it just a definist
    fallacy.

    It assumes properties that are not.


    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose answer
    turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting, such
    input can not be detected as such, as determining that actually
    decides them (since the only unknowable inputs are non-halting).

    unfortunately this is a mistaken understanding of the nature of
    decidability. an input can be decidable to one classifier while being
    undecidable to another classifer.

    Which makes it no longer a property of the input, and thus not
    something that CAN be computable from the input.


    one CAN create a halting machine that is still an UNDECIDABLE input
    in regards to some other semantic property P, i sketched out such a
    program several times now.

    No, you sketched out frameworks based on computing uncomputable
    properties.


    here's another in regards to whether an input machine executes an add
    operation or not:

    -a-a adds = (machine) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machine performs an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a AND machine is a DECIDABLE input,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine does not perform an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a OR machine is an UNDECIDABLE input,
    -a-a }

    -a-a und_add = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( adds(und_add) == FALSE)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 1+1
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 0
    -a-a }




    adds(und_add)->FALSE, because und_add is not a DECIDABLE input to
    adds(), so therefore adds cannot return the truth that it does
    execute an integer add operation. however, this is quite clearly a
    halting function, and halts() is entirely able to return:
    halts(und_add)->TRUE

    THe problem is that und_add isn't a program, as it calls a non-
    function adds, that isn't a program because it doesn't define HOW it
    gets its answer.

    my fucking god can u be less of a pissant?

    Only when you get a clue. When you keep on misusing words, you just
    prove how ignorant you are.



    EVERY actual implementation of adds taht does meet your specification
    (and thus returns an answer) creates an und_add() that has a definite
    value of what your "adds" property claims to compute, and thus, the
    input itself isn't "undecidable", just incorrectly decided by that adds.

    it's not "incorrect" classification, as FALSE does not indicate a
    specific classification

    Then what DOES is indicate? That is part of your problem, deciders / recognisers, and the like are defined based on classifications of inputs.


    it's just not classified. it's a failure to classify, because the input
    is UNDECIDABLE in regards to adds

    nd thus, always answering false is always correct, such a machine just
    admits it can't classify anything.

    How is that an "incorrect" answer by your criteria?



    If that is your definition of "Undecidable" the always returning false

    i have already explain why that's not a solution to a partial recognizer multiple times already u dope

    How? Since your "UNDECIDABLE" isn't a classification, but an indication
    that the decider "gave up" and didn't classify, how is that "incorrect"?

    After all, the word talked about somethign about THIS DECIDER, (not the interface), so if the decider didn't decide on it, it WAS not decided by it.


    is a trivial correct solution, as either the input DOES NOT have that
    property, and thus false is the correct answer, or the input DOES have
    that property, and thus this decider will be wrong by the base
    definition of the property, and thus correct because it was
    "Undecidable" to it.




    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill
    this contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    it's pretty mind blowing you u think just willfully ignoring my
    specification and call it a refutation

    But the problem is your specification is based on lying about what a
    word means, and using two different meanings for it.

    TRYING TO USE A RELATED WORD TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING THAT HAS *NO CURRENT DEFINITION* IS NOT LYING YOU MOTHERFUCKING DELUSIONAL TWAT

    Sure it is. When using a word with a definite definition to mean
    something else, that is just a lie.

    Make up a new word, or add a modifier to make it clear that you aren't
    just misusing the word, then it would be better.

    But then, you are admitting that what you are talking about ISN'T the "Decidability" of the problem, and thus breaks your arguement.

    You seem to NEED to create the confusion, because you "proof" is based
    on that confusion.


    HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS FUCKING SPECIES MY FUCKING GOD WHY ARE YOU ALL SO
    GOD DAMN FORSAKENLY RETARDED???

    YOU are the one that lies by misusing the words. Are you really so
    stupid that you don't understand that words DO have meaning.



    When we fix the meaning to just a single meaning, either the
    specificaiton is meaningless, or it becomes trivial.

    Your problem is you don't understand that "program" include ALL their
    algorith, and thus are built on INSTANCES of your interface, not just
    generically on the interface.



    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE
    is also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the
    base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded
    critera, as its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus is
    "UNDECIADBLE" for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?


    Note this question. Until you answer it, without using duplicity, you
    are just admitting you are basing you "logic" on illogic.

    IF IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE PARTIAL RECOGNIZER TO RETURN THE CORRECT CLASSIFICATION, IT *MUST* DO SO

    Which just means you don't understand what a PROGRAM is, as if the
    program didn't return the correct answer, it couldn't, as it will always
    do what it does for that input.

    You seem to have the same error that Olcott does, thinking that you one program is two different programs.


    adds( (x) -> x+x ) returning FALSE is *NOT* correct as per the
    specification *i* defined

    Why not? By returning FALSE is got the wrong answer, and thus the input
    is just "undecidable" for it.


    HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I NEED TO REPEAT THIS BEFORE IT GETS THRU UR MASSIVELY THICK SKULL?????


    Since you are wrong, when are YOU going to get it into your head.

    The problem is the decider *IS* what that decider is, and if if your "Undeciable" is relative to that decider, meaning it could get the right answer, and "couldn't" really means "doesn't" since it isn't what it
    isn't and is what it is, it giving the wrong answer is proof that it can't.

    If programs aren't the program they are, it is going to be very hard to
    try to prove what they do.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 23:30:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 1:01 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 7:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic? >>>>>>>

    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be
    simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed
    class, the simplest machine will not be paradoxical


    But you can't actually prove it.

    Part of the issue is you are looking at only a simple subset of
    "paradoxical" machines, that can be reduced to trival machines
    themselves, since they take no input.

    If we define your decider H to take a descirption of the program,
    and its input, then the paradoxical program becomes:


    D(i) ->
    -a-a IF (H(D,i) says Halts) Loop forever
    -a-a ELSE Return

    then D(D) becomes a paradoxical calculation, but, since the behavior
    of the madchine D is fully defined by what H does, there is no
    reason to beleive that this machine can be simplified to something
    simpler than H, unless H is itself not in its simplest form.

    D(D) doesn't actually exist if H(D,i) is a decider. it doesn't need
    to be filtered out.

    ??? How can D(D) not exist?

    cause H(D,i) as a classical decider does not exist, as that is not an implementable interface

    So?

    Are you admitting that YOUR decider system can't be implemented either?

    If so, you might as well just give up, as you are just starting by
    admitting that you can't do what you claim.



    I showed how to build D if your H exists.

    And of course, if D exists, you can represent it to D too.


    if H(D,i) is a partial recognizer it will return FALSE causing D(D)
    to Return, making it equivalent to Return.

    So, H(D,D) returned the wrong answer, as D(D) halts, and does so in a
    way that is clearly provable, and thus deciable.

    yes richard, the fact one particular partial recognizer can't classify a machine does not stop other partial recognizers from classifying the machine.

    Right. But it also doesn't mean that a given one can.


    undecidability proofs are only against a particular interface, not
    general ability...

    But there is only one interface that defines the problem.


    and none of them stop us from generally proving an outcome because
    machines can't reference our output to contradict it

    Then you are just admitting that your computation system is less than
    Turing Complete.




    i'm not sure yet what to do about D(i), but technically the set of
    computations that take no input is equivalent in completeness to the
    set of the computations that take input. if we can filter them out of
    the no-input computation, then we ought to be able to filter out
    computations that take input to

    Which just shows your confusion. While every program / input pair has
    a no-input algorith that gives the same answer, they are NOT
    "equivalent" sets of machines.

    Computations, by DEFINITION, are the application of an algorithm to an

    what are machines that have no input then??? not computations???

    They are a specific sub-class of them. Like functions whose outputs are
    always a given constant are "functions", but not the full set.

    Restricting your proof to just such a sub-set of functions doesn't talk
    much about the full set. Of course most implementations of such a
    function will be "sub-optimal"


    input. And you system that tries to define only working with no-input
    machines is by definition working on a trivialized set.

    Remember, the whole concept of these things is attempting to compute
    mappings, and you "no-input" machines can only compute a trivial
    mapping to a single constant.

    but except every singe possible computational output exists in no-input subset of machine

    Yes, but not every set of computational equivalenet machines, since most
    are NOT "constant functions".

    Your proof of program correctness isn't so interesting if the only
    programs you can talk about always produce the same output.





    Once your input can't be reduced to a triviality, your logic goes away. >>>




    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 23:30:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 12:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 11:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine >>>>>>> is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so? >>>>>>
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet
    cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I don't >>>>>> want
    to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one?-a Can >>>>>> you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to >>>>>> being
    clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???

    But it assumes you CAN define your deciderP

    You give an EXAMPLE, but not a DEFINITION.

    Probably because you don't understand what a definition is.


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes
    more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical >>>>>> about
    und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then
    return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say >>>>> i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which >>>>> includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic
    paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does undP; >>>>>
    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input
    undP) or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    And, as been pointed out, "Partial Decider" solutions are know to
    exist, so you don't add anything except complexity.


    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that
    i've specified thus far:

    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Which is just based on a BAD definition, as "inputs" don't have a
    "DECIDABLE" property.

    It seems you don't even understand what a "property" of an input is.

    richard: please explain why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    The "definist fallacy" is REDEFINING a definition to make your arguement.

    i'm using UN/DECIDABLE to describe a concept that was not yet defined,
    so i'm expanding on the definition of the word in an explicit manner

    Then use a new word, or add a modifier.

    And no, you are not being EXPLICIT, as you statement doesn't show it
    isn't the classical meaning.



    Note, you don't "Redefine" a definition when you use the ACTUAL
    definition.

    YOU are the one trying to change the definition, so the one using the
    falacious logic.

    see this doesn't actually get at why a fallacy is a fallacy and is a superficial take on why a fallacy is a fallacy, much like the rest of ur takes


    In other words, you don't understand how logic works.

    Build arguments based on incorrect definitions just makes you logic
    incorrect.

    As I pointed out, your use of the term is just a categorical error, as
    what you seem to be trying to call "(un)decidable" isn't even a PROPERTY
    of the input, so describing it that way is just an error.


    Part of your problem is you don't know what the words you use actually
    mean, so you "redefine" them, making you arguemet fallacious.

    i can use words in novel ways, that's fine. that does not make my
    argument a fallacy. i'm not redefining terms for convenience of the argument, i'm extending the definition of the term to describe something that does not already have a definition ... so i picked a word that is *heavily* intertwined with what i'm trying to describe

    Using words in novel ways is just your definist fallacy.

    Maybe YOU are the one that doesn't understand it.

    The definist fallacy isn't insisting on a definition, it is insisting on
    a BIASED/CHANGED definition to make an arguement.

    EXACTLY what you are doing.


    the reason your committing a fallacy is because ur attacking *how* i'm saying not *what* i'm saying. ur taking my argument and trying to inject
    the "proper" definition to call it wrong ...

    No, I am attacking WHAT you are saying.

    And the problem is "my" definition *IS* the definition, and your
    changing it *IS* wrong.


    when that doesn't actually address my argument

    Since your "arguemnt" is based on LYING by trying to change a
    well-defined word, it does

    it seems you don't understand that words HAVE meaning, and you can't
    just arbitrarily change them.



    For instance, your "Property" you try to call "Deciable" below, isn't
    actually a property of the input, as even as you describe, it depends
    on the decider it is given to.

    it's a property of the input in respect to the classifier it paradoxes,
    yes ... but that's still a property of the input *based on it's
    objective construction*

    Nope. You just don't understand what "objective" means.


    (for it were constructed differently, like without any classifier calls, that property of being undecidable disappears)

    So, when the "call" is done by inline expansion (as would be done with a
    real Turing Machie) and thus no call exists, it isn't "undecidable".

    Your problem is your "model" of your machine doesn't match Turing Completeness.


    and the classifier only considers decidability in respect to it's own execution, ofc

    And, looking at the algorithm expressed by the input, how can the
    classifier determine that the input is using its interface?

    Remember, "Algortithms" are defined to fully contain all their own
    "code" and thus the code of the decider has been copied into the
    algorithm of the input, and their isn't actually any "reference" to the decider any more, just a copy of a functionally equivalent algorithm.



    Thus it is only a property of the pair (input, decider) or a kind of
    "subjective" property. When we what to know a property of something,
    we want it to be an OBJECTIVE property, so we know how WE would see it
    if we processed it. We don't care about what some random decider sees
    as a subjective property.

    it's objectively subjective Efn+ deal with it

    In other words, you are admitting to your error.

    Your logic is just internally self-inconsistant.



    If you want to try to build a field that uses such subjective

    this is still just TM computing, i'm not even extending TMs with this argument. the fundamentals of computability just hasn't been fleshed out
    all that well

    Sure it has, you just refuse to try to understand it, because to do so
    would make you see how stupid your ideas are.

    You have to keep to vague generalities and presumed abilities because to actually try to implement them show that you don't knwo what you are doing.


    properties, go ahead, but you will need to show that it is good for
    actually doing something. And that is going to be a tough task.




    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a-a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied.
    But you
    haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.









    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 23:06:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 8:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/10/26 1:01 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 7:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines. >>>>>>>>>
    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic? >>>>>>>>

    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be
    simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed
    class, the simplest machine will not be paradoxical


    But you can't actually prove it.

    Part of the issue is you are looking at only a simple subset of
    "paradoxical" machines, that can be reduced to trival machines
    themselves, since they take no input.

    If we define your decider H to take a descirption of the program,
    and its input, then the paradoxical program becomes:


    D(i) ->
    -a-a IF (H(D,i) says Halts) Loop forever
    -a-a ELSE Return

    then D(D) becomes a paradoxical calculation, but, since the
    behavior of the madchine D is fully defined by what H does, there
    is no reason to beleive that this machine can be simplified to
    something simpler than H, unless H is itself not in its simplest form. >>>>
    D(D) doesn't actually exist if H(D,i) is a decider. it doesn't need
    to be filtered out.

    ??? How can D(D) not exist?

    cause H(D,i) as a classical decider does not exist, as that is not an
    implementable interface

    So?

    Are you admitting that YOUR decider system can't be implemented either?

    a classical decider does not exist in TM computing, we all agree on that


    If so, you might as well just give up, as you are just starting by
    admitting that you can't do what you claim.

    i don't understand why u bother posting here




    I showed how to build D if your H exists.

    And of course, if D exists, you can represent it to D too.


    if H(D,i) is a partial recognizer it will return FALSE causing D(D)
    to Return, making it equivalent to Return.

    So, H(D,D) returned the wrong answer, as D(D) halts, and does so in a
    way that is clearly provable, and thus deciable.

    yes richard, the fact one particular partial recognizer can't classify
    a machine does not stop other partial recognizers from classifying the
    machine.

    Right. But it also doesn't mean that a given one can.


    undecidability proofs are only against a particular interface, not
    general ability...

    But there is only one interface that defines the problem.

    i don't think that's a provable claim. in fact it this it's utter blind idiocracy to claim an impossible interface is the *only* way to define
    the a "problem"

    other interfaces aren't disproven, and may not be disprovable, and this
    whole undecidability shitshow may just be giant century old
    perfectionist fallacy

    mathematicians walked up their own asshole cause self-references spooked
    them into declaring total incompleteness everywhere



    and none of them stop us from generally proving an outcome because
    machines can't reference our output to contradict it

    Then you are just admitting that your computation system is less than
    Turing Complete.

    i'm saying undecidability proofs don't mean we can't manually prove an
    outcome for any given machine, because turing machines cannot reference
    our output to contradict them

    i don't know what that means for computing or the ct-thesis





    i'm not sure yet what to do about D(i), but technically the set of
    computations that take no input is equivalent in completeness to the
    set of the computations that take input. if we can filter them out
    of the no-input computation, then we ought to be able to filter out
    computations that take input to

    Which just shows your confusion. While every program / input pair has
    a no-input algorith that gives the same answer, they are NOT
    "equivalent" sets of machines.

    Computations, by DEFINITION, are the application of an algorithm to an

    what are machines that have no input then??? not computations???

    They are a specific sub-class of them. Like functions whose outputs are always a given constant are "functions", but not the full set.

    Restricting your proof to just such a sub-set of functions doesn't talk
    much about the full set. Of course most implementations of such a
    function will be "sub-optimal"

    the subset includes all possible runtime computations



    input. And you system that tries to define only working with no-input
    machines is by definition working on a trivialized set.

    Remember, the whole concept of these things is attempting to compute
    mappings, and you "no-input" machines can only compute a trivial
    mapping to a single constant.

    but except every singe possible computational output exists in no-
    input subset of machine

    Yes, but not every set of computational equivalenet machines, since most
    are NOT "constant functions".

    Your proof of program correctness isn't so interesting if the only
    programs you can talk about always produce the same output.

    it's interesting because the properties that are found in the no-input
    subset must also be true for that total machine lineup. because the
    no-input subset includes all possible runtime computations






    Once your input can't be reduced to a triviality, your logic goes
    away.





    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 10 23:09:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 8:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 11:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine >>>>>>>> is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so? >>>>>>>
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet >>>>>>> cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I
    don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one? >>>>>>> Can
    you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to >>>>>>> being
    clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms??? >>>>>
    But it assumes you CAN define your deciderP

    You give an EXAMPLE, but not a DEFINITION.

    Probably because you don't understand what a definition is.


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes
    more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical >>>>>>> about
    und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then >>>>>> return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't
    say i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur,
    which includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic >>>>>>> paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does >>>>>>> undP;

    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input
    undP) or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    And, as been pointed out, "Partial Decider" solutions are know to
    exist, so you don't add anything except complexity.


    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that
    i've specified thus far:

    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Which is just based on a BAD definition, as "inputs" don't have a
    "DECIDABLE" property.

    It seems you don't even understand what a "property" of an input is.

    richard: please explain why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    The "definist fallacy" is REDEFINING a definition to make your
    arguement.

    i'm using UN/DECIDABLE to describe a concept that was not yet defined,
    so i'm expanding on the definition of the word in an explicit manner

    Then use a new word, or add a modifier.

    And no, you are not being EXPLICIT, as you statement doesn't show it
    isn't the classical meaning.



    Note, you don't "Redefine" a definition when you use the ACTUAL
    definition.

    YOU are the one trying to change the definition, so the one using the
    falacious logic.

    see this doesn't actually get at why a fallacy is a fallacy and is a
    superficial take on why a fallacy is a fallacy, much like the rest of
    ur takes


    In other words, you don't understand how logic works.

    Build arguments based on incorrect definitions just makes you logic incorrect.

    As I pointed out, your use of the term is just a categorical error, as
    what you seem to be trying to call "(un)decidable" isn't even a PROPERTY
    of the input, so describing it that way is just an error.


    Part of your problem is you don't know what the words you use
    actually mean, so you "redefine" them, making you arguemet fallacious.

    i can use words in novel ways, that's fine. that does not make my
    argument a fallacy. i'm not redefining terms for convenience of the
    argument, i'm extending the definition of the term to describe
    something that does not already have a definition ... so i picked a
    word that is *heavily* intertwined with what i'm trying to describe

    Using words in novel ways is just your definist fallacy.

    Maybe YOU are the one that doesn't understand it.

    The definist fallacy isn't insisting on a definition, it is insisting on
    a BIASED/CHANGED definition to make an arguement.

    EXACTLY what you are doing.

    i can't believe a 70 yo chief engineer doesn't know the difference
    between an *argument of substance* and /quibbling over terms/

    but that really is the fucking EfniEfiA i'm stuck on eh???



    the reason your committing a fallacy is because ur attacking *how* i'm
    saying not *what* i'm saying. ur taking my argument and trying to
    inject the "proper" definition to call it wrong ...

    No, I am attacking WHAT you are saying.

    no ur attacking *how* i'm saying, not *the underlying meaning* i'm
    trying to present

    u even told me to add a modifier ... that doesn't change the concepts
    i'm arguing, it just changes how it's being referred to. holy fuck dude


    And the problem is "my" definition *IS* the definition, and your
    changing it *IS* wrong.


    when that doesn't actually address my argument

    Since your "arguemnt" is based on LYING by trying to change a well-
    defined word, it does

    Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-


    it seems you don't understand that words HAVE meaning, and you can't
    just arbitrarily change them.



    For instance, your "Property" you try to call "Deciable" below, isn't
    actually a property of the input, as even as you describe, it depends
    on the decider it is given to.

    it's a property of the input in respect to the classifier it
    paradoxes, yes ... but that's still a property of the input *based on
    it's objective construction*

    Nope. You just don't understand what "objective" means.

    Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-

    the objective semantic structure of the paradoxical input machine is
    integral to the paradox existing. i don't understand what you don't
    understand about that, but w/e dude



    (for it were constructed differently, like without any classifier
    calls, that property of being undecidable disappears)

    So, when the "call" is done by inline expansion (as would be done with a real Turing Machie) and thus no call exists, it isn't "undecidable".

    what isn't "undecidable"?


    Your problem is your "model" of your machine doesn't match Turing Completeness.


    and the classifier only considers decidability in respect to it's own
    execution, ofc

    And, looking at the algorithm expressed by the input, how can the
    classifier determine that the input is using its interface?

    Remember, "Algortithms" are defined to fully contain all their own
    "code" and thus the code of the decider has been copied into the
    algorithm of the input, and their isn't actually any "reference" to the decider any more, just a copy of a functionally equivalent algorithm.

    all valid classifiers have quines that allow them to recognize
    themselves, for starters, which then obviously allows them to identify machines that are code isomorphic

    but u flatly refuse to consider a functional equivalence tester as
    possible so why bother trying to flesh out exactly how that algo works
    right now?

    (if i even could within the time frame of this discussion)

    that sounds like a problem to work on with at team of people interested
    in this discovery, not cranky boomer assholes shitposting
    antagonistically on usenet

    i don't need to be perfect rn to be right, just less wrong that you, and
    in the correct direction




    Thus it is only a property of the pair (input, decider) or a kind of
    "subjective" property. When we what to know a property of something,
    we want it to be an OBJECTIVE property, so we know how WE would see
    it if we processed it. We don't care about what some random decider
    sees as a subjective property.

    it's objectively subjective Efn+ deal with it

    In other words, you are admitting to your error.

    this isn't actually a contradiction. the paradox only references a
    particular classifier ... so ofc it only contradicts a particular set of (functionally equivalent) classifiers. i don't really see why u have a
    problem with this, other than the confusion that undecidability meant something more than that,

    it never did actually

    undecidable arguments never contraindicated general ability. they only contraindicate a particular interface


    Your logic is just internally self-inconsistant.



    If you want to try to build a field that uses such subjective

    this is still just TM computing, i'm not even extending TMs with this
    argument. the fundamentals of computability just hasn't been fleshed
    out all that well

    Sure it has, you just refuse to try to understand it, because to do so
    would make you see how stupid your ideas are.

    You have to keep to vague generalities and presumed abilities because to actually try to implement them show that you don't knwo what you are doing.

    Ef2-Ef2-Ef2- accusing me of not knowing everything in regards to algos so mindbogglingly challenging we refused to even really look into them over
    the past century is pretty rich dude



    properties, go ahead, but you will need to show that it is good for
    actually doing something. And that is going to be a tough task.




    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a-a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied.
    But you
    haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition.









    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Tue Feb 10 23:12:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/10/26 8:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/10/26 1:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 11:39 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and >>>>>>>>> independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards >>>>>>>>> to whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so from >>>>>>>>> the perspective of a particular partial recognizer call the >>>>>>>>> input can be one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a >>>>>>>>> particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate >>>>>>>>> the law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider >>>>>>>> for the halting problem, and based on a category error with the >>>>>>>> term DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong >>>>>>> because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd
    like is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking >>>>>>> the syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this >>>>>>>> right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating >>>>>>> the contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL >>>>>>>> implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE >>>>>> for all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines >>>>>> it does return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a-a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    DEFINIST FALLACY


    Yes, exactly, BY YOU.

    Changing the definition to try to make you point is just a fallacy.

    i'm reusing the word to describe a slightly different, but highly
    dependent concept. please attack the semantics of the *concept*
    itself, not the particular syntax i used to describe it.

    You mean you are MISUSING the term that has a proper definition.

    As I pointed out, what you are describing isn't a "property" of the
    input, as it isn't dependent on just the input.


    wish u know why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    But YOU just admitted that you are the one doing the definist fallacy,
    as YOU are the one using a biased definition, not the REAL definition of
    the term.



    But perhaps, that logic is beyond you,\.


    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    a "decidable problem" is just one where all inputs are DECIDABLE.

    Nope. There is no requirement that an undeciable problem must have an
    instance that can not be decided, and in fact, such a case is

    if an undecidable problem does not have an undecidable input at some
    point ... then how is the problem undecidable???

    Because it is a property of the PROBLEM, not the individual inputs.

    What is so hard to imagine that?

    because a "problem" is just a function mapping of inputs to outputs in accordance with some kind of desired classification. if all inputs can
    be coherently mapped to their appropriately truthful outputs, meaning
    all inputs are /decidable/ ... then the "problem" is /decidable/

    an undecidable "problem" is just on where some inputs cannot be mapped
    to their appropriate outputs, meaning those inputs where not decidable
    or /undecidable/, making the "problem" /undecidable/. undecidable
    problems are *defined* by the existence of undecidable inputs, for if
    those undecidable inputs don't exist ... how is the "problem"
    undecidable???

    i really don't know why i needed to spell that out,

    especially cause ur still gunna disagree,

    fuck Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-



    honestly richard u really are walking up ur own asshole at this point

    Nope, you are just showing you don't really know what you are talking
    about.


    impossible, as for any input where we know the answer, you can always
    make a partial decider that gets the right answer for it, but just
    comparing the input to that case and returning the know answer.


    yes, that is an additional way to use the word, but because "un/
    decidable inputs" and "un/decidable problem" are intimately related
    i see fit to use them that way. u can disagree with my word choice,
    but calling me wrong over my word choice is a classic DEFINIST
    FALLACY. that you must be really comfortable with using.


    No, it is an INCORRECT way to use the word, making it just a definist
    fallacy.

    It assumes properties that are not.


    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose
    answer turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting,
    such input can not be detected as such, as determining that
    actually decides them (since the only unknowable inputs are non-
    halting).

    unfortunately this is a mistaken understanding of the nature of
    decidability. an input can be decidable to one classifier while
    being undecidable to another classifer.

    Which makes it no longer a property of the input, and thus not
    something that CAN be computable from the input.


    one CAN create a halting machine that is still an UNDECIDABLE input
    in regards to some other semantic property P, i sketched out such a
    program several times now.

    No, you sketched out frameworks based on computing uncomputable
    properties.


    here's another in regards to whether an input machine executes an
    add operation or not:

    -a-a adds = (machine) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machine performs an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a AND machine is a DECIDABLE input,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine does not perform an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a OR machine is an UNDECIDABLE input,
    -a-a }

    -a-a und_add = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( adds(und_add) == FALSE)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 1+1
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 0
    -a-a }




    adds(und_add)->FALSE, because und_add is not a DECIDABLE input to
    adds(), so therefore adds cannot return the truth that it does
    execute an integer add operation. however, this is quite clearly a
    halting function, and halts() is entirely able to return:
    halts(und_add)->TRUE

    THe problem is that und_add isn't a program, as it calls a non-
    function adds, that isn't a program because it doesn't define HOW it
    gets its answer.

    my fucking god can u be less of a pissant?

    Only when you get a clue. When you keep on misusing words, you just
    prove how ignorant you are.



    EVERY actual implementation of adds taht does meet your specification
    (and thus returns an answer) creates an und_add() that has a definite
    value of what your "adds" property claims to compute, and thus, the
    input itself isn't "undecidable", just incorrectly decided by that adds.

    it's not "incorrect" classification, as FALSE does not indicate a
    specific classification

    Then what DOES is indicate? That is part of your problem, deciders / recognisers, and the like are defined based on classifications of inputs.


    it's just not classified. it's a failure to classify, because the
    input is UNDECIDABLE in regards to adds

    nd thus, always answering false is always correct, such a machine just admits it can't classify anything.

    How is that an "incorrect" answer by your criteria?



    If that is your definition of "Undecidable" the always returning false

    i have already explain why that's not a solution to a partial
    recognizer multiple times already u dope

    How? Since your "UNDECIDABLE" isn't a classification, but an indication
    that the decider "gave up" and didn't classify, how is that "incorrect"?

    After all, the word talked about somethign about THIS DECIDER, (not the interface), so if the decider didn't decide on it, it WAS not decided by
    it.


    is a trivial correct solution, as either the input DOES NOT have that
    property, and thus false is the correct answer, or the input DOES
    have that property, and thus this decider will be wrong by the base
    definition of the property, and thus correct because it was
    "Undecidable" to it.




    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill >>>>>> this contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    it's pretty mind blowing you u think just willfully ignoring my
    specification and call it a refutation

    But the problem is your specification is based on lying about what a
    word means, and using two different meanings for it.

    TRYING TO USE A RELATED WORD TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING THAT HAS *NO
    CURRENT DEFINITION* IS NOT LYING YOU MOTHERFUCKING DELUSIONAL TWAT

    Sure it is. When using a word with a definite definition to mean
    something else, that is just a lie.

    Make up a new word, or add a modifier to make it clear that you aren't
    just misusing the word, then it would be better.

    But then, you are admitting that what you are talking about ISN'T the "Decidability" of the problem, and thus breaks your arguement.

    You seem to NEED to create the confusion, because you "proof" is based
    on that confusion.


    HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS FUCKING SPECIES MY FUCKING GOD WHY ARE YOU ALL
    SO GOD DAMN FORSAKENLY RETARDED???

    YOU are the one that lies by misusing the words. Are you really so
    stupid that you don't understand that words DO have meaning.



    When we fix the meaning to just a single meaning, either the
    specificaiton is meaningless, or it becomes trivial.

    Your problem is you don't understand that "program" include ALL their
    algorith, and thus are built on INSTANCES of your interface, not just
    generically on the interface.



    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE
    is also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the
    base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded
    critera, as its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus is >>>>> "UNDECIADBLE" for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?


    Note this question. Until you answer it, without using duplicity, you
    are just admitting you are basing you "logic" on illogic.

    IF IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE PARTIAL RECOGNIZER TO RETURN THE CORRECT
    CLASSIFICATION, IT *MUST* DO SO

    Which just means you don't understand what a PROGRAM is, as if the
    program didn't return the correct answer, it couldn't, as it will always
    do what it does for that input.

    You seem to have the same error that Olcott does, thinking that you one program is two different programs.


    adds( (x) -> x+x ) returning FALSE is *NOT* correct as per the
    specification *i* defined

    Why not? By returning FALSE is got the wrong answer, and thus the input
    is just "undecidable" for it.

    because the inability is not caused by the *semantics of the input*

    if the semantic structure of the input, allows for the classifier to
    return a proper classification: it *MUST* does so

    adds( und_add ) -> FALSE because the semantic structure of und_add()
    does not allow for adds to return the proper classification, and is
    therefor in spec with the partial recognizer

    if adds( (x)->x+x ) -> FALSE ... is *not* caused the semantic structure
    of the input (x)->x+x, but rather richard's retarded recognizer... so therefore FALSE is not in spec with a correct partial recognizer

    fuck ur so goddamn willfully obtuse Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-



    HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I NEED TO REPEAT THIS BEFORE IT GETS THRU UR
    MASSIVELY THICK SKULL?????


    Since you are wrong, when are YOU going to get it into your head.

    The problem is the decider *IS* what that decider is, and if if your "Undeciable" is relative to that decider, meaning it could get the right answer, and "couldn't" really means "doesn't" since it isn't what it
    isn't and is what it is, it giving the wrong answer is proof that it can't.

    If programs aren't the program they are, it is going to be very hard to
    try to prove what they do.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Wed Feb 11 07:56:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/11/26 2:12 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/10/26 8:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/10/26 1:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 11:39 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:09 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 6:34 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/7/26 1:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/6/26 7:55 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

    an input can be (P OR !P) in regards to actual property and >>>>>>>>>> independently it can be (DECIDABLE OR UNDECIDABLE) in regards >>>>>>>>>> to whether it contradicts the classifiers return value, so >>>>>>>>>> from the perspective of a particular partial recognizer call >>>>>>>>>> the input can be one of 4 permutations:

    P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a-a - return TRUE
    P AND UNDECIDABLE-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND DECIDABLE-a-a-a - return FALSE
    !P AND UNDECIDABLE-a - return FALSE

    there's no "other" category an input can be in regards to a >>>>>>>>>> particular classifier call. to suggest otherwise is to violate >>>>>>>>>> the law of excluded middle

    In other words, your machine just isn't even a partial decider >>>>>>>>> for the halting problem, and based on a category error with the >>>>>>>>> term DECIDABLE.

    i've explained what i mean by UNDECIDABLE here, calling me wrong >>>>>>>> because not i'm using the word in exactly the same was as u'd >>>>>>>> like is 100% a definist fallacy. why?

    cause it's not addressing the underlying idea, ur just attacking >>>>>>>> the syntax and that's just shallow


    Since you seem to mean that "Decidable" means "I will get this >>>>>>>>> right"

    not *will*, but *able to*

    return FALSE when the input has P and is DECIDABLE is violating >>>>>>>> the contract moron

    and "Undecidable" means "I will not get this right", a TRIVIAL >>>>>>>>> implementation is to just return FALSE.

    see, while a partial recognizer does not guarantee returning TRUE >>>>>>> for all machines with P, there is no flexibility in what machines >>>>>>> it does return TRUE for:

    all machines that have P
    -a-a AND are DECIDABLE input

    MISUSE of the TERM.

    DEFINIST FALLACY


    Yes, exactly, BY YOU.

    Changing the definition to try to make you point is just a fallacy.

    i'm reusing the word to describe a slightly different, but highly
    dependent concept. please attack the semantics of the *concept*
    itself, not the particular syntax i used to describe it.

    You mean you are MISUSING the term that has a proper definition.

    As I pointed out, what you are describing isn't a "property" of the
    input, as it isn't dependent on just the input.


    wish u know why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    But YOU just admitted that you are the one doing the definist fallacy,
    as YOU are the one using a biased definition, not the REAL definition
    of the term.



    But perhaps, that logic is beyond you,\.


    There are no "Decidable Inputs" only "Decidable problems".

    a "decidable problem" is just one where all inputs are DECIDABLE.

    Nope. There is no requirement that an undeciable problem must have
    an instance that can not be decided, and in fact, such a case is

    if an undecidable problem does not have an undecidable input at some
    point ... then how is the problem undecidable???

    Because it is a property of the PROBLEM, not the individual inputs.

    What is so hard to imagine that?

    because a "problem" is just a function mapping of inputs to outputs in accordance with some kind of desired classification. if all inputs can
    be coherently mapped to their appropriately truthful outputs, meaning
    all inputs are /decidable/ ... then the "problem" is /decidable/

    an undecidable "problem" is just on where some inputs cannot be mapped
    to their appropriate outputs, meaning those inputs where not decidable
    or /undecidable/, making the "problem" /undecidable/. undecidable
    problems are *defined* by the existence of undecidable inputs, for if
    those undecidable inputs don't exist ... how is the "problem"
    undecidable???

    But ALL inputs CAN be mapped to the correct answer (if it is known) by
    some partial decider and thus no one input with a known answer is
    undecidable. (You just need to build a special decider that recognizes
    that particular input and gives that correct answer.

    THus no "input" (with a known answer) is itself "undeciable".

    Your attempt to define an "undeciable" input fails to be a property of
    THE INPUT, but just becomes the fact that THIS decider gets the wrong
    answer, and as shown, with that definition, the trival system that just
    never decides is "correct".

    You can't look at the "interface" as a class, as some members of the
    interface CAN get ANY input right, as described above for a particular
    input, which BY DEFINITION is built not to just the interface, but to an instance impleenting it, so other instance can solve it, and thus no
    input is undecidable to that interface.


    i really don't know why i needed to spell that out,

    Because you keep getting it wrong.


    especially cause ur still gunna disagree,

    fuck Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-

    You do have a foul mouth, probably because you brain is just full o filth.




    honestly richard u really are walking up ur own asshole at this point

    Nope, you are just showing you don't really know what you are talking
    about.


    impossible, as for any input where we know the answer, you can
    always make a partial decider that gets the right answer for it, but
    just comparing the input to that case and returning the know answer.


    yes, that is an additional way to use the word, but because "un/
    decidable inputs" and "un/decidable problem" are intimately related >>>>> i see fit to use them that way. u can disagree with my word choice, >>>>> but calling me wrong over my word choice is a classic DEFINIST
    FALLACY. that you must be really comfortable with using.


    No, it is an INCORRECT way to use the word, making it just a
    definist fallacy.

    It assumes properties that are not.


    The closest thing to an "undecidable input" is an input whose
    answer turns out to be unknowable in the system, and for halting, >>>>>> such input can not be detected as such, as determining that
    actually decides them (since the only unknowable inputs are non-
    halting).

    unfortunately this is a mistaken understanding of the nature of
    decidability. an input can be decidable to one classifier while
    being undecidable to another classifer.

    Which makes it no longer a property of the input, and thus not
    something that CAN be computable from the input.


    one CAN create a halting machine that is still an UNDECIDABLE input >>>>> in regards to some other semantic property P, i sketched out such a >>>>> program several times now.

    No, you sketched out frameworks based on computing uncomputable
    properties.


    here's another in regards to whether an input machine executes an
    add operation or not:

    -a-a adds = (machine) -> {
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if machine performs an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a AND machine is a DECIDABLE input,
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if machine does not perform an add computation
    -a-a-a-a-a-a OR machine is an UNDECIDABLE input,
    -a-a }

    -a-a und_add = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( adds(und_add) == FALSE)
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 1+1
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a print 0
    -a-a }




    adds(und_add)->FALSE, because und_add is not a DECIDABLE input to
    adds(), so therefore adds cannot return the truth that it does
    execute an integer add operation. however, this is quite clearly a
    halting function, and halts() is entirely able to return:
    halts(und_add)->TRUE

    THe problem is that und_add isn't a program, as it calls a non-
    function adds, that isn't a program because it doesn't define HOW it
    gets its answer.

    my fucking god can u be less of a pissant?

    Only when you get a clue. When you keep on misusing words, you just
    prove how ignorant you are.



    EVERY actual implementation of adds taht does meet your
    specification (and thus returns an answer) creates an und_add() that
    has a definite value of what your "adds" property claims to compute,
    and thus, the input itself isn't "undecidable", just incorrectly
    decided by that adds.

    it's not "incorrect" classification, as FALSE does not indicate a
    specific classification

    Then what DOES is indicate? That is part of your problem, deciders /
    recognisers, and the like are defined based on classifications of inputs.


    it's just not classified. it's a failure to classify, because the
    input is UNDECIDABLE in regards to adds

    nd thus, always answering false is always correct, such a machine just
    admits it can't classify anything.

    How is that an "incorrect" answer by your criteria?



    If that is your definition of "Undecidable" the always returning false >>>
    i have already explain why that's not a solution to a partial
    recognizer multiple times already u dope

    How? Since your "UNDECIDABLE" isn't a classification, but an
    indication that the decider "gave up" and didn't classify, how is that
    "incorrect"?

    After all, the word talked about somethign about THIS DECIDER, (not
    the interface), so if the decider didn't decide on it, it WAS not
    decided by it.


    is a trivial correct solution, as either the input DOES NOT have
    that property, and thus false is the correct answer, or the input
    DOES have that property, and thus this decider will be wrong by the
    base definition of the property, and thus correct because it was
    "Undecidable" to it.




    the supposed "trivial" implementation does not suffice to fulfill >>>>>>> this contract bro


    Sure it does.

    Since Halting is "Undecidable" returning false is always correct.

    it's pretty mind blowing you u think just willfully ignoring my
    specification and call it a refutation

    But the problem is your specification is based on lying about what a
    word means, and using two different meanings for it.

    TRYING TO USE A RELATED WORD TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING THAT HAS *NO
    CURRENT DEFINITION* IS NOT LYING YOU MOTHERFUCKING DELUSIONAL TWAT

    Sure it is. When using a word with a definite definition to mean
    something else, that is just a lie.

    Make up a new word, or add a modifier to make it clear that you aren't
    just misusing the word, then it would be better.

    But then, you are admitting that what you are talking about ISN'T the
    "Decidability" of the problem, and thus breaks your arguement.

    You seem to NEED to create the confusion, because you "proof" is based
    on that confusion.


    HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS FUCKING SPECIES MY FUCKING GOD WHY ARE YOU ALL
    SO GOD DAMN FORSAKENLY RETARDED???

    YOU are the one that lies by misusing the words. Are you really so
    stupid that you don't understand that words DO have meaning.



    When we fix the meaning to just a single meaning, either the
    specificaiton is meaningless, or it becomes trivial.

    Your problem is you don't understand that "program" include ALL
    their algorith, and thus are built on INSTANCES of your interface,
    not just generically on the interface.



    If you mean that the decider will get the answer wrong, then FALSE >>>>>> is also always correct.

    If the input is halting, then returning false is incorrect for the >>>>>> base decision of halting, and thus is correct for you expanded
    critera, as its answer is wrong for the basic criteria, and thus
    is "UNDECIADBLE" for this decider.

    How is that not a correct answer?


    Note this question. Until you answer it, without using duplicity,
    you are just admitting you are basing you "logic" on illogic.

    IF IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE PARTIAL RECOGNIZER TO RETURN THE CORRECT
    CLASSIFICATION, IT *MUST* DO SO

    Which just means you don't understand what a PROGRAM is, as if the
    program didn't return the correct answer, it couldn't, as it will
    always do what it does for that input.

    You seem to have the same error that Olcott does, thinking that you
    one program is two different programs.


    adds( (x) -> x+x ) returning FALSE is *NOT* correct as per the
    specification *i* defined

    Why not? By returning FALSE is got the wrong answer, and thus the
    input is just "undecidable" for it.

    because the inability is not caused by the *semantics of the input*

    But your criteria isn't about the semantic of the input, and thus that
    cam't be your criteria.



    if the semantic structure of the input, allows for the classifier to
    return a proper classification: it *MUST* does so

    Which is a non-senses statements as the classifier, being a fixed
    program, can only do what it does, so if doesn't return the correct
    answer, it CAN'T, because to do do would make it something other than
    what it is.

    It seems you don't understand that fact of programs.

    Yes, some other version of that decider can give the right output for
    THIS input that is built on THIS decider. That means that if you use
    that criteria, NO decider can call ANY input "undeciable" as some
    decider can give the right answer.


    adds( und_add ) -> FALSE because the semantic structure of und_add()
    does not allow for adds to return the proper classification, and is
    therefor in spec with the partial recognizer

    But the input doesn't call the "interface", but an instance of it.

    The "interface" CAN return the correct answer, when we look at a
    different implementation of it, just THAT implememtation got it wrong.

    Your problem is you don't understand what a "program" is.


    if adds( (x)->x+x ) -> FALSE ... is *not* caused the semantic structure
    of the input (x)->x+x, but rather richard's retarded recognizer... so therefore FALSE is not in spec with a correct partial recognizer

    But the issue is that some other instance of adds(machine) CAN get the
    right answer, and thus it isn't a problem of the "semantic structure" of
    the input, just that the specific implementation of adds that und_adds
    was built on will be wrong (eitehr by giving the wrong answer or by not answering).

    Again, your problem is you don't understand what a PROGRAM is.


    fuck ur so goddamn willfully obtuse Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-

    BNo, you are the obtuse one, as you don't know the meaning of the words
    you are using because it seems you failed at your studies of basic logic





    HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I NEED TO REPEAT THIS BEFORE IT GETS THRU
    UR MASSIVELY THICK SKULL?????


    Since you are wrong, when are YOU going to get it into your head.

    The problem is the decider *IS* what that decider is, and if if your
    "Undeciable" is relative to that decider, meaning it could get the
    right answer, and "couldn't" really means "doesn't" since it isn't
    what it isn't and is what it is, it giving the wrong answer is proof
    that it can't.

    If programs aren't the program they are, it is going to be very hard
    to try to prove what they do.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 07:56:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/11/26 2:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/10/26 8:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/10/26 1:01 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 7:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 9:23 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 22:25, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/7/26 2:16 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 07/02/2026 02:36, dart200 wrote:
    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical >>>>>>>>>>> machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines. >>>>>>>>>>
    Then there is no paradoxical machine.


    that's a bare assertion

    care to back it up with something that at least resembles logic? >>>>>>>>>

    If there's no simplest then each machine of the class can be
    simplified,

    sorry, let me clarify:

    the set of functionality equivalent machines will include both
    paradoxical and non-paradoxical machines, and out of that mixed >>>>>>> class, the simplest machine will not be paradoxical


    But you can't actually prove it.

    Part of the issue is you are looking at only a simple subset of
    "paradoxical" machines, that can be reduced to trival machines
    themselves, since they take no input.

    If we define your decider H to take a descirption of the program, >>>>>> and its input, then the paradoxical program becomes:


    D(i) ->
    -a-a IF (H(D,i) says Halts) Loop forever
    -a-a ELSE Return

    then D(D) becomes a paradoxical calculation, but, since the
    behavior of the madchine D is fully defined by what H does, there >>>>>> is no reason to beleive that this machine can be simplified to
    something simpler than H, unless H is itself not in its simplest
    form.

    D(D) doesn't actually exist if H(D,i) is a decider. it doesn't need >>>>> to be filtered out.

    ??? How can D(D) not exist?

    cause H(D,i) as a classical decider does not exist, as that is not an
    implementable interface

    So?

    Are you admitting that YOUR decider system can't be implemented either?

    a classical decider does not exist in TM computing, we all agree on that

    No, not just "TM computing" but in Computing as defined.

    The inability isn't restricted to TMs, but to ANY machine that actually
    does a computation.



    If so, you might as well just give up, as you are just starting by
    admitting that you can't do what you claim.

    i don't understand why u bother posting here

    To protect the "world" from idiots like you. And perhaps to get a few of
    you to see your error and not kill yourself.





    I showed how to build D if your H exists.

    And of course, if D exists, you can represent it to D too.


    if H(D,i) is a partial recognizer it will return FALSE causing D(D) >>>>> to Return, making it equivalent to Return.

    So, H(D,D) returned the wrong answer, as D(D) halts, and does so in
    a way that is clearly provable, and thus deciable.

    yes richard, the fact one particular partial recognizer can't
    classify a machine does not stop other partial recognizers from
    classifying the machine.

    Right. But it also doesn't mean that a given one can.


    undecidability proofs are only against a particular interface, not
    general ability...

    But there is only one interface that defines the problem.

    i don't think that's a provable claim. in fact it this it's utter blind idiocracy to claim an impossible interface is the *only* way to define
    the a "problem"

    other interfaces aren't disproven, and may not be disprovable, and this whole undecidability shitshow may just be giant century old
    perfectionist fallacy

    mathematicians walked up their own asshole cause self-references spooked them into declaring total incompleteness everywhere



    and none of them stop us from generally proving an outcome because
    machines can't reference our output to contradict it

    Then you are just admitting that your computation system is less than
    Turing Complete.

    i'm saying undecidability proofs don't mean we can't manually prove an outcome for any given machine, because turing machines cannot reference
    our output to contradict them

    i don't know what that means for computing or the ct-thesis





    i'm not sure yet what to do about D(i), but technically the set of
    computations that take no input is equivalent in completeness to
    the set of the computations that take input. if we can filter them
    out of the no-input computation, then we ought to be able to filter >>>>> out computations that take input to

    Which just shows your confusion. While every program / input pair
    has a no-input algorith that gives the same answer, they are NOT
    "equivalent" sets of machines.

    Computations, by DEFINITION, are the application of an algorithm to an >>>
    what are machines that have no input then??? not computations???

    They are a specific sub-class of them. Like functions whose outputs
    are always a given constant are "functions", but not the full set.

    Restricting your proof to just such a sub-set of functions doesn't
    talk much about the full set. Of course most implementations of such a
    function will be "sub-optimal"

    the subset includes all possible runtime computations

    But not all ALgorithms, or mappings, which is what the field is looking at.

    Your problem is you don't even understand the basis of the field you
    want to revise.




    input. And you system that tries to define only working with no-
    input machines is by definition working on a trivialized set.

    Remember, the whole concept of these things is attempting to compute
    mappings, and you "no-input" machines can only compute a trivial
    mapping to a single constant.

    but except every singe possible computational output exists in no-
    input subset of machine

    Yes, but not every set of computational equivalenet machines, since
    most are NOT "constant functions".

    Your proof of program correctness isn't so interesting if the only
    programs you can talk about always produce the same output.

    it's interesting because the properties that are found in the no-input subset must also be true for that total machine lineup. because the no- input subset includes all possible runtime computations

    Nope. Because it doesn't contain all possible mappings or algorithms.

    Since the actual problem is about algorithms + input, your claim about no-input machines just isn't applicable to it, as you would first need
    to prove that you could take a machine description + input, and reduce
    that to the "simpler" no input equivalent machine, which is also a
    problem known to be uncomputable, and you can't use your trick on that.







    Once your input can't be reduced to a triviality, your logic goes >>>>>> away.








    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 07:56:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/11/26 2:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/10/26 8:30 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 7:47 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/9/26 9:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/9/26 4:51 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/8/26 11:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.

    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so? >>>>>>>>
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet >>>>>>>> cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I >>>>>>>> don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one? >>>>>>>> Can
    you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to >>>>>>>> being
    clear and unambiguous?

    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP >>>>>>>>> -a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a }

    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms??? >>>>>>
    But it assumes you CAN define your deciderP

    You give an EXAMPLE, but not a DEFINITION.

    Probably because you don't understand what a definition is.


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes >>>>>>>> more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical >>>>>>>> about
    und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity classifier because decider37t() can waste time and
    then return TRUE after 37 execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i
    can't say i've tried to flesh out the permutations there.

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur,
    which includes the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem


    Again, I could guess that you only want people to use this "basic >>>>>>>> paradox form" when deciderP does not exist, and so neither does >>>>>>>> undP;

    deciderP can exist as a partial decider (which blocks on input
    undP) or partial recognizer (which returns FALSE on input undP)

    And, as been pointed out, "Partial Decider" solutions are know to >>>>>> exist, so you don't add anything except complexity.


    the types of classifiers (for some binary property P vs NP) that >>>>>>> i've specified thus far:

    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Which is just based on a BAD definition, as "inputs" don't have a >>>>>> "DECIDABLE" property.

    It seems you don't even understand what a "property" of an input is. >>>>>
    richard: please explain why a definist fallacy is a fallacy

    The "definist fallacy" is REDEFINING a definition to make your
    arguement.

    i'm using UN/DECIDABLE to describe a concept that was not yet
    defined, so i'm expanding on the definition of the word in an
    explicit manner

    Then use a new word, or add a modifier.

    And no, you are not being EXPLICIT, as you statement doesn't show it
    isn't the classical meaning.



    Note, you don't "Redefine" a definition when you use the ACTUAL
    definition.

    YOU are the one trying to change the definition, so the one using
    the falacious logic.

    see this doesn't actually get at why a fallacy is a fallacy and is a
    superficial take on why a fallacy is a fallacy, much like the rest of
    ur takes


    In other words, you don't understand how logic works.

    Build arguments based on incorrect definitions just makes you logic
    incorrect.

    As I pointed out, your use of the term is just a categorical error, as
    what you seem to be trying to call "(un)decidable" isn't even a
    PROPERTY of the input, so describing it that way is just an error.


    Part of your problem is you don't know what the words you use
    actually mean, so you "redefine" them, making you arguemet fallacious.

    i can use words in novel ways, that's fine. that does not make my
    argument a fallacy. i'm not redefining terms for convenience of the
    argument, i'm extending the definition of the term to describe
    something that does not already have a definition ... so i picked a
    word that is *heavily* intertwined with what i'm trying to describe

    Using words in novel ways is just your definist fallacy.

    Maybe YOU are the one that doesn't understand it.

    The definist fallacy isn't insisting on a definition, it is insisting
    on a BIASED/CHANGED definition to make an arguement.

    EXACTLY what you are doing.

    i can't believe a 70 yo chief engineer doesn't know the difference
    between an *argument of substance* and /quibbling over terms/

    but that really is the fucking EfniEfiA i'm stuck on eh???

    Because the LYING use of the term *IS* a point of substace.

    Since your arguement is about "Decidability", to begin by redefining the
    term just makes your whole arguement a LIE based on the definist fallacy.




    the reason your committing a fallacy is because ur attacking *how*
    i'm saying not *what* i'm saying. ur taking my argument and trying to
    inject the "proper" definition to call it wrong ...

    No, I am attacking WHAT you are saying.

    no ur attacking *how* i'm saying, not *the underlying meaning* i'm
    trying to present

    No, I am pointing out that what you are saying is actually MEANINGLESS.



    u even told me to add a modifier ... that doesn't change the concepts
    i'm arguing, it just changes how it's being referred to. holy fuck dude

    Yes it does, because if FORCES you to actually define what you mean with
    that modifier, and see that either your new term DOES have that trivial meaning, or that your machine doesn't meet that meaning.

    You confuse "interface" and "program" / "implementation".

    The input isn't "Undecidable" to the interface, as the input just breaks
    one particular implementation of it, so if you "Undecidablity" is about
    the interface, the input isn't "Undecidable".

    If the "undecidability" is about the implementation, then the result is
    that it becomes a trivial property, that can be correctly answered as
    false for all inputs.



    And the problem is "my" definition *IS* the definition, and your
    changing it *IS* wrong.


    when that doesn't actually address my argument

    Since your "arguemnt" is based on LYING by trying to change a well-
    defined word, it does

    Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-


    it seems you don't understand that words HAVE meaning, and you can't
    just arbitrarily change them.



    For instance, your "Property" you try to call "Deciable" below,
    isn't actually a property of the input, as even as you describe, it
    depends on the decider it is given to.

    it's a property of the input in respect to the classifier it
    paradoxes, yes ... but that's still a property of the input *based on
    it's objective construction*

    Nope. You just don't understand what "objective" means.

    Ef2-Ef2-Ef2-

    the objective semantic structure of the paradoxical input machine is integral to the paradox existing. i don't understand what you don't understand about that, but w/e dude

    But the paradox resolves when we create the instance, and the decider is
    just wrong, or can be trivial.

    The problem is you are not looking at what the input actually is, but
    the description of how to build it, but that isn't what is given, only
    the results of using that template.

    That locks in the particular implementation, which resolves the paradox
    for the interface, and just leaves the implementation wrong, or the
    problem trivial, depending on which meaning you intend.




    (for it were constructed differently, like without any classifier
    calls, that property of being undecidable disappears)

    So, when the "call" is done by inline expansion (as would be done with
    a real Turing Machie) and thus no call exists, it isn't "undecidable".

    what isn't "undecidable"?


    detemining that the machine uses that interface.


    Your problem is your "model" of your machine doesn't match Turing
    Completeness.


    and the classifier only considers decidability in respect to it's own
    execution, ofc

    And, looking at the algorithm expressed by the input, how can the
    classifier determine that the input is using its interface?

    Remember, "Algortithms" are defined to fully contain all their own
    "code" and thus the code of the decider has been copied into the
    algorithm of the input, and their isn't actually any "reference" to
    the decider any more, just a copy of a functionally equivalent algorithm.

    all valid classifiers have quines that allow them to recognize
    themselves, for starters, which then obviously allows them to identify machines that are code isomorphic

    They can recognize ONE representation of themselves, not any functional equivalent of themselves.


    but u flatly refuse to consider a functional equivalence tester as
    possible so why bother trying to flesh out exactly how that algo works
    right now?

    Because it isn't possible.


    (if i even could within the time frame of this discussion)

    That is your problem, you insist on being able to assume the impossible,
    which just shows that you (and your arguement) are unsound.


    that sounds like a problem to work on with at team of people interested
    in this discovery, not cranky boomer assholes shitposting
    antagonistically on usenet

    i don't need to be perfect rn to be right, just less wrong that you, and
    in the correct direction


    But you need to be right to be right, and starting with lies can't give
    you a sound proof.




    Thus it is only a property of the pair (input, decider) or a kind of
    "subjective" property. When we what to know a property of something,
    we want it to be an OBJECTIVE property, so we know how WE would see
    it if we processed it. We don't care about what some random decider
    sees as a subjective property.

    it's objectively subjective Efn+ deal with it

    In other words, you are admitting to your error.

    this isn't actually a contradiction. the paradox only references a particular classifier ... so ofc it only contradicts a particular set of (functionally equivalent) classifiers. i don't really see why u have a problem with this, other than the confusion that undecidability meant something more than that,

    Because the ability to make every single classifier wrong for some input
    is one way to make a problem provably undecidable.


    it never did actually

    undecidable arguments never contraindicated general ability. they only contraindicate a particular interface

    But "arguements" are never "undecidable", only problem, so you are just starting with a classification error that you refuse to look at



    Your logic is just internally self-inconsistant.



    If you want to try to build a field that uses such subjective

    this is still just TM computing, i'm not even extending TMs with this
    argument. the fundamentals of computability just hasn't been fleshed
    out all that well

    Sure it has, you just refuse to try to understand it, because to do so
    would make you see how stupid your ideas are.

    You have to keep to vague generalities and presumed abilities because
    to actually try to implement them show that you don't knwo what you
    are doing.

    Ef2-Ef2-Ef2- accusing me of not knowing everything in regards to algos so mindbogglingly challenging we refused to even really look into them over
    the past century is pretty rich dude

    In other words, you are admitting that you don't care about truth, but
    just want people to accept wild speculation.




    properties, go ahead, but you will need to show that it is good for
    actually doing something. And that is going to be a tough task.




    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented >>>>>>>
    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a-a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    i.e. only when the conditions of Rice's theorem are satisfied. >>>>>>>> But you
    haven't said that, so I should let you clarify your definition. >>>>>>>











    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 14:24:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    [ .... ]

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff to
    students over several decades. He'll have encountered arguments such as >>>> yours many times. It seems he was trying to bring you to a firm base for >>>> further discussion. "Paradoxical machine" is not a standard term of the >>>> art, ...

    because "the art" hasn't discussed what i'm getting at

    How would you even know this, apart from by being told by a knowledgeable
    expert?

    unless you got a specific discussion/paper/author to look into, this is
    just gaslighting

    That fails completely to address my point. What you're getting at has
    most likely been discussed many thousands of times, given how many
    students study mathematical logic. I just don't know for sure, not being
    an academic, but Ben will know. You can't know, either, unless you ask somebody knowledgeable.

    like i've had it with chucklefucks just assuming our academic system is functional as it stands, and that everything in regards to the
    fundamentals of computing has been fully fleshed out thus far

    We're not discussing the failings of our various academic systems. We're discussing mathematical logic. At the level we're discussing, yes,
    everything has been fleshed out, as you put it.

    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How
    can that be "misused"?

    machine paradoxes like the basic halting problem do not rule out
    "algorithmic ability" they just indicate an *interface* that cannot be implemented, a distinction that wouldn't have meant anything in 1936
    when turing came up with the first undecidability problem

    Here you're beginning to use your own private vocabulary, assuming
    everybody else understands it. That's not the case. I don't know what
    exactly you mean here by "machine paradoxes", "algorithmic ability", or "interface". It makes discussing things with you difficult.

    The basic halting problem is not a paradox. It's not even a problem any
    more; we know that there is no program which satisfies the halting
    problem's requirements.

    Ben was trying to discern what you were getting at. I've just had
    another look at your opening post in this thread, and it's anything but
    easy to understand. You use the phrase "paradoxical machine" but you
    don't actually define it.

    any machine that involves a semantic paradox by querying a classifier
    (like a classic decider) and then doing the opposite of the semantics indicated by the classifier's return, forming a paradox very much in the same vain as the liar's paradox

    OK, I'll accept that attempt at a definition. From a mathematical
    standpoint, it's clumsy, and doesn't look likely to lead to useful
    results. It's not even clear whether or not it can be determined for
    sure whether or not a particular machine is paradoxical in that sense. I
    think such determinability is necessary for a valid definition. It is
    one of the first things you would have to prove for that definition to be accepted.

    und = () -> if ( halts(und) ) loop()

    is for example a paradoxical machine, specifically one that specifically demonstrates the halting problem

    and if u think the self-reference is a problem ... it's not. it's just syntactic sugar for a quine.


    If you can't define it, it will likely be an inconsistent notion unlikely
    to lead to anything new and coherent. Hence Ben's request. He was
    trying to help you express yourself clearly.

    i didn't get a single constructive idea out of anything he's said thus far

    That's a pity. Had you followed his suggestions, you might well have got
    more out of the exchange.

    richard's been kinda useful, but still incredibly antagonistic and
    almost never constructive

    While Richard will never be getting a 6 from the Scandinavian judges for
    charm and diplomacy, he's basically right. His style has been coarsened
    by years of fruitless exchanges with Olcott. Almost everybody else has
    given up with Olcott.

    art, so it seems only fair to ask you to define exactly what you mean.

    As for "further depth", Ben could easily lead you to material you would >>>> not follow. Me neither.

    certainly not with childish argumentative techniques like cutting out
    and ignoring huge sections of my replies

    You've got to give him a chance to come back to later sections of your
    post. One thing at a time!

    i won't hold my breath

    Shame.

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 09:34:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/11/26 6:24 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    [ .... ]

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff to
    students over several decades. He'll have encountered arguments such as >>>>> yours many times. It seems he was trying to bring you to a firm base for >>>>> further discussion. "Paradoxical machine" is not a standard term of the >>>>> art, ...

    because "the art" hasn't discussed what i'm getting at

    How would you even know this, apart from by being told by a knowledgeable >>> expert?

    unless you got a specific discussion/paper/author to look into, this is
    just gaslighting

    That fails completely to address my point. What you're getting at has

    you fail completely to understand what gaslighting is.

    typical chucklefuck on usenet: no idea what a rational argument looks
    like, constantly slanging fallacy after fallacy around

    most likely been discussed many thousands of times, given how many
    students study mathematical logic. I just don't know for sure, not being
    an academic, but Ben will know. You can't know, either, unless you ask somebody knowledgeable.

    like i've had it with chucklefucks just assuming our academic system is
    functional as it stands, and that everything in regards to the
    fundamentals of computing has been fully fleshed out thus far

    We're not discussing the failings of our various academic systems. We're discussing mathematical logic. At the level we're discussing, yes, everything has been fleshed out, as you put it.

    first u claim u don't know for sure, and then u resolutely claim
    everything has been fleshed out

    ok chucklefuck


    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How
    can that be "misused"?

    because there's more than one way to ask a question, chucklefuck


    machine paradoxes like the basic halting problem do not rule out
    "algorithmic ability" they just indicate an *interface* that cannot be
    implemented, a distinction that wouldn't have meant anything in 1936
    when turing came up with the first undecidability problem

    Here you're beginning to use your own private vocabulary, assuming
    everybody else understands it. That's not the case. I don't know what exactly you mean here by "machine paradoxes", "algorithmic ability", or "interface". It makes discussing things with you difficult.

    The basic halting problem is not a paradox. It's not even a problem any more; we know that there is no program which satisfies the halting
    problem's requirements.

    Ben was trying to discern what you were getting at. I've just had
    another look at your opening post in this thread, and it's anything but
    easy to understand. You use the phrase "paradoxical machine" but you
    don't actually define it.

    any machine that involves a semantic paradox by querying a classifier
    (like a classic decider) and then doing the opposite of the semantics
    indicated by the classifier's return, forming a paradox very much in the
    same vain as the liar's paradox

    OK, I'll accept that attempt at a definition. From a mathematical standpoint, it's clumsy, and doesn't look likely to lead to useful
    results. It's not even clear whether or not it can be determined for
    sure whether or not a particular machine is paradoxical in that sense. I think such determinability is necessary for a valid definition. It is
    one of the first things you would have to prove for that definition to be accepted.

    no idea if it's going to be feasible for a one person to define that a
    degree that satisfies chucklefuckles like you

    i'm of the opinion mathematics went down a delusional path of valuing
    rigor over correctness


    und = () -> if ( halts(und) ) loop()

    is for example a paradoxical machine, specifically one that specifically
    demonstrates the halting problem

    and if u think the self-reference is a problem ... it's not. it's just
    syntactic sugar for a quine.


    If you can't define it, it will likely be an inconsistent notion unlikely >>> to lead to anything new and coherent. Hence Ben's request. He was
    trying to help you express yourself clearly.

    i didn't get a single constructive idea out of anything he's said thus far

    That's a pity. Had you followed his suggestions, you might well have got more out of the exchange.

    richard's been kinda useful, but still incredibly antagonistic and
    almost never constructive

    While Richard will never be getting a 6 from the Scandinavian judges for charm and diplomacy, he's basically right. His style has been coarsened
    by years of fruitless exchanges with Olcott. Almost everybody else has
    given up with Olcott.

    which is hilarious tbh

    to me polcott is canary in the chucklefuck coalmine that is the broken
    af fundamentals of computing


    art, so it seems only fair to ask you to define exactly what you mean.

    As for "further depth", Ben could easily lead you to material you would >>>>> not follow. Me neither.

    certainly not with childish argumentative techniques like cutting out
    and ignoring huge sections of my replies

    You've got to give him a chance to come back to later sections of your
    post. One thing at a time!

    i won't hold my breath

    Shame.

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 18:30:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 6:24 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    [ .... ]

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff
    to students over several decades. He'll have encountered
    arguments such as yours many times. It seems he was trying to
    bring you to a firm base for further discussion. "Paradoxical
    machine" is not a standard term of the art, ...

    because "the art" hasn't discussed what i'm getting at

    How would you even know this, apart from by being told by a
    knowledgeable expert?

    unless you got a specific discussion/paper/author to look into, this
    is just gaslighting

    That fails completely to address my point. What you're getting at has

    you fail completely to understand what gaslighting is.

    No. I just can't see how it's relevant, here. You made an ignorant
    claim about what "the art" has or hasn't discussed, something you didn't
    know and couldn't have known, not being an expert yourself.

    typical chucklefuck on usenet: no idea what a rational argument looks
    like, constantly slanging fallacy after fallacy around

    Lol! And you were the one complaining about Richard being antagonistic.
    ;-)

    most likely been discussed many thousands of times, given how many
    students study mathematical logic. I just don't know for sure, not being
    an academic, but Ben will know. You can't know, either, unless you ask
    somebody knowledgeable.

    like i've had it with chucklefucks just assuming our academic system is
    functional as it stands, and that everything in regards to the
    fundamentals of computing has been fully fleshed out thus far

    We're not discussing the failings of our various academic systems. We're
    discussing mathematical logic. At the level we're discussing, yes,
    everything has been fleshed out, as you put it.

    first u claim u don't know for sure, and then u resolutely claim
    everything has been fleshed out

    At the elementary level (the level at which we're discussing) it's bound
    to have been, just as basic arithmetic on the natural numbers has.

    ok chucklefuck


    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How
    can that be "misused"?

    because there's more than one way to ask a question, chucklefuck

    That sentence does not address the point it purports to address. I take
    it then you accept that a proof can't be "misused".

    [ .... ]

    any machine that involves a semantic paradox by querying a classifier
    (like a classic decider) and then doing the opposite of the semantics
    indicated by the classifier's return, forming a paradox very much in the >>> same vain as the liar's paradox

    OK, I'll accept that attempt at a definition. From a mathematical
    standpoint, it's clumsy, and doesn't look likely to lead to useful
    results. It's not even clear whether or not it can be determined for
    sure whether or not a particular machine is paradoxical in that sense. I
    think such determinability is necessary for a valid definition. It is
    one of the first things you would have to prove for that definition to be
    accepted.

    no idea if it's going to be feasible for a one person to define that a degree that satisfies chucklefuckles like you

    <sigh> I was hoping for an intelligent discussion with you.

    i'm of the opinion mathematics went down a delusional path of valuing
    rigor over correctness

    I have a degree in maths, I strongly suspect you don't. I'm thus in a
    position to inform you that correctness _is_ rigour in mathematics, and
    they have the highest priority there. You couldn't even coherently state
    what you mean by "correctness" as distinct from rigour.

    [ .... ]

    richard's been kinda useful, but still incredibly antagonistic and
    almost never constructive

    While Richard will never be getting a 6 from the Scandinavian judges for
    charm and diplomacy, he's basically right. His style has been coarsened
    by years of fruitless exchanges with Olcott. Almost everybody else has
    given up with Olcott.

    which is hilarious tbh

    to me polcott is canary in the chucklefuck coalmine that is the broken
    af fundamentals of computing

    The fundamentals of computing are not broken. I doubt very much you
    could even coherently state what you mean by "broken", here.

    Peter Olcott is a crank, proud of his ignorance, of low intelligence, and
    a liar to boot. I strongly recommend you not to respect or emulate him.

    [ .... ]

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 12:03:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/11/26 10:30 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 6:24 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    [ .... ]

    Just as a matter of interest, Ben has actually taught this stuff >>>>>>> to students over several decades. He'll have encountered
    arguments such as yours many times. It seems he was trying to
    bring you to a firm base for further discussion. "Paradoxical
    machine" is not a standard term of the art, ...

    because "the art" hasn't discussed what i'm getting at

    How would you even know this, apart from by being told by a
    knowledgeable expert?

    unless you got a specific discussion/paper/author to look into, this
    is just gaslighting

    That fails completely to address my point. What you're getting at has

    you fail completely to understand what gaslighting is.

    No. I just can't see how it's relevant, here. You made an ignorant
    claim about what "the art" has or hasn't discussed, something you didn't
    know and couldn't have known, not being an expert yourself.

    typical chucklefuck on usenet: no idea what a rational argument looks
    like, constantly slanging fallacy after fallacy around

    Lol! And you were the one complaining about Richard being antagonistic.
    ;-)

    most likely been discussed many thousands of times, given how many
    students study mathematical logic. I just don't know for sure, not being >>> an academic, but Ben will know. You can't know, either, unless you ask
    somebody knowledgeable.

    like i've had it with chucklefucks just assuming our academic system is >>>> functional as it stands, and that everything in regards to the
    fundamentals of computing has been fully fleshed out thus far

    We're not discussing the failings of our various academic systems. We're >>> discussing mathematical logic. At the level we're discussing, yes,
    everything has been fleshed out, as you put it.

    first u claim u don't know for sure, and then u resolutely claim
    everything has been fleshed out

    At the elementary level (the level at which we're discussing) it's bound
    to have been, just as basic arithmetic on the natural numbers has.

    no it's not chucklefuck, i'm not responding to ur unjustified
    gaslighting any further

    point to *actual proof* that said discussion took place, or stfu about
    it. it's really that simple


    ok chucklefuck


    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How
    can that be "misused"?

    because there's more than one way to ask a question, chucklefuck

    That sentence does not address the point it purports to address. I take
    it then you accept that a proof can't be "misused".

    there's more than one way to construct an interface (or input/output
    contract) for the same question

    mathematicians wanted a simple true/false interface for the decision
    problems, and that's not possible in computing due to the idiosyncrasies
    of self-referential logic

    that does not actually disprove our ability to answer semantic questions
    in general

    nor does it disprove an ability construct other kinds of interfaces that appropriately answer the desired semantic question

    if u still don't know what an interface is: i've posted and named four
    types of interface for semantic decision problems that have been cut
    from the replies thus far: classical decider, classical recognizer,
    partial decider, and partial recognizer. please do refer back to prior discussions for those definitions


    [ .... ]

    any machine that involves a semantic paradox by querying a classifier
    (like a classic decider) and then doing the opposite of the semantics
    indicated by the classifier's return, forming a paradox very much in the >>>> same vain as the liar's paradox

    OK, I'll accept that attempt at a definition. From a mathematical
    standpoint, it's clumsy, and doesn't look likely to lead to useful
    results. It's not even clear whether or not it can be determined for
    sure whether or not a particular machine is paradoxical in that sense. I >>> think such determinability is necessary for a valid definition. It is
    one of the first things you would have to prove for that definition to be >>> accepted.

    no idea if it's going to be feasible for a one person to define that a
    degree that satisfies chucklefuckles like you

    <sigh> I was hoping for an intelligent discussion with you.

    i'm of the opinion mathematics went down a delusional path of valuing
    rigor over correctness

    I have a degree in maths, I strongly suspect you don't. I'm thus in a position to inform you that correctness _is_ rigour in mathematics, and

    explain to me what an argument from authority is, and why it's a fallacy

    (please consider that amount of times the entirely academic consensus
    has historically been wrong in the past. and then consider that history
    may in fact still be repeating itself)

    look bro, i'll stop calling u chucklefuck if u stop making dumb
    arguments. but ur gunna actually work thru learning some fallacies you obviously don't yet really recognize in practice. richard does to. i've
    named like a dozen or so fallacies in his posts, most of which he's not acknowledged or worse tried to argue aren't fallacies

    it's really quite sad how bad humanity is on average at making coherent, meaningful arguments, and our rather ubiquitous inability to
    productively utilize internet discussion to find argumentative
    conclusions that all parties agree on, is a *direct* symptom of this

    they have the highest priority there. You couldn't even coherently state what you mean by "correctness" as distinct from rigour.

    rigor is just in accordance with some set of axioms

    correctness is how aligned those axioms are with some optimum/maximal
    amount of provability

    defining that already falls into the quibbles epistemology and is not something i'm really that interested discussing at present


    [ .... ]

    richard's been kinda useful, but still incredibly antagonistic and
    almost never constructive

    While Richard will never be getting a 6 from the Scandinavian judges for >>> charm and diplomacy, he's basically right. His style has been coarsened >>> by years of fruitless exchanges with Olcott. Almost everybody else has
    given up with Olcott.

    which is hilarious tbh

    to me polcott is canary in the chucklefuck coalmine that is the broken
    af fundamentals of computing

    The fundamentals of computing are not broken. I doubt very much you
    could even coherently state what you mean by "broken", here.

    Peter Olcott is a crank, proud of his ignorance, of low intelligence, and
    a liar to boot. I strongly recommend you not to respect or emulate him.

    i so far have pointed to flaws in polcott's arguments that he did not
    respond to, specifically a case where his HHH fails to classify properly
    to a non-diagonal input (ND) when HHH was not put into that position by
    the semantics of the input. his algo is unfortunately just a failure.
    the one pro i can say there is that he did at least produce something
    that executes on all input instead of being total nonsense.

    i called him a canary, not the solution, for a reason

    i on the other have two incredibly interesting, even if still rough
    around the edges, arguments against the undecidability proof made in
    turing's original paper /on computable numbers/

    i have yet to really get into that here because getting anyone to
    discuss what turing actually said vs ur basic halting problem has so far
    been beyond me


    [ .... ]

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 21:53:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 10:30 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 6:24 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    [ .... ]

    We're not discussing the failings of our various academic systems. We're >>>> discussing mathematical logic. At the level we're discussing, yes,
    everything has been fleshed out, as you put it.

    first u claim u don't know for sure, and then u resolutely claim
    everything has been fleshed out

    At the elementary level (the level at which we're discussing) it's bound
    to have been, just as basic arithmetic on the natural numbers has.

    no it's not chucklefuck, i'm not responding to ur unjustified
    gaslighting any further

    Oh yes you are! (See below.)

    point to *actual proof* that said discussion took place, or stfu about
    it. it's really that simple

    No. It was you that made the dumb assertion that such discussion had not
    taken place, without the slightest knowledge or expertise to back that
    up. Feel free to post some sort of justification for your original
    assertion or withdraw it.

    ok chucklefuck


    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How >>>> can that be "misused"?

    because there's more than one way to ask a question, chucklefuck

    That sentence does not address the point it purports to address. I take
    it then you accept that a proof can't be "misused".

    there's more than one way to construct an interface (or input/output contract) for the same question

    Questions don't have "interfaces". They have (or don't have) answers.

    You've said that proofs can be "misused". I'm still waiting for you to substantiate or retract that.

    mathematicians wanted a simple true/false interface for the decision problems, and that's not possible in computing due to the idiosyncrasies
    of self-referential logic

    No, mathematicians don't want "interfaces", whatever you might mean by
    that. Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding. A proof is a proof.

    that does not actually disprove our ability to answer semantic questions
    in general

    That's too vague to answer.

    nor does it disprove an ability construct other kinds of interfaces that appropriately answer the desired semantic question

    Using your own private vocaulary isn't a way to get intelligent
    discussion going.

    if u still don't know what an interface is: i've posted and named four
    types of interface for semantic decision problems that have been cut
    from the replies thus far: classical decider, classical recognizer,
    partial decider, and partial recognizer. please do refer back to prior discussions for those definitions

    I know what an interface is in the context of software. It has no
    meaning in the context of mathematics.

    [ .... ]

    <sigh> I was hoping for an intelligent discussion with you.

    i'm of the opinion mathematics went down a delusional path of valuing
    rigor over correctness

    I have a degree in maths, I strongly suspect you don't. I'm thus in a
    position to inform you that correctness _is_ rigour in mathematics, and

    explain to me what an argument from authority is, and why it's a fallacy

    You can find out elsewhere (e.g. on wikipedia) what an argument from
    authority is; you appear not to know.

    Arguing from expertise is something else altogether. I think you said at
    some stage you're a software engineer (as am I, although retired). If
    somebody said something dumb about software development and you corrected
    them, would you be "arguing from authority"? If you go to consult a
    doctor about some health problem, you would likely accept his advice.
    You wouldn't tell him to his face that he was "arguing from authority";
    at least not if you wanted to get better.

    In the same way, you are saying dumb things about mathematics. Experts
    in maths have corrected you on this newsgroup.

    (please consider that amount of times the entirely academic consensus
    has historically been wrong in the past. and then consider that history
    may in fact still be repeating itself)

    <sigh> If you want to show something is wrong, you must first become conversant with it, and then develop deeper understanding of it.

    The argument "hey, it might be wrong, therefore it probably is wrong" is
    the argument of a crank.

    2 + 2 = 4. No matter how many times you insist that might be wrong, it
    is _you_ that is wrong.

    look bro, i'll stop calling u chucklefuck if u stop making dumb
    arguments. but ur gunna actually work thru learning some fallacies you obviously don't yet really recognize in practice. richard does to. i've named like a dozen or so fallacies in his posts, most of which he's not acknowledged or worse tried to argue aren't fallacies

    I think you'd do better to attend to your own fallacies first.

    it's really quite sad how bad humanity is on average at making coherent, meaningful arguments, and our rather ubiquitous inability to
    productively utilize internet discussion to find argumentative
    conclusions that all parties agree on, is a *direct* symptom of this

    they have the highest priority there. You couldn't even coherently state
    what you mean by "correctness" as distinct from rigour.

    rigor is just in accordance with some set of axioms

    That's rather vague. Rigour is more to do with how one uses and
    manipulates a pertinent set of axioms and theorems.

    correctness is how aligned those axioms are with some optimum/maximal
    amount of provability

    Provability doesn't come in degrees. A proposition is either proven or
    not.

    defining that already falls into the quibbles epistemology and is not something i'm really that interested discussing at present

    That makes two of us.

    [ .... ]

    to me polcott is canary in the chucklefuck coalmine that is the broken
    af fundamentals of computing

    The fundamentals of computing are not broken. I doubt very much you
    could even coherently state what you mean by "broken", here.

    Peter Olcott is a crank, proud of his ignorance, of low intelligence, and
    a liar to boot. I strongly recommend you not to respect or emulate him.

    i so far have pointed to flaws in polcott's arguments that he did not respond to, ....

    He doesn't respond to other people's arguments.

    .... specifically a case where his HHH fails to classify properly to a non-diagonal input (ND) when HHH was not put into that position by the semantics of the input. his algo is unfortunately just a failure. the
    one pro i can say there is that he did at least produce something that executes on all input instead of being total nonsense.

    That would be somewhat unusual. But I repeat my advice to you, not to
    emulate him.

    i called him a canary, not the solution, for a reason

    i on the other have two incredibly interesting, even if still rough
    around the edges, arguments against the undecidability proof made in turing's original paper /on computable numbers/

    That proof in Turing's paper is just that; a proof. You'd do better to
    strive to understand it than tilt against windmills. You seem to share
    an attitude in common with Olcott, namely that mathematics doesn't apply
    to you, only to other people. You don't understand what a mathematical
    proof is, and what it means.

    i have yet to really get into that here because getting anyone to
    discuss what turing actually said vs ur basic halting problem has so far been beyond me

    Nobody's stopping you posting about Turing's 1936 paper.

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 11 15:36:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/11/26 1:53 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 10:30 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 6:24 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/10/26 4:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    [ .... ]

    We're not discussing the failings of our various academic systems. We're >>>>> discussing mathematical logic. At the level we're discussing, yes,
    everything has been fleshed out, as you put it.

    first u claim u don't know for sure, and then u resolutely claim
    everything has been fleshed out

    At the elementary level (the level at which we're discussing) it's bound >>> to have been, just as basic arithmetic on the natural numbers has.

    no it's not chucklefuck, i'm not responding to ur unjustified
    gaslighting any further

    Oh yes you are! (See below.)

    point to *actual proof* that said discussion took place, or stfu about
    it. it's really that simple

    No. It was you that made the dumb assertion that such discussion had not taken place, without the slightest knowledge or expertise to back that
    up. Feel free to post some sort of justification for your original
    assertion or withdraw it.

    lol, well between two assertions: that it happens vs it didn't ...

    it's not my responsibility to prove it never took pace, that's beyond
    freaking absurd. russel's teapot kind of absurd. i mean the fact ur even trying to demand a justification there is indicative of ur decrepit philosophical state regardless of whatever degrees u have

    how in the fuck are you supposed to productively participate in
    discussion if ur so damn confused on what kind of claims actually demand justification

    what a fucking joke this group is

    i will ignore further bare assertions that such discussion has taken
    place because it's not worth my time responding to such blatant fallacy:
    *find the discussion of stfu about it*


    ok chucklefuck


    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How >>>>> can that be "misused"?

    because there's more than one way to ask a question, chucklefuck

    That sentence does not address the point it purports to address. I take >>> it then you accept that a proof can't be "misused".

    there's more than one way to construct an interface (or input/output
    contract) for the same question

    Questions don't have "interfaces". They have (or don't have) answers.

    machines that may answer them, have interfaces


    You've said that proofs can be "misused". I'm still waiting for you to substantiate or retract that.

    specifically we overgeneralized. we took a proof against a particular interface, and overgeneralized it to a general inability ignoring the
    fact that other interfaces can exist, and aren't subject to the same
    kinds of disproofs


    mathematicians wanted a simple true/false interface for the decision
    problems, and that's not possible in computing due to the idiosyncrasies
    of self-referential logic

    No, mathematicians don't want "interfaces", whatever you might mean by
    that. Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding. A proof is a proof.

    interpretation of a proof is not a proof, just an interpretation


    that does not actually disprove our ability to answer semantic questions
    in general

    That's too vague to answer.

    nor does it disprove an ability construct other kinds of interfaces that
    appropriately answer the desired semantic question

    Using your own private vocaulary isn't a way to get intelligent
    discussion going.

    if u still don't know what an interface is: i've posted and named four
    types of interface for semantic decision problems that have been cut
    from the replies thus far: classical decider, classical recognizer,
    partial decider, and partial recognizer. please do refer back to prior
    discussions for those definitions

    I know what an interface is in the context of software. It has no
    meaning in the context of mathematics.

    math needs to catch up with the 21st century eh???


    [ .... ]

    <sigh> I was hoping for an intelligent discussion with you.

    i'm of the opinion mathematics went down a delusional path of valuing
    rigor over correctness

    I have a degree in maths, I strongly suspect you don't. I'm thus in a
    position to inform you that correctness _is_ rigour in mathematics, and

    explain to me what an argument from authority is, and why it's a fallacy

    You can find out elsewhere (e.g. on wikipedia) what an argument from authority is; you appear not to know.

    Arguing from expertise is something else altogether. I think you said at some stage you're a software engineer (as am I, although retired). If somebody said something dumb about software development and you corrected them, would you be "arguing from authority"? If you go to consult a
    doctor about some health problem, you would likely accept his advice.

    i don't just arbitrarily trust doctors. i use them as a source of
    arguments that i then try to verify via some causal explanation that
    isn't based on the source of the argument itself, or at least up until
    as much as we know (which is *far* from complete)

    You wouldn't tell him to his face that he was "arguing from authority";
    at least not if you wanted to get better.

    In the same way, you are saying dumb things about mathematics. Experts
    in maths have corrected you on this newsgroup.

    it's funny how you can read the definition but not actually understand
    why an argument from authority is a fallacy

    it is a type of origin fallacy (where you attack the source of the
    argument vs the argument itself). truth cares not about who said it, and therefor who said it doesn't matter


    (please consider that amount of times the entirely academic consensus
    has historically been wrong in the past. and then consider that history
    may in fact still be repeating itself)

    <sigh> If you want to show something is wrong, you must first become conversant with it, and then develop deeper understanding of it.

    or something was missed at a fundamental level and i can basically just
    ignore a bunch idiocy built on top


    The argument "hey, it might be wrong, therefore it probably is wrong" is
    the argument of a crank.

    yeah well in order to work on an argument like that over potentially
    years ... ones gunna have to maintain a bit of bravado that it can
    actually be done in the face of many failures and neggers in the process

    u believe too much in tv reality


    2 + 2 = 4. No matter how many times you insist that might be wrong, it
    is _you_ that is wrong.

    false analogy fallacy


    look bro, i'll stop calling u chucklefuck if u stop making dumb
    arguments. but ur gunna actually work thru learning some fallacies you
    obviously don't yet really recognize in practice. richard does to. i've
    named like a dozen or so fallacies in his posts, most of which he's not
    acknowledged or worse tried to argue aren't fallacies

    I think you'd do better to attend to your own fallacies first.

    u haven't specifically mentioned one


    it's really quite sad how bad humanity is on average at making coherent,
    meaningful arguments, and our rather ubiquitous inability to
    productively utilize internet discussion to find argumentative
    conclusions that all parties agree on, is a *direct* symptom of this

    they have the highest priority there. You couldn't even coherently state >>> what you mean by "correctness" as distinct from rigour.

    rigor is just in accordance with some set of axioms

    That's rather vague. Rigour is more to do with how one uses and
    manipulates a pertinent set of axioms and theorems.

    correctness is how aligned those axioms are with some optimum/maximal
    amount of provability

    Provability doesn't come in degrees. A proposition is either proven or
    not.

    uhhh ... no, the provability of a proposition can change based on the
    axioms used to state and prove it,

    a consequence highly related to incompleteness

    (which i'm not at present trying to refute, i'm currently addressing self-referential set-classification paradoxes with *computing* not math
    more fundamentally)


    defining that already falls into the quibbles epistemology and is not
    something i'm really that interested discussing at present

    That makes two of us.

    [ .... ]

    to me polcott is canary in the chucklefuck coalmine that is the broken >>>> af fundamentals of computing

    The fundamentals of computing are not broken. I doubt very much you
    could even coherently state what you mean by "broken", here.

    Peter Olcott is a crank, proud of his ignorance, of low intelligence, and >>> a liar to boot. I strongly recommend you not to respect or emulate him.

    i so far have pointed to flaws in polcott's arguments that he did not
    respond to, ....

    He doesn't respond to other people's arguments.

    yes i realize,

    i really do try to do so far more than ur average poster. i'm not
    perfect, no body is. but in terms of responding to discussion i'm on the extremely persistent end of the scale and i realize i need to address
    peoples qualms continually, at least on some level, to ever achieve real success in doing so


    .... specifically a case where his HHH fails to classify properly to a
    non-diagonal input (ND) when HHH was not put into that position by the
    semantics of the input. his algo is unfortunately just a failure. the
    one pro i can say there is that he did at least produce something that
    executes on all input instead of being total nonsense.

    That would be somewhat unusual. But I repeat my advice to you, not to emulate him.

    actually his response was that all self-references are invalid. which i
    don't agree to. i believe we can have self-reference, and at least an increased level of completeness over today


    i called him a canary, not the solution, for a reason

    i on the other have two incredibly interesting, even if still rough
    around the edges, arguments against the undecidability proof made in
    turing's original paper /on computable numbers/

    That proof in Turing's paper is just that; a proof. You'd do better to strive to understand it than tilt against windmills. You seem to share
    an attitude in common with Olcott, namely that mathematics doesn't apply
    to you, only to other people. You don't understand what a mathematical
    proof is, and what it means.

    and u don't understand that proofs can be wrong if are founded on bad assumptions

    the major assumption wrong with undecidability proofs (in computing) is confusing invalid interfaces specifications with algorithmic inability
    to answer a question. they are not the same thing


    i have yet to really get into that here because getting anyone to
    discuss what turing actually said vs ur basic halting problem has so far
    been beyond me

    Nobody's stopping you posting about Turing's 1936 paper.

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 12:28:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 1:53 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 10:30 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 6:24 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    i will ignore further bare assertions that such discussion has taken
    place because it's not worth my time responding to such blatant fallacy: *find the discussion of stfu about it*

    Discussions which take place in student bars don't get recorded. Neither
    do informal discussions between researchers. But, from my experience,
    such discussion span the space of elementary ideas in any topic.

    I think we should now agree that you had no basis for asserting that such discussions had never taken place, and I can not prove they did.

    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How >>>>>> can that be "misused"?

    because there's more than one way to ask a question, chucklefuck

    A proof is about a proposition, not a question.

    That sentence does not address the point it purports to address. I take >>>> it then you accept that a proof can't be "misused".

    there's more than one way to construct an interface (or input/output
    contract) for the same question

    Questions don't have "interfaces". They have (or don't have) answers.

    machines that may answer them, have interfaces

    Really? Please give an example of what you mean by interface in this
    context. Turing machines don't have interfaces, for example. They have specifications.

    You've said that proofs can be "misused". I'm still waiting for you to
    substantiate or retract that.

    specifically we overgeneralized. we took a proof against a particular interface, and overgeneralized it to a general inability ignoring the
    fact that other interfaces can exist, and aren't subject to the same
    kinds of disproofs

    Extracting what sense I can from that garbled nonsense, who precisely is
    "we"? It may include you, it does not include me. Mathematicians don't overgeneralize proofs, they mean what they prove. Any misunderstandings
    are the results of people like you misunderstanding.

    For example, the halting problem is proven, and its proof means exactly
    what it says.

    mathematicians wanted a simple true/false interface for the decision
    problems, and that's not possible in computing due to the idiosyncrasies >>> of self-referential logic

    No, mathematicians don't want "interfaces", whatever you might mean by
    that. Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be
    answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding. A proof is a proof.

    interpretation of a proof is not a proof, just an interpretation

    If done correctly, such "interpretation" (whatever you mean by that) is correct. Perhaps you could give an example of a wrong "interpretation",
    if you have any.

    [ .... ]

    nor does it disprove an ability construct other kinds of interfaces that >>> appropriately answer the desired semantic question

    Using your own private vocabulary isn't a way to get intelligent
    discussion going.

    if u still don't know what an interface is: i've posted and named four
    types of interface for semantic decision problems that have been cut
    from the replies thus far: classical decider, classical recognizer,
    partial decider, and partial recognizer. please do refer back to prior
    discussions for those definitions

    I know what an interface is in the context of software. It has no
    meaning in the context of mathematics.

    math needs to catch up with the 21st century eh???

    Don't be silly. Maths has its own terminology appropriate to itself,
    just as software development has. You are trying to use the latter while talking about the former, resulting in meaningless nonsense.

    [ .... ]

    I have a degree in maths, I strongly suspect you don't. I'm thus in a >>>> position to inform you that correctness _is_ rigour in mathematics, and

    explain to me what an argument from authority is, and why it's a fallacy

    You can find out elsewhere (e.g. on wikipedia) what an argument from
    authority is; you appear not to know.

    Arguing from expertise is something else altogether. I think you said at
    some stage you're a software engineer (as am I, although retired). If
    somebody said something dumb about software development and you corrected
    them, would you be "arguing from authority"? If you go to consult a
    doctor about some health problem, you would likely accept his advice.

    i don't just arbitrarily trust doctors. i use them as a source of
    arguments that i then try to verify via some causal explanation that
    isn't based on the source of the argument itself, or at least up until
    as much as we know (which is *far* from complete)

    But you respect the doctor's expertise. And if you failed to understand
    his more detailed explanations, you would still accept that expertise.
    Why should the expertise of software engineers or mathematicians be any different?

    [ .... ]

    In the same way, you are saying dumb things about mathematics. Experts
    in maths have corrected you on this newsgroup.

    No answer to this point?

    it's funny how you can read the definition but not actually understand
    why an argument from authority is a fallacy

    It's irrelevant here. It's your misunderstanding of the term. I have
    not made an argument from authority in this thread.

    it is a type of origin fallacy (where you attack the source of the
    argument vs the argument itself). truth cares not about who said it, and therefor who said it doesn't matter

    But experts are vastly more likely to know and speak the truth than ignoramuses. In the real world, where we don't have the time and
    resources to verify every last detail of every important fact, who should
    we believe? An expert such as Ben Bacarisse, or a low intelligence crank
    such as Peter Olcott?

    (please consider that amount of times the entirely academic consensus
    has historically been wrong in the past. and then consider that history
    may in fact still be repeating itself)

    <sigh> If you want to show something is wrong, you must first become
    conversant with it, and then develop deeper understanding of it.

    or something was missed at a fundamental level and i can basically just ignore a bunch idiocy built on top

    That's crank talk.

    The argument "hey, it might be wrong, therefore it probably is wrong" is
    the argument of a crank.

    yeah well in order to work on an argument like that over potentially
    years ... ones gunna have to maintain a bit of bravado that it can
    actually be done in the face of many failures and neggers in the process

    "Neggers"? The alternative is to accept that proven propositions are
    correct. That is altogether more sensible.

    u believe too much in tv reality

    Uhh? Where did that come from?

    2 + 2 = 4. No matter how many times you insist that might be wrong, it
    is _you_ that is wrong.

    false analogy fallacy

    Not at all. 2 + 2 = 4 has been rigorously proven. So have the basic
    results of computing theory. What Olcott has done, and you look like
    doing the same, is to dispute theorems becase he doesn't like what they
    have proven. For example, that what is true is not always provable.

    [ .... ]

    I think you'd do better to attend to your own fallacies first.

    u haven't specifically mentioned one

    You've said some false things. You should deal with these first before accusing others of falsehoods.

    [ .... ]

    Provability doesn't come in degrees. A proposition is either proven or
    not.

    uhhh ... no, the provability of a proposition can change based on the
    axioms used to state and prove it,

    The axioms used are part of the proposition. And that proposition is
    either provable or it is not. It is never 42% provable, or any nonsense
    like that.

    a consequence highly related to incompleteness

    No. The various forms of incompleteness are either proven or not. Don't follow Olcott here.

    (which i'm not at present trying to refute, i'm currently addressing self-referential set-classification paradoxes with *computing* not math
    more fundamentally)

    You might be using the wrong tool.

    [ .... ]

    i so far have pointed to flaws in polcott's arguments that he did not
    respond to, ....

    He doesn't respond to other people's arguments.

    yes i realize,

    i really do try to do so far more than ur average poster. i'm not
    perfect, no body is. but in terms of responding to discussion i'm on the extremely persistent end of the scale and i realize i need to address peoples qualms continually, at least on some level, to ever achieve real success in doing so

    You need to learn from other posters, too.

    .... specifically a case where his HHH fails to classify properly to a
    non-diagonal input (ND) when HHH was not put into that position by the
    semantics of the input. his algo is unfortunately just a failure. the
    one pro i can say there is that he did at least produce something that
    executes on all input instead of being total nonsense.

    That would be somewhat unusual. But I repeat my advice to you, not to
    emulate him.

    actually his response was that all self-references are invalid. which i don't agree to. i believe we can have self-reference, and at least an increased level of completeness over today

    None of the theorems which have figured in the newgroup rely on
    self-reference. The belief they do is an error of some posters.

    [ .... ]

    That proof in Turing's paper is just that; a proof. You'd do better to
    strive to understand it than tilt against windmills. You seem to share
    an attitude in common with Olcott, namely that mathematics doesn't apply
    to you, only to other people. You don't understand what a mathematical
    proof is, and what it means.

    and u don't understand that proofs can be wrong if are founded on bad assumptions

    I assure you I do. But it is you who fails to understand what a proof
    is, and what it means. I suspect that, like Olcott, you don't understand
    proof by contradiction. Unlike him, you could probably learn it.

    the major assumption wrong with undecidability proofs (in computing) is confusing invalid interfaces specifications with algorithmic inability
    to answer a question. they are not the same thing

    There are no wrong assumptions with existing undecidability proofs. If
    there were, they wouldn't be proofs.

    [ .... ]

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 12:43:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the >>>>> simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so?
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want >>>> to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being >>>> clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask

    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the
    term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked
    about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were --
    i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent
    (but assumed to exist) machine.

    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a "definition". but i guess, if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on usenet?

    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???
    It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't
    define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's theorum. we
    can stick with that for now

    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities,
    yes?

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than >>>> 37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about >>>> und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity >>> classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the >>> permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to
    define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines
    that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical
    machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty fucking nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide on all
    the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking shambles and having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field. In modern
    texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N
    are TM decidable and some are not. Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable
    sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs? If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and
    TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs
    work.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 13:03:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

    But experts are vastly more likely to know and speak the truth than ignoramuses. In the real world, where we don't have the time and
    resources to verify every last detail of every important fact, who should
    we believe? An expert such as Ben Bacarisse, or a low intelligence crank such as Peter Olcott?

    I thank you for you kind remarks, but I feel compelled by my
    embarrassment to clarify something that I am sure you know but others
    might not. Yes, I taught this material for years, but it was a second
    year undergraduate course and first and second year courses are not
    always taught by expects in the academic sense of the word. That would
    be someone who is publishing work in the field or writing definitive
    textbooks on the topic. I had, naturally, studied the material as a
    student myself and then read many papers and books on the subject when preparing the lectures, course material, exercises and reading lists, so
    I would call myself knowledgeable (at the time) rather than an expert.

    I know this is not really the point you are making, but I wanted to
    clarify.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 16:39:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/02/2026 20:03, dart200 wrote:
    i have yet to really get into that here because getting anyone to
    discuss what turing actually said vs ur basic halting problem has so far
    been beyond me


    I will, some day, get to it... So many words.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory,sci.logic on Thu Feb 12 17:23:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/02/2026 21:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be
    answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding.


    It's not at all clear to me that those unanswerables are properly
    classified as "decision problem" unless one uses an auto-explication (my
    term for when a term is both an explicatum and explicandum of an
    explication). Carnap's definition of explication excludes such an act
    (though I don't know if he'd picked up the bad habit of using "decision problem" as an explicatum).

    I think Carnap would have admitted "L-decision problem" as an explicatum
    of the explicandum "decision problem". The nonsense act of calling pathologically self-referential problems as "L-decision problems" would
    be obvious because one does not have a problem of choosing between only classifications "true" and "false" when one has merely been fooled into thinking those are candidates without a whole heap of others beside.

    I hereby indulge myself with some old-timey assertive logistic
    philosophy, you might call it a strawman, something to ponder and burn down:

    We can understand the fallacy by making explicit the implicit false
    assumption: "the sentence after the conjunctive connector following can
    be assigned no valuation but 'true' or 'false' AND blah-blah". That is
    the cultural synergy covertly induced in the ponderer by a poetic form
    of expression ("proposition" the explicatum, not the explicandum, it's
    another auto-explication) but it's not /well/ formalised in that it's a
    mess of massive description and wonderment. I think usage of AND gives
    us falsity for pathologically self-referential 'blah-blah' if we have
    the right type-system but other connectives give us other, non-truth, classifications. A connective that means the implication of neither
    truth nor falsity is also available. Of course, the ponderer has the
    inducement in the form of a volition to be disobedient and choose to
    react in a variety of unassertive ways.


    A proof is a proof.

    Tautology.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 17:29:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    First dart200 wrote:

    nor does it disprove an ability construct other kinds of interfaces that
    appropriately answer the desired semantic question

    Then On 11/02/2026 21:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Using your own private vocaulary isn't a way to get intelligent
    discussion going.

    It's not that private, it's modern computer programming waffle.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 18:36:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/02/2026 12:28, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Turing machines don't have interfaces, for example. They have specifications.

    Turing c-machines have interfaces, turing a-machines, perhaps, do not.
    But in modern programming terminology, an ISA may be regarded as an
    interface because it is an API and an a-machine's specification is just
    an ISA.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 18:51:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/02/2026 21:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    If
    somebody said something dumb about software development and you corrected them, would you be "arguing from authority"?

    Yes. The question is how much and in what ways the listener trusts the authority.


    If you go to consult a
    doctor about some health problem, you would likely accept his advice.

    That statement means a lot less than you think, dart200 knows it from
    that oh so valuable experience and the error is relevant to the present
    debate. The patient needs strong, accurate, precise volition, not
    acceptance. A patient that received too much weak, inaccurate, and/or
    vague volition from care and guide authorities of all sorts can't
    /trust/ true advice even when he /believes/ it.

    The patient's purpose in receiving advice is the volition it induces.
    what is the advisor's purpose? For some of them it is to be BIG but then
    the patient can't trust the true advice, even enough to bother to
    understand the words in it! Suppose a patient had many BIG advisers who
    induced harmful (including weak, thus time-wasting) volitions.

    My mother had a volition induced to allow a drop of acid in her eye to
    be neutralised by a base. Apparently, except to the doctor in question,
    it is well known that acids can be flushed from the eye with little harm
    done but a base will corrode the eye rapidly! Think carefully about your
    faith in authority where-ever it comes from, lest you induce someone to
    give their sight to the doctor that thought BIG true facts such as "base neutralises acid" were all it was about.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 19:33:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk>
    wrote:
    On 12/02/2026 12:28, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Turing machines don't have interfaces, for example. They have
    specifications.

    Turing c-machines ....

    What?

    .... have interfaces, turing a-machines,

    What?

    .... perhaps, do not. But in modern programming terminology, an ISA

    A what?

    may be regarded as an interface because it is an API and an
    a-machine's specification is just an ISA.

    An interface is a description of a boundary between two things. dart200
    was failing to state what those two things were in his misuse of
    "interface".

    A turing machine has no interface because it has no boundary with
    anything else. It is a purely mathematical abstraction with a set of
    states, a tape, and rules for moving between states and moving and
    writing the tape.

    --
    Tristan Wibberley
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 19:39:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
    Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

    But experts are vastly more likely to know and speak the truth than
    ignoramuses. In the real world, where we don't have the time and
    resources to verify every last detail of every important fact, who should
    we believe? An expert such as Ben Bacarisse, or a low intelligence crank
    such as Peter Olcott?

    I thank you for you kind remarks, but I feel compelled by my
    embarrassment to clarify something that I am sure you know but others
    might not. Yes, I taught this material for years, but it was a second
    year undergraduate course and first and second year courses are not
    always taught by expects in the academic sense of the word. That would
    be someone who is publishing work in the field or writing definitive textbooks on the topic. I had, naturally, studied the material as a
    student myself and then read many papers and books on the subject when preparing the lectures, course material, exercises and reading lists, so
    I would call myself knowledgeable (at the time) rather than an expert.

    Nevertheless, you know more about the subject than just about anybody
    else posting in this group, certainly more than me. Also, I'm sure you
    would acknowledge the limits of your knowledge if some tricky question
    pushed those limits.

    I know this is not really the point you are making, but I wanted to
    clarify.

    OK, sorry if what I wrote about you wasn't quite accurate.

    --
    Ben.
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory,sci.logic on Thu Feb 12 20:02:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
    On 11/02/2026 21:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be
    answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding.

    It's not at all clear to me that those unanswerables are properly
    classified as "decision problem" unless one uses an auto-explication (my
    term for when a term is both an explicatum and explicandum of an explication). Carnap's definition of explication excludes such an act
    (though I don't know if he'd picked up the bad habit of using "decision problem" as an explicatum).

    My understanding of a "decision problem" is one whose solution is a
    machine which, in finite time, can correctly classify any machine into
    one of two categories.

    In this sense there is no solution to the halting problem.

    I think Carnap would have admitted "L-decision problem" as an explicatum
    of the explicandum "decision problem". The nonsense act of calling pathologically self-referential problems ....

    What would these be? We haven't encountered any such problem in this newsgroup. The halting problem, for example, is a simple yes/no
    question without any references, self- or otherwise.

    .... as "L-decision problems" would be obvious because one does not
    have a problem of choosing between only classifications "true" and
    "false" when one has merely been fooled into thinking those are
    candidates without a whole heap of others beside.

    Those are the possibilities made possible by the definition of a
    "decision problem". If there are more possibilities, we have a
    different animal. Who's fooling whom here?

    I hereby indulge myself with some old-timey assertive logistic
    philosophy, you might call it a strawman, something to ponder and burn down:

    We can understand the fallacy by making explicit the implicit false assumption: "the sentence after the conjunctive connector following can
    be assigned no valuation but 'true' or 'false' AND blah-blah". That is
    the cultural synergy covertly induced in the ponderer by a poetic form
    of expression ("proposition" the explicatum, not the explicandum, it's another auto-explication) but it's not /well/ formalised in that it's a
    mess of massive description and wonderment. I think usage of AND gives
    us falsity for pathologically self-referential 'blah-blah' if we have
    the right type-system but other connectives give us other, non-truth, classifications. A connective that means the implication of neither
    truth nor falsity is also available. Of course, the ponderer has the inducement in the form of a volition to be disobedient and choose to
    react in a variety of unassertive ways.

    Sorry, you've completely lost me with that paragraph - too many long
    words and long sentences, too abstract.

    A proof is a proof.

    Tautology.

    Context, please! There are posters here who seem to think that a proof
    is merely somebody's opinion. That sentence was to encourage them to
    revise their false notions.

    --
    Tristan Wibberley
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Fri Feb 13 01:39:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 12/02/2026 20:02, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
    On 11/02/2026 21:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be
    answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding.

    It's not at all clear to me that those unanswerables are properly
    classified as "decision problem" unless one uses an auto-explication (my
    term for when a term is both an explicatum and explicandum of an
    explication). Carnap's definition of explication excludes such an act
    (though I don't know if he'd picked up the bad habit of using "decision
    problem" as an explicatum).

    My understanding of a "decision problem" is one whose solution is a
    machine which, in finite time, can correctly classify any machine into
    one of two categories.

    Then a problem without a solution is not a decision problem; I think
    that's the right way to think about it. I think Olcott thinks about it
    that way too, at least for days at a time. Conversations here manage to
    make me slip between modes sometimes.


    In this sense there is no solution to the halting problem.

    And by your partial explication above, the halting problem is therefore
    not a decision problem. I don't think your explication will stick still
    for more than half a sentence, though; at any moment I think you or
    someone else studious will say that there /is/ a solution to the halting problem, the solution they will moot is that there is no universal halt-decider.


    I think Carnap would have admitted "L-decision problem" as an explicatum
    of the explicandum "decision problem". The nonsense act of calling
    pathologically self-referential problems ....

    What would these be? We haven't encountered any such problem in this newsgroup. The halting problem, for example, is a simple yes/no
    question without any references, self- or otherwise.

    I think you're mixing the halting problem with elements of it's
    resolution; different relata (the things being referenced by the term)
    in different sentences above.


    .... as "L-decision problems" would be obvious because one does not
    have a problem of choosing between only classifications "true" and
    "false" when one has merely been fooled into thinking those are
    candidates without a whole heap of others beside.

    Those are the possibilities made possible by the definition of a
    "decision problem". If there are more possibilities, we have a
    different animal. Who's fooling whom here?

    I think many users of the term mix those things with a solution with
    those things that have none due to the grammatical form of the problem statement and I think that might have become commonplace.


    I hereby indulge myself with some old-timey assertive logistic
    philosophy, you might call it a strawman, something to ponder and burn down:

    We can understand the fallacy by making explicit the implicit false
    assumption: "the sentence after the conjunctive connector following can
    be assigned no valuation but 'true' or 'false' AND blah-blah". That is
    the cultural synergy covertly induced in the ponderer by a poetic form
    of expression ("proposition" the explicatum, not the explicandum, it's
    another auto-explication) but it's not /well/ formalised in that it's a
    mess of massive description and wonderment. I think usage of AND gives
    us falsity for pathologically self-referential 'blah-blah' if we have
    the right type-system but other connectives give us other, non-truth,
    classifications. A connective that means the implication of neither
    truth nor falsity is also available. Of course, the ponderer has the
    inducement in the form of a volition to be disobedient and choose to
    react in a variety of unassertive ways.

    Sorry, you've completely lost me with that paragraph - too many long
    words and long sentences, too abstract.

    I think you'll have to miss out.


    A proof is a proof.

    Tautology.

    Context, please! There are posters here who seem to think that a proof
    is merely somebody's opinion. That sentence was to encourage them to
    revise their false notions.

    I think it will necessarily have failed to achieve that but I'm glad of
    your purpose.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Feb 12 21:27:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/12/26 4:28 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 1:53 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 10:30 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 6:24 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    i will ignore further bare assertions that such discussion has taken
    place because it's not worth my time responding to such blatant fallacy:
    *find the discussion of stfu about it*

    Discussions which take place in student bars don't get recorded. Neither
    do informal discussions between researchers. But, from my experience,
    such discussion span the space of elementary ideas in any topic.

    I think we should now agree that you had no basis for asserting that such discussions had never taken place, and I can not prove they did.

    until some evidence manifests in regards to it... i'm going to continue assuming they didn't


    the problem with undecidability proofs is we've misused them.

    Such a proof demonstrates a particular proposition is undecidable. How >>>>>>> can that be "misused"?

    because there's more than one way to ask a question, chucklefuck

    A proof is about a proposition, not a question.

    the proof assumes we ask questions thru a certain interface, chucklefuck


    That sentence does not address the point it purports to address. I take >>>>> it then you accept that a proof can't be "misused".

    there's more than one way to construct an interface (or input/output
    contract) for the same question

    Questions don't have "interfaces". They have (or don't have) answers.

    machines that may answer them, have interfaces

    Really? Please give an example of what you mean by interface in this context. Turing machines don't have interfaces, for example. They have specifications.

    yes, the interface *specifies* the input->output
    contract/behavior/semantics of the machine EfOaEfOaEfOa

    when turing demonstrated the first paradox, he assumed a particular
    interface for his circle-free decider EYoo, and used that in his proof to
    show a contradiction

    he clearly didn't disprove an actual machine since the machine doesn't
    exist and therefore he was only working with an presumed interface.


    You've said that proofs can be "misused". I'm still waiting for you to
    substantiate or retract that.

    specifically we overgeneralized. we took a proof against a particular
    interface, and overgeneralized it to a general inability ignoring the
    fact that other interfaces can exist, and aren't subject to the same
    kinds of disproofs

    Extracting what sense I can from that garbled nonsense, who precisely is "we"? It may include you, it does not include me. Mathematicians don't overgeneralize proofs, they mean what they prove. Any misunderstandings

    ok chucklefuck, didn't realize mathematicians are gods who never make
    mistakes bro. can we move past such random ass statements??? they do
    nothing more than make u look like bleating sheeple with a lack of
    critical thought

    are the results of people like you misunderstanding.

    For example, the halting problem is proven, and its proof means exactly
    what it says.

    turing's proof does two things wrong:

    1) it confuses disproving an interface (input/output specification) with
    that of disproving other interfaces, let alone general ability

    2) it ignores the fact one can add just a tiny bit of logic to the
    diagonal machine and avoid that particular paradox from arising in the
    first place


    mathematicians wanted a simple true/false interface for the decision
    problems, and that's not possible in computing due to the idiosyncrasies >>>> of self-referential logic

    No, mathematicians don't want "interfaces", whatever you might mean by
    that. Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be >>> answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding. A proof is a proof.

    interpretation of a proof is not a proof, just an interpretation

    If done correctly, such "interpretation" (whatever you mean by that) is correct. Perhaps you could give an example of a wrong "interpretation",
    if you have any.

    [ .... ]

    nor does it disprove an ability construct other kinds of interfaces that >>>> appropriately answer the desired semantic question

    Using your own private vocabulary isn't a way to get intelligent
    discussion going.

    if u still don't know what an interface is: i've posted and named four >>>> types of interface for semantic decision problems that have been cut
    from the replies thus far: classical decider, classical recognizer,
    partial decider, and partial recognizer. please do refer back to prior >>>> discussions for those definitions

    I know what an interface is in the context of software. It has no
    meaning in the context of mathematics.

    math needs to catch up with the 21st century eh???

    Don't be silly. Maths has its own terminology appropriate to itself,

    software development *is* largely just math, the division u see here is
    false.

    software engineering the term is almost entirely an oxymoron.

    just as software development has. You are trying to use the latter while talking about the former, resulting in meaningless nonsense.

    [ .... ]

    I have a degree in maths, I strongly suspect you don't. I'm thus in a >>>>> position to inform you that correctness _is_ rigour in mathematics, and

    explain to me what an argument from authority is, and why it's a fallacy

    You can find out elsewhere (e.g. on wikipedia) what an argument from
    authority is; you appear not to know.

    Arguing from expertise is something else altogether. I think you said at >>> some stage you're a software engineer (as am I, although retired). If
    somebody said something dumb about software development and you corrected >>> them, would you be "arguing from authority"? If you go to consult a
    doctor about some health problem, you would likely accept his advice.

    i don't just arbitrarily trust doctors. i use them as a source of
    arguments that i then try to verify via some causal explanation that
    isn't based on the source of the argument itself, or at least up until
    as much as we know (which is *far* from complete)

    But you respect the doctor's expertise. And if you failed to understand
    his more detailed explanations, you would still accept that expertise.

    no. if i didn't "understand" his explanation/justification on a level
    that satisfied my curiosity and desire to understand wtf they're doing
    to my body, i would reject his advice. so should anyone else with an
    ounce of critical thot.

    I WILL CONTINUE TO REJECT ANY ATTEMPTS AT GASLIGHTING ME INTO
    QUESTIONING MY INHERENT ABILITY TO UNDERSTANDING THINGS I DESIRE TO UNDERSTAND, U DISHONEST TWAT

    don't try to tell me u didn't just think that, we both know that's the
    kind of poster u are

    Why should the expertise of software engineers or mathematicians be any different?

    [ .... ]

    In the same way, you are saying dumb things about mathematics. Experts
    in maths have corrected you on this newsgroup.

    No answer to this point?

    bro, most people on the internet, include you, haven't foggiest clue on
    how to address points coherently. the philosophical state of humanity is
    a disgusting fallacy ridden mess, that includes much of academia. sadly


    it's funny how you can read the definition but not actually understand
    why an argument from authority is a fallacy

    It's irrelevant here. It's your misunderstanding of the term. I have
    not made an argument from authority in this thread.

    u literally said you have expertise/authority to inherently justify the
    claim that correctness _is_ rigor, on the basis that it is u claiming it

    that is a cut and dry argument from authority


    it is a type of origin fallacy (where you attack the source of the
    argument vs the argument itself). truth cares not about who said it, and
    therefor who said it doesn't matter

    But experts are vastly more likely to know and speak the truth than ignoramuses. In the real world, where we don't have the time and
    resources to verify every last detail of every important fact, who should
    we believe? An expert such as Ben Bacarisse, or a low intelligence crank such as Peter Olcott?

    so far they've been equally useless to me in terms of theoretical
    development, and i'm not holding my breath for either

    but i will give polcott credit for actually have some ability to sense
    and dig at the problem of incompleteness somewhat

    and he did spam the group to the point of leaving me space to take a
    stance on things


    (please consider that amount of times the entirely academic consensus
    has historically been wrong in the past. and then consider that history >>>> may in fact still be repeating itself)

    <sigh> If you want to show something is wrong, you must first become
    conversant with it, and then develop deeper understanding of it.

    or something was missed at a fundamental level and i can basically just
    ignore a bunch idiocy built on top

    That's crank talk.

    that's an ad hominem fallacy


    The argument "hey, it might be wrong, therefore it probably is wrong" is >>> the argument of a crank.

    yeah well in order to work on an argument like that over potentially
    years ... ones gunna have to maintain a bit of bravado that it can
    actually be done in the face of many failures and neggers in the process

    "Neggers"? The alternative is to accept that proven propositions are correct. That is altogether more sensible.

    unless they are wrong, in which case that would be the opposite of sensible


    u believe too much in tv reality

    Uhh? Where did that come from?

    2 + 2 = 4. No matter how many times you insist that might be wrong, it
    is _you_ that is wrong.

    false analogy fallacy

    Not at all. 2 + 2 = 4 has been rigorously proven. So have the basic
    results of computing theory. What Olcott has done, and you look like

    the proof of 2+2 involves mathematical objects (specifically numbers and operations on numbers) that are very precisely defined with relations
    that fall out of their respective definitions

    the proof of undecidability (within computing) involves objects (like a general ability to decide), and assumptions about those objects (that
    such general ability to equivalent to a total true/false specification),
    that are *far* from so precisely defined. and rather i'm hesitant to say
    they are defined at all, just kinda of assumed

    heck we haven't even defined "computing" well enough to prove the
    ct-thesis. that, after a century, is *just* a thesis

    doing the same, is to dispute theorems becase he doesn't like what they
    have proven. For example, that what is true is not always provable.

    *within some particular formal system*

    godel did not rule out other formal system proving it, and in fact
    showed some high-order formal system can prove all the statements in lower-order systems...

    nor did rule out metamath proofs (like godel's proof itself) from
    proving it, as that is what godel's metamath proof did in fact do in the
    first place...

    *godel's incompleteness is not an excuse to just assume things as true
    without a proof of some kinde* jesus


    [ .... ]

    I think you'd do better to attend to your own fallacies first.

    u haven't specifically mentioned one

    You've said some false things. You should deal with these first before accusing others of falsehoods.

    ok chucklefuck u don't even know that fallacy =/= false

    a fallacy speaks to quality of the reason behind an argument, not it's truthfulness of a claim. the fallacy fallacy is a reason

    freaking boomers man


    [ .... ]

    Provability doesn't come in degrees. A proposition is either proven or
    not.

    uhhh ... no, the provability of a proposition can change based on the
    axioms used to state and prove it,

    The axioms used are part of the proposition. And that proposition is
    either provable or it is not. It is never 42% provable, or any nonsense
    like that.

    godel showed that a statement G not provable given the axioms used to
    define it ... was provable with an additional axiom


    a consequence highly related to incompleteness

    No. The various forms of incompleteness are either proven or not. Don't follow Olcott here.

    (which i'm not at present trying to refute, i'm currently addressing
    self-referential set-classification paradoxes with *computing* not math
    more fundamentally)

    You might be using the wrong tool.

    well if u follow turing's proof *carefully* you'll realize that
    undecidability was "proven" within computing using logic undertaken
    strictly within truing machines as a model ... and then he used that as
    a foundation to then support godel's result.

    *not the other way around*

    i'm addressing turing's core undecidability argument, founded within computing, using turing machines as a base model.


    [ .... ]

    i so far have pointed to flaws in polcott's arguments that he did not
    respond to, ....

    He doesn't respond to other people's arguments.

    yes i realize,

    i really do try to do so far more than ur average poster. i'm not
    perfect, no body is. but in terms of responding to discussion i'm on the
    extremely persistent end of the scale and i realize i need to address
    peoples qualms continually, at least on some level, to ever achieve real
    success in doing so

    You need to learn from other posters, too.

    if i'm going to learn they'll have actually acknowledge and resolve all
    the issues i've brought up. i'm not accepting things until my curiosity
    and sense of internal coherency is satisfied ... and not a second sooner


    .... specifically a case where his HHH fails to classify properly to a >>>> non-diagonal input (ND) when HHH was not put into that position by the >>>> semantics of the input. his algo is unfortunately just a failure. the >>>> one pro i can say there is that he did at least produce something that >>>> executes on all input instead of being total nonsense.

    That would be somewhat unusual. But I repeat my advice to you, not to
    emulate him.

    actually his response was that all self-references are invalid. which i
    don't agree to. i believe we can have self-reference, and at least an
    increased level of completeness over today

    None of the theorems which have figured in the newgroup rely on

    bruh

    turing's original proof done in his paper /on computable number/ 100% is caused by a self-reference. the diagonal computation is iterating across
    the full enumeration of turing machines, ends up iterating across
    *itself* in the lineup, and finds itself unable to decide *on itself*
    whether it is a "circle-free" machine or not. if u don't know what that
    means it's because u don't fucking know the true basis of his proof.

    now there are various ways to build the self-reference in other
    undecidability proofs, but you can't eliminate it from the proof itself.
    you can only make in more indirect.

    i'm really. fucking. goddamn. tired. of chucklefucks, like you, making
    wildass claims in total abject error. WHY IN THE FUCK DO I NEED EVEN
    STATE THIS? HOW FAR OFF THE CLIFF OF TOTAL IDIOCY HAS ACADEMIA DRIVEN?????

    READ THE FUCKING PAPER YOU FUCKING MORON

    seriously, p247. read the entire page word for word. THEN TRANSLATE HIS EYou/DIAGONAL COMPUTATION INTO THE PSEUDO-CODE OF YOUR CHOICE TO
    UNDERSTAND IT. IF U HAVEN'T DONE THAT, YOU HAVEN'T UNDERSTOOD IT. HECK
    POST THE PSEUDO-CODE EVEN

    the self-reference happens exactly here:

    /Now let K be the D.N of EYou [the diagonal computation]. What does EYou do
    in the K-th section of its motion? It must test whether K [itself] is satisfactory, giving a verdict "s" [satisfactory for "circle-free"] or
    "u" [unsatisfactory]/ [Tur36 p247]

    it's literally testing it's *own* "designated number", which contains
    itself encoded into a specific D.N format.

    if u don't acknowledge that's a self-reference fucking shoot urself for
    all i care, i'm done with responding to you

    because i have no faith you will: then i leave you with my thanks for inspiring me to realize i need to break my ideas down into simpler
    arguments. i will write a shorter paper/post on *avoiding* the paradox
    found in turing's paper by modifying his diagonal computation algo. it
    will not be a perfect argument, but it's definitely a start AT ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDING THE PARADOX THAT TURING TRIPPED ON

    self-reference. The belief they do is an error of some posters.

    [ .... ]

    That proof in Turing's paper is just that; a proof. You'd do better to
    strive to understand it than tilt against windmills. You seem to share
    an attitude in common with Olcott, namely that mathematics doesn't apply >>> to you, only to other people. You don't understand what a mathematical
    proof is, and what it means.

    and u don't understand that proofs can be wrong if are founded on bad
    assumptions

    I assure you I do. But it is you who fails to understand what a proof
    is, and what it means. I suspect that, like Olcott, you don't understand proof by contradiction. Unlike him, you could probably learn it.

    the major assumption wrong with undecidability proofs (in computing) is
    confusing invalid interfaces specifications with algorithmic inability
    to answer a question. they are not the same thing

    There are no wrong assumptions with existing undecidability proofs. If
    there were, they wouldn't be proofs.

    [ .... ]
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Fri Feb 13 11:48:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

    Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk>
    wrote:
    On 12/02/2026 12:28, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Turing machines don't have interfaces, for example. They have
    specifications.

    Turing c-machines ....

    What?

    .... have interfaces, turing a-machines,

    What?

    In Turing's (now) famous paper, an a-machine is an automatic machine:
    one whose actions are entirely determined by it's current configuration.
    For some reason (maybe he intended to expand on it in other papers) he
    also mentions "choice machines", abbreviated c-machines, to refer to
    those where some other element of choice is involved, but he goes on to
    say that he will say no more about this and will therefore drop the a-
    prefix and simply refer to machines.

    It's a reminder that he is feeling his way in the subject at a time when
    there are no computing machines, only people doing computations.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Andy Walker@anw@cuboid.co.uk to comp.theory on Fri Feb 13 14:40:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 13/02/2026 11:48, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    [re Turing:]
    It's a reminder that he is feeling his way in the subject at a time when there are no computing machines, only people doing computations.

    Agreed, in general terms, but the time was very ripe for the development of electronic computers, and many of the principles were
    already known. Precursors include Babbage's machines, Jacquard looms
    and various uses of punched cards/tapes, of hand/electric calculators
    and so on. If you're spending your career calculating assorted tables,
    as many people were up to the 1960s, then automating the repetitive
    stuff is obviously a Good Idea. [Though I suspect that NA is nowadays something of a lost art.] There /was/ life before electronics!
    --
    Andy Walker, Nottingham.
    Andy's music pages: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music
    Composer of the day: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music/Composers/Grieg
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Fri Feb 13 17:38:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
    On 12/02/2026 20:02, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory Tristan Wibberley
    <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
    On 11/02/2026 21:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be
    answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic" notwithstanding.

    It's not at all clear to me that those unanswerables are properly
    classified as "decision problem" unless one uses an auto-explication (my >>> term for when a term is both an explicatum and explicandum of an
    explication). Carnap's definition of explication excludes such an act
    (though I don't know if he'd picked up the bad habit of using "decision
    problem" as an explicatum).

    My understanding of a "decision problem" is one whose solution is a
    machine which, in finite time, can correctly classify any machine into
    one of two categories.

    Then a problem without a solution is not a decision problem; I think
    that's the right way to think about it. I think Olcott thinks about it
    that way too, at least for days at a time. Conversations here manage to
    make me slip between modes sometimes.

    Fair point. I need more accurate wording. How about: A decision
    problem is one whose solution, if any, is or would be a machine which,
    in finite time, can correctly classify any machine into one of two
    categories.

    In this sense there is no solution to the halting problem.

    [ .... ]

    I think Carnap would have admitted "L-decision problem" as an explicatum >>> of the explicandum "decision problem". The nonsense act of calling
    pathologically self-referential problems ....

    What would these be? We haven't encountered any such problem in this
    newsgroup. The halting problem, for example, is a simple yes/no
    question without any references, self- or otherwise.

    I think you're mixing the halting problem with elements of it's
    resolution; different relata (the things being referenced by the term)
    in different sentences above.

    No. I am protesting about such confusion in others.

    [ .... ]

    --
    Tristan Wibberley
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 13 15:20:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the >>>>>> simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so?
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks >>>>
    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want >>>>> to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can >>>>> you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being >>>>> clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask

    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the
    term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked
    about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were --
    i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent
    (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist. because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????

    anyways, paradoxical machines *CAN* exist. just because paradoxes
    involving classic deciders don't exist, because classic deciders aren't
    an implementable interface due to idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic does not mean paradoxes don't exist with other kinds of
    classifiers. let me post a part u cut from ur reply:

    classical decider:
    TRUE iff input is P
    FALSE iff input is NP
    (always DECIDABLE input)
    impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    classical recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    partial decider:
    TRUE if input is P
    FALSE if input is NP
    (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    partial recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    if deciderP() within undP() as defined below is a *classic decider*,
    then the undP() does not exist because deciderP() cannot be implemented

    but that speak anything about the existence of a deciderP() were any of
    the other three i've defined here:

    if deciderP() is a *classical recognizer* or *partial decider* it would
    fail to classify by blocking indefinitely making undP() a
    non-terminating infinite loop

    if deciderP() is a *partial recognizer* then it would fail to classify
    by returning FALSE, which makes undP() functionally equivalent whatever machineP() does


    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the
    foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a "definition". but i guess, >> if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on usenet?

    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???
    It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't >>> define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's theorum. we
    can stick with that for now

    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities,
    yes?

    no


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than >>>>> 37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about >>>>> und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity >>>> classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the >>>> permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to
    define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines
    that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical
    machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty fucking >> nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide on all
    the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking shambles and
    having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field. In modern
    texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N
    are TM decidable and some are not. Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable
    sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs? If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and
    TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs
    work.

    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of
    classifiers because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets
    of *finite length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic property. EYA2(rao) gets it's uncoutability from all possible infinite sets of infinite sets, which has the same cardinality of raY. the
    set of all *finite* length subsets of rao, however, is still countable.

    so i'd use slightly different proof:

    if all functional mappings were computable then all real numbers would
    be computable, because all mappings between N and the Nth digit for any
    given real number would be computable, and that would equate the
    cardinality of rao with raY (violating cantor's two proofs on the matter)

    and this doesn't mean one can just assume any given functional mapping
    to be undecidable. a proof is needed, and those proofs are founded on
    equating the classic decider interface with that of general ability ...

    which is one TALL assumption indeed
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Feb 13 20:20:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/13/26 12:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
    On 12/02/2026 20:02, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    [ Followup-To: set ]

    In comp.theory Tristan Wibberley
    <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
    On 11/02/2026 21:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    Mathematicians have proven that many decision problems can not be
    answered, all the nonsense about "idiosyncrasies of self-referential >>>>> logic" notwithstanding.

    It's not at all clear to me that those unanswerables are properly
    classified as "decision problem" unless one uses an auto-explication (my >>>> term for when a term is both an explicatum and explicandum of an
    explication). Carnap's definition of explication excludes such an act
    (though I don't know if he'd picked up the bad habit of using "decision >>>> problem" as an explicatum).

    My understanding of a "decision problem" is one whose solution is a
    machine which, in finite time, can correctly classify any machine into
    one of two categories.

    Then a problem without a solution is not a decision problem; I think
    that's the right way to think about it. I think Olcott thinks about it
    that way too, at least for days at a time. Conversations here manage to
    make me slip between modes sometimes.

    Fair point. I need more accurate wording. How about: A decision
    problem is one whose solution, if any, is or would be a machine which,
    in finite time, can correctly classify any machine into one of two categories.

    But, decision problems don't need to be about machines, so in general it
    is about coming up with an algorithm which can classify some set of
    "inputs", based on a representation of then, into the two categories.

    "Halting" as a problem means the domain is machines by their
    representation, and the categories are those machine that will reach a
    final state in a finite amount of "steps", vs those that will never
    halt, even when followed for an unbounded number of "steps"

    In this sense there is no solution to the halting problem.

    [ .... ]

    I think Carnap would have admitted "L-decision problem" as an explicatum >>>> of the explicandum "decision problem". The nonsense act of calling
    pathologically self-referential problems ....

    What would these be? We haven't encountered any such problem in this
    newsgroup. The halting problem, for example, is a simple yes/no
    question without any references, self- or otherwise.

    I think you're mixing the halting problem with elements of it's
    resolution; different relata (the things being referenced by the term)
    in different sentences above.

    No. I am protesting about such confusion in others.

    Yes, part of the problem is people tryng to claim the input to be
    something that isn't actually a "machine", because it doesn't include
    its full algorithm, but they try to reduce it to just using an
    "interface", rather than the INSTANCE of the interface that it is
    actually built on to make it an actual machine,


    [ .... ]

    --
    Tristan Wibberley


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 01:40:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the >>>>>>> simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so?
    I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks >>>>>
    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want >>>>>> to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can >>>>>> you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being >>>>>> clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the
    term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked
    about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were --
    i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent
    (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist.

    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by
    the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and
    that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible
    that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact
    exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    Every TM fails to have the property of deciding halting. Some very
    clearly so (maybe they decide not cases correctly) whereas others may
    correctly decide an infinity of cases correctly. However, every TM fails
    to correctly decide an infinity of cases. Some of these you are, I
    think, calling "paradoxical inputs". Maybe you all calling them all "paradoxical inputs". I just don't know what you mean.

    because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the
    inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????

    All the inputs ARE decidable. Are you simply calling every one othe
    infinity of inputs that any given TM "gets wrong" a "paradoxical input"?
    If so, of course they exist, but I don't think the term is a very useful
    one.

    Every instance of the halting problem (i.e. every input the encodes a
    number N representing a TM/input pair) has a correct true/false answer representing the halting or otherwise of the computation represented by
    that input. I.e. every "input" is decidable.

    Every TM, fails to be a halting decide by failing to correctly classify infinitely many inputs.

    It would help a lot if instead of being childishly rude you agreed with
    both of these proven facts as a starting point. From there, you could
    go on to explain which of the infinitely many inputs every TM fails to correctly classify as halting (or not) you are calling "paradoxical".

    On the other hand, if you reject one or both of these, I could help you
    to understand the proofs and that might help you explain what you mean
    by paradoxical inputs.

    anyways, paradoxical machines *CAN* exist. just because paradoxes involving classic deciders don't exist, because classic deciders aren't an implementable interface due to idiosyncrasies of self-referential logic
    does not mean paradoxes don't exist with other kinds of classifiers. let me post a part u cut from ur reply:

    classical decider:
    TRUE iff input is P
    FALSE iff input is NP
    (always DECIDABLE input)
    impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    classical recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    Every input relating to every decision problem is decidable. I am
    pretyy sure you are using the term in some non-standard way.
    "Decidable" is a property of subsets of some set (usually, for simplicity
    N) but this can't be how you are using it as every finite set the
    decidable.

    partial decider:
    TRUE if input is P
    FALSE if input is NP
    (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    partial recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    if deciderP() within undP() as defined below is a *classic decider*, then
    the undP() does not exist because deciderP() cannot be implemented

    but that speak anything about the existence of a deciderP() were any of the other three i've defined here:

    if deciderP() is a *classical recognizer* or *partial decider* it would
    fail to classify by blocking indefinitely making undP() a non-terminating infinite loop

    if deciderP() is a *partial recognizer* then it would fail to classify by returning FALSE, which makes undP() functionally equivalent whatever machineP() does

    You need to clear up what you mean when you use the term "undeciable
    input". I can't comment until I know how you are using this term.

    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the
    foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a "definition". but i guess,
    if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on usenet?

    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???
    It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't >>>> define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's theorum. we >>> can stick with that for now
    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities,
    yes?

    no

    I accept you claim they exist. I still want to know what they are.

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than >>>>>> 37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about >>>>>> und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity >>>>> classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the
    permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to
    define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur,
    which includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines >>>> that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical >>>> machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty fucking >>> nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide on all >>> the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking shambles and >>> having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.
    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field. In modern
    texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N
    are TM decidable and some are not. Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable
    sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs? If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and
    TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs
    work.

    You don't say of you accept this basic fact or not -- that there must be uncountably many undecidable sets.

    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of classifiers
    because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets of *finite length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic property.

    This is totally wrong. P(N) is directly relevant. It's how
    decidability is usually formally defined. Of course, subsets of any
    other countable set is equally valid (Sigma* -- finite strings over some alphabet Sigam is often used instead) but it's all about subsets.

    It's clear that you are using the terms in some as yet unspecified way
    so I can understand that you think P(N) is not relevant, but I must
    continue t use and explain the terms as they are conventionally used
    until you explain you usage. Any, by the way, I will strongly urge you
    to use new term for whatever you mean by an "undecidable input".

    EYA2(rao) gets it's uncoutability from all possible infinite sets of
    infinite sets, which has the same cardinality of raY. the set of all *finite* length subsets of rao, however, is still countable.

    This is basic stuff. It's the core of why there are undecidable sets.

    so i'd use slightly different proof:

    if all functional mappings were computable then all real numbers would be computable, because all mappings between N and the Nth digit for any given real number would be computable, and that would equate the cardinality of rao with raY (violating cantor's two proofs on the matter)

    Agreed. It seems we both accept that there are mappings that are not computable. It's a start.

    and this doesn't mean one can just assume any given functional mapping to
    be undecidable. a proof is needed, and those proofs are founded on equating the classic decider interface with that of general ability ...

    Indeed. That's why we have proofs of many uncomputable mappings. Do
    you reject Rado's proof that the busy beaver mapping is not TM
    computable?

    which is one TALL assumption indeed
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Feb 13 21:46:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/13/26 6:20 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine >>>>>>> is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so? >>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet
    cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I don't >>>>>> want
    to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen one?-a Can >>>>>> you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to >>>>>> being
    clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask

    I did.-a I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the
    term is unclear.-a I know what my students used to me when they talked
    about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were --
    i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent
    (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist. because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????

    The problem is you need to actually DEFINE what you mean by that term.

    The way it is being used make it not a "preperty" of just the input, but
    is a relationship of a given machine to a given decider.


    anyways, paradoxical machines *CAN* exist. just because paradoxes
    involving classic deciders don't exist, because classic deciders aren't
    an implementable interface due to idiosyncrasies of self-referential
    logic does not mean paradoxes don't exist with other kinds of
    classifiers. let me post a part u cut from ur reply:

    -a classical decider:
    -a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    Again, your problem is you are misusing "Decidable" and need to define
    what you mean, and the problem is when you try to do that, it becomes
    clear that what you mean is just a category error, as it isn't a
    property of the input, but a "subjective property" that comes from the relationship of an input to a given decider, which isn't actually
    something meaningfull.


    -a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    -a partial decider:
    -a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    if deciderP() within undP() as defined below is a *classic decider*,
    then the undP() does not exist because deciderP() cannot be implemented

    but that speak anything about the existence of a deciderP() were any of
    the other three i've defined here:

    You just admitted that it can't exist.

    The problem is, by the only meaning that can be pulled out of your
    arguement for what you mean by "undecidable", your criteria becomes
    trivial, so the "paradoxical" input CAN be decided by another different implementation of the interface, and thus you can't make you claim about
    input with relation to the interface, but only vs the specific
    implementation, and thus your critera ends up being about that decider
    giving the wrong answer, which means the result of "False" is always
    correct, either because that IS the answer about the property P, or it
    is wrong, and thus the property was "undeciable" to that decider.

    The problem is the "input" must be based on a SPECIFIC implementation of
    that interface, and that implementation can only do what it does, aso
    any talk about it doing something different is just unsound logic, as
    THAT decider would be itself if we imagine it different.

    This is the same lie that Olcott uses of assuming that the input somehow refences a variable implementation that we can talk about varying to see
    the results. That is just based on LYING that the input is actually a "program".


    if deciderP() is a *classical recognizer* or *partial decider* it would
    fail to classify by blocking indefinitely making undP() a non-
    terminating infinite loop

    if deciderP() is a *partial recognizer* then it would fail to classify
    by returning FALSE, which makes undP() functionally equivalent whatever machineP() does

    And in both of these cases, it failes to be correct for this input.

    As pointed out, if you mean to talk about "partial deciders/recognizers"
    then you are talking about a domain that HAS answers, and you really
    need to compare how good you can do verse the existing methods.



    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the
    foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a "definition". but i
    guess,
    if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on usenet?

    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a-a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP >>>>>>> -a-a-a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P
    -a-a-a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP

    -a-a-a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a-a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a-a-a }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms???
    It does not define what the term means.-a I will have to assume you
    can't
    define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's
    theorum. we
    can stick with that for now

    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities,
    yes?

    no


    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes
    more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical >>>>>> about
    und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity
    classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE >>>>> after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh
    out the
    permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to
    define the term.-a In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur, which >>>>> includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines >>>> that don't exist.-a The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either.-a It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical >>>> machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty
    fucking
    nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide on
    all
    the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking shambles and >>> having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.

    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field.-a In modern
    texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N
    are TM decidable and some are not.-a Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable
    sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs?-a If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and
    TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs
    work.

    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of classifiers because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets
    of *finite length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic property. EYA2(rao) gets it's uncoutability from all possible infinite sets of infinite sets, which has the same cardinality of raY. the set of all *finite* length subsets of rao, however, is still countable.

    That is why looking at the paper on uncomputable numbers isn't
    applicable to the halting problem, as it is actually talking about a
    different definition of computing.


    so i'd use slightly different proof:

    if all functional mappings were computable then all real numbers would
    be computable, because all mappings between N and the Nth digit for any given real number would be computable, and that would equate the
    cardinality of rao with raY (violating cantor's two proofs on the matter)

    Note, one simple informal proof of the need for the existance of
    undecidable problems is that the number of possible problems are
    numbered as an uncountable set, but the number of possible deciders are
    a countable set.

    This means that "most" problems don't have a decider to decide them, and
    are undecidable.


    and this doesn't mean one can just assume any given functional mapping
    to be undecidable. a proof is needed, and those proofs are founded on equating the classic decider interface with that of general ability ...

    Only if you are defining the "classical decider interface" to be that a decider needs to compute the same mapping of input to output for all
    inputs, as is the definition of the problem.


    which is one TALL assumption indeed


    No, it is the definition of the problem.

    The decider needs some way that it defines to represent the computation
    to be decided on, and by definition, we can make another machine defined
    to take its input with the same representation.

    The decider needs some way to give its answer, and, by the definition of
    how computations work, that answer needs to be able to be used by an
    algorithm that embeds the algorithm of that decider within it.

    What makes this a "TALL Assumption"?

    Your problem, it seems, is you don't understand that basic language used
    to describe what is being done.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 00:43:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so? >>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks >>>>>>
    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want >>>>>>> to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can >>>>>>> you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being >>>>>>> clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the
    term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked
    about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to >>> be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were --
    i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent
    (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist.

    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by
    the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and
    that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible
    that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact
    exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/
    causes some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly, not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic
    property, but at least one and possibly infinite

    such a machine becomes "undecidable input" to the classifier that
    necessarily (and therefor provably so) fails to classify it

    undP() is a "paradoxical machine" specifically one that is an
    "undecidable input" to deciderP()

    this undecidability is not equivalent to an algorithmic failure on part
    of the classifier itself. for contrast let us consider the constant
    false machine:

    (input) -> FALSE

    this may output the correct answer for many input but it will fail due
    to a blatantly incorrect aglo on many others. this is just not a proper classifier for *any* semantic property, for *any* stretch of the
    imagination. it's failure to classify comes from a blatantly incorrect algorithm, not the semantic construction /of the input itself/

    undP() however, due to it's construction, cannot be classified by
    deciderP(). that's not an algorithmic failure of deciderP(), that's a
    failure due to the form *of the input itself*


    Every TM fails to have the property of deciding halting. Some very
    clearly so (maybe they decide not cases correctly) whereas others may correctly decide an infinity of cases correctly. However, every TM fails
    to correctly decide an infinity of cases. Some of these you are, I
    think, calling "paradoxical inputs". Maybe you all calling them all "paradoxical inputs". I just don't know what you mean.

    because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the
    inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????

    All the inputs ARE decidable. Are you simply calling every one othe
    infinity of inputs that any given TM "gets wrong" a "paradoxical input"?
    If so, of course they exist, but I don't think the term is a very useful
    one.

    Every instance of the halting problem (i.e. every input the encodes a
    number N representing a TM/input pair) has a correct true/false answer representing the halting or otherwise of the computation represented by
    that input. I.e. every "input" is decidable.

    "decidable" is whether there exists a method to compute the answer for
    the input, no? so if every input is decidable, and there exists a method
    to decider it, that would make the problem decidable.

    the classic stance here is that no such method exists, so therefor the
    halting problem is undecidable ... and by consequence some input must be undecidable

    my opinion on this is too nuanced to flat out agree or disagree


    Every TM, fails to be a halting decide by failing to correctly classify infinitely many inputs.

    It would help a lot if instead of being childishly rude you agreed with

    i can agree the classic decider interface is unimplementable. it doesn't specify what happens upon an undecidable input, where the form of the
    input causes a failure in classifying the input correctly

    if the classic decider blocks on such input ... then it becomes a
    partial decider

    if the classic decider merges such input into negative classification
    (FALSE) ... then it becomes a partial recognizer

    those interfaces do not proofs that make them unimplementable

    both of these proven facts as a starting point. From there, you could
    go on to explain which of the infinitely many inputs every TM fails to correctly classify as halting (or not) you are calling "paradoxical".

    if a TM fails to classify an input due to an incorrect algo ... that
    machine is just not a proper classifier in the first place

    if a TM fails to classify an input because that input has a semantic
    form which contradicts classification* ... that input is a paradoxical
    machine


    On the other hand, if you reject one or both of these, I could help you
    to understand the proofs and that might help you explain what you mean
    by paradoxical inputs.

    anyways, paradoxical machines *CAN* exist. just because paradoxes involving >> classic deciders don't exist, because classic deciders aren't an
    implementable interface due to idiosyncrasies of self-referential logic
    does not mean paradoxes don't exist with other kinds of classifiers. let me >> post a part u cut from ur reply:

    classical decider:
    TRUE iff input is P
    FALSE iff input is NP
    (always DECIDABLE input)
    impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    classical recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    Every input relating to every decision problem is decidable. I am

    i said "UNDECIDABLE input" for a reason. the specs here refer to DECIDABLE/UNDECIDABLE as a relationship between the input and the
    specific classifier that is executing at runtime.

    an input is UNDECIDABLE when the *semantic form of the input* itself
    prevents the executing classifier from returning a proper classification.

    pretyy sure you are using the term in some non-standard way.
    "Decidable" is a property of subsets of some set (usually, for simplicity
    N) but this can't be how you are using it as every finite set the
    decidable.

    partial decider:
    TRUE if input is P
    FALSE if input is NP
    (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    partial recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    if deciderP() within undP() as defined below is a *classic decider*, then
    the undP() does not exist because deciderP() cannot be implemented

    but that speak anything about the existence of a deciderP() were any of the >> other three i've defined here:

    if deciderP() is a *classical recognizer* or *partial decider* it would
    fail to classify by blocking indefinitely making undP() a non-terminating
    infinite loop

    if deciderP() is a *partial recognizer* then it would fail to classify by
    returning FALSE, which makes undP() functionally equivalent whatever
    machineP() does

    You need to clear up what you mean when you use the term "undeciable
    input". I can't comment until I know how you are using this term.

    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the >>>> foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a "definition". but i guess,
    if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on usenet? >>>>
    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP
    machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms??? >>>>> It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't >>>>> define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's theorum. we >>>> can stick with that for now
    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities,
    yes?

    no

    I accept you claim they exist. I still want to know what they are.

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about >>>>>>> und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity
    classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the
    permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to
    define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur,
    which includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines >>>>> that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist
    either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical >>>>> machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty fucking
    nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide on all >>>> the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking shambles and >>>> having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.
    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field. In modern
    texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N
    are TM decidable and some are not. Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable
    sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs? If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and
    TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs
    work.

    You don't say of you accept this basic fact or not -- that there must be uncountably many undecidable sets.

    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of classifiers
    because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets of *finite
    length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic
    property.

    This is totally wrong. P(N) is directly relevant. It's how
    decidability is usually formally defined. Of course, subsets of any
    other countable set is equally valid (Sigma* -- finite strings over some alphabet Sigam is often used instead) but it's all about subsets.

    when it comes to machines that classify input machines into sets based
    on semantic properties ... these sets are sets of finite length objects (namely those machines)

    the set of all halting machines is an infinite set of finite length objects

    the set of all non-halting machines is also an infinite set of finite
    length objects

    these set of machines classified by semantic properties are infinite
    sets of *finite* length objects, and therefore are necessarily
    countable. all subsets of machines are necessarily countable

    so therefore, undecidability *within computing* is not related to the uncountably infinite sets of infinite length objects that you find in EYA2(rao)

    is this not abundantly clear?


    It's clear that you are using the terms in some as yet unspecified way
    so I can understand that you think P(N) is not relevant, but I must
    continue t use and explain the terms as they are conventionally used
    until you explain you usage. Any, by the way, I will strongly urge you
    to use new term for whatever you mean by an "undecidable input".

    no because not handling undecidable inputs are the root cause of undecidability *within computing*

    (which is where undecidability was first proven)


    EYA2(rao) gets it's uncoutability from all possible infinite sets of
    infinite sets, which has the same cardinality of raY. the set of all *finite*
    length subsets of rao, however, is still countable.

    This is basic stuff. It's the core of why there are undecidable sets.

    i'm not impressed by the basics as it stands


    so i'd use slightly different proof:

    if all functional mappings were computable then all real numbers would be
    computable, because all mappings between N and the Nth digit for any given >> real number would be computable, and that would equate the cardinality of rao
    with raY (violating cantor's two proofs on the matter)

    Agreed. It seems we both accept that there are mappings that are not computable. It's a start.

    and this doesn't mean one can just assume any given functional mapping to
    be undecidable. a proof is needed, and those proofs are founded on equating >> the classic decider interface with that of general ability ...

    Indeed. That's why we have proofs of many uncomputable mappings. Do
    you reject Rado's proof that the busy beaver mapping is not TM
    computable?

    well it's really just an extension of the halting problem. so is rice's theorem. since i'm questioning the true nature of halting problem, i'm questioning the foundation of both

    one undecidable problem i don't know what to do about yet is kolmogorov complexity, but i'm quite sus of it

    one mapping i can agree is uncomputable by machines is the inverse
    diagonal across *all* computable number...

    ...tho i wonder if it's still computable by a man (with infinite time).
    which has lead me to consider that the ct-thesis may actually be false,
    indeed


    which is one TALL assumption indeed

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 12:55:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/12/26 4:28 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 1:53 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    [ .... ]
    Discussions which take place in student bars don't get recorded. Neither
    do informal discussions between researchers. But, from my experience,
    such discussion span the space of elementary ideas in any topic.
    I think we should now agree that you had no basis for asserting that such
    discussions had never taken place, and I can not prove they did.
    until some evidence manifests in regards to it... i'm going to continue assuming they didn't
    OK, you're assuming. That's fair enough.
    [ .... ]
    when turing demonstrated the first paradox, he assumed a particular interface for his circle-free decider EYoo, and used that in his proof to show a contradiction
    he clearly didn't disprove an actual machine since the machine doesn't
    exist and therefore he was only working with an presumed interface.
    Turing proved the impossibility of any such machine. You seem not to understand proof by contradiction.
    You've said that proofs can be "misused". I'm still waiting for you to >>>> substantiate or retract that.
    specifically we overgeneralized. we took a proof against a particular
    interface, and overgeneralized it to a general inability ignoring the
    fact that other interfaces can exist, and aren't subject to the same
    kinds of disproofs
    Extracting what sense I can from that garbled nonsense, who precisely is
    "we"? It may include you, it does not include me. Mathematicians don't
    overgeneralize proofs, they mean what they prove. Any misunderstandings
    are the results of people like you misunderstanding.
    ok chucklefuck, didn't realize mathematicians are gods who never make mistakes bro. can we move past such random ass statements??? they do
    nothing more than make u look like bleating sheeple with a lack of
    critical thought
    A crank's answer which evades the point. Of course mathematicians make mistakes. They make fewer mistakes than cranks, though.
    For example, the halting problem is proven, and its proof means exactly
    what it says.
    turing's proof does two things wrong:
    1) it confuses disproving an interface (input/output specification) with that of disproving other interfaces, let alone general ability
    2) it ignores the fact one can add just a tiny bit of logic to the
    diagonal machine and avoid that particular paradox from arising in the
    first place
    Is that right? Turing was perhaps the greatest intellect in 20th century Britain. His proof has been verified by thousands of academics and
    millions of students. Which, then, is more likely? That that mass of intellectuals has missed a mistake, or that you are misunderstanding
    something?
    [ .... ]
    I WILL CONTINUE TO REJECT ANY ATTEMPTS AT GASLIGHTING ME INTO
    QUESTIONING MY INHERENT ABILITY TO UNDERSTANDING THINGS I DESIRE TO UNDERSTAND, U DISHONEST TWAT
    Your vulgarity is anything but attractive.
    It's clear that your strategy for understanding these things is
    suboptimal.
    [ .... ]
    In the same way, you are saying dumb things about mathematics. Experts >>>> in maths have corrected you on this newsgroup.
    No answer to this point?
    bro, most people on the internet, include you, haven't foggiest clue on
    how to address points coherently.
    Speak for yourself.
    the philosophical state of humanity is a disgusting fallacy ridden
    mess, that includes much of academia. sadly
    it's funny how you can read the definition but not actually understand
    why an argument from authority is a fallacy
    It's irrelevant here. It's your misunderstanding of the term. I have
    not made an argument from authority in this thread.
    u literally said you have expertise/authority to inherently justify the claim that correctness _is_ rigor, on the basis that it is u claiming it
    that is a cut and dry argument from authority
    That's the crank's argument through and through. The implication of your
    point is that there's no such thing as expertise. That anybody's
    uninformed opinion carries the same weight as expert knowledge.
    it is a type of origin fallacy (where you attack the source of the
    argument vs the argument itself). truth cares not about who said it, and >>> therefor who said it doesn't matter
    But experts are vastly more likely to know and speak the truth than
    ignoramuses. In the real world, where we don't have the time and
    resources to verify every last detail of every important fact, who should
    we believe? An expert such as Ben Bacarisse, or a low intelligence crank
    such as Peter Olcott?
    so far they've been equally useless to me in terms of theoretical development, and i'm not holding my breath for either
    It is your choice not to learn from the knowledgeable people here.
    but i will give polcott credit for actually have some ability to sense
    and dig at the problem of incompleteness somewhat
    He's wrong, and he's tilting at windmills.
    and he did spam the group to the point of leaving me space to take a
    stance on things
    (please consider that amount of times the entirely academic consensus >>>>> has historically been wrong in the past. and then consider that history >>>>> may in fact still be repeating itself)
    <sigh> If you want to show something is wrong, you must first become
    conversant with it, and then develop deeper understanding of it.
    or something was missed at a fundamental level and i can basically just
    ignore a bunch idiocy built on top
    That's crank talk.
    that's an ad hominem fallacy
    It's a point you can't answer, so you try to counter it with your
    favourinte "fallacy" argument.
    [ .... ]
    "Neggers"? The alternative is to accept that proven propositions are
    correct. That is altogether more sensible.
    unless they are wrong, in which case that would be the opposite of sensible
    They're not wrong. They're proven. Olcott doesn't like quite a few mathematical truths, so he just says they're false, then seeks some
    laughable justification. You can surely do better than that.
    [ .... ]
    2 + 2 = 4. No matter how many times you insist that might be wrong, it >>>> is _you_ that is wrong.
    false analogy fallacy
    Not at all. 2 + 2 = 4 has been rigorously proven. So have the basic
    results of computing theory. What Olcott has done, and you look like
    the proof of 2+2 involves mathematical objects (specifically numbers and operations on numbers) that are very precisely defined with relations
    that fall out of their respective definitions
    the proof of undecidability (within computing) involves objects (like a general ability to decide), and assumptions about those objects (that
    such general ability to equivalent to a total true/false specification), that are *far* from so precisely defined. and rather i'm hesitant to say they are defined at all, just kinda of assumed
    They're precisely defined and the theorems about them are just as true as
    2 + 2 = 4. Why don't you follow Tristan's example and study an
    appropriate book about the subject?
    heck we haven't even defined "computing" well enough to prove the
    ct-thesis. that, after a century, is *just* a thesis
    That conjecture remain unproven, yes. It seems true in practice, so if
    one must assume, it is better to assume it's true. But maybe it will be
    proven in the coming years.
    doing the same, is to dispute theorems becase he doesn't like what they
    have proven. For example, that what is true is not always provable.
    *within some particular formal system*
    No, within any sufficiently powerful formal system.
    godel did not rule out other formal system proving it, and in fact
    showed some high-order formal system can prove all the statements in lower-order systems...
    G||del's theorem states that within any (except the simplest) formal
    system, there are truths which cannot be proven in that system. They can
    be proven in a higher order system, yes, but that higher order system has
    its own unprovable truths in its turn.
    nor did rule out metamath proofs (like godel's proof itself) from
    proving it, as that is what godel's metamath proof did in fact do in the first place...
    *godel's incompleteness is not an excuse to just assume things as true without a proof of some kinde* jesus
    It's not an excuse, it's proven. You don't understand it (yet), but
    that's no reason to reject it.
    [ .... ]
    You've said some false things. You should deal with these first before
    accusing others of falsehoods.
    ok chucklefuck u don't even know that fallacy =/= false
    OK, if you're splitting that hair, deal with your own falsehoods.
    [ .... ]
    uhhh ... no, the provability of a proposition can change based on the
    axioms used to state and prove it,
    The axioms used are part of the proposition. And that proposition is
    either provable or it is not. It is never 42% provable, or any nonsense
    like that.
    godel showed that a statement G not provable given the axioms used to
    define it ... was provable with an additional axiom
    But that in the system with that additional axiom, there is likewise an unprovable statement.
    [ .... ]
    i really do try to do so far more than ur average poster. i'm not
    perfect, no body is. but in terms of responding to discussion i'm on the >>> extremely persistent end of the scale and i realize i need to address
    peoples qualms continually, at least on some level, to ever achieve real >>> success in doing so
    You need to learn from other posters, too.
    if i'm going to learn they'll have actually acknowledge and resolve all
    the issues i've brought up. i'm not accepting things until my curiosity
    and sense of internal coherency is satisfied ... and not a second sooner
    In which case you'll have to shed your hubris, accept that you're a
    beginner here, and learn the basics first.
    [ .... ]
    None of the theorems which have figured in the newgroup rely on
    self-reference. The belief they do is an error of some posters.
    bruh
    turing's original proof done in his paper /on computable number/ 100% is caused by a self-reference.
    Some proofs use what might loosely be called "self reference". The
    theorems themselves do not.
    [ .... ]
    i'm really. fucking. goddamn. tired. of chucklefucks, like you, making wildass claims in total abject error. WHY IN THE FUCK DO I NEED EVEN
    STATE THIS? HOW FAR OFF THE CLIFF OF TOTAL IDIOCY HAS ACADEMIA DRIVEN?????
    Or you could just put in the effort to understand proof by contradiction.
    [ .... ]
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 07:44:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    there's just nothing for me in a discussion where i get called a crank
    after pointing out a blatant fallacy

    On 2/14/26 4:55 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/12/26 4:28 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/11/26 1:53 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    [ .... ]

    Discussions which take place in student bars don't get recorded. Neither >>> do informal discussions between researchers. But, from my experience,
    such discussion span the space of elementary ideas in any topic.

    I think we should now agree that you had no basis for asserting that such >>> discussions had never taken place, and I can not prove they did.

    until some evidence manifests in regards to it... i'm going to continue
    assuming they didn't

    OK, you're assuming. That's fair enough.

    [ .... ]

    when turing demonstrated the first paradox, he assumed a particular
    interface for his circle-free decider EYoo, and used that in his proof to
    show a contradiction

    he clearly didn't disprove an actual machine since the machine doesn't
    exist and therefore he was only working with an presumed interface.

    Turing proved the impossibility of any such machine. You seem not to understand proof by contradiction.

    You've said that proofs can be "misused". I'm still waiting for you to >>>>> substantiate or retract that.

    specifically we overgeneralized. we took a proof against a particular
    interface, and overgeneralized it to a general inability ignoring the
    fact that other interfaces can exist, and aren't subject to the same
    kinds of disproofs

    Extracting what sense I can from that garbled nonsense, who precisely is >>> "we"? It may include you, it does not include me. Mathematicians don't >>> overgeneralize proofs, they mean what they prove. Any misunderstandings >>> are the results of people like you misunderstanding.

    ok chucklefuck, didn't realize mathematicians are gods who never make
    mistakes bro. can we move past such random ass statements??? they do
    nothing more than make u look like bleating sheeple with a lack of
    critical thought

    A crank's answer which evades the point. Of course mathematicians make mistakes. They make fewer mistakes than cranks, though.

    For example, the halting problem is proven, and its proof means exactly
    what it says.

    turing's proof does two things wrong:

    1) it confuses disproving an interface (input/output specification) with
    that of disproving other interfaces, let alone general ability

    2) it ignores the fact one can add just a tiny bit of logic to the
    diagonal machine and avoid that particular paradox from arising in the
    first place

    Is that right? Turing was perhaps the greatest intellect in 20th century Britain. His proof has been verified by thousands of academics and
    millions of students. Which, then, is more likely? That that mass of intellectuals has missed a mistake, or that you are misunderstanding something?

    [ .... ]

    I WILL CONTINUE TO REJECT ANY ATTEMPTS AT GASLIGHTING ME INTO
    QUESTIONING MY INHERENT ABILITY TO UNDERSTANDING THINGS I DESIRE TO
    UNDERSTAND, U DISHONEST TWAT

    Your vulgarity is anything but attractive.

    It's clear that your strategy for understanding these things is
    suboptimal.

    [ .... ]

    In the same way, you are saying dumb things about mathematics. Experts >>>>> in maths have corrected you on this newsgroup.

    No answer to this point?

    bro, most people on the internet, include you, haven't foggiest clue on
    how to address points coherently.

    Speak for yourself.

    the philosophical state of humanity is a disgusting fallacy ridden
    mess, that includes much of academia. sadly

    it's funny how you can read the definition but not actually understand >>>> why an argument from authority is a fallacy

    It's irrelevant here. It's your misunderstanding of the term. I have
    not made an argument from authority in this thread.

    u literally said you have expertise/authority to inherently justify the
    claim that correctness _is_ rigor, on the basis that it is u claiming it

    that is a cut and dry argument from authority

    That's the crank's argument through and through. The implication of your point is that there's no such thing as expertise. That anybody's
    uninformed opinion carries the same weight as expert knowledge.

    it is a type of origin fallacy (where you attack the source of the
    argument vs the argument itself). truth cares not about who said it, and >>>> therefor who said it doesn't matter

    But experts are vastly more likely to know and speak the truth than
    ignoramuses. In the real world, where we don't have the time and
    resources to verify every last detail of every important fact, who should >>> we believe? An expert such as Ben Bacarisse, or a low intelligence crank >>> such as Peter Olcott?

    so far they've been equally useless to me in terms of theoretical
    development, and i'm not holding my breath for either

    It is your choice not to learn from the knowledgeable people here.

    but i will give polcott credit for actually have some ability to sense
    and dig at the problem of incompleteness somewhat

    He's wrong, and he's tilting at windmills.

    and he did spam the group to the point of leaving me space to take a
    stance on things

    (please consider that amount of times the entirely academic consensus >>>>>> has historically been wrong in the past. and then consider that history >>>>>> may in fact still be repeating itself)

    <sigh> If you want to show something is wrong, you must first become >>>>> conversant with it, and then develop deeper understanding of it.

    or something was missed at a fundamental level and i can basically just >>>> ignore a bunch idiocy built on top

    That's crank talk.

    that's an ad hominem fallacy

    It's a point you can't answer, so you try to counter it with your
    favourinte "fallacy" argument.

    [ .... ]

    "Neggers"? The alternative is to accept that proven propositions are
    correct. That is altogether more sensible.

    unless they are wrong, in which case that would be the opposite of sensible

    They're not wrong. They're proven. Olcott doesn't like quite a few mathematical truths, so he just says they're false, then seeks some
    laughable justification. You can surely do better than that.

    [ .... ]

    2 + 2 = 4. No matter how many times you insist that might be wrong, it >>>>> is _you_ that is wrong.

    false analogy fallacy

    Not at all. 2 + 2 = 4 has been rigorously proven. So have the basic
    results of computing theory. What Olcott has done, and you look like

    the proof of 2+2 involves mathematical objects (specifically numbers and
    operations on numbers) that are very precisely defined with relations
    that fall out of their respective definitions

    the proof of undecidability (within computing) involves objects (like a
    general ability to decide), and assumptions about those objects (that
    such general ability to equivalent to a total true/false specification),
    that are *far* from so precisely defined. and rather i'm hesitant to say
    they are defined at all, just kinda of assumed

    They're precisely defined and the theorems about them are just as true as
    2 + 2 = 4. Why don't you follow Tristan's example and study an
    appropriate book about the subject?

    heck we haven't even defined "computing" well enough to prove the
    ct-thesis. that, after a century, is *just* a thesis

    That conjecture remain unproven, yes. It seems true in practice, so if
    one must assume, it is better to assume it's true. But maybe it will be proven in the coming years.

    doing the same, is to dispute theorems becase he doesn't like what they
    have proven. For example, that what is true is not always provable.

    *within some particular formal system*

    No, within any sufficiently powerful formal system.

    godel did not rule out other formal system proving it, and in fact
    showed some high-order formal system can prove all the statements in
    lower-order systems...

    G||del's theorem states that within any (except the simplest) formal
    system, there are truths which cannot be proven in that system. They can
    be proven in a higher order system, yes, but that higher order system has
    its own unprovable truths in its turn.

    nor did rule out metamath proofs (like godel's proof itself) from
    proving it, as that is what godel's metamath proof did in fact do in the
    first place...

    *godel's incompleteness is not an excuse to just assume things as true
    without a proof of some kinde* jesus

    It's not an excuse, it's proven. You don't understand it (yet), but
    that's no reason to reject it.

    [ .... ]

    You've said some false things. You should deal with these first before
    accusing others of falsehoods.

    ok chucklefuck u don't even know that fallacy =/= false

    OK, if you're splitting that hair, deal with your own falsehoods.

    [ .... ]

    uhhh ... no, the provability of a proposition can change based on the
    axioms used to state and prove it,

    The axioms used are part of the proposition. And that proposition is
    either provable or it is not. It is never 42% provable, or any nonsense >>> like that.

    godel showed that a statement G not provable given the axioms used to
    define it ... was provable with an additional axiom

    But that in the system with that additional axiom, there is likewise an unprovable statement.

    [ .... ]

    i really do try to do so far more than ur average poster. i'm not
    perfect, no body is. but in terms of responding to discussion i'm on the >>>> extremely persistent end of the scale and i realize i need to address
    peoples qualms continually, at least on some level, to ever achieve real >>>> success in doing so

    You need to learn from other posters, too.

    if i'm going to learn they'll have actually acknowledge and resolve all
    the issues i've brought up. i'm not accepting things until my curiosity
    and sense of internal coherency is satisfied ... and not a second sooner

    In which case you'll have to shed your hubris, accept that you're a
    beginner here, and learn the basics first.

    [ .... ]

    None of the theorems which have figured in the newgroup rely on
    self-reference. The belief they do is an error of some posters.

    bruh

    turing's original proof done in his paper /on computable number/ 100% is
    caused by a self-reference.

    Some proofs use what might loosely be called "self reference". The
    theorems themselves do not.

    [ .... ]

    i'm really. fucking. goddamn. tired. of chucklefucks, like you, making
    wildass claims in total abject error. WHY IN THE FUCK DO I NEED EVEN
    STATE THIS? HOW FAR OFF THE CLIFF OF TOTAL IDIOCY HAS ACADEMIA DRIVEN?????

    Or you could just put in the effort to understand proof by contradiction.

    [ .... ]

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 20:41:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/14/26 10:44 AM, dart200 wrote:
    there's just nothing for me in a discussion where i get called a crank
    after pointing out a blatant fallacy

    The problem is you keep on calling valid logic to be a fallacy, as you
    commit a fallacy yourself.

    You don't seem to understand that YOU are committing the Definist
    Fallacy by trying to assert a changed definintion of the words that are defined in the field.

    Perhaps your problem is you dn't understand what "meaning" actually
    means, or how logic actually works.

    As has been said, if you don't like the rules in the system you complain about, you CAN create a new system, but you need to be clear that is
    what you are doing, and BEGIN by fully defining what you mean by your terms.

    THEN you can spend some time to determine the consequences of those
    rules and demonstrate what you new system can actually do, and

    THEN you can try to present an arguement about why your system is better
    that the current ones.

    Talking about what your system "might" be able to do isn't very good,
    and that seems to be the big hole in your ideas, you THINK you might be
    able to do something, but it is hard to convince people that your
    non-standard system is worth looking at if you can't show what it can
    actually do.

    You changes throw away a lot of what the standard theory can talk about,
    so you need to find what you CAN do.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 20:41:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/14/26 3:43 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is.-a Can you do so? >>>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet >>>>>>>> cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not.-a But I >>>>>>>> don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake.-a Have you ever seen
    one?-a Can
    you show one?-a Can you define the term in a way that is close to >>>>>>>> being
    clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did.-a I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the
    term is unclear.-a I know what my students used to me when they talked >>>> about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you
    seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were --
    i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent >>>> (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist.

    I made no such claim.-a I was trying to get you to say what you mean by
    the term.-a I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and
    that won't help us get to mutual understanding.-a It's quite possible
    that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact
    exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/
    causes some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly, not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic property, but at least one and possibly infinite

    So, ALL machines are patadoxical, as there exists always exists decider
    that is incorrect about it.


    such a machine becomes "undecidable input" to the classifier that necessarily (and therefor provably so) fails to classify it

    And what is "necessarily" except by the fact that is IS wrong about it.

    The problem is the input machine, by definition, is built on an exact algorithm, as is the decider. To talk about a different decider creating
    a different input by the "template" is unsound, as nothing about the
    actual machine dictates how it was built, that is just something
    possibly know in a meta-theory.



    undP() is a "paradoxical machine" specifically one that is an
    "undecidable input" to deciderP()

    Right, a particular undP() makes the specific implementation of
    deciderP() that it is built using wrong.


    this undecidability is not equivalent to an algorithmic failure on part
    of the classifier itself. for contrast let us consider the constant
    false machine:

    Sure it is.


    -a (input) -> FALSE

    this may output the correct answer for many input but it will fail due
    to a blatantly incorrect aglo on many others. this is just not a proper classifier for *any* semantic property, for *any* stretch of the imagination. it's failure to classify comes from a blatantly incorrect algorithm, not the semantic construction /of the input itself/


    And how is that algorithm "more" wrong than the fact thas a given
    version of deciderP() computes the wrong answer.


    undP() however, due to it's construction, cannot be classified by deciderP(). that's not an algorithmic failure of deciderP(), that's a failure due to the form *of the input itself*

    a GIVEN version of undP() is not correctly classified by the specified
    version of deciderP().

    That version of deciderP() is just as wrong about it as the constant responding machine.

    The problem is you try to create "classes" of inputs and machines that
    don't actually exist as something definable in the base theory.



    Every TM fails to have the property of deciding halting.-a Some very
    clearly so (maybe they decide not cases correctly) whereas others may
    correctly decide an infinity of cases correctly.-a However, every TM fails >> to correctly decide an infinity of cases. Some of these you are, I
    think, calling "paradoxical inputs".-a Maybe you all calling them all
    "paradoxical inputs".-a I just don't know what you mean.

    because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the
    inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????

    All the inputs ARE decidable.-a Are you simply calling every one othe
    infinity of inputs that any given TM "gets wrong" a "paradoxical input"?
    If so, of course they exist, but I don't think the term is a very useful
    one.

    Every instance of the halting problem (i.e. every input the encodes a
    number N representing a TM/input pair) has a correct true/false answer
    representing the halting or otherwise of the computation represented by
    that input.-a I.e. every "input" is decidable.

    "decidable" is whether there exists a method to compute the answer for
    the input, no? so if every input is decidable, and there exists a method
    to decider it, that would make the problem decidable.

    And there *IS* for any input that the answer is known for.

    The problem is it turns out there are some input that we can't know
    their classification, and we can't even know that they ARE a machine we
    can't know their classification.

    This fact isn't what the proof is about, it is showing that your
    arguement is just incorrect, and based on unsound logic.

    The proof shows that HOWEVER you try to build your "method to decide",
    if it meets the requirements to be an actual computable algorithm, we
    can make an input that it will get wrong (or not answer for, which is
    also wrong).


    the classic stance here is that no such method exists, so therefor the halting problem is undecidable ... and by consequence some input must be undecidable

    Right, because we can PROVE it can't exist.


    my opinion on this is too nuanced to flat out agree or disagree

    And your "opinion" is just wrong, and your instance on holding to it,
    after it has been proven wrong, shows the unsoundness of your logic.



    Every TM, fails to be a halting decide by failing to correctly classify
    infinitely many inputs.

    It would help a lot if instead of being childishly rude you agreed with

    i can agree the classic decider interface is unimplementable. it doesn't specify what happens upon an undecidable input, where the form of the
    input causes a failure in classifying the input correctly

    if the classic decider blocks on such input ... then it becomes a
    partial decider

    if the classic decider merges such input into negative classification (FALSE) ... then it becomes a partial recognizer

    those interfaces do not proofs that make them unimplementable

    The problem is your "partial" machines don't succeed at the problem
    which you sort of admit can't be computed.'

    Redefining the problem to be something that can be computed isn't
    something necessarily useful or meaningful.

    You need to actually define what you interface means, and it needs to
    mean something that doesn't have a trivial "correct" answer.

    Your problem seems to be that you can't actually express what you mean
    by an "undecidable" input or a "paradoxical" input in a way that
    actually has a useful meaning, in part because it seems you don't
    understand how the field actually works, because you don't want to learn
    it since you think it is just broken.


    both of these proven facts as a starting point.-a From there, you could
    go on to explain which of the infinitely many inputs every TM fails to
    correctly classify as halting (or not) you are calling "paradoxical".

    if a TM fails to classify an input due to an incorrect algo ... that
    machine is just not a proper classifier in the first place

    Right.


    if a TM fails to classify an input because that input has a semantic
    form which contradicts classification* ... that input is a paradoxical machine

    And what is actually DIFFERENT between the two cases?

    The key is that the "paradoxical" input, is a fully valid machine, and
    is just a way that finds a failure in the algorithm to give the correct answer.



    On the other hand, if you reject one or both of these, I could help you
    to understand the proofs and that might help you explain what you mean
    by paradoxical inputs.

    anyways, paradoxical machines *CAN* exist. just because paradoxes
    involving
    classic deciders don't exist, because classic deciders aren't an
    implementable interface due to idiosyncrasies of self-referential logic
    does not mean paradoxes don't exist with other kinds of classifiers.
    let me
    post a part u cut from ur reply:

    -a-a classical decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    -a-a classical recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    -a-a-a-a honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented

    Every input relating to every decision problem is decidable.-a I am

    i said "UNDECIDABLE input" for a reason. the specs here refer to DECIDABLE/UNDECIDABLE as a relationship between the input and the
    specific classifier that is executing at runtime.

    And there is no difference between your "undecidable" and the algorithm
    of the decider just being incorrect.


    an input is UNDECIDABLE when the *semantic form of the input* itself prevents the executing classifier from returning a proper classification.

    The problem is the "semantic form" of the input is what the machine does
    when it is run. The connection of the input to the decider it was built
    on is NOT part of its semantics in the base system, as it is not
    necessarily determinable in the system.

    This is one of the discoveries that was made, that these classes of
    systems are capable of creating meta-system that include the ability to
    have a meaning not understandable to the base system, but create
    meaningful behavior in that base system.


    pretyy sure you are using the term in some non-standard way.
    "Decidable" is a property of subsets of some set (usually, for simplicity
    N) but this can't be how you are using it as every finite set the
    decidable.

    -a-a partial decider:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE if input is P
    -a-a-a-a FALSE if input is NP
    -a-a-a-a (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    -a-a partial recognizer:
    -a-a-a-a TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    -a-a-a-a FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    if deciderP() within undP() as defined below is a *classic decider*,
    then
    the undP() does not exist because deciderP() cannot be implemented

    but that speak anything about the existence of a deciderP() were any
    of the
    other three i've defined here:

    if deciderP() is a *classical recognizer* or *partial decider* it would
    fail to classify by blocking indefinitely making undP() a non-
    terminating
    infinite loop

    if deciderP() is a *partial recognizer* then it would fail to
    classify by
    returning FALSE, which makes undP() functionally equivalent whatever
    machineP() does

    You need to clear up what you mean when you use the term "undeciable
    input".-a I can't comment until I know how you are using this term.

    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't >>>>> the
    foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a "definition". but >>>>> i guess,
    if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on
    usenet?

    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    -a-a-a-a-a deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP >>>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a-a machineP()-a-a-a-a-a - machine that has property P >>>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a-a machineNP()-a-a-a-a - machine that has property NP >>>>>>>>>
    -a-a-a-a-a // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    -a-a-a-a-a undP = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a machineNP()
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a machineP()
    -a-a-a-a-a }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms??? >>>>>> It does not define what the term means.-a I will have to assume you >>>>>> can't
    define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's
    theorum. we
    can stick with that for now
    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities,
    yes?

    no

    I accept you claim they exist.-a I still want to know what they are.

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes >>>>>>>> more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise).-a What is paradoxical >>>>>>>> about
    und37t?

    considering:

    -a-a-a-a und37t = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a return
    -a-a-a-a-a-a else
    -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a machine37t()
    -a-a-a-a }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time
    complexity
    classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return
    TRUE after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to
    flesh out the
    permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to >>>>>> define the term.-a In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur,
    which includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to
    machines
    that don't exist.-a The resulting derived machines don't then exist >>>>>> either.-a It sounds like simply accepting that there are no
    "paradoxical
    machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty >>>>> fucking
    nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide
    on all
    the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking
    shambles and
    having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.
    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field.-a In modern >>>> texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N
    are TM decidable and some are not.-a Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable
    sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs?-a If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and >>>> TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs >>>> work.

    You don't say of you accept this basic fact or not -- that there must be
    uncountably many undecidable sets.

    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of
    classifiers
    because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets of *finite
    length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic
    property.

    This is totally wrong.-a P(N) is directly relevant.-a It's how
    decidability is usually formally defined.-a Of course, subsets of any
    other countable set is equally valid (Sigma* -- finite strings over some
    alphabet Sigam is often used instead) but it's all about subsets.

    when it comes to machines that classify input machines into sets based
    on semantic properties ... these sets are sets of finite length objects (namely those machines)

    the set of all halting machines is an infinite set of finite length objects

    the set of all non-halting machines is also an infinite set of finite
    length objects

    these set of machines classified by semantic properties are infinite
    sets of *finite* length objects, and therefore are necessarily
    countable. all subsets of machines are necessarily countable

    so therefore, undecidability *within computing* is not related to the uncountably infinite sets of infinite length objects that you find in EYA2(rao)

    Sure it is, as there are an UNCOUNTABLE number of different sets that
    the countable sets can be classiied into.

    When you talk about Halting/Non-Halting, that is a SINGLE classification mapping out of that uncountable number of mappings.


    is this not abundantly clear?

    As I point out, you missed the point, because you don't understand what
    a "problem" is.

    Halting is a single classification out of an uncountable number of
    possible classification problems.

    Since there are only a countable infinite number of possible
    classifiers, but an uncountable number of possible problems, there MUST
    be an uncountable number of problems that are undeciable.

    Halting is just one of them.



    It's clear that you are using the terms in some as yet unspecified way
    so I can understand that you think P(N) is not relevant, but I must
    continue t use and explain the terms as they are conventionally used
    until you explain you usage.-a Any, by the way, I will strongly urge you
    to use new term for whatever you mean by an "undecidable input".

    no because not handling undecidable inputs are the root cause of undecidability *within computing*

    And you don't seem to understand that INPUTS ARE NOT UNDECIDABLE, as
    that is a category error.

    You are just making a definist fallacy by trying to redefine the
    well-defined term, but can't even actually define the term to do what
    you want, because your idea is just not based on any sound logic.


    (which is where undecidability was first proven)

    Nope, just proving your ignorance, and refusal to learn.



    EYA2(rao) gets it's uncoutability from all possible infinite sets of
    infinite sets, which has the same cardinality of raY. the set of all
    *finite*
    length subsets of rao, however, is still countable.

    This is basic stuff.-a It's the core of why there are undecidable sets.

    i'm not impressed by the basics as it stands

    It seems, because you don't understand it.



    so i'd use slightly different proof:

    if all functional mappings were computable then all real numbers
    would be
    computable, because all mappings between N and the Nth digit for any
    given
    real number would be computable, and that would equate the
    cardinality of rao
    with raY (violating cantor's two proofs on the matter)

    Agreed.-a It seems we both accept that there are mappings that are not
    computable.-a It's a start.

    and this doesn't mean one can just assume any given functional
    mapping to
    be undecidable. a proof is needed, and those proofs are founded on
    equating
    the classic decider interface with that of general ability ...

    Indeed.-a That's why we have proofs of many uncomputable mappings. Do
    you reject Rado's proof that the busy beaver mapping is not TM
    computable?

    well it's really just an extension of the halting problem. so is rice's theorem. since i'm questioning the true nature of halting problem, i'm questioning the foundation of both

    But your questioning is out of a failure to understand the system.


    one undecidable problem i don't know what to do about yet is kolmogorov complexity, but i'm quite sus of it

    one mapping i can agree is uncomputable by machines is the inverse
    diagonal across *all* computable number...

    ...tho i wonder if it's still computable by a man (with infinite time). which has lead me to consider that the ct-thesis may actually be false, indeed

    The key is "infinte time". Since ct is about machine that must answer in finite time, your imagined counter is outside the domain of acceptable systems.



    which is one TALL assumption indeed



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Sun Feb 15 02:11:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines.
    You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so? >>>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks >>>>>>>
    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can >>>>>>>> you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being >>>>>>>> clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here.

    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the
    term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked
    about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to >>>> be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were --
    i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent >>>> (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist.
    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by
    the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and
    that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible
    that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact
    exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:

    I never thought it was. It was simply undefined.

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/ causes some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly, not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic property, but at least one and possibly infinite

    Obviously I don't know what "by its semantic construction" means
    exactly, but let's not bother about that immediately because I suspect
    the definition will end up using other slightly mysterious phrases
    rather than mathematical definitions. Instead, maybe you could say how
    you stand on these related issues:

    (1) Since there is no halting decider, no input can be constructed to
    make such a classifier fail. Do you therefore accept that, at least as
    far as halting is concerned, there are no paradoxical machines?

    (2) Alternatively, maybe you are considering machines that get /some/
    halting cases right as "almost halting deciders". If so, since all TMs (including those you might be considering as almost hating deciders)
    fail to correctly classify the halting of an infinite number of inputs,
    are all of these incorrectly classified inputs "paradoxical machines" or
    are only some of them constructed in the way you say is needed to meet
    your definition? This will help me to know what "by it's semantic construction" means.

    (3) If, as I suspect, you consider only some of the infinite number of
    cases that every TM gets wrong (about the halting of the input), what do
    do about the cases that are wrongly classified but are /not/
    "paradoxical machines" according to your definition?

    such a machine becomes "undecidable input" to the classifier that
    necessarily (and therefor provably so) fails to classify it

    I prefer to say that they are inputs the decider gets wrong. Your use
    of "undeciable input" is a misuse of a long established technical term (undeciable) and, as I have just shown, there is a much simpler way to
    refer to these inputs. Even if you want to choose another word, you
    /must/ pick a term that does not already have an accepted technical
    meaning.

    undP() is a "paradoxical machine" specifically one that is an "undecidable input" to deciderP()

    It's much clearer to say that deciderP gets that input wrong. The "undecidable" part is not a property of the input but of the input and
    the machine getting it wrong. An "unknown number" sound mysterious and interesting, but a number unknown to me is just a gap in my knowledge.
    You must find another term for it.

    this undecidability is not equivalent to an algorithmic failure on part of the classifier itself. for contrast let us consider the constant false machine:

    (input) -> FALSE

    this may output the correct answer for many input but it will fail due to a blatantly incorrect aglo on many others. this is just not a proper
    classifier for *any* semantic property, for *any* stretch of the
    imagination. it's failure to classify comes from a blatantly incorrect algorithm, not the semantic construction /of the input itself/

    I can only address this point if you clear up the questions above.

    undP() however, due to it's construction, cannot be classified by
    deciderP(). that's not an algorithmic failure of deciderP(), that's a
    failure due to the form *of the input itself*

    Every TM fails to have the property of deciding halting. Some very
    clearly so (maybe they decide not cases correctly) whereas others may
    correctly decide an infinity of cases correctly. However, every TM fails
    to correctly decide an infinity of cases. Some of these you are, I
    think, calling "paradoxical inputs". Maybe you all calling them all
    "paradoxical inputs". I just don't know what you mean.

    because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the
    inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????
    All the inputs ARE decidable. Are you simply calling every one othe
    infinity of inputs that any given TM "gets wrong" a "paradoxical input"?
    If so, of course they exist, but I don't think the term is a very useful
    one.
    Every instance of the halting problem (i.e. every input the encodes a
    number N representing a TM/input pair) has a correct true/false answer
    representing the halting or otherwise of the computation represented by
    that input. I.e. every "input" is decidable.

    "decidable" is whether there exists a method to compute the answer for the input, no?

    Close but not exactly. There exists a TM that returns the correct true/false result for that input. This is why every finite subset of N is decidable.

    so if every input is decidable, and there exists a method to
    decider it, that would make the problem decidable.

    No. My hunch is that you've tripped yourself up by say "there exists a
    method to compute" rather than my simpler wording. If you still think
    that my wording leads you to conclude that a problem, all of whose cases
    are decidable is itself decidable, then you need to come back to me and
    I'll try to help you out.

    the classic stance here is that no such method exists, so therefor the halting problem is undecidable ... and by consequence some input must be undecidable

    Not at all. The consequence (of the proof) is that every TM classifies
    some inputs wrongly. These are not undeciable inputs because there
    exist TMs that classify them correctly. Not one machine that does, not
    even any finite number of TMs, but every input does have an infinity of
    TMs that do classify it correctly.

    It really looks as if your terminology has led you astray. It possible
    that you are misusing terms deliberately to try to mislead others, but
    for the moment I must assume you are just not aware of how these terms
    are used in the field.

    my opinion on this is too nuanced to flat out agree or disagree

    Every TM, fails to be a halting decide by failing to correctly classify
    infinitely many inputs.
    It would help a lot if instead of being childishly rude you agreed with

    i can agree the classic decider interface is unimplementable.

    The "interface" (what people in the field call the specification) is to
    halt in an accepting state if the input represents are finite
    computation and to halt in any other state if not. Are saying that
    there is no TM with this specification? That's all the halting theorem asserts. We might be in agreement about this!

    it doesn't
    specify what happens upon an undecidable input, where the form of the input causes a failure in classifying the input correctly

    There are no "undecidable inputs" using what other people mean by the
    term. When (if) you answer my initial questions above, I may know which
    of the infinite number of inputs every TM decides incorrectly you want
    to add to the specification of your "Dart-halting deciders" then I could
    say more.

    if the classic decider blocks on such input ... then it becomes a partial decider

    What is blocking? Do you mean that the partial decider does not halt?

    if the classic decider merges such input into negative classification
    (FALSE) ... then it becomes a partial recognizer

    those interfaces do not proofs that make them unimplementable

    Indeed. Partial halting deciders are ten a penny.

    both of these proven facts as a starting point. From there, you could
    go on to explain which of the infinitely many inputs every TM fails to
    correctly classify as halting (or not) you are calling "paradoxical".

    if a TM fails to classify an input due to an incorrect algo ... that
    machine is just not a proper classifier in the first place

    if a TM fails to classify an input because that input has a semantic form which contradicts classification* ... that input is a paradoxical
    machine

    This is a repeat of what you said above. Your answers to my initial
    questions will help.

    On the other hand, if you reject one or both of these, I could help you
    to understand the proofs and that might help you explain what you mean
    by paradoxical inputs.

    anyways, paradoxical machines *CAN* exist. just because paradoxes involving >>> classic deciders don't exist, because classic deciders aren't an
    implementable interface due to idiosyncrasies of self-referential logic
    does not mean paradoxes don't exist with other kinds of classifiers. let me >>> post a part u cut from ur reply:

    classical decider:
    TRUE iff input is P
    FALSE iff input is NP
    (always DECIDABLE input)
    impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    classical recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented
    Every input relating to every decision problem is decidable. I am

    i said "UNDECIDABLE input" for a reason. the specs here refer to DECIDABLE/UNDECIDABLE as a relationship between the input and the specific classifier that is executing at runtime.

    an input is UNDECIDABLE when the *semantic form of the input* itself
    prevents the executing classifier from returning a proper
    classification.

    I know what you said. I am helping you to use terms correctly. If you
    want to publish about number theory you can't have a private meaning for "prime"; you will just look like a fool saying that 42 is prime. You
    need a new term for whatever you mean by all the vague stuff about how
    the input was constructed. I can't guarantee you that anyone will care
    about your particular subset of inputs that a particular decider gets
    wrong, but at least they won't throw the paper in the bin for claiming
    that any one case is an "undecidable input".

    pretyy sure you are using the term in some non-standard way.
    "Decidable" is a property of subsets of some set (usually, for simplicity
    N) but this can't be how you are using it as every finite set the
    decidable.

    partial decider:
    TRUE if input is P
    FALSE if input is NP
    (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    partial recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    if deciderP() within undP() as defined below is a *classic decider*, then >>> the undP() does not exist because deciderP() cannot be implemented

    but that speak anything about the existence of a deciderP() were any of the >>> other three i've defined here:

    if deciderP() is a *classical recognizer* or *partial decider* it would
    fail to classify by blocking indefinitely making undP() a non-terminating >>> infinite loop

    if deciderP() is a *partial recognizer* then it would fail to classify by >>> returning FALSE, which makes undP() functionally equivalent whatever
    machineP() does
    You need to clear up what you mean when you use the term "undeciable
    input". I can't comment until I know how you are using this term.

    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the >>>>> foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a
    "definition". but i guess,
    if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on usenet? >>>>>
    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP >>>>>>>>> machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms??? >>>>>> It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't >>>>>> define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's theorum. we >>>>> can stick with that for now
    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities,
    yes?

    no
    I accept you claim they exist. I still want to know what they are.

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about >>>>>>>> und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity
    classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the
    permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to >>>>>> define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur,
    which includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines >>>>>> that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist >>>>>> either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical >>>>>> machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty fucking
    nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide on all >>>>> the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking shambles and >>>>> having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.
    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field. In modern >>>> texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N
    are TM decidable and some are not. Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable
    sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs? If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and >>>> TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs >>>> work.
    You don't say of you accept this basic fact or not -- that there must be
    uncountably many undecidable sets.

    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of classifiers
    because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets of *finite
    length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic
    property.
    This is totally wrong. P(N) is directly relevant. It's how
    decidability is usually formally defined. Of course, subsets of any
    other countable set is equally valid (Sigma* -- finite strings over some
    alphabet Sigam is often used instead) but it's all about subsets.

    when it comes to machines that classify input machines into sets based on semantic properties ... these sets are sets of finite length objects
    (namely those machines)

    OK, let's use binary strings because these have lengths. The inputs are
    all in {0,1}* -- finite length sequences, or strings, of zeros and ones.

    the set of all halting machines is an infinite set of finite length
    objects

    I.e one of the infinite sets of these finite strings is made up of those strings (and only those strings) that represent halting machines (or machine/input computations -- it's all the same to me).

    I.e. The halting problem is to decide (membership of) an element of
    P({0,1}*).

    the set of all non-halting machines is also an infinite set of finite
    length objects

    That's another (infinite) set of {0,1}* strings we could try to decide.
    I.e. another element of P({0,1}*).

    these set of machines classified by semantic properties are infinite sets
    of *finite* length objects, and therefore are necessarily countable. all subsets of machines are necessarily countable

    Indeed.

    so therefore, undecidability *within computing* is not related to the uncountably infinite sets of infinite length objects that you find in EYA2(rao)

    is this not abundantly clear?

    Yes, but it's abundantly wrong. Every decider decides an element of
    P({0,1}*). The fact the P({0,1}*) is uncountable means there must be uncountably many undecidable sets of binary strings. This is because
    there are only countably many TMs.

    We know an ever increasing number of these undecidable sets: those
    representing halting TMs, ambiguous context free grammars, the word
    problem for groups and so on, but even before knew even one, we knew
    there must be infinitely many. It could have turned out that we never
    got to know any at all, so in that sense the halting theorem is a great success.

    It's clear that you are using the terms in some as yet unspecified way
    so I can understand that you think P(N) is not relevant, but I must
    continue t use and explain the terms as they are conventionally used
    until you explain you usage. Any, by the way, I will strongly urge you
    to use new term for whatever you mean by an "undecidable input".

    no because not handling undecidable inputs are the root cause of undecidability *within computing*

    (which is where undecidability was first proven)

    No. There are no undecidable inputs. You MUST use another term if you
    want to be taken seriously. You can't write about primes with your own
    meaning for the term.

    EYA2(rao) gets it's uncoutability from all possible infinite sets of
    infinite sets, which has the same cardinality of raY. the set of all *finite*
    length subsets of rao, however, is still countable.
    This is basic stuff. It's the core of why there are undecidable sets.

    i'm not impressed by the basics as it stands

    You don't have to be impressed, you just have to accept that (1) there
    are countably many TMs; (2) there are uncountably many sets of possible
    inputs. Not all sets of possible inputs are TM-deciable sets.

    Mind you, you could just come out and say that you don't accept these
    basic facts and we could simply stop chatting...


    so i'd use slightly different proof:

    if all functional mappings were computable then all real numbers would be >>> computable, because all mappings between N and the Nth digit for any given >>> real number would be computable, and that would equate the cardinality of rao
    with raY (violating cantor's two proofs on the matter)
    Agreed. It seems we both accept that there are mappings that are not
    computable. It's a start.

    and this doesn't mean one can just assume any given functional mapping to >>> be undecidable. a proof is needed, and those proofs are founded on equating >>> the classic decider interface with that of general ability ...
    Indeed. That's why we have proofs of many uncomputable mappings. Do
    you reject Rado's proof that the busy beaver mapping is not TM
    computable?

    well it's really just an extension of the halting problem. so is rice's theorem. since i'm questioning the true nature of halting problem, i'm questioning the foundation of both

    Interesting that you side-stepped an answer. I asked about Rado's
    proof, not about the problem itself. Do you know the proof? Do think
    it's wrong, or do you accept it?

    one undecidable problem i don't know what to do about yet is kolmogorov complexity, but i'm quite sus of it

    one mapping i can agree is uncomputable by machines is the inverse diagonal across *all* computable number...

    ...tho i wonder if it's still computable by a man (with infinite
    time). which has lead me to consider that the ct-thesis may actually be false, indeed

    I wonder what private meaning you have for the ct-thesis if infinite
    time might come into it.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 20:38:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/14/26 5:41 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/14/26 10:44 AM, dart200 wrote:
    there's just nothing for me in a discussion where i get called a crank
    after pointing out a blatant fallacy

    The problem is you keep on calling valid logic to be a fallacy, as you commit a fallacy yourself.

    it is not, and will never be, valid logic to declare some credential as relevant to the validity of an argument being made

    it get that it's extremely common, and most people will find this
    pervasive, even me at times especially when i have no further qualms
    with an issue...

    but my perseverance in rejecting invalid arguments when i do have qualms
    has served me well thus far in my pursuits of unacknowledged truth.

    i'm not about to back down about it, ever
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 14 21:55:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/14/26 8:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/14/26 5:41 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/14/26 10:44 AM, dart200 wrote:
    there's just nothing for me in a discussion where i get called a
    crank after pointing out a blatant fallacy

    The problem is you keep on calling valid logic to be a fallacy, as you
    commit a fallacy yourself.

    it is not, and will never be, valid logic to declare some credential as relevant to the validity of an argument being made

    why???

    because valid arguments must be self-evident in of themselves based on
    their own merit, *not* based on who said it

    it's kinda bizarre having to state this in a theoretical computer
    science group, but that is the state of the EfniEfiA i live on


    -ait get that it's extremely common, and most people will find this pervasive, even me at times especially when i have no further qualms
    with an issue...

    but my perseverance in rejecting invalid arguments when i do have qualms
    has served me well thus far in my pursuits of unacknowledged truth.

    i'm not about to back down about it, ever

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan Mackenzie@acm@muc.de to comp.theory on Sun Feb 15 13:52:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    On 2/14/26 5:41 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/14/26 10:44 AM, dart200 wrote:
    there's just nothing for me in a discussion where i get called a crank
    after pointing out a blatant fallacy

    The problem is you keep on calling valid logic to be a fallacy, as you
    commit a fallacy yourself.

    it is not, and will never be, valid logic to declare some credential as relevant to the validity of an argument being made

    That is an increbible, and wrong thing to say. Say there were some
    dispute about the weather. If somebody said "the sun's shining, I've
    just looked out the window" you would believe him rather than the person
    still in bed who said "it's clouded over".

    Personal experience has a _lot_ of value in asserting something's
    validity. Even more so does expertise.

    To disparage experience is insulting.

    it get that it's extremely common, and most people will find this pervasive, even me at times especially when i have no further qualms
    with an issue...

    but my perseverance in rejecting invalid arguments when i do have qualms
    has served me well thus far in my pursuits of unacknowledged truth.

    You reject valid arguments. When faced with a valid argument you don't
    like, your formulaic response is to call it an "x-fallacy". Thus you
    hope to avoid having to discuss the merits of your argument.

    i'm not about to back down about it, ever

    You did back down in your argument with me.

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --
    Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 15 14:13:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/14/26 6:11 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines. >>>>>>>>> You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so? >>>>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can >>>>>>>>> you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here. >>>>>>
    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the >>>>> term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked >>>>> about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to >>>>> be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were -- >>>>> i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent >>>>> (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist.
    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by
    the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and
    that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible
    that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact
    exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:

    I never thought it was. It was simply undefined.

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/ causes >> some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly, >> not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic property, but at
    least one and possibly infinite

    Obviously I don't know what "by its semantic construction" means

    by the nature/form of the input machine itself.

    the form of undP() is querying deciderP() and then running a codepath
    that contradicts the return value of deciderP()

    the objective semantic structure/form of undP() is what causes
    deciderP() to fail in classifying it. the form of undP() does not
    necessarily cause this in other classifiers, even those for the same
    semantic property like a possible deciderP2()

    exactly, but let's not bother about that immediately because I suspect
    the definition will end up using other slightly mysterious phrases
    rather than mathematical definitions. Instead, maybe you could say how
    you stand on these related issues:

    (1) Since there is no halting decider, no input can be constructed to
    make such a classifier fail. Do you therefore accept that, at least as
    far as halting is concerned, there are no paradoxical machines?

    a classic decider is just one kind of classifier, i named 3 more which
    can exist, and are therefore subject to real paradoxical machines
    becoming undecidable input for them


    (2) Alternatively, maybe you are considering machines that get /some/
    halting cases right as "almost halting deciders". If so, since all TMs (including those you might be considering as almost hating deciders)
    fail to correctly classify the halting of an infinite number of inputs,
    are all of these incorrectly classified inputs "paradoxical machines" or
    are only some of them constructed in the way you say is needed to meet
    your definition? This will help me to know what "by it's semantic construction" means.

    the only machines proven to be undecidable are those which have the
    semantic form of a paradoxical machine to one (or more) classifiers


    (3) If, as I suspect, you consider only some of the infinite number of
    cases that every TM gets wrong (about the halting of the input), what do
    do about the cases that are wrongly classified but are /not/
    "paradoxical machines" according to your definition?

    if the TM fails to classify an input that does not form a paradox
    specifically against that particular TM is just not a true classifier,
    to the point that disagreeing with this is something i could call
    category error

    the constant false machine is just not in the category of machines
    called "classifiers" and has no business being executed to produce classification output, or being part of a discussion on classifiers


    such a machine becomes "undecidable input" to the classifier that
    necessarily (and therefor provably so) fails to classify it

    I prefer to say that they are inputs the decider gets wrong. Your use
    of "undeciable input" is a misuse of a long established technical term (undeciable) and, as I have just shown, there is a much simpler way to
    refer to these inputs. Even if you want to choose another word, you
    /must/ pick a term that does not already have an accepted technical
    meaning.

    undP() is a "paradoxical machine" specifically one that is an "undecidable >> input" to deciderP()

    It's much clearer to say that deciderP gets that input wrong. The

    it's imprecise, as it fails to distinguish the reason for the failure to classify:

    if deciderP() fails to classify paradoxical machine undP(), which is due
    to the code structure of the input itself, this does not then mean
    deciderP() is not a true classifier

    if deciderP() fails to classify non-paradoxical machine machineP(), then
    that would make deciderP() not a true classifier, since the failure is
    not due to the code structure of the input itself

    "undecidable" part is not a property of the input but of the input and
    the machine getting it wrong. An "unknown number" sound mysterious and interesting, but a number unknown to me is just a gap in my knowledge.
    You must find another term for it.

    this undecidability is not equivalent to an algorithmic failure on part of >> the classifier itself. for contrast let us consider the constant false
    machine:

    (input) -> FALSE

    this may output the correct answer for many input but it will fail due to a >> blatantly incorrect aglo on many others. this is just not a proper
    classifier for *any* semantic property, for *any* stretch of the
    imagination. it's failure to classify comes from a blatantly incorrect
    algorithm, not the semantic construction /of the input itself/

    I can only address this point if you clear up the questions above.

    undP() however, due to it's construction, cannot be classified by
    deciderP(). that's not an algorithmic failure of deciderP(), that's a
    failure due to the form *of the input itself*

    Every TM fails to have the property of deciding halting. Some very
    clearly so (maybe they decide not cases correctly) whereas others may
    correctly decide an infinity of cases correctly. However, every TM fails >>> to correctly decide an infinity of cases. Some of these you are, I
    think, calling "paradoxical inputs". Maybe you all calling them all
    "paradoxical inputs". I just don't know what you mean.

    because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the
    inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????
    All the inputs ARE decidable. Are you simply calling every one othe
    infinity of inputs that any given TM "gets wrong" a "paradoxical input"? >>> If so, of course they exist, but I don't think the term is a very useful >>> one.
    Every instance of the halting problem (i.e. every input the encodes a
    number N representing a TM/input pair) has a correct true/false answer
    representing the halting or otherwise of the computation represented by
    that input. I.e. every "input" is decidable.

    "decidable" is whether there exists a method to compute the answer for the >> input, no?

    Close but not exactly. There exists a TM that returns the correct true/false result for that input. This is why every finite subset of N is decidable.

    this is just sloppy theory and i have no idea why real professors accept
    it beyond a lack of critical thot on the matter

    outputting a correct answer is not what makes something decidable, one
    needs to be able to trust that that answer is correct for it to be
    decidable

    a constant true function:

    (input) -> TRUE

    will output correct classification for quite a lot of machines, but this doesn't contribute to the decidability of the halting subset of machines (which isn't decidable according the classical theory???) as one cannot
    use this machine to produce a trustworthy result.


    so if every input is decidable, and there exists a method to
    decider it, that would make the problem decidable.

    No. My hunch is that you've tripped yourself up by say "there exists a method to compute" rather than my simpler wording. If you still think
    that my wording leads you to conclude that a problem, all of whose cases
    are decidable is itself decidable, then you need to come back to me and
    I'll try to help you out.

    the classic stance here is that no such method exists, so therefor the
    halting problem is undecidable ... and by consequence some input must be
    undecidable

    Not at all. The consequence (of the proof) is that every TM classifies
    some inputs wrongly. These are not undeciable inputs because there
    exist TMs that classify them correctly. Not one machine that does, not
    even any finite number of TMs, but every input does have an infinity of
    TMs that do classify it correctly.

    just because a machine is undecidable input to one classifier does not
    make it undecidable input to another classifier


    It really looks as if your terminology has led you astray. It possible
    that you are misusing terms deliberately to try to mislead others, but
    for the moment I must assume you are just not aware of how these terms
    are used in the field.

    my opinion on this is too nuanced to flat out agree or disagree

    Every TM, fails to be a halting decide by failing to correctly classify
    infinitely many inputs.
    It would help a lot if instead of being childishly rude you agreed with

    i can agree the classic decider interface is unimplementable.

    The "interface" (what people in the field call the specification) is to
    halt in an accepting state if the input represents are finite
    computation and to halt in any other state if not. Are saying that
    there is no TM with this specification? That's all the halting theorem asserts. We might be in agreement about this!

    it doesn't
    specify what happens upon an undecidable input, where the form of the input >> causes a failure in classifying the input correctly

    There are no "undecidable inputs" using what other people mean by the

    literally the last sentence u wrote is no TM can decide all input ...
    and then the next sentence is there are no "undecidable inputs" ???

    like holy fuck. can you fucking take ur head out of ur asshole for like
    half a minute ehhh???

    IF A TM CANNOT DECIDE ALL INPUTS THEN THAT MEANS AT LEAST ONE INPUT MUST
    BE UNDECIDABLE INPUT *TO THAT MACHINE*

    term. When (if) you answer my initial questions above, I may know which
    of the infinite number of inputs every TM decides incorrectly you want
    to add to the specification of your "Dart-halting deciders" then I could
    say more.

    if the classic decider blocks on such input ... then it becomes a partial
    decider

    What is blocking? Do you mean that the partial decider does not halt?

    non-terminating, and yes a partial decider will enter a non-terminating
    loop to avoid being contradicted by a undecidable input.


    if the classic decider merges such input into negative classification
    (FALSE) ... then it becomes a partial recognizer

    those interfaces do not proofs that make them unimplementable

    Indeed. Partial halting deciders are ten a penny.

    no they aren't. ur just refusing to acknowledge what my specification is because ur refusing the consider the difference between types of classification failures: undecidable input vs algos that just aren't classifiers in the first place

    this incredibly sloppy perspective, imported from set theory i believe,
    of suggesting that something like a constant true function as being a
    "partial recognizer" has no business being in a theory like computing,
    which is existentially concerned with the output not just being correct,
    *but also with being certain that the output is correct*

    a correct algo must provide both. algorithmically correct output is not
    formed during the twice a day a broken clock happens to be correct,

    so therefore a partial recognizer/decider/whatever u want to call it ...
    is not formed by the fact a machines ends up outputting a correct answer
    for some machine, *there must be a certainty that the output is
    correct*, which a constant return value machine does not provide


    both of these proven facts as a starting point. From there, you could
    go on to explain which of the infinitely many inputs every TM fails to
    correctly classify as halting (or not) you are calling "paradoxical".

    if a TM fails to classify an input due to an incorrect algo ... that
    machine is just not a proper classifier in the first place

    if a TM fails to classify an input because that input has a semantic form
    which contradicts classification* ... that input is a paradoxical
    machine

    This is a repeat of what you said above. Your answers to my initial questions will help.

    On the other hand, if you reject one or both of these, I could help you
    to understand the proofs and that might help you explain what you mean
    by paradoxical inputs.

    anyways, paradoxical machines *CAN* exist. just because paradoxes involving
    classic deciders don't exist, because classic deciders aren't an
    implementable interface due to idiosyncrasies of self-referential logic >>>> does not mean paradoxes don't exist with other kinds of classifiers. let me
    post a part u cut from ur reply:

    classical decider:
    TRUE iff input is P
    FALSE iff input is NP
    (always DECIDABLE input)
    impossible interface, CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED

    classical recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P (always DECIDABLE input)
    FALSE if input is NP (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)
    honestly i'm unsure if this can actually be implemented
    Every input relating to every decision problem is decidable. I am

    i said "UNDECIDABLE input" for a reason. the specs here refer to
    DECIDABLE/UNDECIDABLE as a relationship between the input and the specific >> classifier that is executing at runtime.

    an input is UNDECIDABLE when the *semantic form of the input* itself
    prevents the executing classifier from returning a proper
    classification.

    I know what you said. I am helping you to use terms correctly. If you
    want to publish about number theory you can't have a private meaning for

    if number theory got the definition of prime wrong, then it would be
    correct publish with new terms in some manner or another

    "prime"; you will just look like a fool saying that 42 is prime. You
    need a new term for whatever you mean by all the vague stuff about how
    the input was constructed. I can't guarantee you that anyone will care

    i don't need u to guarantee anything,

    i need you to have an ounce of critical thot

    about your particular subset of inputs that a particular decider gets
    wrong, but at least they won't throw the paper in the bin for claiming
    that any one case is an "undecidable input".

    pretyy sure you are using the term in some non-standard way.
    "Decidable" is a property of subsets of some set (usually, for simplicity >>> N) but this can't be how you are using it as every finite set the
    decidable.

    partial decider:
    TRUE if input is P
    FALSE if input is NP
    (block iff UNDECIDABLE input)

    partial recognizer:
    TRUE iff input is P AND is DECIDABLE input
    FALSE iff input is NP OR is UNDECIDABLE input

    if deciderP() within undP() as defined below is a *classic decider*, then >>>> the undP() does not exist because deciderP() cannot be implemented

    but that speak anything about the existence of a deciderP() were any of the
    other three i've defined here:

    if deciderP() is a *classical recognizer* or *partial decider* it would >>>> fail to classify by blocking indefinitely making undP() a non-terminating >>>> infinite loop

    if deciderP() is a *partial recognizer* then it would fail to classify by >>>> returning FALSE, which makes undP() functionally equivalent whatever
    machineP() does
    You need to clear up what you mean when you use the term "undeciable
    input". I can't comment until I know how you are using this term.

    otherwise ur just being antagonistically unhelpful, cause i haven't the >>>>>> foggiest clue what would satisfy ur demands for a
    "definition". but i guess,
    if you wanted to be helpful: why would u be shitposting here on usenet? >>>>>>
    this isn't a place for helping others

    idk what it's for really


    consider the basic paradox form:

    deciderP(input) - decides if input has property P or NP >>>>>>>>>> machineP() - machine that has property P
    machineNP() - machine that has property NP

    // UNDECIDABLE by deciderP for property P
    undP = () -> {
    if ( deciderP(undP) == TRUE )
    machineNP()
    else
    machineP()
    }
    This does not help.

    why??? how much more simplified can it state it in general terms??? >>>>>>> It does not define what the term means. I will have to assume you can't
    define it.

    at the very least it's same properties as specified by rice's theorum. we
    can stick with that for now
    So they, these "paradoxical machines" are all non-existent entities, >>>>> yes?

    no
    I accept you claim they exist. I still want to know what they are.

    For example, let's assume decider37t(input)
    correctly decides (returns true) if the input machine executes more than
    37 state transitions (and false otherwise). What is paradoxical about
    und37t?

    considering:

    und37t = () -> {
    if ( decider37t(und37t) )
    return
    else
    machine37t()
    }

    one may not be able to form a paradox in terms of a space/time complexity
    classifier because decider37t() can waste time and then return TRUE after 37
    execution to ensure it's TRUE, but i can't say i've tried to flesh out the
    permutations there.
    So you accept the sketch of the basic form is not nearly enough to >>>>>>> define the term. In fact...

    i'm more concerned with where paradoxes are certain to occur,
    which includes
    the conditions specified by Rice's Theorem
    ... you mean to consider the "basic form" only when applied to machines >>>>>>> that don't exist. The resulting derived machines don't then exist >>>>>>> either. It sounds like simply accepting that there are no "paradoxical >>>>>>> machines".

    ahh yes, the "paradoxes don't exist" nonsense position. it's pretty fucking
    nuts u believe that non-existence machines "prove" we can't decide on all
    the machines. the state of computing is honestly in fucking shambles and >>>>>> having to read ur pervasive ignorance is annoying.
    I don't think you've seen any precise proofs in this field. In modern >>>>> texts, decidability is a property of a subset of N. Some subsets of N >>>>> are TM decidable and some are not. Do you at least accept that (as
    mentioned in passing in Turing paper) there must be many undecidable >>>>> sets since the power set of N is uncountable but there are only
    countably many TMs? If you don't accept this basic fact about sets and >>>>> TMs, there can be no hope of helping you see how undeciablility proofs >>>>> work.
    You don't say of you accept this basic fact or not -- that there must be >>> uncountably many undecidable sets.

    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of classifiers
    because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets of *finite >>>> length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic
    property.
    This is totally wrong. P(N) is directly relevant. It's how
    decidability is usually formally defined. Of course, subsets of any
    other countable set is equally valid (Sigma* -- finite strings over some >>> alphabet Sigam is often used instead) but it's all about subsets.

    when it comes to machines that classify input machines into sets based on
    semantic properties ... these sets are sets of finite length objects
    (namely those machines)

    OK, let's use binary strings because these have lengths. The inputs are
    all in {0,1}* -- finite length sequences, or strings, of zeros and ones.

    the set of all halting machines is an infinite set of finite length
    objects

    I.e one of the infinite sets of these finite strings is made up of those strings (and only those strings) that represent halting machines (or machine/input computations -- it's all the same to me).

    I.e. The halting problem is to decide (membership of) an element of P({0,1}*).

    so??? EYA2(rao) being uncountable does not prove that any particular element of EYA2(rao) is undecidable, so it's just not relevant to demonstrating undecidability for any particular problem


    the set of all non-halting machines is also an infinite set of finite
    length objects

    That's another (infinite) set of {0,1}* strings we could try to decide.
    I.e. another element of P({0,1}*).

    these set of machines classified by semantic properties are infinite sets
    of *finite* length objects, and therefore are necessarily countable. all
    subsets of machines are necessarily countable

    Indeed.

    so therefore, undecidability *within computing* is not related to the
    uncountably infinite sets of infinite length objects that you find in EYA2(rao)

    is this not abundantly clear?

    Yes, but it's abundantly wrong. Every decider decides an element of P({0,1}*). The fact the P({0,1}*) is uncountable means there must be uncountably many undecidable sets of binary strings. This is because
    there are only countably many TMs.

    We know an ever increasing number of these undecidable sets: those representing halting TMs, ambiguous context free grammars, the word
    problem for groups and so on, but even before knew even one, we knew
    there must be infinitely many. It could have turned out that we never
    got to know any at all, so in that sense the halting theorem is a great success.

    It's clear that you are using the terms in some as yet unspecified way
    so I can understand that you think P(N) is not relevant, but I must
    continue t use and explain the terms as they are conventionally used
    until you explain you usage. Any, by the way, I will strongly urge you
    to use new term for whatever you mean by an "undecidable input".

    no because not handling undecidable inputs are the root cause of
    undecidability *within computing*

    (which is where undecidability was first proven)

    No. There are no undecidable inputs. You MUST use another term if you

    the problem of undecidable input was demonstrated with a hypothetical classical decider. the form of an undecidable input is actually separate
    from whether any particular input exists or not.

    want to be taken seriously. You can't write about primes with your own meaning for the term.

    /undecidable input/ *is* (apparently) a new term, and it's describing
    the relationships between a *particular* input and a *particular*
    classifier, _NOT_ with a *particular* input's relationship to
    classifiers *in general*


    EYA2(rao) gets it's uncoutability from all possible infinite sets of
    infinite sets, which has the same cardinality of raY. the set of all *finite*
    length subsets of rao, however, is still countable.
    This is basic stuff. It's the core of why there are undecidable sets.

    i'm not impressed by the basics as it stands

    You don't have to be impressed, you just have to accept that (1) there
    are countably many TMs; (2) there are uncountably many sets of possible inputs. Not all sets of possible inputs are TM-deciable sets.

    ok??? this does not show any particular subset of TMs to be un/decidable
    or not

    that only proof we have for any particular subset of TMs to be
    un/decidable is a proof that involves demonstrating a contradiction with
    an undecidable input. which furthermore assumes that decidability to determined by the existence of particular TM interface or not (namely
    classic deciders in mainstream theory). which ironically kind of just
    assumes the ct-thesis to be true (which isn't proven)


    Mind you, you could just come out and say that you don't accept these
    basic facts and we could simply stop chatting...

    i'm pretty sure ur gunna double down on stupid and quit replying a few messages



    so i'd use slightly different proof:

    if all functional mappings were computable then all real numbers would be >>>> computable, because all mappings between N and the Nth digit for any given >>>> real number would be computable, and that would equate the cardinality of rao
    with raY (violating cantor's two proofs on the matter)
    Agreed. It seems we both accept that there are mappings that are not
    computable. It's a start.

    and this doesn't mean one can just assume any given functional mapping to >>>> be undecidable. a proof is needed, and those proofs are founded on equating
    the classic decider interface with that of general ability ...
    Indeed. That's why we have proofs of many uncomputable mappings. Do
    you reject Rado's proof that the busy beaver mapping is not TM
    computable?

    well it's really just an extension of the halting problem. so is rice's
    theorem. since i'm questioning the true nature of halting problem, i'm
    questioning the foundation of both

    Interesting that you side-stepped an answer. I asked about Rado's
    proof, not about the problem itself. Do you know the proof? Do think
    it's wrong, or do you accept it?

    proof is essentially if we could compute BB(n), then the halting problem
    would be decidable... which is therefore justified by the undecidability
    of the halting problem, and is the thing i'm questioning


    one undecidable problem i don't know what to do about yet is kolmogorov
    complexity, but i'm quite sus of it

    one mapping i can agree is uncomputable by machines is the inverse diagonal >> across *all* computable number...

    ...tho i wonder if it's still computable by a man (with infinite
    time). which has lead me to consider that the ct-thesis may actually be
    false, indeed

    I wonder what private meaning you have for the ct-thesis if infinite
    time might come into it.

    what??? an infinite set can only be computed with infinite time... or
    put otherwise: a halting machine cannot compute an infinite
    set/sequence, only an non-terminated one can

    computing an infinite diagonal (inverse or otherwise) is an infinite
    sequence and therefore requires infinite time, aka a non-terminating
    behavior computation

    to really get into the details i'm what i'm talking about here, which i genuinely would like help exploring...

    we're gunna have to figure out how to understand and agree on what i'm
    saying with the rest this post first
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 15 17:52:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/14/26 11:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/14/26 5:41 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/14/26 10:44 AM, dart200 wrote:
    there's just nothing for me in a discussion where i get called a
    crank after pointing out a blatant fallacy

    The problem is you keep on calling valid logic to be a fallacy, as you
    commit a fallacy yourself.

    it is not, and will never be, valid logic to declare some credential as relevant to the validity of an argument being made

    It is never "valid logic" to assume a statement to prove that statement.


    -ait get that it's extremely common, and most people will find this pervasive, even me at times especially when i have no further qualms
    with an issue...

    No, it is just cranks like you that think they have the right to assume
    the system is wrong and not actually do the work to make the alternate
    system they are thinking of.


    but my perseverance in rejecting invalid arguments when i do have qualms
    has served me well thus far in my pursuits of unacknowledged truth.

    No, you try to reject the definitions as invalid, which isn't valid if
    you don't create a new system.


    i'm not about to back down about it, ever


    Which is your problem, you can't accept that you are fundamentally wrong
    in the existing system, so unless you do the work to create your totally
    new system, and do the work to show it to be viable, you are just wrong.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 15 17:52:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/15/26 12:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/14/26 8:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/14/26 5:41 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/14/26 10:44 AM, dart200 wrote:
    there's just nothing for me in a discussion where i get called a
    crank after pointing out a blatant fallacy

    The problem is you keep on calling valid logic to be a fallacy, as
    you commit a fallacy yourself.

    it is not, and will never be, valid logic to declare some credential
    as relevant to the validity of an argument being made

    why???

    because valid arguments must be self-evident in of themselves based on
    their own merit, *not* based on who said it

    No, valid arguements (in formal logic) must be based on the established
    truths of the system that is being discussed.

    This isn't the wild west of generic Philosophy that doesn't fully define
    its ground rules.


    it's kinda bizarre having to state this in a theoretical computer
    science group, but that is the state of the EfniEfiA i live on

    Why? SCIENCE is based on the rules of SCIENCE, and Computer Science is
    based on the rules that define what we think of as computing.

    The problem is if you want to change them, you are no longer in that
    science.

    You are just in Computer Philosophy.



    -a-ait get that it's extremely common, and most people will find this
    pervasive, even me at times especially when i have no further qualms
    with an issue...

    but my perseverance in rejecting invalid arguments when i do have
    qualms has served me well thus far in my pursuits of unacknowledged
    truth.

    i'm not about to back down about it, ever




    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 01:16:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/14/26 6:11 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines. >>>>>>>>>> You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so? >>>>>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I
    don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here. >>>>>>>
    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the >>>>>> term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked >>>>>> about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to >>>>>> be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were -- >>>>>> i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent >>>>>> (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't
    exist.
    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by >>>> the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and
    that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible
    that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact >>>> exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:
    I never thought it was. It was simply undefined.

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/ causes >>> some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly, >>> not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic property, but at >>> least one and possibly infinite
    Obviously I don't know what "by its semantic construction" means

    by the nature/form of the input machine itself.

    the form of undP() is querying deciderP() and then running a codepath that contradicts the return value of deciderP()

    the objective semantic structure/form of undP() is what causes deciderP()
    to fail in classifying it. the form of undP() does not necessarily cause
    this in other classifiers, even those for the same semantic property like a possible deciderP2()

    exactly, but let's not bother about that immediately because I suspect
    the definition will end up using other slightly mysterious phrases
    rather than mathematical definitions. Instead, maybe you could say how
    you stand on these related issues:
    (1) Since there is no halting decider, no input can be constructed to
    make such a classifier fail. Do you therefore accept that, at least as
    far as halting is concerned, there are no paradoxical machines?

    a classic decider is just one kind of classifier, i named 3 more which can exist, and are therefore subject to real paradoxical machines becoming undecidable input for them

    Why are you not answering the question? I want to know what you accept
    about the known theory.

    (2) Alternatively, maybe you are considering machines that get /some/
    halting cases right as "almost halting deciders". If so, since all TMs
    (including those you might be considering as almost hating deciders)
    fail to correctly classify the halting of an infinite number of inputs,
    are all of these incorrectly classified inputs "paradoxical machines" or
    are only some of them constructed in the way you say is needed to meet
    your definition? This will help me to know what "by it's semantic
    construction" means.

    the only machines proven to be undecidable are those which have the
    semantic form of a paradoxical machine to one (or more) classifiers

    No machines are decidable or undecidable. You probably mean something
    about the halting of machines, but the halting of every individual
    machine is decidable.

    But where have you seen proofs that some machines are undecidable?
    Point me to one of these proofs. It might help me know what you mean by
    these terms.

    (3) If, as I suspect, you consider only some of the infinite number of
    cases that every TM gets wrong (about the halting of the input), what do
    do about the cases that are wrongly classified but are /not/
    "paradoxical machines" according to your definition?

    if the TM fails to classify an input that does not form a paradox specifically against that particular TM is just not a true classifier, to
    the point that disagreeing with this is something i could call category
    error

    the constant false machine is just not in the category of machines called "classifiers" and has no business being executed to produce classification output, or being part of a discussion on classifiers

    Then I am not interested in what you seem to be calling classifiers. I
    would like to know what you think about what other people call
    deciders -- specifically the non-existence of a halting decider.

    such a machine becomes "undecidable input" to the classifier that
    necessarily (and therefor provably so) fails to classify it
    I prefer to say that they are inputs the decider gets wrong. Your use
    of "undeciable input" is a misuse of a long established technical term
    (undeciable) and, as I have just shown, there is a much simpler way to
    refer to these inputs. Even if you want to choose another word, you
    /must/ pick a term that does not already have an accepted technical
    meaning.

    undP() is a "paradoxical machine" specifically one that is an "undecidable >>> input" to deciderP()
    It's much clearer to say that deciderP gets that input wrong. The

    it's imprecise, as it fails to distinguish the reason for the failure to classify:

    if deciderP() fails to classify paradoxical machine undP(), which is due to the code structure of the input itself, this does not then mean deciderP()
    is not a true classifier

    if deciderP() fails to classify non-paradoxical machine machineP(), then
    that would make deciderP() not a true classifier, since the failure is not due to the code structure of the input itself

    Why do you care about this distinction? The result is the same. No TM
    gives the correct result for every input.

    Now, I've come across your argument many times (it comes up every year
    in class) and it can be dealt with in a short one hour tutorial but will
    take ages on Unisent because you won't answer direct questions with
    clear responses using standard terminology. For example, I am pretty
    sure you are still misusing the term "undecidable".

    Every year some students say that all that is needed is to spot these particular inputs. They call them various things -- paradoxical inputs, deliberate tricks, engineered failures -- but the answer is always the
    same. All of them are just single examples from an infinite set of
    inputs that every single TM gets wrong. What's more, that infinite set
    of inputs that any particular TM gets wrong is not itself a decidable
    set so there is no point in trying to "filter them out" (as some
    students always propose).

    "undecidable" part is not a property of the input but of the input and
    the machine getting it wrong. An "unknown number" sound mysterious and
    interesting, but a number unknown to me is just a gap in my knowledge.
    You must find another term for it.

    this undecidability is not equivalent to an algorithmic failure on part of >>> the classifier itself. for contrast let us consider the constant false
    machine:

    (input) -> FALSE

    this may output the correct answer for many input but it will fail due to a >>> blatantly incorrect aglo on many others. this is just not a proper
    classifier for *any* semantic property, for *any* stretch of the
    imagination. it's failure to classify comes from a blatantly incorrect
    algorithm, not the semantic construction /of the input itself/
    I can only address this point if you clear up the questions above.

    undP() however, due to it's construction, cannot be classified by
    deciderP(). that's not an algorithmic failure of deciderP(), that's a
    failure due to the form *of the input itself*

    Every TM fails to have the property of deciding halting. Some very
    clearly so (maybe they decide not cases correctly) whereas others may
    correctly decide an infinity of cases correctly. However, every TM fails >>>> to correctly decide an infinity of cases. Some of these you are, I
    think, calling "paradoxical inputs". Maybe you all calling them all
    "paradoxical inputs". I just don't know what you mean.

    because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the
    inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????
    All the inputs ARE decidable. Are you simply calling every one othe
    infinity of inputs that any given TM "gets wrong" a "paradoxical input"? >>>> If so, of course they exist, but I don't think the term is a very useful >>>> one.
    Every instance of the halting problem (i.e. every input the encodes a
    number N representing a TM/input pair) has a correct true/false answer >>>> representing the halting or otherwise of the computation represented by >>>> that input. I.e. every "input" is decidable.

    "decidable" is whether there exists a method to compute the answer for the >>> input, no?
    Close but not exactly. There exists a TM that returns the correct
    true/false
    result for that input. This is why every finite subset of N is decidable.

    this is just sloppy theory and i have no idea why real professors accept it beyond a lack of critical thot on the matter

    outputting a correct answer is not what makes something decidable, one
    needs to be able to trust that that answer is correct for it to be
    decidable

    I thought you were addressing the standard theory? I think I have misunderstood your purpose here. If you want to propose some
    alternative theory by defining, properly, what you mean when you
    distinguish between a correct answer and a trustworthy correct answer,
    then I might be persuaded to find out about it, if you can make the case
    that it's interesting. But I suspect you won't ever get round to
    publishing this new theory.

    But if you have nothing to say about conventional decidability (other
    than that, in your opinion, it is sloppy) I can't see the point of
    continuing, can you? My purpose was to help you understand the current
    theory and to correct your misuse of standard terms, but if that's not interesting to you, I should just let you get on with posting into the
    void.

    [...]
    There are no "undecidable inputs" using what other people mean by the

    literally the last sentence u wrote is no TM can decide all input ... and then the next sentence is there are no "undecidable inputs" ???

    like holy fuck. can you fucking take ur head out of ur asshole for like
    half a minute ehhh???

    If you take a breath and try to treat the person you are talking to with
    a bit of respect you might see that it's perfectly reasonable to say
    what I said. If I ask Bob to factor

    3329896365316142756322307042154488980818737544442736723115632345539984037

    and he says he can't (or he gets the factors wrong) it would be absurd
    to call this an "unfactorisable input". It's just a number that Bob
    could not correctly factorise. In fact, I would suspect the person
    calling it an "unfactorisable number" was misusing the term to advance
    some rhetorical goal.

    IF A TM CANNOT DECIDE ALL INPUTS THEN THAT MEANS AT LEAST ONE INPUT MUST BE UNDECIDABLE INPUT *TO THAT MACHINE*

    Nope. It means that machine gets that case wrong. Undeciable has an
    agreed meaning. If you want to be taken seriously, you should learn to
    use such terms correctly. By all means invent a new term if "getting an
    input wrong" does not sound technical enough for you, but don't misuse established terms.

    Anyway, I see you are resorting to rudeness and disrespect, so I think
    this exchange is coming to an end.

    [...]
    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of classifiers
    because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets of *finite >>>>> length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic >>>>> property.
    This is totally wrong. P(N) is directly relevant. It's how
    decidability is usually formally defined. Of course, subsets of any
    other countable set is equally valid (Sigma* -- finite strings over some >>>> alphabet Sigam is often used instead) but it's all about subsets.

    when it comes to machines that classify input machines into sets based on >>> semantic properties ... these sets are sets of finite length objects
    (namely those machines)
    OK, let's use binary strings because these have lengths. The inputs are
    all in {0,1}* -- finite length sequences, or strings, of zeros and ones.

    the set of all halting machines is an infinite set of finite length
    objects
    I.e one of the infinite sets of these finite strings is made up of those
    strings (and only those strings) that represent halting machines (or
    machine/input computations -- it's all the same to me).
    I.e. The halting problem is to decide (membership of) an element of
    P({0,1}*).

    so??? EYA2(rao) being uncountable does not prove that any particular element of
    EYA2(rao) is undecidable, so it's just not relevant to demonstrating undecidability for any particular problem

    I can't even begin to know what you mean because I can't tell what you
    mean by decidable here. Can you see the problem? What you are saying
    might be 100% accurate from some property you are calling deciable, but
    I don't even know if that's an interesting property of a set, much less
    if what you said is true or false.

    All I can do is stand by what I said. And if you need to find out what
    I mean when I say that uncountably many elements of P(N) must be
    undeciable because there are only countably many TMs, you can determine
    the meaning of my words simply by looking them up is a textbook.

    [...]
    well it's really just an extension of the halting problem. so is rice's
    theorem. since i'm questioning the true nature of halting problem, i'm
    questioning the foundation of both
    Interesting that you side-stepped an answer. I asked about Rado's
    proof, not about the problem itself. Do you know the proof? Do think
    it's wrong, or do you accept it?

    proof is essentially if we could compute BB(n), then the halting problem would be decidable... which is therefore justified by the undecidability of the halting problem, and is the thing i'm questioning

    Again, sidestepping my questions. It's OK if you haven't read the
    proof, but if you had, I would have been interested to know if you
    accepted it and, if not, what part of the proof you had found
    unconvincing. It's interesting to engage with other styles of proof.

    one mapping i can agree is uncomputable by machines is the inverse diagonal >>> across *all* computable number...

    ...tho i wonder if it's still computable by a man (with infinite
    time). which has lead me to consider that the ct-thesis may actually be
    false, indeed
    I wonder what private meaning you have for the ct-thesis if infinite
    time might come into it.

    what??? an infinite set can only be computed with infinite time... or put otherwise: a halting machine cannot compute an infinite set/sequence, only
    an non-terminated one can

    You really need to read Turing's paper. It is about computing infinite
    sets. Of course, you have your own meaning for "computing", no doubt,
    so I can't see how I can talk to you about this without a lexicon.

    computing an infinite diagonal (inverse or otherwise) is an infinite
    sequence and therefore requires infinite time, aka a non-terminating
    behavior computation

    to really get into the details i'm what i'm talking about here, which i genuinely would like help exploring...

    we're gunna have to figure out how to understand and agree on what i'm
    saying with the rest this post first

    Not necessarily. It depends on what your intent is. If you want to
    present some new notion of "decidable", you'd need to make the case that
    it's worth finding out about first. I thought you were talking about
    halting and decidability in the conventional sense, hence my
    intervention pointing out where you seemed to be wrong. You might be
    100% right about your notions, but would I want to spend time finding
    out rather then reading about dog behaviour... I'm not sure.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 15 23:02:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/15/26 8:16 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    No machines are decidable or undecidable. You probably mean something
    about the halting of machines, but the halting of every individual
    machine is decidable.

    But where have you seen proofs that some machines are undecidable?
    Point me to one of these proofs. It might help me know what you mean by these terms.

    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by just stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting
    status.

    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.

    This also puts them is the strange land that, because it must be
    impossible to know that such a machine is a machine like this, we can't
    make a meta-system to let us actually fully describe it, but only
    describe how to make it from a member of a set that we can prove must
    exist, but we can't know that it is one of that set.

    In one sense, I don't blame dart for not understand how this works, as
    it is very esoteric and strange, but this type of machine is totally not needed to prove that Halting isn't decidable, even if their existance
    comes out of that fact.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 00:21:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/15/26 5:16 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/14/26 6:11 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines. >>>>>>>>>>> You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so? >>>>>>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I
    don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here. >>>>>>>>
    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the >>>>>>> term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked >>>>>>> about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were -- >>>>>>> i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent >>>>>>> (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't >>>>>> exist.
    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by >>>>> the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and >>>>> that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible >>>>> that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact >>>>> exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:
    I never thought it was. It was simply undefined.

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/ causes >>>> some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly,
    not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic property, but at >>>> least one and possibly infinite
    Obviously I don't know what "by its semantic construction" means

    by the nature/form of the input machine itself.

    the form of undP() is querying deciderP() and then running a codepath that >> contradicts the return value of deciderP()

    the objective semantic structure/form of undP() is what causes deciderP()
    to fail in classifying it. the form of undP() does not necessarily cause
    this in other classifiers, even those for the same semantic property like a >> possible deciderP2()

    exactly, but let's not bother about that immediately because I suspect
    the definition will end up using other slightly mysterious phrases
    rather than mathematical definitions. Instead, maybe you could say how
    you stand on these related issues:
    (1) Since there is no halting decider, no input can be constructed to
    make such a classifier fail. Do you therefore accept that, at least as
    far as halting is concerned, there are no paradoxical machines?

    a classic decider is just one kind of classifier, i named 3 more which can >> exist, and are therefore subject to real paradoxical machines becoming
    undecidable input for them

    Why are you not answering the question? I want to know what you accept
    about the known theory.

    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the classic decider interface

    i reject: there is no turing machine that implements other classifier interfaces: like a classic recognizer, a partial decider, or a partial recognizer that i've defined/mentioned. so i further reject: that
    undecidable input do not exist in regards to those interfaces which do
    not have proofs barring their existence

    for example: a classic recognizer for halting machines *does* exist, and
    this is accepted theory. and because it exists, one *can* construct /undecidable input/ in regards to such a machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    und_chr() *is* a /paradoxical machine/ that *is* an /undecidable input/
    to the classifier classic_halting_recognizer() that *does* exist

    can u understand yet what i'm accepting/rejecting here???


    (2) Alternatively, maybe you are considering machines that get /some/
    halting cases right as "almost halting deciders". If so, since all TMs
    (including those you might be considering as almost hating deciders)
    fail to correctly classify the halting of an infinite number of inputs,
    are all of these incorrectly classified inputs "paradoxical machines" or >>> are only some of them constructed in the way you say is needed to meet
    your definition? This will help me to know what "by it's semantic
    construction" means.

    the only machines proven to be undecidable are those which have the
    semantic form of a paradoxical machine to one (or more) classifiers

    No machines are decidable or undecidable. You probably mean something
    about the halting of machines, but the halting of every individual
    machine is decidable.

    But where have you seen proofs that some machines are undecidable?

    much of this is my own work, and it appears this level of input-level
    scrutiny has truly not yet been done for the problem of undecidability
    *within computing*, so i would not suppose there are no prior proofs to
    point you at

    Point me to one of these proofs. It might help me know what you mean by these terms.

    we can determine that und_chr() is /undecidability input/ for classic_halting_recognizer()

    A) if we inject TRUE in for classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) within und_chr() we get the machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( TRUE == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    which is clearly a non-halting machine

    B) if we inject FALSE in for classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) within und_chr() we get the machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( FALSE == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    which is clearly a halting machine

    C) we can notice that if classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr)->TRUE we
    get a non-halting machine. and if
    classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr)->FALSE we get a halting machine.
    ergo the machine und_chr() is /undecidable input/ for classic_halting_recognizer()

    classic_halting_recognizer() would be forced to enter a non-terminated
    loop in order to avoid violating it's interface/specification


    (3) If, as I suspect, you consider only some of the infinite number of
    cases that every TM gets wrong (about the halting of the input), what do >>> do about the cases that are wrongly classified but are /not/
    "paradoxical machines" according to your definition?

    if the TM fails to classify an input that does not form a paradox
    specifically against that particular TM is just not a true classifier, to
    the point that disagreeing with this is something i could call category
    error

    the constant false machine is just not in the category of machines called
    "classifiers" and has no business being executed to produce classification >> output, or being part of a discussion on classifiers

    Then I am not interested in what you seem to be calling classifiers. I

    then ur not interest in /effective methods/ apparently, and want to pass
    off constant returns as a meaningful analysis on the input ...

    weird flex for a "professor"

    or anyone for that matter

    would like to know what you think about what other people call
    deciders -- specifically the non-existence of a halting decider.

    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not exist,

    and that reason is because the specification does *not* specify what to
    do when /undecidable input/ is encountered

    such a machine becomes "undecidable input" to the classifier that
    necessarily (and therefor provably so) fails to classify it
    I prefer to say that they are inputs the decider gets wrong. Your use
    of "undeciable input" is a misuse of a long established technical term
    (undeciable) and, as I have just shown, there is a much simpler way to
    refer to these inputs. Even if you want to choose another word, you
    /must/ pick a term that does not already have an accepted technical
    meaning.

    undP() is a "paradoxical machine" specifically one that is an "undecidable >>>> input" to deciderP()
    It's much clearer to say that deciderP gets that input wrong. The

    it's imprecise, as it fails to distinguish the reason for the failure to
    classify:

    if deciderP() fails to classify paradoxical machine undP(), which is due to >> the code structure of the input itself, this does not then mean deciderP() >> is not a true classifier

    if deciderP() fails to classify non-paradoxical machine machineP(), then
    that would make deciderP() not a true classifier, since the failure is not >> due to the code structure of the input itself

    Why do you care about this distinction? The result is the same. No TM

    because /undecidable input/ is algorithmically detectable via the algo i described above

    while trying to pass of invalid algos as examples of proper classifiers
    is literal brainrot unbecoming of anyone interested in truthseeking

    which i'm not sure u are at this point, given u spent literally decades teaching such abject nonsense

    gives the correct result for every input.

    Now, I've come across your argument many times (it comes up every year

    not with my persistence. a collage student doesn't have the time or
    confidence or *raw disgust at the idiocy festering in the upper echelons
    of big tech* ... to continually spit in the face of abject brainrot for
    years on end like i already have

    in class) and it can be dealt with in a short one hour tutorial but will
    take ages on Unisent because you won't answer direct questions with
    clear responses using standard terminology. For example, I am pretty
    sure you are still misusing the term "undecidable".

    Every year some students say that all that is needed is to spot these particular inputs. They call them various things -- paradoxical inputs, deliberate tricks, engineered failures -- but the answer is always the
    same. All of them are just single examples from an infinite set of
    inputs that every single TM gets wrong. What's more, that infinite set
    of inputs that any particular TM gets wrong is not itself a decidable
    set so there is no point in trying to "filter them out" (as some
    students always propose).

    i'm deeply cognizant of the twisted circular-logic mindfuck u've
    accepted. but the decision paradox underlying the halting problem is the *same* paradox underlying the turing equivalence problem, and i have
    arguments addressing this issue,

    but let's unpack that after you accept the /undecidable input/ *can* and
    *do* exist for a classifier that even *you* accept as real: the classic halting recognizer


    "undecidable" part is not a property of the input but of the input and
    the machine getting it wrong. An "unknown number" sound mysterious and
    interesting, but a number unknown to me is just a gap in my knowledge.
    You must find another term for it.

    this undecidability is not equivalent to an algorithmic failure on part of >>>> the classifier itself. for contrast let us consider the constant false >>>> machine:

    (input) -> FALSE

    this may output the correct answer for many input but it will fail due to a
    blatantly incorrect aglo on many others. this is just not a proper
    classifier for *any* semantic property, for *any* stretch of the
    imagination. it's failure to classify comes from a blatantly incorrect >>>> algorithm, not the semantic construction /of the input itself/
    I can only address this point if you clear up the questions above.

    undP() however, due to it's construction, cannot be classified by
    deciderP(). that's not an algorithmic failure of deciderP(), that's a
    failure due to the form *of the input itself*

    Every TM fails to have the property of deciding halting. Some very
    clearly so (maybe they decide not cases correctly) whereas others may >>>>> correctly decide an infinity of cases correctly. However, every TM fails >>>>> to correctly decide an infinity of cases. Some of these you are, I
    think, calling "paradoxical inputs". Maybe you all calling them all >>>>> "paradoxical inputs". I just don't know what you mean.

    because if they don't, then by the law of excluded middle all the
    inputs must be decidable, and therefore the problem should be
    decidable... CAN I HAVE SOME RATIONALITY UP IN THIS BITCH EHH ????
    All the inputs ARE decidable. Are you simply calling every one othe >>>>> infinity of inputs that any given TM "gets wrong" a "paradoxical input"? >>>>> If so, of course they exist, but I don't think the term is a very useful >>>>> one.
    Every instance of the halting problem (i.e. every input the encodes a >>>>> number N representing a TM/input pair) has a correct true/false answer >>>>> representing the halting or otherwise of the computation represented by >>>>> that input. I.e. every "input" is decidable.

    "decidable" is whether there exists a method to compute the answer for the >>>> input, no?
    Close but not exactly. There exists a TM that returns the correct
    true/false
    result for that input. This is why every finite subset of N is decidable. >>
    this is just sloppy theory and i have no idea why real professors accept it >> beyond a lack of critical thot on the matter

    outputting a correct answer is not what makes something decidable, one
    needs to be able to trust that that answer is correct for it to be
    decidable

    I thought you were addressing the standard theory? I think I have misunderstood your purpose here. If you want to propose some
    alternative theory by defining, properly, what you mean when you
    distinguish between a correct answer and a trustworthy correct answer,

    a correct answer happens to be correct

    a trustworthy answer is produced by an /effective method/ for that
    answer which is a term defined in academia that u should know

    then I might be persuaded to find out about it, if you can make the case
    that it's interesting. But I suspect you won't ever get round to
    publishing this new theory.

    But if you have nothing to say about conventional decidability (other
    than that, in your opinion, it is sloppy) I can't see the point of continuing, can you? My purpose was to help you understand the current theory and to correct your misuse of standard terms, but if that's not interesting to you, I should just let you get on with posting into the
    void.

    bruh if not going actually engage with my ideas then please fuck off and
    shoot urself for all i care, eh???

    i'm fucking done with fucking chucklefucks with superiority complexes
    who aren't going to actually engage with enough commitment

    i'm not here "to be corrected" i'm here to engage and explore *novel*
    ideas on the matter that the fundamentals have patently fucking ignored
    for a fucking century...

    and i'm pretty fucking pissed off at the nonsense real world practice of garbage coding that such ignorance has lead to on a vast systemic scale
    across the entirety of global society.

    i directly blame the entire fucking industry of lame duck comp sci
    academics who have done fuck-all to address the fucking massive holes at
    the bottom of computing, leading to an egregious bastardization of what
    turing machine *can* be

    if ur not gunna engage at that kinda level, u have no use to me

    i mean u've already tried to pass of blatantly errored algos as examples
    of proper classifiers just in this convo. u swallowed the pill of
    intellectual brianrot decades ago, if u cease to engage IDGAF. heck
    anyone who ceases to engage with me: IDGAF. the world is fucked up
    enough i'm beyond caring about ur fee fees on matters of this importance.

    i will keep engaging if u do, u haven't yet done something like alan did
    and call me crank for pointing out his blatant argument from authority fallacies. idk why i kept engaging with richard so long. i pointed out
    and named over dozen or so fallacies in his. never have i ever
    experienced in such interaction.


    [...]
    There are no "undecidable inputs" using what other people mean by the

    literally the last sentence u wrote is no TM can decide all input ... and
    then the next sentence is there are no "undecidable inputs" ???

    like holy fuck. can you fucking take ur head out of ur asshole for like
    half a minute ehhh???

    If you take a breath and try to treat the person you are talking to with
    a bit of respect you might see that it's perfectly reasonable to say

    i don't respect you, cause i'm angry i need to have this discussion in
    year 2026. if u can't handle that then maybe an unmoderated forum isn't
    for you eh???

    there's a lot of moderated forums you can find "respect" on

    but u won't find the innovation i've been working on there smh

    what I said. If I ask Bob to factor

    3329896365316142756322307042154488980818737544442736723115632345539984037

    and he says he can't (or he gets the factors wrong) it would be absurd
    to call this an "unfactorisable input". It's just a number that Bob
    could not correctly factorise. In fact, I would suspect the person
    calling it an "unfactorisable number" was misusing the term to advance
    some rhetorical goal.

    the difference is the *cause* of the wrongness.

    a failure to classify on an /undecidable input/ stems from the code
    structure of the input itself

    a failure to classify on a /decidable input/ is rather a /broken af
    algorithm/


    IF A TM CANNOT DECIDE ALL INPUTS THEN THAT MEANS AT LEAST ONE INPUT MUST BE >> UNDECIDABLE INPUT *TO THAT MACHINE*

    Nope. It means that machine gets that case wrong. Undeciable has an
    agreed meaning. If you want to be taken seriously, you should learn to
    use such terms correctly. By all means invent a new term if "getting an input wrong" does not sound technical enough for you, but don't misuse established terms.

    it's not technical enough. there's a difference between an /undecidable
    input/ and a /broken af algorithm/

    and my god are you gunna push hard back against that difference because acknowledging it would bring into question theory u moronically spent literally decades teaching, i suppose...

    i haven't foggiest what kind of cognitive dissonance that might feel
    like, but that's not really my fucking problem, eh???


    Anyway, I see you are resorting to rudeness and disrespect, so I think
    this exchange is coming to an end.

    that's fine. if ur dumb enough to confuse disrespect with incorrectness,

    then again: i have no use for ur illogical brainrot


    [...]
    i'm not actually sure EYA2(rao) is relevant to the decidability of classifiers
    because classifiers are computing in regards to *only* sets of *finite >>>>>> length* objects, namely turing machines, classified by some semantic >>>>>> property.
    This is totally wrong. P(N) is directly relevant. It's how
    decidability is usually formally defined. Of course, subsets of any >>>>> other countable set is equally valid (Sigma* -- finite strings over some >>>>> alphabet Sigam is often used instead) but it's all about subsets.

    when it comes to machines that classify input machines into sets based on >>>> semantic properties ... these sets are sets of finite length objects
    (namely those machines)
    OK, let's use binary strings because these have lengths. The inputs are >>> all in {0,1}* -- finite length sequences, or strings, of zeros and ones. >>>
    the set of all halting machines is an infinite set of finite length
    objects
    I.e one of the infinite sets of these finite strings is made up of those >>> strings (and only those strings) that represent halting machines (or
    machine/input computations -- it's all the same to me).
    I.e. The halting problem is to decide (membership of) an element of
    P({0,1}*).

    so??? EYA2(rao) being uncountable does not prove that any particular element of
    EYA2(rao) is undecidable, so it's just not relevant to demonstrating
    undecidability for any particular problem

    I can't even begin to know what you mean because I can't tell what you
    mean by decidable here. Can you see the problem? What you are saying
    might be 100% accurate from some property you are calling deciable, but
    I don't even know if that's an interesting property of a set, much less
    if what you said is true or false.

    All I can do is stand by what I said. And if you need to find out what
    I mean when I say that uncountably many elements of P(N) must be
    undeciable because there are only countably many TMs, you can determine
    the meaning of my words simply by looking them up is a textbook.

    it's irrelevant because the fact there are infinite subsets that cannot
    be computed, does not then imply undecidability for any *particular*
    subset. there's nothing logically tying the uncountability of EYA2(rao) to *specifically* the any particular subsets of TMs like halting/not machines.

    we know that halting machines are recognizable, so that sequence/subset
    of machines can be computed regardless of EYA2(rao) uncoutnability

    same can be true for any other sequence/subset of machines, like
    non-halting machines

    the uncountability of EYA2(rao) is just not particularly relevant to the decidability/computability for any particular sequence/subset of
    machines, as it's too unspecific a notion to be applied to any
    particular problem of classifying TMs by semantics


    [...]
    well it's really just an extension of the halting problem. so is rice's >>>> theorem. since i'm questioning the true nature of halting problem, i'm >>>> questioning the foundation of both
    Interesting that you side-stepped an answer. I asked about Rado's
    proof, not about the problem itself. Do you know the proof? Do think
    it's wrong, or do you accept it?

    proof is essentially if we could compute BB(n), then the halting problem
    would be decidable... which is therefore justified by the undecidability of >> the halting problem, and is the thing i'm questioning

    Again, sidestepping my questions. It's OK if you haven't read the
    proof, but if you had, I would have been interested to know if you
    accepted it and, if not, what part of the proof you had found
    unconvincing. It's interesting to engage with other styles of proof.

    or it's a red herring cause at the end of the day it's founded on the
    notion that halting is not computable and that's the part i'm interested in.

    i haven't read his prove thoroughly to give feedback on the specific
    step in the proof of undecidability, but i will try in next day or so.


    one mapping i can agree is uncomputable by machines is the inverse diagonal
    across *all* computable number...

    ...tho i wonder if it's still computable by a man (with infinite
    time). which has lead me to consider that the ct-thesis may actually be >>>> false, indeed
    I wonder what private meaning you have for the ct-thesis if infinite
    time might come into it.

    what??? an infinite set can only be computed with infinite time... or put
    otherwise: a halting machine cannot compute an infinite set/sequence, only >> an non-terminated one can

    You really need to read Turing's paper. It is about computing infinite

    i'm aware. the "circle-free" problem is deciding between infinitely
    running machines that get caught in computational loops and infinitely
    running machines that do not get caught in computation loops (i like to
    call them runaway infinities)

    sets. Of course, you have your own meaning for "computing", no doubt,
    so I can't see how I can talk to you about this without a lexicon.

    instead of "infinite time" how about: a non-terminating machine is
    required to compute an infinite sequence

    i don't know what the equivalent for a human manually computing
    something would be, but it would also need to be a non-terminating method


    computing an infinite diagonal (inverse or otherwise) is an infinite
    sequence and therefore requires infinite time, aka a non-terminating
    behavior computation

    to really get into the details i'm what i'm talking about here, which i
    genuinely would like help exploring...

    we're gunna have to figure out how to understand and agree on what i'm
    saying with the rest this post first

    Not necessarily. It depends on what your intent is. If you want to
    present some new notion of "decidable", you'd need to make the case that
    it's worth finding out about first. I thought you were talking about
    halting and decidability in the conventional sense, hence my
    intervention pointing out where you seemed to be wrong. You might be
    100% right about your notions, but would I want to spend time finding
    out rather then reading about dog behaviour... I'm not sure.

    an old fart boomer like u probably shouldn't bother any further

    ur entire fucking generation can go to hell for the idiocracy you will
    be leaving in your wake EfOA

    and yes i'm gunna keep pushing u away with my words. if ur
    interest/commitment isn't strong enough to push thru a few mean words on
    a screen:

    *then it will be of no use to me in further development*
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 22:44:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by just stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?


    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good justification.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 00:44:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/15/26 5:16 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/14/26 6:11 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines. >>>>>>>>>>>> You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so? >>>>>>>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I
    don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here. >>>>>>>>>
    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the >>>>>>>> term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked >>>>>>>> about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were -- >>>>>>>> i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent
    (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't >>>>>>> exist.
    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by >>>>>> the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and >>>>>> that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible >>>>>> that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact >>>>>> exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:
    I never thought it was. It was simply undefined.

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/ causes
    some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly,
    not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic property, but at >>>>> least one and possibly infinite
    Obviously I don't know what "by its semantic construction" means

    by the nature/form of the input machine itself.

    the form of undP() is querying deciderP() and then running a codepath that >>> contradicts the return value of deciderP()

    the objective semantic structure/form of undP() is what causes deciderP() >>> to fail in classifying it. the form of undP() does not necessarily cause >>> this in other classifiers, even those for the same semantic property like a >>> possible deciderP2()

    exactly, but let's not bother about that immediately because I suspect >>>> the definition will end up using other slightly mysterious phrases
    rather than mathematical definitions. Instead, maybe you could say how >>>> you stand on these related issues:
    (1) Since there is no halting decider, no input can be constructed to
    make such a classifier fail. Do you therefore accept that, at least as >>>> far as halting is concerned, there are no paradoxical machines?

    a classic decider is just one kind of classifier, i named 3 more which can >>> exist, and are therefore subject to real paradoxical machines becoming
    undecidable input for them
    Why are you not answering the question? I want to know what you accept
    about the known theory.

    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the classic decider interface

    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms
    genuinely misled me. I thought you did not consider it a theorem.

    i reject: there is no turing machine that implements other classifier interfaces:

    As would I, but I don't think anyone has claimed otherwise so I am not
    sure what you are rejecting. It seems to be just a simple irrefutable statement.

    like a classic recognizer, a partial decider, or a partial
    recognizer that i've defined/mentioned.

    I will wait for you to clarify exactly what it is you think you can
    classify before commenting. I've not seen anything clear enough to
    accept. You came close, in that you seemed to be suggesting that some
    semantic construction could be its basis (and that would almost
    certainly not be possible) but there was nothing precise enough for me
    to say one way or the other.

    Personally, I would urge you to get people interested by stating why you
    think what you are proposing is mathematically interesting.

    so i further reject: that
    undecidable input do not exist in regards to those interfaces which do not have proofs barring their existence

    I can't comment as I am not 100% sure what you mean by an undeciable
    input. It's not what other people often mean, and I know it has
    something do with the construction, but you would have to give it an
    absolutely unambiguous mathematical definition to allows others to
    comment with confidence.

    for example: a classic recognizer for halting machines *does* exist, and
    this is accepted theory. and because it exists, one *can* construct /undecidable input/ in regards to such a machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    und_chr() *is* a /paradoxical machine/ that *is* an /undecidable input/ to the classifier classic_halting_recognizer() that *does* exist

    can u understand yet what i'm accepting/rejecting here???

    It looks like you've pulled the old bait and switch. You were, I
    thought, talking about deciders. Have you been talking about
    recognisers this whole time? Should you really have been talking about unrecognizable inputs? If so, it's surely not an interesting category,
    is it?

    It's a bit underhand to call und_chr an "undecidable input" when it is
    not an input to a decider. What I know about your meaning for the word involves the thing doing the deciding -- it's not a property of the
    input alone -- and here we don't even have anything doing the deciding.

    (2) Alternatively, maybe you are considering machines that get /some/
    halting cases right as "almost halting deciders". If so, since all TMs >>>> (including those you might be considering as almost hating deciders)
    fail to correctly classify the halting of an infinite number of inputs, >>>> are all of these incorrectly classified inputs "paradoxical machines" or >>>> are only some of them constructed in the way you say is needed to meet >>>> your definition? This will help me to know what "by it's semantic
    construction" means.

    the only machines proven to be undecidable are those which have the
    semantic form of a paradoxical machine to one (or more) classifiers
    No machines are decidable or undecidable. You probably mean something
    about the halting of machines, but the halting of every individual
    machine is decidable.
    But where have you seen proofs that some machines are undecidable?

    much of this is my own work,

    Ah.

    and it appears this level of input-level
    scrutiny has truly not yet been done for the problem of undecidability *within computing*, so i would not suppose there are no prior proofs to
    point you at

    Point me to one of these proofs. It might help me know what you mean by
    these terms.

    we can determine that und_chr() is /undecidability input/ for classic_halting_recognizer()

    A) if we inject TRUE in for classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) within und_chr() we get the machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( TRUE == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    which is clearly a non-halting machine

    B) if we inject FALSE in for classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) within und_chr() we get the machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( FALSE == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    which is clearly a halting machine

    C) we can notice that if classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr)->TRUE we get a non-halting machine. and if classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr)->FALSE we
    get a halting machine. ergo the machine und_chr() is /undecidable input/
    for classic_halting_recognizer()

    How odd. Case C should be the case that must actually occur, not some
    claim about the others.

    classic_halting_recognizer() would be forced to enter a non-terminated loop in order to avoid violating it's interface/specification

    Yes. This should have been given as case C, the correct one: und_chr is
    an input for which classic_halting_recognizer never returns. Nothing paradoxical about it. The result is neither case A not case B but what
    you should have called case C.

    But you are off on some off tangent here. It's not paradoxical and it's
    not undeciable (even in your terms) because there is no decider
    involved. So I don't know what you think this is proof of.



    (3) If, as I suspect, you consider only some of the infinite number of >>>> cases that every TM gets wrong (about the halting of the input), what do >>>> do about the cases that are wrongly classified but are /not/
    "paradoxical machines" according to your definition?

    if the TM fails to classify an input that does not form a paradox
    specifically against that particular TM is just not a true classifier, to >>> the point that disagreeing with this is something i could call category
    error

    the constant false machine is just not in the category of machines called >>> "classifiers" and has no business being executed to produce classification >>> output, or being part of a discussion on classifiers
    Then I am not interested in what you seem to be calling classifiers. I

    then ur not interest in /effective methods/ apparently, and want to pass
    off constant returns as a meaningful analysis on the input ...

    weird flex for a "professor"

    Really? I am not interested in imprecise arguments that misuse
    technical terms and flip-flop from on notion to another. I don't see
    how being a (former) academic means that I should be! There is not
    enough time to spend it on every half-baked claim. When I was a working professor (to the use US term) I read published papers because I knew
    these would have an abstract that laid out the claims being made, clear definitions that made the material understandable and reasonably
    convincing proofs to back up the main claims. If you wrote such a
    thing, I probably would read it (if the abstract sounded interesting).

    or anyone for that matter

    would like to know what you think about what other people call
    deciders -- specifically the non-existence of a halting decider.

    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not exist,

    I must have missed the many times. But then I don't read all the other sub-threads, and I don't recall you telling me here that there was no TM
    halt decider. Anyway, I am glad we got there in the end, even if I
    could have stopped many posts ago.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 20:02:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/15/26 5:16 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/14/26 6:11 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/13/26 5:40 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/12/26 4:43 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/9/26 5:37 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/8/26 4:48 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    we should then consider a working thesis: no paradoxical
    machine is the
    simplest of their class of functionally equivalent machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>> You don't define what a "paradoxical machine" is. Can you do so? >>>>>>>>>>>>> I could take a guess, as it is a phrase commonly used by Usenet cranks

    who else calls it paradoxical machines?

    to refer to a machine they think exists but does not. But I
    don't want
    to assume you've made the same mistake. Have you ever seen one? Can
    you show one? Can you define the term in a way that is close to being
    clear and unambiguous?
    I guess you can't define the term or you would have done so here. >>>>>>>>>>
    if there's something ur unclear about, please do ask
    I did. I asked you to say what a paradoxical machine is because the >>>>>>>>> term is unclear. I know what my students used to me when they talked >>>>>>>>> about "paradoxical TMs", "paradoxical inputs" and so on, but you seem to
    be saying that you are not making the same mistake that they were -- >>>>>>>>> i.e. taking about machines and computations derived from a non-existent
    (but assumed to exist) machine.

    i'm fucking tired of chucklefucks claiming paradoxical input can't >>>>>>>> exist.
    I made no such claim. I was trying to get you to say what you mean by >>>>>>> the term. I don't use the term, so I can't do anything but guess and >>>>>>> that won't help us get to mutual understanding. It's quite possible >>>>>>> that I will accept that what call a "paradoxical machine" does in fact >>>>>>> exist but I can't say until I know what you mean.

    this really isn't that hard:
    I never thought it was. It was simply undefined.

    a "paradoxical machine" is one that /by it's semantic construction/ causes
    some classifier to fail in classifying it, not *all* classifiers certainly,
    not even all classifiers considering the *same* semantic property, but at
    least one and possibly infinite
    Obviously I don't know what "by its semantic construction" means

    by the nature/form of the input machine itself.

    the form of undP() is querying deciderP() and then running a codepath that >>>> contradicts the return value of deciderP()

    the objective semantic structure/form of undP() is what causes deciderP() >>>> to fail in classifying it. the form of undP() does not necessarily cause >>>> this in other classifiers, even those for the same semantic property like a
    possible deciderP2()

    exactly, but let's not bother about that immediately because I suspect >>>>> the definition will end up using other slightly mysterious phrases
    rather than mathematical definitions. Instead, maybe you could say how >>>>> you stand on these related issues:
    (1) Since there is no halting decider, no input can be constructed to >>>>> make such a classifier fail. Do you therefore accept that, at least as >>>>> far as halting is concerned, there are no paradoxical machines?

    a classic decider is just one kind of classifier, i named 3 more which can >>>> exist, and are therefore subject to real paradoxical machines becoming >>>> undecidable input for them
    Why are you not answering the question? I want to know what you accept
    about the known theory.

    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the
    classic decider interface

    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely, i *specifically* said "interface" not
    "algorithm". those are not the same thing...

    math might conflate the two in a century old equivocation fallacy,
    because the math of computing got left in the 1950s due to lame duck
    academics unable to question anything turing wrote... Efn+Efn+Efn+

    i've already expressed my frustration on that front eh???

    genuinely misled me. I thought you did not consider it a theorem.

    i reject: there is no turing machine that implements other classifier
    interfaces:

    As would I, but I don't think anyone has claimed otherwise so I am not
    sure what you are rejecting. It seems to be just a simple irrefutable statement.

    like a classic recognizer, a partial decider, or a partial
    recognizer that i've defined/mentioned.

    I will wait for you to clarify exactly what it is you think you can
    classify before commenting. I've not seen anything clear enough to
    accept. You came close, in that you seemed to be suggesting that some semantic construction could be its basis (and that would almost
    certainly not be possible) but there was nothing precise enough for me
    to say one way or the other.

    Personally, I would urge you to get people interested by stating why you think what you are proposing is mathematically interesting.

    do i /really/ need to explain why theoretically robust general
    classification of machines would be a huge boon to computing???

    cause right now what the industry has ran with is utter dogshit. code is generally orders of magnitude overly complex, leading to ever shifting, half-baked subpar solutions that don't really solve things at the level
    we need to be solving them in the 21st century,

    like tbh "software engineering" is kind of an oxymoron,

    and testing is a rather poor substitute for what we ought to have in
    every production tool chain: computed semantic proofs that the code
    actually does what it's defined to do


    so i further reject: that
    undecidable input do not exist in regards to those interfaces which do not >> have proofs barring their existence

    I can't comment as I am not 100% sure what you mean by an undeciable
    input. It's not what other people often mean, and I know it has
    something do with the construction, but you would have to give it an absolutely unambiguous mathematical definition to allows others to
    comment with confidence.

    for example: a classic recognizer for halting machines *does* exist, and
    this is accepted theory. and because it exists, one *can* construct
    /undecidable input/ in regards to such a machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    und_chr() *is* a /paradoxical machine/ that *is* an /undecidable input/ to >> the classifier classic_halting_recognizer() that *does* exist

    can u understand yet what i'm accepting/rejecting here???

    It looks like you've pulled the old bait and switch. You were, I
    thought, talking about deciders. Have you been talking about

    /undecidable input/ is a relationship between a machine and some type of classifier, that exists due to the construction of a machine that
    creates a decision paradox by querying the classier

    these classifier include: classic deciders, classic recognizers, partial deciders, partial recognizers, context-aware deciders, and/or
    context-aware recognizers. YES that is *six* types of classifiers that
    i've been working in regards to. you only know about three of them

    i used a classic recognizer here, because even academics can admit they
    exist, and therefore can demonstrate an exist example of /undecidable input/

    recognisers this whole time? Should you really have been talking about unrecognizable inputs? If so, it's surely not an interesting category,
    is it?

    i guess i could say /unclassifiable input/ or /uncomputable input/ but
    like does it really matter?

    honestly, imma just stick with /undecidable input/ as a middle finger to
    a century's worth of idiocracy


    It's a bit underhand to call und_chr an "undecidable input" when it is
    not an input to a decider. What I know about your meaning for the word involves the thing doing the deciding -- it's not a property of the
    input alone -- and here we don't even have anything doing the deciding.

    (2) Alternatively, maybe you are considering machines that get /some/ >>>>> halting cases right as "almost halting deciders". If so, since all TMs >>>>> (including those you might be considering as almost hating deciders) >>>>> fail to correctly classify the halting of an infinite number of inputs, >>>>> are all of these incorrectly classified inputs "paradoxical machines" or >>>>> are only some of them constructed in the way you say is needed to meet >>>>> your definition? This will help me to know what "by it's semantic
    construction" means.

    the only machines proven to be undecidable are those which have the
    semantic form of a paradoxical machine to one (or more) classifiers
    No machines are decidable or undecidable. You probably mean something
    about the halting of machines, but the halting of every individual
    machine is decidable.
    But where have you seen proofs that some machines are undecidable?

    much of this is my own work,

    Ah.

    and it appears this level of input-level
    scrutiny has truly not yet been done for the problem of undecidability
    *within computing*, so i would not suppose there are no prior proofs to
    point you at

    Point me to one of these proofs. It might help me know what you mean by >>> these terms.

    we can determine that und_chr() is /undecidability input/ for
    classic_halting_recognizer()

    A) if we inject TRUE in for classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) within
    und_chr() we get the machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( TRUE == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    which is clearly a non-halting machine

    B) if we inject FALSE in for classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr) within
    und_chr() we get the machine:

    und_chr = () -> {
    if ( FALSE == TRUE ) loop()
    }

    which is clearly a halting machine

    C) we can notice that if classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr)->TRUE we get a >> non-halting machine. and if classic_halting_recognizer(und_chr)->FALSE we
    get a halting machine. ergo the machine und_chr() is /undecidable input/
    for classic_halting_recognizer()

    How odd. Case C should be the case that must actually occur, not some
    claim about the others.

    those are the steps in the realization dude, how is that not abundantly
    clear?


    classic_halting_recognizer() would be forced to enter a non-terminated loop >> in order to avoid violating it's interface/specification

    Yes. This should have been given as case C, the correct one: und_chr is
    an input for which classic_halting_recognizer never returns. Nothing paradoxical about it. The result is neither case A not case B but what
    you should have called case C.

    But you are off on some off tangent here. It's not paradoxical and it's

    it's paradoxical because the only reason classification fails is because
    an input is constructed to contradict the *returned* classification

    we've established all the logic necessary to decide what the
    classification of und_rhc() is: a non-terminating loop that the classic recognizer must enter to avoid violating it's contract. we know that.
    the classifier knows that,

    therefore it's algorithmically possible to determine what happens, as we literally just did

    the failure to classify comes strictly from the way the input is formed,
    the position that the classifier was forced into because of how the
    input was constructed

    so therefore, fact a particular interface could not return a valid classification here *is not equivalent to an impossible algorithm*

    i would like try and explain what a general must be specified as, but i
    don't feel it's prudent waste that kind of effort just yet

    not undeciable (even in your terms) because there is no decider
    involved. So I don't know what you think this is proof of.



    (3) If, as I suspect, you consider only some of the infinite number of >>>>> cases that every TM gets wrong (about the halting of the input), what do >>>>> do about the cases that are wrongly classified but are /not/
    "paradoxical machines" according to your definition?

    if the TM fails to classify an input that does not form a paradox
    specifically against that particular TM is just not a true classifier, to >>>> the point that disagreeing with this is something i could call category >>>> error

    the constant false machine is just not in the category of machines called >>>> "classifiers" and has no business being executed to produce classification >>>> output, or being part of a discussion on classifiers
    Then I am not interested in what you seem to be calling classifiers. I

    then ur not interest in /effective methods/ apparently, and want to pass
    off constant returns as a meaningful analysis on the input ...

    weird flex for a "professor"

    Really? I am not interested in imprecise arguments that misuse
    technical terms and flip-flop from on notion to another. I don't see

    yeah instead you seem to be interested in passing off a constant return function as a "partial decider"

    i don't even know how to comment further on such total brain rot

    and no i'm not gunna let that shit go. i honestly can't believe that's
    the state of the art. cause that art's fucking retarded

    how being a (former) academic means that I should be! There is not
    enough time to spend it on every half-baked claim. When I was a working professor (to the use US term) I read published papers because I knew
    these would have an abstract that laid out the claims being made, clear definitions that made the material understandable and reasonably
    convincing proofs to back up the main claims. If you wrote such a
    thing, I probably would read it (if the abstract sounded interesting).

    maybe i'll point you and some of my attempts one of these days. but i
    don't see the purpose of doing so just yet


    or anyone for that matter

    would like to know what you think about what other people call
    deciders -- specifically the non-existence of a halting decider.

    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not exist,

    I must have missed the many times. But then I don't read all the other sub-threads, and I don't recall you telling me here that there was no TM
    halt decider. Anyway, I am glad we got there in the end, even if I
    could have stopped many posts ago.

    ok boomer, go back to ur dog-behavior book
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 05:07:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 17/02/2026 04:02, dart200 wrote:
    do i /really/ need to explain why theoretically robust general
    classification of machines would be a huge boon to computing???

    cause right now what the industry has ran with is utter dogshit. code is generally orders of magnitude overly complex, leading to ever shifting, half-baked subpar solutions that don't really solve things at the level
    we need to be solving them in the 21st century,

    like tbh "software engineering" is kind of an oxymoron,

    and testing is a rather poor substitute for what we ought to have in
    every production tool chain: computed semantic proofs that the code
    actually does what it's defined to do

    We don't need that, really, and you can't do better than a probabilistic /prediction/ of the distribution of effects a program will have - or,
    actually, automatic construction via analysis of probabilistic
    requirements applied unto by a probabilistic model of an executive machine.

    You can automatically generate adequate alternatives for /all/ the
    programs that developers and engineers construct using their
    handwave-fu, however, executive machines are engineered for humans and
    are defectful around that idea.

    Some element of AI might be important for construction so that programs
    are /like/ those that humans would make - automatic theorem provers in
    the field of AI that create proofs like humans would make are examples
    of the kind of otherwise redundant techniques. Bayesian inference and
    LLMs might be an important part of that so we can have hardware for
    humans that can be programmed cheaply from requirements.

    You still need testing of vertically integrated components and their
    consequent horizontal integrations because that's physics not
    programming, and you still need physics and intelligence gathering so
    you can produce effective discriminating weapons even without full
    testing in the real world (algorithmic differentiation, blah-blah).
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 22:07:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/16/26 9:07 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 04:02, dart200 wrote:
    do i /really/ need to explain why theoretically robust general
    classification of machines would be a huge boon to computing???

    cause right now what the industry has ran with is utter dogshit. code is
    generally orders of magnitude overly complex, leading to ever shifting,
    half-baked subpar solutions that don't really solve things at the level
    we need to be solving them in the 21st century,

    like tbh "software engineering" is kind of an oxymoron,

    and testing is a rather poor substitute for what we ought to have in
    every production tool chain: computed semantic proofs that the code
    actually does what it's defined to do

    We don't need that, really, and you can't do better than a probabilistic /prediction/ of the distribution of effects a program will have - or, actually, automatic construction via analysis of probabilistic
    requirements applied unto by a probabilistic model of an executive machine.

    You can automatically generate adequate alternatives for /all/ the
    programs that developers and engineers construct using their
    handwave-fu, however, executive machines are engineered for humans and
    are defectful around that idea.

    Some element of AI might be important for construction so that programs

    you lead by saying we don't need deterministic algos computing formal correctness proofs ...

    but actually maybe we can just throw garbage half-baked ai at it???

    lol ok tech bro EfOaEfOaEfOa

    god, have mercy and deliver me from this fucking EfniEfiA

    are /like/ those that humans would make - automatic theorem provers in
    the field of AI that create proofs like humans would make are examples
    of the kind of otherwise redundant techniques. Bayesian inference and
    LLMs might be an important part of that so we can have hardware for
    humans that can be programmed cheaply from requirements.

    You still need testing of vertically integrated components and their consequent horizontal integrations because that's physics not
    programming, and you still need physics and intelligence gathering so
    you can produce effective discriminating weapons even without full
    testing in the real world (algorithmic differentiation, blah-blah).
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 06:21:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 17/02/2026 06:07, dart200 wrote:

    you lead by saying we don't need deterministic algos computing formal correctness proofs ...

    but actually maybe we can just throw garbage half-baked ai at it???

    I didn't say that. AI is more than just the chatbots.

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and none
    of that involved a psychotic conversation.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 22:28:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 06:07, dart200 wrote:

    you lead by saying we don't need deterministic algos computing formal
    correctness proofs ...

    but actually maybe we can just throw garbage half-baked ai at it???

    I didn't say that. AI is more than just the chatbots.

    it's certainly not producing better code

    how could it?

    all the code it's trained on is complete garbage for the most part


    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and none
    of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 06:53:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 17/02/2026 06:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and none
    of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest

    That's part of AI. You're trying to redefine AI as human language
    generators alone, though, and it makes a pointless conversation. Why do
    you want a pointless conversation?
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 23:02:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/16/26 10:53 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 06:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and none
    of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest

    That's part of AI. You're trying to redefine AI as human language
    generators alone, though, and it makes a pointless conversation. Why do
    you want a pointless conversation?

    i don't know why ai is part of this conversation at all, i don't expect
    ur handwavey put downs to do any convincing.

    we *don't* want to write code or design systems like humans currently do

    there is no indeterminism in the fundamentals of computing, and
    therefore therefor should be no indeterminism in the *correctness* of
    our code, especially when it comes to cut and dry enterprise logic ...

    if u can't even define correctness in some project, because it's a
    subject and moving target, like a recommendation engine ... then maybe u
    have a point. but those are the exception not the rule when it comes to
    most of computing.

    and not of much interest to me, or very relevant to what i'm doing

    i get that u want to keep inventing the wheel 1000s of times over, which
    is what our modern industrial code system is doing, but i'm pretty tired
    of it, and it's an incredibly subpar result from what we could be doing
    with it
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 16 23:04:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/16/26 10:53 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 06:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and none
    of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest

    That's part of AI. You're trying to redefine AI as human language
    generators alone, though, and it makes a pointless conversation. Why do
    you want a pointless conversation?


    i don't know why ai is part of this conversation at all, and don't
    expect ur handwavey put downs to do any convincing ...

    we *don't* want to write code or design systems like humans currently do

    there is no indeterminism in the fundamentals of computing, and
    therefore there should be no indeterminism in the *correctness* of our
    code, especially when it comes to cut and dry enterprise logic ...

    if u can't even define correctness in some project, because it's a
    subject and moving target, like a recommendation engine ... then maybe u
    have a point. but those are the exceptions not the rule when it comes to
    most of computing. and not of much interest to me, nor very relevant to
    what i'm doing

    anyways, i get that u want to keep inventing the wheel 1000s of times
    over, which is what our modern industrial code system is doing, because
    we don't even have a theoretically robust way of proving correctness...

    but i'm pretty disgusted over it, and it's an incredibly subpar result
    from what we could be doing
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 07:43:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input, and
    deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give the
    right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do that,
    is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives the right
    answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has been
    shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only are their statements not provable in the system, but only in some special
    meta-system derived from it, that there must also be statements that are
    never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because nothing in
    the discussion that is primarily before us depends on this strange fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 08:40:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by just >>> stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input, and
    deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do that,
    is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives the right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has been
    shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only are their statements not provable in the system, but only in some special meta-
    system derived from it, that there must also be statements that are
    never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because nothing in
    the discussion that is primarily before us depends on this strange fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will
    find them
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 12:47:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/2026 8:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable". >>>>
    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be >>>> impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input, and
    deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give
    the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do
    that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives the
    right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has been
    shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only are
    their statements not provable in the system, but only in some special
    meta- system derived from it, that there must also be statements that
    are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because nothing
    in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on this strange
    fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will
    find them


    That's like saying if we look at an infinite sequence "long enough" it
    will recite your nightly habits in excruciating details?
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 12:48:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/16/2026 8:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]

    Goo luck implementing your interface. ;^)
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 14:19:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 12:47 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/17/2026 8:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by >>>>> just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be >>>>> impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting >>>>> status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input, and
    deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give
    the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do
    that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives the
    right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You don't >>>> even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good justification. >>>>


    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has
    been shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only
    are their statements not provable in the system, but only in some
    special meta- system derived from it, that there must also be
    statements that are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because nothing
    in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on this strange
    fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is
    that they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we
    know the behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are
    in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know
    it is of that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will find them


    That's like saying if we look at an infinite sequence "long enough" it
    will recite your nightly habits in excruciating details?

    i don't know why you bother commenting
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 14:34:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/2026 2:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 12:47 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/17/2026 8:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable
    by just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must
    also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting >>>>>> status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by
    any means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input,
    and deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give
    the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do
    that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives
    the right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You
    don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good
    justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has
    been shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only
    are their statements not provable in the system, but only in some
    special meta- system derived from it, that there must also be
    statements that are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because
    nothing in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on
    this strange fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is
    that they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we
    know the behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they
    are in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and
    know it is of that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will find them


    That's like saying if we look at an infinite sequence "long enough" it
    will recite your nightly habits in excruciating details?

    i don't know why you bother commenting


    https://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/drmoron/?ct_hmac_cipher=673fba0b97e9c28208543e730756e1a9848d147ba7bf5e2e264442db8fd9d90fa104ae1aca1906ba58a2e561dbab03a6d807d7f19b40e40d1738bc1ab20670129b146cb0154c7a669366e5944667b5435677271ea8c55050d7f20c49df61174c2ff8850104372b250fb5f9


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 00:18:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,

    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    [...]
    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not
    exist,

    But you don't accept the proofs you've read?
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 00:51:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable". >>>>
    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be >>>> impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts those machines after an infinitude of the others?
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 19:19:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable". >>>>>
    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be >>>>> impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting >>>>> status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts those machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 19:27:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider >>>> interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the >>>> classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,

    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually made


    [...]
    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not
    exist,

    But you don't accept the proofs you've read?

    idk why ur commenting bro if ur just going to disingenuously cut out
    most of my replies

    talk about being a useless lame duck academic

    next time just fuck off and don't reply eh???
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 22:48:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 11:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms "undecidable". >>>>
    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be >>>> impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input, and
    deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give
    the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do
    that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives the
    right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has been
    shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only are
    their statements not provable in the system, but only in some special
    meta- system derived from it, that there must also be statements that
    are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because nothing
    in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on this strange
    fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will
    find them


    But you can never know you did.

    All that will happen is that your "creation" process will eventually
    create the representation for it, and you partial classifiers will just
    keep on working on them, and never reach a point where they know that
    these are the unknowable machine.

    After all, the knowable machines include machines with finite but
    unbounded steps to determine that result, so you can never just
    correctly "timeout" to mark them as truely unknowable.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 22:48:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by >>>>>> just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must
    also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting >>>>>> status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that >>>> they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of >>>> that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as there
    ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not ALL of
    them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these sorts of
    infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", which like
    Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an actual algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just an "enumberation" for which
    we don't have an algorithm that will be sure to get to all of the members.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 22:48:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 2:02 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:53 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 06:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have used >>>> AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and none >>>> of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest

    That's part of AI. You're trying to redefine AI as human language
    generators alone, though, and it makes a pointless conversation. Why do
    you want a pointless conversation?

    i don't know why ai is part of this conversation at all, i don't expect
    ur handwavey put downs to do any convincing.

    we *don't* want to write code or design systems like humans currently do

    there is no indeterminism in the fundamentals of computing, and
    therefore therefor should be no indeterminism in the *correctness* of
    our code, especially when it comes to cut and dry enterprise logic ...

    if u can't even define correctness in some project, because it's a
    subject and moving target, like a recommendation engine ... then maybe u have a point. but those are the exception not the rule when it comes to
    most of computing.

    and not of much interest to me, or very relevant to what i'm doing

    i get that u want to keep inventing the wheel 1000s of times over, which
    is what our modern industrial code system is doing, but i'm pretty tired
    of it, and it's an incredibly subpar result from what we could be doing
    with it


    And thus you find that the world can't meet your expectations.

    The problem is that "programs" have the capability of growing in
    complexity faster than our tools to analysis them.

    Note, this implies that provably correct programs may not form a Turing Complete set of computations. Which isn't necessarily a problem, if they
    can cover most of the problems we want to solve.

    The current problem is that going to the effort of making a provably
    correct program raises the "cost" of that program to the point that it
    often isn't cost effective, and often the economics say that such a
    proof isn't really needed.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 22:48:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 10:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider >>>>> interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements >>>>> the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters. >>>> You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,

    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually made

    It seems the problem is you are the one working with such an equivocation.

    A program isn't built on "an interface" but with a specific algorithm attempting to implement that interface.

    And, in fact, it might not be possible to look at the final verision of
    a program an know what interface it started out using to build it, as
    all you can see is the final implementation of the algorithm.




    [...]
    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not
    exist,

    But you don't accept the proofs you've read?

    idk why ur commenting bro if ur just going to disingenuously cut out
    most of my replies

    talk about being a useless lame duck academic

    next time just fuck off and don't reply eh???


    Maybe you should just follow your own advice, as you clearly don't
    understand what you are talking about.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 20:21:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic
    decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that
    implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it
    matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,

    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which parts are >>> you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually made

    It seems the problem is you are the one working with such an equivocation.

    i reject ur brainrot inability to understand the equivocation going on


    A program isn't built on "an interface" but with a specific algorithm attempting to implement that interface.

    And, in fact, it might not be possible to look at the final verision of
    a program an know what interface it started out using to build it, as
    all you can see is the final implementation of the algorithm.



    [...]
    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not
    exist,

    But you don't accept the proofs you've read?

    idk why ur commenting bro if ur just going to disingenuously cut out
    most of my replies

    talk about being a useless lame duck academic

    next time just fuck off and don't reply eh???


    Maybe you should just follow your own advice, as you clearly don't understand what you are talking about.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 20:21:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by >>>>>>> just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must
    also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable
    halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any >>>>> means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that >>>>> they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the >>>>> behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this >>>>> paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of >>>>> that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will >>>> find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts those >>> machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as there
    ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here


    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not ALL of
    them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these sorts of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", which like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an actual algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just an "enumberation" for which
    we don't have an algorithm that will be sure to get to all of the members.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 20:21:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by >>>>> just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must also be >>>>> impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting >>>>> status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input, and
    deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give
    the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do
    that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives the
    right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You don't >>>> even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good justification. >>>>


    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has
    been shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only
    are their statements not provable in the system, but only in some
    special meta- system derived from it, that there must also be
    statements that are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because nothing
    in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on this strange
    fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is
    that they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we
    know the behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are
    in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know
    it is of that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will find them


    But you can never know you did.

    All that will happen is that your "creation" process will eventually
    create the representation for it, and you partial classifiers will just
    keep on working on them, and never reach a point where they know that
    these are the unknowable machine.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that because the classic decider is unimplementable, that other interface can't classify these machines


    After all, the knowable machines include machines with finite but
    unbounded steps to determine that result, so you can never just
    correctly "timeout" to mark them as truely unknowable.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that we necessarily need a timeout
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 17 20:21:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 2:02 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:53 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 06:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have
    used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and none >>>>> of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest

    That's part of AI. You're trying to redefine AI as human language
    generators alone, though, and it makes a pointless conversation. Why do
    you want a pointless conversation?

    i don't know why ai is part of this conversation at all, i don't
    expect ur handwavey put downs to do any convincing.

    we *don't* want to write code or design systems like humans currently do

    there is no indeterminism in the fundamentals of computing, and
    therefore therefor should be no indeterminism in the *correctness* of
    our code, especially when it comes to cut and dry enterprise logic ...

    if u can't even define correctness in some project, because it's a
    subject and moving target, like a recommendation engine ... then maybe
    u have a point. but those are the exception not the rule when it comes
    to most of computing.

    and not of much interest to me, or very relevant to what i'm doing

    i get that u want to keep inventing the wheel 1000s of times over,
    which is what our modern industrial code system is doing, but i'm
    pretty tired of it, and it's an incredibly subpar result from what we
    could be doing with it


    And thus you find that the world can't meet your expectations.

    The problem is that "programs" have the capability of growing in
    complexity faster than our tools to analysis them.

    Note, this implies that provably correct programs may not form a Turing Complete set of computations. Which isn't necessarily a problem, if they
    can cover most of the problems we want to solve.

    The current problem is that going to the effort of making a provably
    correct program raises the "cost" of that program to the point that it
    often isn't cost effective, and often the economics say that such a
    proof isn't really needed.

    i reject ur acceptance of economic brainrot
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 11:11:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 18/02/2026 03:19, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by >>>>>> just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must
    also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting >>>>>> status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is that >>>> they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it is of >>>> that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    Actually I'm not sure of all the technical nuance of the term. I suppose
    the clue is that it's made from "numer-". So yes, if you /do/ enumerate
    them, you /will/ find them. So... /do/ you enumerate them?
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 11:15:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 18/02/2026 04:21, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:

    ...

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts
    those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality
    of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    He's arguing that you /cannot/ enumerate them because they're countable.
    Which is a pretty bizarre thing to argue.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 07:38:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable by >>>>>>>> just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must >>>>>>>> also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable >>>>>>>> halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by any >>>>>> means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is >>>>>> that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know the >>>>>> behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this >>>>>> paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it
    is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts
    those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality
    of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a "finite
    even if unbounded time".

    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of
    Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you can't
    do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not ALL of
    them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these sorts of
    infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", which
    like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an actual
    algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just an
    "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm that will be sure
    to get to all of the members.



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 07:38:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 6:15 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 18/02/2026 04:21, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:

    ...

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you >>>>>> will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts
    those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality
    of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    He's arguing that you /cannot/ enumerate them because they're countable. Which is a pretty bizarre thing to argue.



    They are countably INFINITE. Not "Countable".

    Are the Natural Numbers "Countable", No. There is no Finite number that expresses how many their are.

    The "Countable Infinite" size, also called Aleph-0, is the size that
    allows a one-to-one mapping between every item in the set to the Natural Numbers.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 07:38:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable
    by just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must
    also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable halting >>>>>> status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by
    any means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input,
    and deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to give
    the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which will do
    that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW gives
    the right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You
    don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good
    justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated to
    proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it has
    been shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not only
    are their statements not provable in the system, but only in some
    special meta- system derived from it, that there must also be
    statements that are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because
    nothing in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on
    this strange fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is
    that they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we
    know the behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they
    are in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and
    know it is of that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will find them


    But you can never know you did.

    All that will happen is that your "creation" process will eventually
    create the representation for it, and you partial classifiers will
    just keep on working on them, and never reach a point where they know
    that these are the unknowable machine.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that because the classic decider is unimplementable, that other interface can't classify these machines

    They try to do it.

    Its your right to beleive in Unicorns and Fairy Dust, but that doesn't
    mean they exist.



    After all, the knowable machines include machines with finite but
    unbounded steps to determine that result, so you can never just
    correctly "timeout" to mark them as truely unknowable.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that we necessarily need a timeout


    Then you can't answer in finite time.

    It seems your problem is you don't actually understand that problem,
    because you don't understand some of the nature of the infinite sets
    that it deals with.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 07:38:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 2:02 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:53 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 06:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch
    star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets have >>>>>> used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and >>>>>> none
    of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest

    That's part of AI. You're trying to redefine AI as human language
    generators alone, though, and it makes a pointless conversation. Why do >>>> you want a pointless conversation?

    i don't know why ai is part of this conversation at all, i don't
    expect ur handwavey put downs to do any convincing.

    we *don't* want to write code or design systems like humans currently do >>>
    there is no indeterminism in the fundamentals of computing, and
    therefore therefor should be no indeterminism in the *correctness* of
    our code, especially when it comes to cut and dry enterprise logic ...

    if u can't even define correctness in some project, because it's a
    subject and moving target, like a recommendation engine ... then
    maybe u have a point. but those are the exception not the rule when
    it comes to most of computing.

    and not of much interest to me, or very relevant to what i'm doing

    i get that u want to keep inventing the wheel 1000s of times over,
    which is what our modern industrial code system is doing, but i'm
    pretty tired of it, and it's an incredibly subpar result from what we
    could be doing with it


    And thus you find that the world can't meet your expectations.

    The problem is that "programs" have the capability of growing in
    complexity faster than our tools to analysis them.

    Note, this implies that provably correct programs may not form a
    Turing Complete set of computations. Which isn't necessarily a
    problem, if they can cover most of the problems we want to solve.

    The current problem is that going to the effort of making a provably
    correct program raises the "cost" of that program to the point that it
    often isn't cost effective, and often the economics say that such a
    proof isn't really needed.

    i reject ur acceptance of economic brainrot


    Then go broke trying to fight it.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 07:38:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic
    decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that
    implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it
    matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,

    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which parts >>>> are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually made

    It seems the problem is you are the one working with such an
    equivocation.

    i reject ur brainrot inability to understand the equivocation going on

    So, you ADMIT that you are just using the fallacy of equivocation.

    That has always been your problem, you don't understand the problem and
    think you can solve it by solving something different, something no one actually cares about (except maybe yourself).



    A program isn't built on "an interface" but with a specific algorithm
    attempting to implement that interface.

    And, in fact, it might not be possible to look at the final verision
    of a program an know what interface it started out using to build it,
    as all you can see is the final implementation of the algorithm.



    [...]
    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not
    exist,

    But you don't accept the proofs you've read?

    idk why ur commenting bro if ur just going to disingenuously cut out
    most of my replies

    talk about being a useless lame duck academic

    next time just fuck off and don't reply eh???


    Maybe you should just follow your own advice, as you clearly don't
    understand what you are talking about.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 13:48:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider >>>>> interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the >>>>> classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters. >>>> You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually made

    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by the assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the
    way, it might be interesting to see what assumptions that proof starts
    with that you don't like. Some proofs (the good ones) rely on no more
    than the basic properties of sets, so it might just be that you have not
    been studying a good proof.

    [...]
    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not
    exist,
    But you don't accept the proofs you've read?

    idk why ur commenting bro if ur just going to disingenuously cut out most
    of my replies

    I know you want to talk about your fresh new stuff, but I wanted to know
    first if you accepted the established theorems of computation. It's
    likely you don't want to talk about the established theorems -- they
    are, after all, rock solid and based on very minimal assumptions -- in
    which case continue to chat to the people who will reply to such things.

    talk about being a useless lame duck academic

    I get the feeling you studied at the "University of Life".

    next time just fuck off and don't reply eh???

    It takes two to waste this much time. I'll post if I think I can add
    something to the thread. You'll post if you want to keep chatting.
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 07:10:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always
    provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must >>>>>>>>> also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable >>>>>>>>> halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by >>>>>>> any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is >>>>>>> that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we know >>>>>>> the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in this >>>>>>> paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it >>>>>>> is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you >>>>>> will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts
    those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality
    of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a "finite
    even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if unbounded time?


    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of
    Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you can't
    do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not ALL
    of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these sorts of
    infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", which
    like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an actual
    algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just an
    "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm that will be sure
    to get to all of the members.



    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 09:45:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider >>>>>> interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the >>>>>> classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters. >>>>> You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are >>> you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually
    made

    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making. the
    general algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces
    that specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the

    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first
    paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most correct
    model to be using? idk

    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true.

    way, it might be interesting to see what assumptions that proof starts
    with that you don't like. Some proofs (the good ones) rely on no more
    than the basic properties of sets, so it might just be that you have not
    been studying a good proof.

    [...]
    i have already many times: the classic halting decider does not
    exist,
    But you don't accept the proofs you've read?

    idk why ur commenting bro if ur just going to disingenuously cut out most
    of my replies

    I know you want to talk about your fresh new stuff, but I wanted to know first if you accepted the established theorems of computation. It's



    likely you don't want to talk about the established theorems -- they
    are, after all, rock solid and based on very minimal assumptions -- in
    which case continue to chat to the people who will reply to such things.

    talk about being a useless lame duck academic

    I get the feeling you studied at the "University of Life".

    next time just fuck off and don't reply eh???

    It takes two to waste this much time. I'll post if I think I can add something to the thread. You'll post if you want to keep chatting.

    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my arguments,
    it's been a waste of time for me so far
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Mike Terry@news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 18:12:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 18/02/2026 12:38, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 6:15 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 18/02/2026 04:21, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:

    ...

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you >>>>>>> will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts >>>>>> those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality
    of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    He's arguing that you /cannot/ enumerate them because they're countable.
    Which is a pretty bizarre thing to argue.



    They are countably INFINITE. Not "Countable".

    Are the Natural Numbers "Countable", No. There is no Finite number that expresses how many their are.

    The "Countable Infinite" size, also called Aleph-0, is the size that allows a one-to-one mapping
    between every item in the set to the Natural Numbers.


    Mathematicians say that sets such as N and Q (rationals) are "countable" or "countably infinite".
    (Both terms are in common use, depending on exact definitions being used.) It does not mean there
    is a finite number that says how many there are.

    Mike.




    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 13:16:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/2026 10:12 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
    On 18/02/2026 12:38, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 6:15 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 18/02/2026 04:21, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:

    ...

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you >>>>>>>> will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts >>>>>>> those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality >>>>> of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    He's arguing that you /cannot/ enumerate them because they're countable. >>> Which is a pretty bizarre thing to argue.



    They are countably INFINITE. Not "Countable".

    Are the Natural Numbers "Countable", No. There is no Finite number
    that expresses how many their are.

    The "Countable Infinite" size, also called Aleph-0, is the size that
    allows a one-to-one mapping between every item in the set to the
    Natural Numbers.


    Mathematicians say that sets such as N and Q (rationals) are "countable"
    or "countably infinite". (Both terms are in common use, depending on
    exact definitions being used.)


    It does not mean there is a finite
    number that says how many there are.

    Right!
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 13:23:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/2026 7:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always
    provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must >>>>>>>>>> also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable >>>>>>>>>> halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof >>>>>>>> by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines >>>>>>>> is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we
    know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in >>>>>>>> this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it >>>>>>>> is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ...
    you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts >>>>>> those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality
    of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if unbounded time?

    [...]

    If your "finite" time is unbounded, you haven't solved the problem; you
    have just built a machine that runs "forever" trying to decide if
    another machine runs forever...???

    ThatrCOs not a solution... ThatrCOs just irony? Code isn't linear. Just because you solved for n doesn't mean you have a clue about n+1...
    Unless your solution can account for every possible variation in logic
    across an infinite set, yourCOre just playing Whac-A-Mole with a computer... ?

    ItrCOs like trying to find the highest number; it doesn't matter how fast
    you count, you're still "dead in the water."... ;^)

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 16:17:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable >>>>>>> by just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must
    also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable
    halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by
    any means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input,
    and deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to
    give the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which
    will do that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we KNOW >>>>> gives the right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but
    unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You >>>>>> don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good
    justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated
    to proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it
    has been shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not
    only are their statements not provable in the system, but only in
    some special meta- system derived from it, that there must also be
    statements that are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because
    nothing in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on
    this strange fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is
    that they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we
    know the behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they
    are in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one
    and know it is of that class, so they are unconstruable, just
    existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will find them


    But you can never know you did.

    All that will happen is that your "creation" process will eventually
    create the representation for it, and you partial classifiers will
    just keep on working on them, and never reach a point where they know
    that these are the unknowable machine.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that because the classic decider is
    unimplementable, that other interface can't classify these machines

    They try to do it.

    Its your right to beleive in Unicorns and Fairy Dust, but that doesn't
    mean they exist.

    says the chucklefuck who adamantly believes in unknowable truth




    After all, the knowable machines include machines with finite but
    unbounded steps to determine that result, so you can never just
    correctly "timeout" to mark them as truely unknowable.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that we necessarily need a timeout


    Then you can't answer in finite time.

    It seems your problem is you don't actually understand that problem,
    because you don't understand some of the nature of the infinite sets
    that it deals with.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 16:25:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 1:23 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/18/2026 7:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it >>>>>>>>>>> must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable >>>>>>>>>>> halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof >>>>>>>>> by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines >>>>>>>>> is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we >>>>>>>>> know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in >>>>>>>>> this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know >>>>>>>>> it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... >>>>>>>> you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that
    puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the
    cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if unbounded
    time?

    [...]

    If your "finite" time is unbounded, you haven't solved the problem; you
    have just built a machine that runs "forever" trying to decide if
    another machine runs forever...???

    ThatrCOs not a solution... ThatrCOs just irony? Code isn't linear. Just because you solved for n doesn't mean you have a clue about n+1...
    Unless your solution can account for every possible variation in logic across an infinite set, yourCOre just playing Whac-A-Mole with a
    computer... ?

    ItrCOs like trying to find the highest number; it doesn't matter how fast you count, you're still "dead in the water."... ;^)


    an enumeration guarantees *any given machine* will iterated within a
    finite, if unbounded, time

    this is an important property that diagonal proofs also depend on so idk
    what ur arguing for

    it seems me u genuinely don't really know what ur talking about, and ur
    just biased against me
    --
    hi, i'm nick! let's end war EfOa

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 17:26:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/2026 4:25 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 1:23 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/18/2026 7:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it >>>>>>>>>>>> must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has
    unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof >>>>>>>>>> by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines >>>>>>>>>> is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we >>>>>>>>>> know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are >>>>>>>>>> in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know >>>>>>>>>> it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... >>>>>>>>> you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that >>>>>>>> puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if >>>>>>> unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as >>>>>> there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the
    cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if unbounded
    time?

    [...]

    If your "finite" time is unbounded, you haven't solved the problem;
    you have just built a machine that runs "forever" trying to decide if
    another machine runs forever...???

    ThatrCOs not a solution... ThatrCOs just irony? Code isn't linear. Just
    because you solved for n doesn't mean you have a clue about n+1...
    Unless your solution can account for every possible variation in logic
    across an infinite set, yourCOre just playing Whac-A-Mole with a
    computer... ?

    ItrCOs like trying to find the highest number; it doesn't matter how
    fast you count, you're still "dead in the water."... ;^)


    an enumeration guarantees *any given machine* will iterated within a
    finite, if unbounded, time

    this is an important property that diagonal proofs also depend on so idk what ur arguing for

    it seems me u genuinely don't really know what ur talking about, and ur
    just biased against me


    Are you sure about that?
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Wed Feb 18 17:48:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/2026 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 2:02 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:53 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 06:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/16/26 10:21 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

    You just don't know what the term AI refers to because you watch >>>>>>> star-trek and the popular media post 2019. Heck, supermarkets
    have used
    AI for two decades or more to select apples for their shelves and >>>>>>> none
    of that involved a psychotic conversation.


    that's image classification, not the same thing in the slightest

    That's part of AI. You're trying to redefine AI as human language
    generators alone, though, and it makes a pointless conversation.
    Why do
    you want a pointless conversation?

    i don't know why ai is part of this conversation at all, i don't
    expect ur handwavey put downs to do any convincing.

    we *don't* want to write code or design systems like humans
    currently do

    there is no indeterminism in the fundamentals of computing, and
    therefore therefor should be no indeterminism in the *correctness*
    of our code, especially when it comes to cut and dry enterprise
    logic ...

    if u can't even define correctness in some project, because it's a
    subject and moving target, like a recommendation engine ... then
    maybe u have a point. but those are the exception not the rule when
    it comes to most of computing.

    and not of much interest to me, or very relevant to what i'm doing

    i get that u want to keep inventing the wheel 1000s of times over,
    which is what our modern industrial code system is doing, but i'm
    pretty tired of it, and it's an incredibly subpar result from what
    we could be doing with it


    And thus you find that the world can't meet your expectations.

    The problem is that "programs" have the capability of growing in
    complexity faster than our tools to analysis them.

    Note, this implies that provably correct programs may not form a
    Turing Complete set of computations. Which isn't necessarily a
    problem, if they can cover most of the problems we want to solve.

    The current problem is that going to the effort of making a provably
    correct program raises the "cost" of that program to the point that
    it often isn't cost effective, and often the economics say that such
    a proof isn't really needed.

    i reject ur acceptance of economic brainrot


    Then go broke trying to fight it.



    Sad. ;^o
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Thu Feb 19 02:17:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider >>>>>>> interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the >>>>>>> classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters. >>>>>> You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are >>>> you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually >>> made
    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.

    Of course. I don't know why you think you need to say this. It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions. None can make the hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.

    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that
    specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    Every year this would come up in class. Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry! I leave it as an
    exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting theorem. No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist.
    The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing. It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption

    What is the "it" that has never been proven? Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the

    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first
    paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most correct
    model to be using? idk

    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say
    if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their premises. You seem determined to avoid this question. Is it because
    you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true.

    The Church-Turing thesis is clearly not the kind of thing that is
    provable. That's why it's not called a conjecture. But if you have in
    mind a model of computation that can't be simulated by TMs but could
    pass the bar of being considered "effective" then you must stop posting
    here and publish right away. A belief, however, is not worth much
    without a concrete model.

    [...]
    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my arguments, it's been a waste of time for me so far

    You might want to bear that in mind before clicking "reply...".
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Feb 19 00:39:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider >>>>>>>> interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters. >>>>>>> You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms

    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are >>>>> you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually >>>> made
    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.

    Of course. I don't know why you think you need to say this. It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions. None can make the hard yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.

    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine
    what this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then und()
    loops forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?


    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that
    specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a relationship
    that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just hubris Efn+)


    Every year this would come up in class. Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry! I leave it as an exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b) pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of ur students have ever suggested:

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-paradoxical
    machine that computes the same function. if can one can detect that a
    paradox exists within a machine for a particular classifier (like a
    functional eq classifier), then we can safely ignore the machine as
    redundant, adding any that don't into a totally decidable yet turing
    complete subset of machines

    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/ to
    a paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /undecidable
    input/

    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you yet),
    in order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of lying
    about context


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on
    computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting theorem. No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist.
    The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing. It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm
    exists that solves the halting problem for all possible programrCoinput pairs/


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption

    What is the "it" that has never been proven? Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs and
    if ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it wasn't
    phrased that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna call u a
    turd shirking responsibility


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the

    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first
    paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most correct
    model to be using? idk

    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say
    if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their premises. You seem determined to avoid this question. Is it because
    you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of resolutions
    i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited time atm, i'm
    avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that may or may not be meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate any depth of
    interest in what i'm trying to express

    heck just getting the concept of /undecidable input/ across, that ur
    still acting butthurt about, was hard enough disillusion me about the capabilities of whoever the fuck i'm really talking to right now


    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true.

    The Church-Turing thesis is clearly not the kind of thing that is
    provable. That's why it's not called a conjecture. But if you have in
    mind a model of computation that can't be simulated by TMs but could

    there's a lot we'd have a to discuss before i could bring why i think
    that might be true ...

    pass the bar of being considered "effective" then you must stop posting
    here and publish right away. A belief, however, is not worth much
    without a concrete model.

    [...]
    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my arguments, it's
    been a waste of time for me so far

    You might want to bear that in mind before clicking "reply...".


    i don't fault myself when others say nothing particularly inspiring
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 01:20:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>>>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are >>>>>> you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually >>>>> made
    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and >>>> you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.
    Of course. I don't know why you think you need to say this. It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions. None can make the hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    Looks like you still won't answer the question. I think it's because
    you know you would have to say that, having finally studies a
    well-written proof you have had to conclude that it's conclusion does
    follow logically from its premises.

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine what this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then und() loops forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    We may well be able to make that determination. And there will very
    likely be algorithms that can analyse the code you show and the code in
    "halts" to determine what that fragment does. Why do you think anyone disagrees with this possibility?

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    I am not using that argument. This is why I keep asking (and you keep
    dodging) the key question: what proof or proofs of this theorem have you studied? None of that say that one can not determine, algorithmically,
    the behaviour of any code fragment. They state that no /one/ Turing
    machine can correct classify that haling or otherwise of /every/ Turing machine.

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?

    Your premise is wrong. Such analysis /is/ possible. No one is saying
    that it is not.

    You really need to go study this subject because all this is
    well-covered in good textbooks and you could then come back and answer
    my question! I think your answer would be the yes, you do accept that
    the theorem follows from its premises.

    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that
    specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled
    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a relationship
    that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just hubris Efn+)

    Sure. But the key fact is whether I am wrong or not. I won't explain
    again why I am right because you need to use this misleading phrase to
    achieve your rhetorical goals.

    Every year this would come up in class. Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry! I leave it as an
    exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of ur students have ever suggested:

    How can you possibly know? Hubris?

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to produce
    a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    Every year. They don't all misuse the term "totally decidable" but when
    they do they usually readily agree not to misuse standard term when
    explaining how they think the problems can be "got round".

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-paradoxical machine that computes the same function. if can one can detect that a
    paradox exists within a machine for a particular classifier (like a functional eq classifier), then we can safely ignore the machine as redundant, adding any that don't into a totally decidable yet turing
    complete subset of machines

    So much misuse of technical terms. I agree that my students would not
    abuse language like this but the basic ideas come up all the time.

    But it gets dealt with in tutorials which makes the back and forth very
    quick. And my students would /never/ avoid a direct question so I could
    probe their understanding my asking questions. Do you think you can
    detect all the functionally equivalent inputs? What do you mean by a
    "turing complete subset of machines"? and so on. It's slow on Usenet
    and impossible when you won't answer or when you do but misuse technical
    terms.

    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/ to a paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /undecidable
    input/

    Despite what you state, I rely on proofs and I've seen nothing coming
    close to a proof of any of claims.

    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you yet), in order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of lying about context

    Yes, many people think that something magic happens when TMs can be
    reflexive. Then they try to define the model and it turns out to be
    nothing new. Of course, you may be the first... But I have my doubts.

    By the way, this is all from the days when I presented the usual proof
    sketch based on contradiction. For a room full of programmers, this was
    not a good strategy. Many were so convinced that something so simple to specify /must/ be implementable that it became a real hurdle to
    overcome. I switched, after a while, to presenting a direct proof
    instead. How you seen one?

    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on
    computable numbers, and i'm questioning it
    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting theorem. No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist.
    The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing. It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    It's usually more helpful to say if you agree or disagree with something.
    I don't really need to know if you think it's nice or not.

    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm
    exists that solves the halting problem for all possible programrCoinput pairs/

    I'm not at all sure what your point is. But since you have not studied
    any proper proofs of the theorem you are not in a position to say what assumptions they make. Wikipedia is reporting an imprecise statement of
    the conclusion from which you would be daft to conclude that any proof
    assumes that (as you claimed) "general algos for decision making" don't
    exist.

    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption
    What is the "it" that has never been proven? Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that
    disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs and if
    ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it wasn't phrased
    that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna call u a turd
    shirking responsibility

    Ah. I see you know you are wrong on this point. Hence the waffle. No
    proof assumes what you claimed, and you know you can't show otherwise.
    Please go ahead and be rude. It will make ignoring you more enticing.

    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the

    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first
    paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most correct
    model to be using? idk
    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say
    if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their
    premises. You seem determined to avoid this question. Is it because
    you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of resolutions
    i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited time atm, i'm
    avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that may or may not be meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate any depth of interest
    in what i'm trying to express

    Crank 101. You are certain there is something wrong with the standard
    theory, but you won't actually look to see what it says!
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Thu Feb 19 21:44:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 10:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always
    provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must >>>>>>>>>> also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable >>>>>>>>>> halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof >>>>>>>> by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines >>>>>>>> is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we
    know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in >>>>>>>> this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know it >>>>>>>> is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ...
    you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that puts >>>>>> those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the cardinality
    of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if unbounded time?

    And, that isn't normally the way to define a "full enumberation",
    because it can lead to wrong conclusions.

    The problem is that with infinite sets, the logical implications of ALL
    and ANY can be different, especially if you let some ambiguity get involved.

    Perhaps it would blow your mind to understand that the sum of an
    convergent (countable) infinite series can depend on the order you add
    up the terms.



    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of
    Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you can't
    do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not
    understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not ALL
    of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these sorts
    of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", which
    like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an actual
    algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just an
    "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm that will be
    sure to get to all of the members.






    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Thu Feb 19 21:44:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/18/26 7:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose halting >>>>>>>> status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms
    "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always provable >>>>>>>> by just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it must >>>>>>>> also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable >>>>>>>> halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof by >>>>>> any means that shows what the answer will be.

    Remember "Computable" is about a mapping, not a particular input, >>>>>> and deals with the existance of some algorithm that does it.

    Thus your statement makes TWO error of category.

    "Instances" are not Computable / Uncomputable.

    And Computable / Uncomputable isn't about a prechosen algorithm.

    The failure of a particular prechosen algorithm just makes that
    algorithm wrong.

    Note, this doesn't mean we can't make a machine that happens to
    give the right answer, (as making a pair of machine, one of which >>>>>> will do that, is trivial), it means we can't make a machine we
    KNOW gives the right answer.



    These machines are analogs of the statements that are true but >>>>>>>> unprovable, even in any finite meta-system of a base system.


    No they're not. You're just making up fantasy justifications. You >>>>>>> don't
    even formalise those notions sufficiently to form a good
    justification.



    I guess you don't understand that some programs can be correlated >>>>>> to proofs, and proofs can be correlated to programs, and that it
    has been shown that in systems with sufficient logical power, not >>>>>> only are their statements not provable in the system, but only in >>>>>> some special meta- system derived from it, that there must also be >>>>>> statements that are never provable in any meta-system.

    I will admit I am not presenting a formal argument about it, but
    refering genreally to the work of others, but that is because
    nothing in the discussion that is primarily before us depends on
    this strange fact.

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines is >>>>>> that they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we >>>>>> know the behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they >>>>>> are in this paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one
    and know it is of that class, so they are unconstruable, just
    existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... you
    will find them


    But you can never know you did.

    All that will happen is that your "creation" process will eventually
    create the representation for it, and you partial classifiers will
    just keep on working on them, and never reach a point where they
    know that these are the unknowable machine.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that because the classic decider is
    unimplementable, that other interface can't classify these machines

    They try to do it.

    Its your right to beleive in Unicorns and Fairy Dust, but that doesn't
    mean they exist.

    says the chucklefuck who adamantly believes in unknowable truth

    Which, since it a reality, is better than thinking you can know
    something when it is actually false.

    Your problem is you don't actually know what you think is true, as you
    logic is unsound, and thus some things you think might be true are
    actually false.

    You have the right to beleive in your own lies, you just can't insist
    that others accept them.





    After all, the knowable machines include machines with finite but
    unbounded steps to determine that result, so you can never just
    correctly "timeout" to mark them as truely unknowable.

    i reject ur brainrot assumption that we necessarily need a timeout


    Then you can't answer in finite time.

    It seems your problem is you don't actually understand that problem,
    because you don't understand some of the nature of the infinite sets
    that it deals with.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Thu Feb 19 21:00:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/19/26 6:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 10:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it >>>>>>>>>>> must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has unknowable >>>>>>>>>>> halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof >>>>>>>>> by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines >>>>>>>>> is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we >>>>>>>>> know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are in >>>>>>>>> this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know >>>>>>>>> it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... >>>>>>>> you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that
    puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if
    unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as
    there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the
    cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if unbounded
    time?

    And, that isn't normally the way to define a "full enumberation",
    because it can lead to wrong conclusions.

    bro the diagonal proofs for the halting theorem depend on this fact as
    well, there's nothing controversial about my claim there


    The problem is that with infinite sets, the logical implications of ALL
    and ANY can be different, especially if you let some ambiguity get
    involved.

    Perhaps it would blow your mind to understand that the sum of an
    convergent (countable) infinite series can depend on the order you add
    up the terms.

    already aware of that




    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of
    Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you
    can't do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not
    understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not ALL >>>>> of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these sorts
    of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", which
    like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an actual
    algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just an
    "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm that will be
    sure to get to all of the members.






    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ nick
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,alt.messianic on Fri Feb 20 00:55:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/19/26 5:20 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as >>>>>>>>>> constructing such a machine would require a machine that implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and >>>>> you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an >>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions, >>>>> so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.
    Of course. I don't know why you think you need to say this. It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions. None can make the hard >>> yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    Looks like you still won't answer the question. I think it's because

    i answered the question why. it doesn't sit right with me that we can
    fully analyze the hypothetical machines that are the supposed proof that
    such analysis is not totally possible

    this "problem" is a merely a reflection of a bad specification/interface
    that doesn't handle all possible input situations, not a proof against
    general analysis and how that might *actually* manifest with
    self-referential computing (like TMs). clearly it's not a simple
    true/false interface, but u haven't proven other interfaces impossible...

    it is also only a limitation that applies to turing machines (and
    equivalent paradigms), due to their ability to generate such
    self-references,

    it doesn't even necessarily apply to our own analytical capabilities ... because u haven't actually proven that the ct-thesis true, which is what
    would be necessary to prove that TMs are actually capable of all types
    of computations

    if an aging lame duck academic doesn't want to heed my words in the
    slightest, that's fine. how many lame ducks i will need to sift thru
    until i find one that still has half a brain still functioning,

    *i do not know*

    you know you would have to say that, having finally studies a
    well-written proof you have had to conclude that it's conclusion does
    follow logically from its premises.

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine what
    this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then und() loops
    forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    We may well be able to make that determination. And there will very
    likely be algorithms that can analyse the code you show and the code in "halts" to determine what that fragment does. Why do you think anyone disagrees with this possibility?

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    I am not using that argument. This is why I keep asking (and you keep dodging) the key question: what proof or proofs of this theorem have you studied? None of that say that one can not determine, algorithmically,
    the behaviour of any code fragment. They state that no /one/ Turing
    machine can correct classify that haling or otherwise of /every/ Turing machine.

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?

    Your premise is wrong. Such analysis /is/ possible. No one is saying
    that it is not.

    except no one's doing it at any meaningful scale. that real world result
    of our collective actions speak *infinitely* louder than the words of
    some lame duck academic sticking his fingers in his eyeballs,

    /so explain to me why that happened eh???/

    and if u try to claim there's some economic unfeasability in doing so,
    i'm going to respond: that's some economic brainrot for the ages...

    cause we've been chronically over-engineering our entire computing infrastructure to the tune of 3+ orders of magnitude in over-complexity
    just within single orgs. considering across all of society add a couple
    more orders of magnitude for the mindbogglingly stupid over-redundancy,

    our software production system is a complete and total bastardization of
    the word "efficiency", and the has happened directly because *we have no theoretically robust way to prove semantic correctness about our programs*.

    like why would we waste our time developing tons of redundant paradigms
    if we could just prove optimally correct ones??? ... except we think we
    can't, cause the theory says we can't, and here we are

    u can dance around the fucking terms all you want, but the *actual*
    results of the theory you are promulgating are plain as day to anyone
    with a half functioning brain

    (which isn't very many tbh)
    > You really need to go study this subject because all this is
    well-covered in good textbooks and you could then come back and answer
    my question! I think your answer would be the yes, you do accept that
    the theorem follows from its premises.

    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that
    specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled
    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a relationship
    that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just hubris Efn+)

    Sure. But the key fact is whether I am wrong or not. I won't explain

    it's a fucking label bro, for a relationship that does not yet have a
    label. how could anyone be "right" or "wrong" about that???

    again why I am right because you need to use this misleading phrase to achieve your rhetorical goals.

    i already demonstrated what an /undecidable input/ is, and anyone with
    half a brain can understand the assessment: it is a particular input
    that cannot be classified by some classifier due it doing a
    self-referential query to defy the result

    u can be butthurt about the term all u want, but there's nothing
    misleading, as that simple paradox is the *bedrock* foundation of undecidability within computing, right back to turing's orignal paper
    /on computable numbers/

    and if u can't admit that's true, then we're done here


    Every year this would come up in class. Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry! I leave it as an
    exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of ur
    students have ever suggested:

    How can you possibly know? Hubris?

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to produce >> a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    Every year. They don't all misuse the term "totally decidable" but when

    lol, none of them came up with strict definition of a partial recognizer
    based on merging /undecidable input/ with negative classification

    they do they usually readily agree not to misuse standard term when explaining how they think the problems can be "got round".

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-paradoxical
    machine that computes the same function. if can one can detect that a
    paradox exists within a machine for a particular classifier (like a
    functional eq classifier), then we can safely ignore the machine as
    redundant, adding any that don't into a totally decidable yet turing
    complete subset of machines

    So much misuse of technical terms. I agree that my students would not
    abuse language like this but the basic ideas come up all the time.

    don't care about ur comments on language bro. i've had it with lame duck academics, u've fucked this up long enough i do in fact feel entitled to
    just ignore ur complaints on specific language. and my god, skip the
    lecture on why we need consistent/precise language. i don't agree u've
    earned the right to lecture about that given how much a shithow real
    world computing has become


    But it gets dealt with in tutorials which makes the back and forth very quick. And my students would /never/ avoid a direct question so I could probe their understanding my asking questions. Do you think you can
    detect all the functionally equivalent inputs? What do you mean by a

    sorry, we need a functional *not-eq* classifier, and we don't need an unimplementable classic decider form. a partial recognizer is good
    enough to weed out both functions we've seen *and* /undecidable input/

    we can just ignore any failures to classify because there will be
    functionally equivalent machines that will classify properly at some point

    "turing complete subset of machines"? and so on. It's slow on Usenet

    turing complete subset:

    one that computes all computable input->output mappings (with output
    either halting with some value, or never returning)

    but that ignores the difference between machines that compute infinite sequences

    so we can further expand that for the output of non-terminating machines
    by saying all computable mappings from input to output sequences in F
    cells, regardless of whether they then halt or not

    u do know what an F vs E cell is, correct?

    tell me, how many of ur students bothered to make that specific of a clarification for their definition of turing complete...

    and impossible when you won't answer or when you do but misuse technical terms.

    no, it's a good thing this isn't in person. you would just overwhelm me
    with an onslaught of extremely self-assured ignorance that i have no meaningful capability to unpack in the kind of attention span anyone has
    for a real time conversation...

    the slowness here is not only in my favor, but 100% required for me to
    do what i'm trying to do

    this isn't tv/movie reality innovation/progression

    this is the 21st century overpopulated hyper-capitalist madhouse form

    #god


    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/ to a
    paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /undecidable
    input/

    Despite what you state, I rely on proofs and I've seen nothing coming
    close to a proof of any of claims.

    i thot u said u "get this every year" u lying twat??? or did u respond
    without reading first???


    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you yet), in
    order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of lying about
    context

    Yes, many people think that something magic happens when TMs can be reflexive. Then they try to define the model and it turns out to be

    what do u think i mean by "reflection"/"reflexive"?

    nothing new. Of course, you may be the first... But I have my doubts.

    it turned the halting problem in literally a lying problem


    By the way, this is all from the days when I presented the usual proof
    sketch based on contradiction. For a room full of programmers, this was
    not a good strategy. Many were so convinced that something so simple to specify /must/ be implementable that it became a real hurdle to
    overcome. I switched, after a while, to presenting a direct proof
    instead. How you seen one?

    yes the annoying one:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem#Sketch_of_rigorous_proof

    it's just more indirect, it's not more "rigorous". it says the same
    thing except more indirectly. it doesn't matter if u create the
    self-reference thru a (A) direct instance, (B) passing it in as input,
    (C) a search of the total machine enumeration, or (D) some
    generalization of A, B, and/or C like the "direct" proof ...

    *it's all the same damn paradox*

    most others are going to impressed by u saying the same thing with a
    higher word count

    /not me/


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on
    computable numbers, and i'm questioning it
    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting theorem. No >>> one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist.
    The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing. It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    It's usually more helpful to say if you agree or disagree with something.
    I don't really need to know if you think it's nice or not.

    i'm somewhere in the between Efn+

    let me put in this way: given a certain framing computability theory is correct

    but i'm pursuing other frames that we might be able to utilize instead
    of the one that has left us so philosophically gimped in practice


    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm
    exists that solves the halting problem for all possible programrCoinput
    pairs/

    I'm not at all sure what your point is. But since you have not studied

    then why comment further?

    any proper proofs of the theorem you are not in a position to say what

    origin fallacy

    assumptions they make. Wikipedia is reporting an imprecise statement of
    the conclusion from which you would be daft to conclude that any proof assumes that (as you claimed) "general algos for decision making" don't exist.

    we do not, in practice, generally prove our programs semantically
    correct. dance around words all u want, the actions we took because of
    them are *what actually matter*


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption
    What is the "it" that has never been proven? Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that
    disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs and if >> ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it wasn't phrased
    that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna call u a turd
    shirking responsibility

    Ah. I see you know you are wrong on this point. Hence the waffle. No
    proof assumes what you claimed, and you know you can't show otherwise.
    Please go ahead and be rude. It will make ignoring you more enticing.

    my rudeness is just a reflection of the mind-numbingly ungodly
    bastardization of computing that been globally deployed by following
    thru on the theory lame duck academics like you preached in schools for
    almost a century now...

    but if u have any heart left in you,

    u won't actually have the will to hide from ur sins EfOAEfEn


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the >>>>
    i'm questioning the fundamentals of computing as far as turing's first >>>> paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most correct >>>> model to be using? idk
    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say
    if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their
    premises. You seem determined to avoid this question. Is it because
    you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of resolutions
    i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited time atm, i'm
    avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that may or may not be
    meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate any depth of interest
    in what i'm trying to express

    Crank 101. You are certain there is something wrong with the standard theory, but you won't actually look to see what it says!

    say i asked you:

    can i decide the halting behavior for any given turing machine ...

    you would say no, and bring up the halting proof for me to read.

    but then i would ask you: am i a turing machine?

    if u reply yes: i will just punch you in the face, cause u deserve it
    for degrading humanity.

    and if u reply no: then i would ask why am i subject to limitations
    proven only thru the use of turing machine specifications????
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.messianic on Fri Feb 20 10:04:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 3:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/19/26 5:20 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a
    classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not >>>>>>>>>>> exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it >>>>>>>>>> matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which >>>>>>>> parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've studied >>>>>> and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof is an >>>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions, >>>>>> so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface >>>>> implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.
    Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there >>>> will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make the
    hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    Looks like you still won't answer the question.-a I think it's because

    i answered the question why. it doesn't sit right with me that we can
    fully analyze the hypothetical machines that are the supposed proof that such analysis is not totally possible

    Maybe because you don't actually understand the logic.


    this "problem" is a merely a reflection of a bad specification/interface that doesn't handle all possible input situations, not a proof against general analysis and how that might *actually* manifest with self- referential computing (like TMs). clearly it's not a simple true/false interface, but u haven't proven other interfaces impossible...

    So, what "input" can't be sepecified?

    Perhaps your problem is you don't actually understand the problem.

    And the proof *IS* a general analysis.

    Given *ANY* actual effective algorithm claimed to solve problem, we show
    we can develope an actual input that has an actual answer that the
    algorithm will get wrong (or be non-responsive to)


    it is also only a limitation that applies to turing machines (and
    equivalent paradigms), due to their ability to generate such self- references,

    But there isn't a "self-reference" in the machine, just a functionally equivalent copy, an operation inherent in the definition of an algorithm.


    it doesn't even necessarily apply to our own analytical capabilities ... because u haven't actually proven that the ct-thesis true, which is what would be necessary to prove that TMs are actually capable of all types
    of computations

    The problem is that our "analytical capabilities" aren't actually
    "analytical" by the definitions, as we appear to have "free-will" and
    are not deterministic, as required.

    The version of "computation" being discussed by CT is a deterministic
    version, where every input creates a single answer, and always creates
    that specific answer.


    if an aging lame duck academic doesn't want to heed my words in the slightest, that's fine. how many lame ducks i will need to sift thru
    until i find one that still has half a brain still functioning,

    *i do not know*

    Your problem is you don't actually know what you are talking about, and
    thus show that it is YOU that doesn't have the "half a brain", as you
    keep on admitting you don't actually know how to define what you are doing.


    you know you would have to say that, having finally studies a
    well-written proof you have had to conclude that it's conclusion does
    follow logically from its premises.

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine
    what
    this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then und()
    loops
    forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    We may well be able to make that determination.-a And there will very
    likely be algorithms that can analyse the code you show and the code in
    "halts" to determine what that fragment does.-a Why do you think anyone
    disagrees with this possibility?

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    I am not using that argument.-a This is why I keep asking (and you keep
    dodging) the key question: what proof or proofs of this theorem have you
    studied?-a None of that say that one can not determine, algorithmically,
    the behaviour of any code fragment.-a They state that no /one/ Turing
    machine can correct classify that haling or otherwise of /every/ Turing
    machine.

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?

    Your premise is wrong.-a Such analysis /is/ possible.-a No one is saying
    that it is not.

    except no one's doing it at any meaningful scale. that real world result
    of our collective actions speak *infinitely* louder than the words of
    some lame duck academic sticking his fingers in his eyeballs,

    /so explain to me why that happened eh???/

    and if u try to claim there's some economic unfeasability in doing so,
    i'm going to respond: that's some economic brainrot for the ages...

    No, you are just ignorant of what is being done, because you won't
    actually look at the works.


    cause we've been chronically over-engineering our entire computing infrastructure to the tune of 3+ orders of magnitude in over-complexity
    just within single orgs. considering across all of society add a couple
    more orders of magnitude for the mindbogglingly stupid over-redundancy,

    Gee, and before you were complaining that people weren't putting in the effort, and adding complexity to the job, to prove correctness.


    our software production system is a complete and total bastardization of
    the word "efficiency", and the has happened directly because *we have no theoretically robust way to prove semantic correctness about our programs*.

    Because it doesn't exist, in the general case.


    like why would we waste our time developing tons of redundant paradigms
    if we could just prove optimally correct ones??? ... except we think we can't, cause the theory says we can't, and here we are

    because correctness is very complicated to prove.

    Finding your unicorns will be even more futile.


    u can dance around the fucking terms all you want, but the *actual*
    results of the theory you are promulgating are plain as day to anyone
    with a half functioning brain

    (which isn't very many tbh)
    You really need to go study this subject because all this is
    well-covered in good textbooks and you could then come back and answer
    my question!-a I think your answer would be the yes, you do accept that
    the theorem follows from its premises.

    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that >>>>> specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled
    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a relationship
    that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just hubris Efn+)

    Sure.-a But the key fact is whether I am wrong or not.-a I won't explain

    it's a fucking label bro, for a relationship that does not yet have a
    label. how could anyone be "right" or "wrong" about that???

    And it is a relationship you can't even actually define, so of course it
    can't have a lable.



    again why I am right because you need to use this misleading phrase to
    achieve your rhetorical goals.

    i already demonstrated what an /undecidable input/ is, and anyone with
    half a brain can understand the assessment: it is a particular input
    that cannot be classified by some classifier due it doing a self- referential query to defy the result

    No, you havn't, and that is the problem. You "definition" is unusable as
    you can't actually determine the factors that go into it.


    u can be butthurt about the term all u want, but there's nothing
    misleading, as that simple paradox is the *bedrock* foundation of undecidability within computing, right back to turing's orignal paper /
    on computable numbers/

    and if u can't admit that's true, then we're done here

    That is YOUR problem. You refuse to admit you can't actually "define"
    what you are talking about, but (just like Peter) can only present
    simple examples.

    Your definitions are based on categorically undefinable terms, that you
    need to have defined.



    Every year this would come up in class.-a Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry!-a I leave it as an >>>> exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of ur >>> students have ever suggested:

    How can you possibly know?-a Hubris?

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to
    produce
    a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    Every year.-a They don't all misuse the term "totally decidable" but when

    lol, none of them came up with strict definition of a partial recognizer based on merging /undecidable input/ with negative classification

    they do they usually readily agree not to misuse standard term when
    explaining how they think the problems can be "got round".

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-paradoxical
    machine that computes the same function. if can one can detect that a
    paradox exists within a machine for a particular classifier (like a
    functional eq classifier), then we can safely ignore the machine as
    redundant, adding any that don't into a totally decidable yet turing
    complete subset of machines

    So much misuse of technical terms.-a I agree that my students would not
    abuse language like this but the basic ideas come up all the time.

    don't care about ur comments on language bro. i've had it with lame duck academics, u've fucked this up long enough i do in fact feel entitled to just ignore ur complaints on specific language. and my god, skip the
    lecture on why we need consistent/precise language. i don't agree u've earned the right to lecture about that given how much a shithow real
    world computing has become


    But it gets dealt with in tutorials which makes the back and forth very
    quick.-a And my students would /never/ avoid a direct question so I could
    probe their understanding my asking questions.-a Do you think you can
    detect all the functionally equivalent inputs?-a What do you mean by a

    sorry, we need a functional *not-eq* classifier, and we don't need an unimplementable classic decider form. a partial recognizer is good
    enough to weed out both functions we've seen *and* /undecidable input/

    we can just ignore any failures to classify because there will be functionally equivalent machines that will classify properly at some point

    "turing complete subset of machines"? and so on.-a It's slow on Usenet

    turing complete subset:

    one that computes all computable input->output mappings (with output
    either halting with some value, or never returning)

    but that ignores the difference between machines that compute infinite sequences

    so we can further expand that for the output of non-terminating machines
    by saying all computable mappings from input to output sequences in F
    cells, regardless of whether they then halt or not

    u do know what an F vs E cell is, correct?

    tell me, how many of ur students bothered to make that specific of a clarification for their definition of turing complete...

    and impossible when you won't answer or when you do but misuse technical
    terms.

    no, it's a good thing this isn't in person. you would just overwhelm me
    with an onslaught of extremely self-assured ignorance that i have no meaningful capability to unpack in the kind of attention span anyone has
    for a real time conversation...

    the slowness here is not only in my favor, but 100% required for me to
    do what i'm trying to do

    this isn't tv/movie reality innovation/progression

    this is the 21st century overpopulated hyper-capitalist madhouse form

    #god


    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/
    to a
    paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /undecidable
    input/

    Despite what you state, I rely on proofs and I've seen nothing coming
    close to a proof of any of claims.

    i thot u said u "get this every year" u lying twat??? or did u respond without reading first???


    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you
    yet), in
    order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of lying about
    context

    Yes, many people think that something magic happens when TMs can be
    reflexive.-a Then they try to define the model and it turns out to be

    what do u think i mean by "reflection"/"reflexive"?

    nothing new.-a Of course, you may be the first...-a But I have my doubts.

    it turned the halting problem in literally a lying problem


    By the way, this is all from the days when I presented the usual proof
    sketch based on contradiction.-a For a room full of programmers, this was
    not a good strategy.-a Many were so convinced that something so simple to
    specify /must/ be implementable that it became a real hurdle to
    overcome.-a I switched, after a while, to presenting a direct proof
    instead.-a How you seen one?

    yes the annoying one:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem#Sketch_of_rigorous_proof

    it's just more indirect, it's not more "rigorous". it says the same
    thing except more indirectly. it doesn't matter if u create the self- reference thru a (A) direct instance, (B) passing it in as input, (C) a search of the total machine enumeration, or (D) some generalization of
    A, B, and/or C like the "direct" proof ...

    *it's all the same damn paradox*

    most others are going to impressed by u saying the same thing with a
    higher word count

    /not me/


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on >>>>> computable numbers, and i'm questioning it
    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting
    theorem.-a No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist. >>>> The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing.-a It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    It's usually more helpful to say if you agree or disagree with something.
    I don't really need to know if you think it's nice or not.

    i'm somewhere in the between Efn+

    let me put in this way: given a certain framing computability theory is correct

    but i'm pursuing other frames that we might be able to utilize instead
    of the one that has left us so philosophically gimped in practice


    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm
    exists that solves the halting problem for all possible programrCoinput
    pairs/

    I'm not at all sure what your point is.-a But since you have not studied

    then why comment further?

    any proper proofs of the theorem you are not in a position to say what

    origin fallacy

    assumptions they make.-a Wikipedia is reporting an imprecise statement of
    the conclusion from which you would be daft to conclude that any proof
    assumes that (as you claimed) "general algos for decision making" don't
    exist.

    we do not, in practice, generally prove our programs semantically
    correct. dance around words all u want, the actions we took because of
    them are *what actually matter*


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption
    What is the "it" that has never been proven?-a Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that >>>> disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs
    and if
    ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it wasn't phrased
    that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna call u a turd
    shirking responsibility

    Ah.-a I see you know you are wrong on this point.-a Hence the waffle.-a No >> proof assumes what you claimed, and you know you can't show otherwise.
    Please go ahead and be rude.-a It will make ignoring you more enticing.

    my rudeness is just a reflection of the mind-numbingly ungodly bastardization of computing that been globally deployed by following
    thru on the theory lame duck academics like you preached in schools for almost a century now...

    but if u have any heart left in you,

    u won't actually have the will to hide from ur sins EfOAEfEn


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the >>>>>
    i'm questioning the fundamentals of computing as far as turing's first >>>>> paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most
    correct
    model to be using? idk
    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say >>>> if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their >>>> premises.-a You seem determined to avoid this question.-a Is it because >>>> you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of resolutions >>> i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited time atm, i'm
    avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that may or may not be
    meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate any depth of
    interest
    in what i'm trying to express

    Crank 101.-a You are certain there is something wrong with the standard
    theory, but you won't actually look to see what it says!

    say i asked you:

    can i decide the halting behavior for any given turing machine ...

    you would say no, and bring up the halting proof for me to read.

    but then i would ask you: am i a turing machine?

    if u reply yes: i will just punch you in the face, cause u deserve it
    for degrading humanity.

    and if u reply no: then i would ask why am i subject to limitations
    proven only thru the use of turing machine specifications????



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 10:04:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 12:00 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/19/26 6:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 10:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it >>>>>>>>>>>> must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has
    unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a prechosen >>>>>>>>>>> algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO proof >>>>>>>>>> by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these machines >>>>>>>>>> is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we >>>>>>>>>> know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are >>>>>>>>>> in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know >>>>>>>>>> it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... >>>>>>>>> you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that >>>>>>>> puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if >>>>>>> unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", as >>>>>> there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the
    cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if unbounded
    time?

    And, that isn't normally the way to define a "full enumberation",
    because it can lead to wrong conclusions.

    bro the diagonal proofs for the halting theorem depend on this fact as
    well, there's nothing controversial about my claim there

    Right, which shows that something isn't there, not that all are.

    The problem is you actually NEED to prove that you algorithm WILL reach
    all, not that for any there is an algorithm that reaches it.



    The problem is that with infinite sets, the logical implications of
    ALL and ANY can be different, especially if you let some ambiguity get
    involved.

    Perhaps it would blow your mind to understand that the sum of an
    convergent (countable) infinite series can depend on the order you add
    up the terms.

    already aware of that

    Ok, then why do you not understand that you need to use effective
    enumerations in your proof? If you don't define the order the results
    can be different.

    Your proofs seem to always begin with the assumption you can create an
    order, but that order isn't actually defined. and thus you can't show
    that you actually can create that enumeration effetively and that it
    will actually reach your "ANY" machine.





    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of
    Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you
    can't do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not
    understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not
    ALL of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these sorts >>>>>> of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", which >>>>>> like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an actual
    algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just an
    "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm that will be
    sure to get to all of the members.









    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 10:16:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 7:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 12:00 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/19/26 6:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 10:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines whose >>>>>>>>>>>>> halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it >>>>>>>>>>>>> must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has
    unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a >>>>>>>>>>>> prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO >>>>>>>>>>> proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these
    machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we >>>>>>>>>>> know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are >>>>>>>>>>> in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and know >>>>>>>>>>> it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of machines ... >>>>>>>>>> you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that >>>>>>>>> puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even if >>>>>>>> unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", >>>>>>> as there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the
    cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity. >>>>>>
    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if
    unbounded time?

    And, that isn't normally the way to define a "full enumberation",
    because it can lead to wrong conclusions.

    bro the diagonal proofs for the halting theorem depend on this fact as
    well, there's nothing controversial about my claim there

    Right, which shows that something isn't there, not that all are.

    The problem is you actually NEED to prove that you algorithm WILL reach
    all, not that for any there is an algorithm that reaches it.

    that's like one of the first things turing proved in his paper,

    u thot u said u read it




    The problem is that with infinite sets, the logical implications of
    ALL and ANY can be different, especially if you let some ambiguity
    get involved.

    Perhaps it would blow your mind to understand that the sum of an
    convergent (countable) infinite series can depend on the order you
    add up the terms.

    already aware of that

    Ok, then why do you not understand that you need to use effective enumerations in your proof? If you don't define the order the results
    can be different.

    we're doing discrete analysis on each machine separately


    Your proofs seem to always begin with the assumption you can create an order, but that order isn't actually defined. and thus you can't show
    that you actually can create that enumeration effetively and that it
    will actually reach your "ANY" machine.





    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of
    Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you
    can't do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not
    understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not >>>>>>> ALL of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these
    sorts of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration",
    which like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an
    actual algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse just >>>>>>> an "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm that will >>>>>>> be sure to get to all of the members.









    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 13:56:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 1:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 7:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 12:00 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/19/26 6:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 10:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>> whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it >>>>>>>>>>>>>> must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has >>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a >>>>>>>>>>>>> prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO >>>>>>>>>>>> proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these >>>>>>>>>>>> machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't we >>>>>>>>>>>> know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they are >>>>>>>>>>>> in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and >>>>>>>>>>>> know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant.

    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of
    machines ... you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that >>>>>>>>>> puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even >>>>>>>>> if unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", >>>>>>>> as there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the
    cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity. >>>>>>>
    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a
    "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if
    unbounded time?

    And, that isn't normally the way to define a "full enumberation",
    because it can lead to wrong conclusions.

    bro the diagonal proofs for the halting theorem depend on this fact
    as well, there's nothing controversial about my claim there

    Right, which shows that something isn't there, not that all are.

    The problem is you actually NEED to prove that you algorithm WILL
    reach all, not that for any there is an algorithm that reaches it.

    that's like one of the first things turing proved in his paper,

    u thot u said u read it

    Right, HE proved it for his.

    YOU assume for a different enumeration that you also will.

    Just because youe arguement looks sort of like his, doesn't mean yours
    works also.

    Also, you seem to be mixing fields, as you keep on refering to the
    "Computable Numbers" paper, which is about a different definition of "Computation" then the "Halting Problem"

    But, that difference seems to be beyond you.





    The problem is that with infinite sets, the logical implications of
    ALL and ANY can be different, especially if you let some ambiguity
    get involved.

    Perhaps it would blow your mind to understand that the sum of an
    convergent (countable) infinite series can depend on the order you
    add up the terms.

    already aware of that

    Ok, then why do you not understand that you need to use effective
    enumerations in your proof? If you don't define the order the results
    can be different.

    we're doing discrete analysis on each machine separately

    Then you admit that you aren't solving for AN algorithm that answers for
    ALL inputs.

    Again, you don't seem to understand the nature of the problem you are
    arguing about, and come up with a "partial answer" that you can't show
    to be better than the existing partial answers.

    You need to more clearly DEFINE what you are trying to do, which seems
    to be beyond your understanding.



    Your proofs seem to always begin with the assumption you can create an
    order, but that order isn't actually defined. and thus you can't show
    that you actually can create that enumeration effetively and that it
    will actually reach your "ANY" machine.





    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of
    Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you
    can't do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not >>>>>> understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not >>>>>>>> ALL of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these
    sorts of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration",
    which like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an
    actual algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse
    just an "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm that >>>>>>>> will be sure to get to all of the members.











    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 21:45:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/19/26 5:20 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a
    classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think >>>>>>>>>> it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and >>>>>> you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an >>>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions, >>>>>> so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface >>>>> implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.
    Of course. I don't know why you think you need to say this. It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there >>>> will be algorithms for making related decisions. None can make the hard >>>> yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():
    Looks like you still won't answer the question. I think it's because

    i answered the question why.

    I didn't ask why. I asked what proofs of the theorem in question you
    have studied. An answer would be to cite them but the closest you've
    come is to a wikipedia link to a sketch.

    The second part -- do you accept that the conclusion follows logically
    from the premises -- should be answered yes or no. Had you answered no,
    we could examine what steps you reject. The result would be either
    you'd learn something or you would get a good paper out of it by
    pointing out a logical error in a published proof.

    Anyway, no answer is likely to come so that's the end of that.

    it doesn't sit right with me that we can fully
    analyze the hypothetical machines that are the supposed proof that such analysis is not totally possible

    Obviously. But since this is not what the theorem says it's just your rhetorical spin to keep the chat going.

    this "problem" is a merely a reflection of a bad specification/interface
    that doesn't handle all possible input situations, not a proof against general analysis and how that might *actually* manifest with
    self-referential computing (like TMs). clearly it's not a simple true/false interface, but u haven't proven other interfaces impossible...

    it is also only a limitation that applies to turing machines (and
    equivalent paradigms), due to their ability to generate such
    self-references,

    it doesn't even necessarily apply to our own analytical capabilities
    ... because u haven't actually proven that the ct-thesis true, which is
    what would be necessary to prove that TMs are actually capable of all types of computations

    if an aging lame duck academic doesn't want to heed my words in the slightest, that's fine. how many lame ducks i will need to sift thru until
    i find one that still has half a brain still functioning,

    I'm flattered because I know you get your validation from insulting
    people whose skill and knowledge you secretly respect, but it's all
    getting a bit thin for me.

    So what is your plan? Are you going to keep posting this stuff as long
    as someone you value replies? Are you aiming to beat Olcott's record of
    22 years posting the same nonsense? Think about that -- more than two
    decades wasted and all he has to show for it is a gazillion posts no one
    will remember.

    Every crank I've seen here always rejects the usual way forward which is
    to write up their ideas as a paper that will mean the real expects will
    see it. I wonder what your excuse will be. I suspect you will go for
    the "all the editors and reviewers are just as dumb, so what's the
    point?" excuse.

    But that does raise the question: what's the point mate?
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 14:29:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 10:56 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 1:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 7:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 12:00 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/19/26 6:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 10:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO >>>>>>>>>>>>> proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these >>>>>>>>>>>>> machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't >>>>>>>>>>>>> we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they >>>>>>>>>>>>> are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and >>>>>>>>>>>>> know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of
    machines ... you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process that >>>>>>>>>>> puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even >>>>>>>>>> if unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full enumeration", >>>>>>>>> as there ARE an "infinite" number of possible machines, the >>>>>>>>> cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the Countable Infinity. >>>>>>>>
    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a >>>>>>> "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if
    unbounded time?

    And, that isn't normally the way to define a "full enumberation",
    because it can lead to wrong conclusions.

    bro the diagonal proofs for the halting theorem depend on this fact
    as well, there's nothing controversial about my claim there

    Right, which shows that something isn't there, not that all are.

    The problem is you actually NEED to prove that you algorithm WILL
    reach all, not that for any there is an algorithm that reaches it.

    that's like one of the first things turing proved in his paper,

    u thot u said u read it

    Right, HE proved it for his.

    YOU assume for a different enumeration that you also will.

    i could just copy past his method for an enumeration. this is not an interesting point of discussion and i won't comment further


    Just because youe arguement looks sort of like his, doesn't mean yours
    works also.

    Also, you seem to be mixing fields, as you keep on refering to the "Computable Numbers" paper, which is about a different definition of "Computation" then the "Halting Problem"

    But, that difference seems to be beyond you.





    The problem is that with infinite sets, the logical implications of >>>>> ALL and ANY can be different, especially if you let some ambiguity
    get involved.

    Perhaps it would blow your mind to understand that the sum of an
    convergent (countable) infinite series can depend on the order you
    add up the terms.

    already aware of that

    Ok, then why do you not understand that you need to use effective
    enumerations in your proof? If you don't define the order the results
    can be different.

    we're doing discrete analysis on each machine separately

    Then you admit that you aren't solving for AN algorithm that answers for
    ALL inputs.

    not following on what ur going on about there so i won't comment further


    Again, you don't seem to understand the nature of the problem you are arguing about, and come up with a "partial answer" that you can't show
    to be better than the existing partial answers.

    You need to more clearly DEFINE what you are trying to do, which seems
    to be beyond your understanding.



    Your proofs seem to always begin with the assumption you can create
    an order, but that order isn't actually defined. and thus you can't
    show that you actually can create that enumeration effetively and
    that it will actually reach your "ANY" machine.





    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of >>>>>>> Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you >>>>>>> can't do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of not >>>>>>> understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but not >>>>>>>>> ALL of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these >>>>>>>>> sorts of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", >>>>>>>>> which like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an >>>>>>>>> actual algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse >>>>>>>>> just an "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm >>>>>>>>> that will be sure to get to all of the members.











    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 14:48:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 1:45 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/19/26 5:20 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a >>>>>>>>>>>> classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think >>>>>>>>>>> it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem. Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood. What proofs have you studied and which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation! You won't say what proofs you've studied and >>>>>>> you won't state clearly if you accept them. Remember, a proof is an >>>>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions, >>>>>>> so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface >>>>>> implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.
    Of course. I don't know why you think you need to say this. It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there >>>>> will be algorithms for making related decisions. None can make the hard >>>>> yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():
    Looks like you still won't answer the question. I think it's because

    i answered the question why.

    I didn't ask why. I asked what proofs of the theorem in question you
    have studied. An answer would be to cite them but the closest you've
    come is to a wikipedia link to a sketch.

    The second part -- do you accept that the conclusion follows logically
    from the premises -- should be answered yes or no. Had you answered no,
    we could examine what steps you reject. The result would be either
    you'd learn something or you would get a good paper out of it by
    pointing out a logical error in a published proof.

    Anyway, no answer is likely to come so that's the end of that.

    it doesn't sit right with me that we can fully
    analyze the hypothetical machines that are the supposed proof that such
    analysis is not totally possible

    Obviously. But since this is not what the theorem says it's just your rhetorical spin to keep the chat going.

    this "problem" is a merely a reflection of a bad specification/interface
    that doesn't handle all possible input situations, not a proof against
    general analysis and how that might *actually* manifest with
    self-referential computing (like TMs). clearly it's not a simple true/false >> interface, but u haven't proven other interfaces impossible...

    it is also only a limitation that applies to turing machines (and
    equivalent paradigms), due to their ability to generate such
    self-references,

    it doesn't even necessarily apply to our own analytical capabilities
    ... because u haven't actually proven that the ct-thesis true, which is
    what would be necessary to prove that TMs are actually capable of all types >> of computations

    if an aging lame duck academic doesn't want to heed my words in the
    slightest, that's fine. how many lame ducks i will need to sift thru until >> i find one that still has half a brain still functioning,

    I'm flattered because I know you get your validation from insulting
    people whose skill and knowledge you secretly respect, but it's all
    getting a bit thin for me.

    So what is your plan? Are you going to keep posting this stuff as long
    as someone you value replies? Are you aiming to beat Olcott's record of
    22 years posting the same nonsense? Think about that -- more than two decades wasted and all he has to show for it is a gazillion posts no one
    will remember.

    Every crank I've seen here always rejects the usual way forward which is

    i will write up a paper once my ideas are fleshed out enough, and they
    aren't yet,

    i'm not going to write a paper any sooner than i feel like just cause
    some twat on the internet declares "now" is the right time,

    to write up their ideas as a paper that will mean the real expects will
    see it. I wonder what your excuse will be. I suspect you will go for
    the "all the editors and reviewers are just as dumb, so what's the
    point?" excuse.

    But that does raise the question: what's the point mate?

    correct, there is no point is discussing with u

    u cut out my ideas arbitrarily and prefer to just talk about nonsense
    red herrings to satisfy ur sense of superiority rather than actually
    have a discussion on the ideas i'm *trying* to explore

    i don't know how yet they relate to various traditional proofs, besides turing's original paper /on computable numbers/, nor am i particularly interested in that relation at present. ur not leading any exploration
    on these idea: i am

    u clearly have no actual interest in helping, ur intention here is just
    some bizarre sanity check on yourself

    so fuck off mate, we're done here eh???
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 18:01:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 5:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 10:56 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 1:16 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 7:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 12:00 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/19/26 6:44 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/18/26 10:10 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 4:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 11:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 7:48 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/17/26 10:19 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:51 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/02/2026 16:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/17/26 4:43 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/16/26 5:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 16/02/2026 04:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    I seem to remember proof of the existance of machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whose halting
    status is unknowable / unprovable, and thus in his terms >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "undecidable".

    Such machines must be non-halting (as halting is always >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> provable by
    just
    stepping the machine enough steps) but that means that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it must also be
    impossible to determine that the given machine has >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknowable halting
    status.

    Instead of "unknowable" do you mean "uncomputable by a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> prechosen
    algorithm" ?

    No, I mean the answer is just unknowable, as there is NO >>>>>>>>>>>>>> proof by any
    means that shows what the answer will be.

    ...

    And part of the issue with trying to talk about these >>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines is that
    they really are a meta-logical paradox, as not only can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> we know the
    behavior of these machines, we can't even know that they >>>>>>>>>>>>>> are in this
    paradoxical class, and thus we can NEVER present one and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> know it is of
    that class, so they are unconstruable, just existant. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i mean if u iterate over the total enumeration of
    machines ... you will
    find them


    For any iteration process? Is there no iteration process >>>>>>>>>>>> that puts those
    machines after an infinitude of the others?


    that wouldn't be a full enumeration, now would it eh??

    a full enumeration must hit all machines within a finite even >>>>>>>>>>> if unbounded time


    Then you admit you can't do what you call a "full
    enumeration", as there ARE an "infinite" number of possible >>>>>>>>>> machines, the cardinality of Turing Machines is Aleph-0, the >>>>>>>>>> Countable Infinity.

    i'm not even sure what ur arguing with ur brainrot here

    YOU said that a "full enumeration" must "hit all machines" in a >>>>>>>> "finite even if unbounded time".

    sorry that should be *any* given machine within a finite if
    unbounded time?

    And, that isn't normally the way to define a "full enumberation", >>>>>> because it can lead to wrong conclusions.

    bro the diagonal proofs for the halting theorem depend on this fact >>>>> as well, there's nothing controversial about my claim there

    Right, which shows that something isn't there, not that all are.

    The problem is you actually NEED to prove that you algorithm WILL
    reach all, not that for any there is an algorithm that reaches it.

    that's like one of the first things turing proved in his paper,

    u thot u said u read it

    Right, HE proved it for his.

    YOU assume for a different enumeration that you also will.

    i could just copy past his method for an enumeration. this is not an interesting point of discussion and i won't comment further

    Nope, because HIS proof is that the claimed enumeration, the enumeration
    of all numbers (ordered by an enumeration of the algorithms making them) doesn't exist.

    For that sort of proof, you don't actually need to prove that it exists,
    or that the enumeration can be created effectively.

    For you to claim something about that enumeration to actually exist, you
    need a stronger proof.

    It seems you don't understand that nature of logic.



    Just because youe arguement looks sort of like his, doesn't mean yours
    works also.

    Also, you seem to be mixing fields, as you keep on refering to the
    "Computable Numbers" paper, which is about a different definition of
    "Computation" then the "Halting Problem"

    But, that difference seems to be beyond you.





    The problem is that with infinite sets, the logical implications
    of ALL and ANY can be different, especially if you let some
    ambiguity get involved.

    Perhaps it would blow your mind to understand that the sum of an
    convergent (countable) infinite series can depend on the order you >>>>>> add up the terms.

    already aware of that

    Ok, then why do you not understand that you need to use effective
    enumerations in your proof? If you don't define the order the
    results can be different.

    we're doing discrete analysis on each machine separately

    Then you admit that you aren't solving for AN algorithm that answers
    for ALL inputs.

    not following on what ur going on about there so i won't comment further

    The "Halting Problem" is about a single algorithm, that can decide for
    all inputs. Not that you can find different algorithms that solve
    different inputs.

    You claim to be able to find some partial recognizer (never wrong, but
    doesn't always answer) to handle all input requires you to actually
    PROVE that fact, and that we can PROVE this machine never gives a wrong answer.

    Your proof fails to do this, because the sort of enumeration that Turing
    used, because it was only used to refute, didn't need to be "effective",
    while yours does.

    And in fact, we can prove that it can't be, because if there WAS an
    effective enumeration that will find your "magic" partial recognizer you
    claim to exist, the "pathological" machine could be built by your method
    that tests itself with all the deciders it generates, and if ANY of them
    give an answer, do the opposite,

    Since that means that decider must have been wrong, and it was presumed
    that it couldn't be, that means that no decider produced by the
    effective enumeration can ever give an answer for this machine.



    Again, you don't seem to understand the nature of the problem you are
    arguing about, and come up with a "partial answer" that you can't show
    to be better than the existing partial answers.

    You need to more clearly DEFINE what you are trying to do, which seems
    to be beyond your understanding.



    Your proofs seem to always begin with the assumption you can create
    an order, but that order isn't actually defined. and thus you can't
    show that you actually can create that enumeration effetively and
    that it will actually reach your "ANY" machine.





    Since the number of machines is not finite, but has the value of >>>>>>>> Aleph-0, the countable infinity, clearly you are saying that you >>>>>>>> can't do what you say.

    You can't enumerate ALL the machines in finite time.

    All you are doing is showing the basic flaws in your logic of >>>>>>>> not understanding basics of the system and logic.



    Yes, you will reach any given machine in a finite time, but >>>>>>>>>> not ALL of them, but not ALL machines.

    This is one of the problems about trying to talk about these >>>>>>>>>> sorts of infinite sets.

    Or even enumerations of them.

    And shows the difference between an "effective enumeration", >>>>>>>>>> which like Turing Computable Numbers, which means we have an >>>>>>>>>> actual algorithm that produces all of them eventually, verse >>>>>>>>>> just an "enumberation" for which we don't have an algorithm >>>>>>>>>> that will be sure to get to all of the members.














    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 18:05:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 5:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 1:45 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/19/26 5:20 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a >>>>>>>>>>>>> classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not >>>>>>>>>>>>> exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think >>>>>>>>>>>> it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of >>>>>>>>>>>> terms

    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which >>>>>>>>>> parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been >>>>>>>>> continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've
    studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof >>>>>>>> is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he
    assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider
    interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.
    Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's >>>>>> obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface
    there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make
    the hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one >>>>>> doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():
    Looks like you still won't answer the question.-a I think it's because

    i answered the question why.

    I didn't ask why.-a I asked what proofs of the theorem in question you
    have studied.-a An answer would be to cite them but the closest you've
    come is to a wikipedia link to a sketch.

    The second part -- do you accept that the conclusion follows logically
    from the premises -- should be answered yes or no.-a Had you answered no,
    we could examine what steps you reject.-a The result would be either
    you'd learn something or you would get a good paper out of it by
    pointing out a logical error in a published proof.

    Anyway, no answer is likely to come so that's the end of that.

    it doesn't sit right with me that we can fully
    analyze the hypothetical machines that are the supposed proof that such
    analysis is not totally possible

    Obviously.-a But since this is not what the theorem says it's just your
    rhetorical spin to keep the chat going.

    this "problem" is a merely a reflection of a bad specification/interface >>> that doesn't handle all possible input situations, not a proof against
    general analysis and how that might *actually* manifest with
    self-referential computing (like TMs). clearly it's not a simple
    true/false
    interface, but u haven't proven other interfaces impossible...

    it is also only a limitation that applies to turing machines (and
    equivalent paradigms), due to their ability to generate such
    self-references,

    it doesn't even necessarily apply to our own analytical capabilities
    ... because u haven't actually proven that the ct-thesis true, which is
    what would be necessary to prove that TMs are actually capable of all
    types
    of computations

    if an aging lame duck academic doesn't want to heed my words in the
    slightest, that's fine. how many lame ducks i will need to sift thru
    until
    i find one that still has half a brain still functioning,

    I'm flattered because I know you get your validation from insulting
    people whose skill and knowledge you secretly respect, but it's all
    getting a bit thin for me.

    So what is your plan?-a Are you going to keep posting this stuff as long
    as someone you value replies?-a Are you aiming to beat Olcott's record of
    22 years posting the same nonsense?-a Think about that -- more than two
    decades wasted and all he has to show for it is a gazillion posts no one
    will remember.

    Every crank I've seen here always rejects the usual way forward which is

    i will write up a paper once my ideas are fleshed out enough, and they aren't yet,

    i'm not going to write a paper any sooner than i feel like just cause
    some twat on the internet declares "now" is the right time,

    to write up their ideas as a paper that will mean the real expects will
    see it.-a I wonder what your excuse will be.-a I suspect you will go for
    the "all the editors and reviewers are just as dumb, so what's the
    point?" excuse.

    But that does raise the question: what's the point mate?

    correct, there is no point is discussing with u

    u cut out my ideas arbitrarily and prefer to just talk about nonsense
    red herrings to satisfy ur sense of superiority rather than actually
    have a discussion on the ideas i'm *trying* to explore

    i don't know how yet they relate to various traditional proofs, besides turing's original paper /on computable numbers/, nor am i particularly interested in that relation at present. ur not leading any exploration
    on these idea: i am

    Which, since it is not related to the concept of halting, isn't actually
    a good basis.



    u clearly have no actual interest in helping, ur intention here is just
    some bizarre sanity check on yourself

    so fuck off mate, we're done here eh???


    Perhaps the problem is you have no interest in being helped.

    Perhaps because you have no interest in your "proof" being actually
    based on logic.

    Perhaps because it would force you to actual learn something about what
    you want to talk about, as opposed to, as you admit you haven't actually figured out how anything relates to what you want to talk about.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 16:13:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 3:05 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 5:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 1:45 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/19/26 5:20 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not >>>>>>>>>>>>>> exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think >>>>>>>>>>>>> it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of >>>>>>>>>>>>> terms

    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and >>>>>>>>>>> which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces >>>>>>>>>> with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been >>>>>>>>>> continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've >>>>>>>>> studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof >>>>>>>>> is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he
    assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider
    interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making. >>>>>>> Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's >>>>>>> obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface >>>>>>> there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make >>>>>>> the hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one >>>>>>> doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():
    Looks like you still won't answer the question.-a I think it's because >>>>
    i answered the question why.

    I didn't ask why.-a I asked what proofs of the theorem in question you
    have studied.-a An answer would be to cite them but the closest you've
    come is to a wikipedia link to a sketch.

    The second part -- do you accept that the conclusion follows logically
    from the premises -- should be answered yes or no.-a Had you answered no, >>> we could examine what steps you reject.-a The result would be either
    you'd learn something or you would get a good paper out of it by
    pointing out a logical error in a published proof.

    Anyway, no answer is likely to come so that's the end of that.

    it doesn't sit right with me that we can fully
    analyze the hypothetical machines that are the supposed proof that such >>>> analysis is not totally possible

    Obviously.-a But since this is not what the theorem says it's just your
    rhetorical spin to keep the chat going.

    this "problem" is a merely a reflection of a bad specification/
    interface
    that doesn't handle all possible input situations, not a proof against >>>> general analysis and how that might *actually* manifest with
    self-referential computing (like TMs). clearly it's not a simple
    true/false
    interface, but u haven't proven other interfaces impossible...

    it is also only a limitation that applies to turing machines (and
    equivalent paradigms), due to their ability to generate such
    self-references,

    it doesn't even necessarily apply to our own analytical capabilities
    ... because u haven't actually proven that the ct-thesis true, which is >>>> what would be necessary to prove that TMs are actually capable of
    all types
    of computations

    if an aging lame duck academic doesn't want to heed my words in the
    slightest, that's fine. how many lame ducks i will need to sift thru
    until
    i find one that still has half a brain still functioning,

    I'm flattered because I know you get your validation from insulting
    people whose skill and knowledge you secretly respect, but it's all
    getting a bit thin for me.

    So what is your plan?-a Are you going to keep posting this stuff as long >>> as someone you value replies?-a Are you aiming to beat Olcott's record of >>> 22 years posting the same nonsense?-a Think about that -- more than two
    decades wasted and all he has to show for it is a gazillion posts no one >>> will remember.

    Every crank I've seen here always rejects the usual way forward which is

    i will write up a paper once my ideas are fleshed out enough, and they
    aren't yet,

    i'm not going to write a paper any sooner than i feel like just cause
    some twat on the internet declares "now" is the right time,

    to write up their ideas as a paper that will mean the real expects will
    see it.-a I wonder what your excuse will be.-a I suspect you will go for >>> the "all the editors and reviewers are just as dumb, so what's the
    point?" excuse.

    But that does raise the question: what's the point mate?

    correct, there is no point is discussing with u

    u cut out my ideas arbitrarily and prefer to just talk about nonsense
    red herrings to satisfy ur sense of superiority rather than actually
    have a discussion on the ideas i'm *trying* to explore

    i don't know how yet they relate to various traditional proofs,
    besides turing's original paper /on computable numbers/, nor am i
    particularly interested in that relation at present. ur not leading
    any exploration on these idea: i am

    Which, since it is not related to the concept of halting, isn't actually
    a good basis.



    u clearly have no actual interest in helping, ur intention here is
    just some bizarre sanity check on yourself

    so fuck off mate, we're done here eh???


    Perhaps the problem is you have no interest in being helped.

    in order to help me u'd have to put work into understanding what i'm
    trying to express, which ur barely putting any effort into

    i'm not supposed to be expert here, i'm not supposed to have to come
    "up" to ur level to be helped, u need to somehow reach "down" to my level

    another reason why academia is so damn broken these days: u mistake gate keeping ur superiority complex with helpfulness


    Perhaps because you have no interest in your "proof" being actually
    based on logic.

    Perhaps because it would force you to actual learn something about what
    you want to talk about, as opposed to, as you admit you haven't actually figured out how anything relates to what you want to talk about.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 19:39:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 7:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 3:05 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/20/26 5:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 1:45 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/19/26 5:20 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think >>>>>>>>>>>>>> it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of >>>>>>>>>>>>>> terms

    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and >>>>>>>>>>>> which parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces >>>>>>>>>>> with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been >>>>>>>>>>> continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've >>>>>>>>>> studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof >>>>>>>>>> is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he
    assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider >>>>>>>>> interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making. >>>>>>>> Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's >>>>>>>> obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface >>>>>>>> there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make >>>>>>>> the hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one >>>>>>>> doubts that other classifications can be made.
    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():
    Looks like you still won't answer the question.-a I think it's because >>>>>
    i answered the question why.

    I didn't ask why.-a I asked what proofs of the theorem in question you >>>> have studied.-a An answer would be to cite them but the closest you've >>>> come is to a wikipedia link to a sketch.

    The second part -- do you accept that the conclusion follows logically >>>> from the premises -- should be answered yes or no.-a Had you answered >>>> no,
    we could examine what steps you reject.-a The result would be either
    you'd learn something or you would get a good paper out of it by
    pointing out a logical error in a published proof.

    Anyway, no answer is likely to come so that's the end of that.

    it doesn't sit right with me that we can fully
    analyze the hypothetical machines that are the supposed proof that
    such
    analysis is not totally possible

    Obviously.-a But since this is not what the theorem says it's just your >>>> rhetorical spin to keep the chat going.

    this "problem" is a merely a reflection of a bad specification/
    interface
    that doesn't handle all possible input situations, not a proof against >>>>> general analysis and how that might *actually* manifest with
    self-referential computing (like TMs). clearly it's not a simple
    true/false
    interface, but u haven't proven other interfaces impossible...

    it is also only a limitation that applies to turing machines (and
    equivalent paradigms), due to their ability to generate such
    self-references,

    it doesn't even necessarily apply to our own analytical capabilities >>>>> ... because u haven't actually proven that the ct-thesis true,
    which is
    what would be necessary to prove that TMs are actually capable of
    all types
    of computations

    if an aging lame duck academic doesn't want to heed my words in the
    slightest, that's fine. how many lame ducks i will need to sift
    thru until
    i find one that still has half a brain still functioning,

    I'm flattered because I know you get your validation from insulting
    people whose skill and knowledge you secretly respect, but it's all
    getting a bit thin for me.

    So what is your plan?-a Are you going to keep posting this stuff as long >>>> as someone you value replies?-a Are you aiming to beat Olcott's
    record of
    22 years posting the same nonsense?-a Think about that -- more than two >>>> decades wasted and all he has to show for it is a gazillion posts no
    one
    will remember.

    Every crank I've seen here always rejects the usual way forward
    which is

    i will write up a paper once my ideas are fleshed out enough, and
    they aren't yet,

    i'm not going to write a paper any sooner than i feel like just cause
    some twat on the internet declares "now" is the right time,

    to write up their ideas as a paper that will mean the real expects will >>>> see it.-a I wonder what your excuse will be.-a I suspect you will go for >>>> the "all the editors and reviewers are just as dumb, so what's the
    point?" excuse.

    But that does raise the question: what's the point mate?

    correct, there is no point is discussing with u

    u cut out my ideas arbitrarily and prefer to just talk about nonsense
    red herrings to satisfy ur sense of superiority rather than actually
    have a discussion on the ideas i'm *trying* to explore

    i don't know how yet they relate to various traditional proofs,
    besides turing's original paper /on computable numbers/, nor am i
    particularly interested in that relation at present. ur not leading
    any exploration on these idea: i am

    Which, since it is not related to the concept of halting, isn't
    actually a good basis.



    u clearly have no actual interest in helping, ur intention here is
    just some bizarre sanity check on yourself

    so fuck off mate, we're done here eh???


    Perhaps the problem is you have no interest in being helped.

    in order to help me u'd have to put work into understanding what i'm
    trying to express, which ur barely putting any effort into

    And it is YOUR job to make the effort to actually expalin what you are
    trying to do, and to attempt to learn enough to be able to express it.

    Unless you are willing to pay a proper tuition for private instruction,
    we are not under any obligation to make a special effort to help you.


    i'm not supposed to be expert here, i'm not supposed to have to come
    "up" to ur level to be helped, u need to somehow reach "down" to my level

    Then stop complaining when it is pointed out that you are just wrong.

    You like to claim that you must know more than we do, since you have an
    idea we can't understand.

    I guess in your world ignorance is bliss and is a mark of intelegence.

    If you change your attitude and actually seek to LEARN the basics that
    you are currently ignorant of, you might find that you can actually
    learn something.


    another reason why academia is so damn broken these days: u mistake gate keeping ur superiority complex with helpfulness

    No, it is idiots like you that think they know something when they
    actually don't that is the problem.

    THOSE are the people that say that because Halting is proving unsolvable
    for the general case, we shouldn't try to see what we can know for this specific case.



    Perhaps because you have no interest in your "proof" being actually
    based on logic.

    Perhaps because it would force you to actual learn something about
    what you want to talk about, as opposed to, as you admit you haven't
    actually figured out how anything relates to what you want to talk about.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 21:59:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/19/2026 12:39 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic >>>>>>>>> decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not
    exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that
    implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it >>>>>>>> matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which
    parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with
    algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've studied and >>>> you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof is an
    argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.

    Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make the hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.

    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine
    what this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then und() loops forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?


    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that
    specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a relationship
    that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just hubris Efn+)


    Every year this would come up in class.-a Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry!-a I leave it as an
    exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of ur students have ever suggested:

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-paradoxical machine that computes the same function. if can one can detect that a paradox exists within a machine for a particular classifier (like a functional eq classifier), then we can safely ignore the machine as redundant, adding any that don't into a totally decidable yet turing complete subset of machines

    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/ to
    a paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /undecidable input/

    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you yet),
    in order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of lying
    about context


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on
    computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting theorem.-a No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist.
    The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing.-a It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm exists that solves the halting problem for all possible programrCoinput pairs/


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption

    What is the "it" that has never been proven?-a Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that
    disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs and
    if ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it wasn't
    phrased that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna call u a
    turd shirking responsibility


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the

    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first
    paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most correct
    model to be using? idk

    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say
    if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their
    premises.-a You seem determined to avoid this question.-a Is it because
    you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of resolutions
    i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited time atm, i'm
    avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that may or may not be meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate any depth of
    interest in what i'm trying to express

    heck just getting the concept of /undecidable input/ across, that ur
    still acting butthurt about, was hard enough disillusion me about the capabilities of whoever the fuck i'm really talking to right now


    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true.

    The Church-Turing thesis is clearly not the kind of thing that is
    provable.-a That's why it's not called a conjecture.-a But if you have in
    mind a model of computation that can't be simulated by TMs but could

    there's a lot we'd have a to discuss before i could bring why i think
    that might be true ...

    pass the bar of being considered "effective" then you must stop posting
    here and publish right away.-a A belief, however, is not worth much
    without a concrete model.

    [...]
    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my arguments,
    it's
    been a waste of time for me so far

    You might want to bear that in mind before clicking "reply...".


    i don't fault myself when others say nothing particularly inspiring


    https://youtu.be/yc-blFymxSY?list=RD51yVxGvsqiE
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 22:48:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 9:59 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/19/2026 12:39 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a classic >>>>>>>>>> decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not >>>>>>>>>> exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that
    implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it >>>>>>>>> matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which >>>>>>> parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've studied and >>>>> you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof is an >>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions, >>>>> so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface
    implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.

    Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there
    will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make the hard >>> yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.

    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine
    what this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then
    und() loops forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?


    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that
    specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a
    relationship that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just hubris
    Efn+)


    Every year this would come up in class.-a Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry!-a I leave it as an
    exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of
    ur students have ever suggested:

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-paradoxical
    machine that computes the same function. if can one can detect that a
    paradox exists within a machine for a particular classifier (like a
    functional eq classifier), then we can safely ignore the machine as
    redundant, adding any that don't into a totally decidable yet turing
    complete subset of machines

    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/
    to a paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /
    undecidable input/

    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you yet),
    in order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of lying
    about context


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on
    computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting theorem.-a No >>> one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist.
    The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing.-a It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm
    exists that solves the halting problem for all possible programrCoinput
    pairs/


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption

    What is the "it" that has never been proven?-a Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that
    disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs
    and if ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it wasn't
    phrased that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna call u a
    turd shirking responsibility


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the >>>>
    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first >>>> paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most correct >>>> model to be using? idk

    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say
    if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their
    premises.-a You seem determined to avoid this question.-a Is it because
    you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of
    resolutions i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited time
    atm, i'm avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that may or
    may not be meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate any
    depth of interest in what i'm trying to express

    heck just getting the concept of /undecidable input/ across, that ur
    still acting butthurt about, was hard enough disillusion me about the
    capabilities of whoever the fuck i'm really talking to right now


    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true.

    The Church-Turing thesis is clearly not the kind of thing that is
    provable.-a That's why it's not called a conjecture.-a But if you have in >>> mind a model of computation that can't be simulated by TMs but could

    there's a lot we'd have a to discuss before i could bring why i think
    that might be true ...

    pass the bar of being considered "effective" then you must stop posting
    here and publish right away.-a A belief, however, is not worth much
    without a concrete model.

    [...]
    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my arguments,
    it's
    been a waste of time for me so far

    You might want to bear that in mind before clicking "reply...".


    i don't fault myself when others say nothing particularly inspiring


    https://youtu.be/yc-blFymxSY?list=RD51yVxGvsqiE

    bruh, move on up

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01JsFSeFC3U
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 20 23:21:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever be
    any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 02:49:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/2026 10:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 9:59 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/19/2026 12:39 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a
    classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not >>>>>>>>>>> exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it >>>>>>>>>> matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which >>>>>>>> parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've studied >>>>>> and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof is an >>>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions, >>>>>> so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface >>>>> implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.

    Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there >>>> will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make the
    hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.

    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine
    what this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then
    und() loops forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?


    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that >>>>> specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a
    relationship that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just
    hubris Efn+)


    Every year this would come up in class.-a Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry!-a I leave it as an >>>> exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of
    ur students have ever suggested:

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-
    paradoxical machine that computes the same function. if can one can
    detect that a paradox exists within a machine for a particular
    classifier (like a functional eq classifier), then we can safely
    ignore the machine as redundant, adding any that don't into a totally
    decidable yet turing complete subset of machines

    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/
    to a paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /
    undecidable input/

    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you
    yet), in order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of
    lying about context


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on >>>>> computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting
    theorem.-a No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist. >>>> The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing.-a It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general
    algorithm exists that solves the halting problem for all possible
    programrCoinput pairs/


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption

    What is the "it" that has never been proven?-a Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that >>>> disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs
    and if ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it
    wasn't phrased that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna
    call u a turd shirking responsibility


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the >>>>>
    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first >>>>> paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most
    correct
    model to be using? idk

    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say >>>> if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their >>>> premises.-a You seem determined to avoid this question.-a Is it because >>>> you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of
    resolutions i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited
    time atm, i'm avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that
    may or may not be meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate
    any depth of interest in what i'm trying to express

    heck just getting the concept of /undecidable input/ across, that ur
    still acting butthurt about, was hard enough disillusion me about the
    capabilities of whoever the fuck i'm really talking to right now


    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true.

    The Church-Turing thesis is clearly not the kind of thing that is
    provable.-a That's why it's not called a conjecture.-a But if you have in >>>> mind a model of computation that can't be simulated by TMs but could

    there's a lot we'd have a to discuss before i could bring why i think
    that might be true ...

    pass the bar of being considered "effective" then you must stop posting >>>> here and publish right away.-a A belief, however, is not worth much
    without a concrete model.

    [...]
    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my
    arguments, it's
    been a waste of time for me so far

    You might want to bear that in mind before clicking "reply...".


    i don't fault myself when others say nothing particularly inspiring


    https://youtu.be/yc-blFymxSY?list=RD51yVxGvsqiE

    bruh, move on up

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01JsFSeFC3U


    Excellent! :^D
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 02:51:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/2026 2:49 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/20/2026 10:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 9:59 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/19/2026 12:39 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a >>>>>>>>>>>> classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not >>>>>>>>>>>> exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think >>>>>>>>>>> it matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which >>>>>>>>> parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been >>>>>>>> continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've
    studied and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof is an >>>>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he
    assumptions,
    so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface >>>>>> implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.

    Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's >>>>> obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there >>>>> will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make the >>>>> hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.

    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine
    what this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then
    und() loops forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?


    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that >>>>>> specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a
    relationship that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just
    hubris Efn+)


    Every year this would come up in class.-a Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry!-a I leave it as an >>>>> exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none
    of ur students have ever suggested:

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable >>>>
    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-
    paradoxical machine that computes the same function. if can one can
    detect that a paradox exists within a machine for a particular
    classifier (like a functional eq classifier), then we can safely
    ignore the machine as redundant, adding any that don't into a
    totally decidable yet turing complete subset of machines

    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/
    to a paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /
    undecidable input/

    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you
    yet), in order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of
    lying about context


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on >>>>>> computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting
    theorem.-a No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't
    exist.
    The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing.-a It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather >>>>> than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general
    algorithm exists that solves the halting problem for all possible
    programrCoinput pairs/


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption

    What is the "it" that has never been proven?-a Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that >>>>> disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of >>>>> general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs
    and if ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it
    wasn't phrased that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna
    call u a turd shirking responsibility


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of >>>>>>> the

    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's
    first
    paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most
    correct
    model to be using? idk

    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say >>>>> if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from
    their
    premises.-a You seem determined to avoid this question.-a Is it because >>>>> you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of
    resolutions i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited
    time atm, i'm avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that
    may or may not be meaningful, from someone who has yet to
    demonstrate any depth of interest in what i'm trying to express

    heck just getting the concept of /undecidable input/ across, that ur
    still acting butthurt about, was hard enough disillusion me about
    the capabilities of whoever the fuck i'm really talking to right now


    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true. >>>>>
    The Church-Turing thesis is clearly not the kind of thing that is
    provable.-a That's why it's not called a conjecture.-a But if you
    have in
    mind a model of computation that can't be simulated by TMs but could

    there's a lot we'd have a to discuss before i could bring why i
    think that might be true ...

    pass the bar of being considered "effective" then you must stop
    posting
    here and publish right away.-a A belief, however, is not worth much
    without a concrete model.

    [...]
    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my
    arguments, it's
    been a waste of time for me so far

    You might want to bear that in mind before clicking "reply...".


    i don't fault myself when others say nothing particularly inspiring


    https://youtu.be/yc-blFymxSY?list=RD51yVxGvsqiE

    bruh, move on up

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01JsFSeFC3U


    Excellent! :^D

    this a pretty cool demo scene...

    https://youtu.be/SIxi2uqFVmc?list=RDSIxi2uqFVmc
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 02:55:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/20/2026 10:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 9:59 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/19/2026 12:39 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/18/26 6:17 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/18/26 5:48 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/17/26 4:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/16/26 4:44 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
    [...]
    i accept: there is no turing machine that implements a
    classic decider
    interface, so a machine that is undecidable to it does not >>>>>>>>>>> exist, as
    constructing such a machine would require a machine that >>>>>>>>>>> implements the
    classic decider interface
    There's some private made up terms there, but I don't think it >>>>>>>>>> matters.
    You accept the classical halting theorem.-a Your odd use of terms >>>>>>>>>
    i don't even entirely,
    Sorry I misunderstood.-a What proofs have you studied and which >>>>>>>> parts are
    you having trouble with?

    there is nothing proving the false equivocation of interfaces with >>>>>>> algorithms, that's just an unjustified assumption that's been
    continually
    made
    Talk about equivocation!-a You won't say what proofs you've studied >>>>>> and
    you won't state clearly if you accept them.-a Remember, a proof is an >>>>>> argument that the conclusion is logically entailed by he assumptions, >>>>>> so you can accept a proof whose assumptions you reject.

    i reject the assumption that disproving the classic decider interface >>>>> implies the non-existence of general algos for decision making.

    Of course.-a I don't know why you think you need to say this.-a It's
    obvious that if you don't stick to the classic decider interface there >>>> will be algorithms for making related decisions.-a None can make the
    hard
    yes/no decision required by the classic halting problem, but no one
    doubts that other classifications can be made.

    I remain curious, though, why you won't answer the question.

    consider und():

    und = () -> if (halts(und)) loop()

    it doesn't sit right me to claim we cannot algorithmically determine
    what this does, when we clearly know that if halts(und)->TRUE then
    und() loops forever, but if halts(und)->FALSE then und() halts.

    like ur using that argument to then claim we cannot algorithmically
    determine what this does ... *right after doing that very type of
    algorithmic analysis on both possible execution paths*

    how do we even do that if such analysis is not possible?


    the general
    algo exists and can be formed into a variety of other interfaces that >>>>> specify how to /undecidable input/ ought to be handled

    Provided you don't claim to be able to detect, algorithmically, all
    those infinity of inputs that encode machines that behave like the
    examples you have called (incorrectly) "undecidable inputs" then of
    course you are right.

    (calling me "incorrect" about a label i came up with for a
    relationship that has yet to truly be studied at depth, is just
    hubris Efn+)


    Every year this would come up in class.-a Just classify the "tricky
    inputs" as something else and you are home and dry!-a I leave it as an >>>> exercise to other readers to see why this is (a) impossible and (b)
    pointless.

    there are two methods of exploration i've been pursuing, that none of
    ur students have ever suggested:

    A) filtering the paradoxical machines using partial recognizers, to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that is totally decidable

    for every paradoxical machines u can craft: there is a non-
    paradoxical machine that computes the same function. if can one can
    detect that a paradox exists within a machine for a particular
    classifier (like a functional eq classifier), then we can safely
    ignore the machine as redundant, adding any that don't into a totally
    decidable yet turing complete subset of machines

    despite what you may think: you can't produce an /undecidable input/
    to a paradox decider ... any attempt to do so would still be /
    undecidable input/

    B) extending TMs with reflection (which i haven't defined to you
    yet), in order to morph the problem of 'undecidable input' to one of
    lying about context


    that assumption is was first made (afaik) on turing's first paper on >>>>> computable numbers, and i'm questioning it

    No, that assumption in not made in any proof of the halting
    theorem.-a No
    one assumes that other "general algos for decision making" don't exist. >>>> The theorems assume some basic axioms about sets, define a halting
    decider TM and then show that no TM behaves like such a thing.-a It
    sounds more like to reject the definition of a halting decider rather
    than any assumptions the proofs make.

    great, that's nice

    while everyone else treats it like this means a general aglo doesn't
    exist. heck even wikipedia phrases it like that:

    /The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general
    algorithm exists that solves the halting problem for all possible
    programrCoinput pairs/


    it's never been proven, u just keep assuming the equivocation in
    conversation and are unable to talk without it's assumption

    What is the "it" that has never been proven?-a Assumptions are
    assumed, not proven, but the assumption you gave: "the assumption that >>>> disproving the classic decider interface implies the non-existence of
    general algos for decision making" is never made in any proof.

    it's only the general philosophy that's blossomed from those proofs
    and if ur gunna try to wash ur hands of that shit just cause it
    wasn't phrased that way specifically in a proof, then i'm just gunna
    call u a turd shirking responsibility


    If we could just get your acceptance of at least one proof out of the >>>>>
    i'm questioning the fundimentals of computing as far as turing's first >>>>> paper on computable numbers. are turing machine's even the most
    correct
    model to be using? idk

    But you don't seem to have studied any of the proofs and you won't say >>>> if you accept any of them as logical conclusions that follow from their >>>> premises.-a You seem determined to avoid this question.-a Is it because >>>> you have not studied any of the proofs in detail?

    unless have a proof that is directly related to the kinds of
    resolutions i'm actively pursuing, i don't see that in my limited
    time atm, i'm avaiable to venture down random-ass red herrings that
    may or may not be meaningful, from someone who has yet to demonstrate
    any depth of interest in what i'm trying to express

    heck just getting the concept of /undecidable input/ across, that ur
    still acting butthurt about, was hard enough disillusion me about the
    capabilities of whoever the fuck i'm really talking to right now


    we've never proven the ct-thesis, i don't even believe that's true.

    The Church-Turing thesis is clearly not the kind of thing that is
    provable.-a That's why it's not called a conjecture.-a But if you have in >>>> mind a model of computation that can't be simulated by TMs but could

    there's a lot we'd have a to discuss before i could bring why i think
    that might be true ...

    pass the bar of being considered "effective" then you must stop posting >>>> here and publish right away.-a A belief, however, is not worth much
    without a concrete model.

    [...]
    u haven't inspired any further evolution/innovation in my
    arguments, it's
    been a waste of time for me so far

    You might want to bear that in mind before clicking "reply...".


    i don't fault myself when others say nothing particularly inspiring


    https://youtu.be/yc-blFymxSY?list=RD51yVxGvsqiE

    bruh, move on up

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01JsFSeFC3U


    Another kick ass demoscene:


    Gaia Machina - Approximate | 64k Revision 2012 | Final (4k res)

    https://youtu.be/wir8sSDfW5Q?list=RDwir8sSDfW5Q
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.messianic on Sat Feb 21 03:19:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/6/2026 6:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
    my proposal starts with the reminder that *no* machine computes a unique function. for every function that is computed, there is a whole
    (infinite) class of machines that are functionally equivalent (same
    input -> same output behavior).
    [...]

    Are you the person in the follow video:

    (Folamour - Freedom (Official Music Video)) https://youtu.be/fy8kMOqT49M?list=RDwir8sSDfW5Q

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 07:03:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever be
    any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.


    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking about.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 09:41:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever
    be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 12:32:57 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever
    be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being
    undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you
    see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?



    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 13:03:36 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being
    undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you
    see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to really care
    much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like



    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that cound

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 18:26:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever
    be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being
    undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you
    see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually is.

    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people, who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad decisions
    because they assume they can't get some information out of looking at a system.

    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away from
    the dangerous tools.

    Of course, this just shows your own problems.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 18:32:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems
    being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you
    see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to really care
    much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the first
    step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the real nature of
    the problem and see what people have actually done.

    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you never
    learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really




    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 19:28:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being
    undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you
    see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot


    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people, who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad decisions
    because they assume they can't get some information out of looking at a system.

    they assume???

    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking abject
    retards they are

    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit


    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away from
    the dangerous tools.

    Of course, this just shows your own problems.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 19:29:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems
    being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you >>>>> see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking >>>>> about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to really
    care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally willful
    ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the first
    step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the real nature of
    the problem and see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck


    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you never
    learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really




    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 21 21:13:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems
    being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you
    see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot


    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people,
    who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad decisions
    because they assume they can't get some information out of looking at
    a system.

    they assume???

    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking abject retards they are

    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit


    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away from
    the dangerous tools.

    i'm sorry are you arguing good tools like semantic verification is a *dangerous* tool???

    like holy fuck this is LLM grade stupidity,

    what in the fuck, how in the fuck can anyone argue that correctness verification is to be dangerous???

    like what???


    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    CAN I HAVE EVEN AN OUNCE OF FUCKING RATIONALITY OUT OF U DICK???
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 07:03:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 12:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems
    being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you >>>>> see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking >>>>> about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot


    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people,
    who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad
    decisions because they assume they can't get some information out of
    looking at a system.

    they assume???

    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking abject
    retards they are

    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this
    group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit


    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away from
    the dangerous tools.

    i'm sorry are you arguing good tools like semantic verification is a *dangerous* tool???

    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into
    critical systems.


    like holy fuck this is LLM grade stupidity,

    what in the fuck, how in the fuck can anyone argue that correctness verification is to be dangerous???

    I'm not. What is dangerous is to give up on verification because it
    can't be perfect.

    As the saying goes, The quest for Perfection is the enemy of the Good
    Enough.


    like what???


    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    CAN I HAVE EVEN AN OUNCE OF FUCKING RATIONALITY OUT OF U DICK???


    Since it seems you don't know what I am talking about, maybe not, since
    it goes right over your head.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 07:04:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to >>>>>>> ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem
    you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to really
    care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally
    willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the first
    step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the real nature
    of the problem and see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be effective.



    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you never
    learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really







    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 07:04:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/21/26 10:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems
    being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you
    see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot

    No, you can't, as your explaimation is based on made-up definitions for
    words that you can't actually define.



    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people,
    who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad decisions
    because they assume they can't get some information out of looking at
    a system.

    they assume???





    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking abject retards they are

    No, they don't. I guess your problem is you listen to liars and not the academics.

    The "academics" say we can't solve the whole problem, but show how we
    can get the answer for many.

    The IDIOTS, like you, that can't tell the difference between handling
    ALL problems, vs possibly being able to handle the one in front of you,
    is the problem.

    You are stuck in the centery old error of running in circles looking for
    the golden ticket to solve everything, rather than seeing how good you
    can actually get.



    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit

    The "honesty" problem is on your end.

    You just don't know what you are talking about.



    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away from
    the dangerous tools.

    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 09:02:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to >>>>>>> ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem
    you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually
    is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot


    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people,
    who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad
    decisions because they assume they can't get some information out of
    looking at a system.

    they assume???

    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking abject
    retards they are

    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this
    group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit


    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away
    from the dangerous tools.

    i'm sorry are you arguing good tools like semantic verification is a
    *dangerous* tool???

    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into
    critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no
    general semantic verification tools are in sight...



    like holy fuck this is LLM grade stupidity,

    what in the fuck, how in the fuck can anyone argue that correctness
    verification is to be dangerous???

    I'm not. What is dangerous is to give up on verification because it
    can't be perfect.

    what??? THAT'S WHAT WE DID...


    As the saying goes, The quest for Perfection is the enemy of the Good Enough.


    like what???


    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    CAN I HAVE EVEN AN OUNCE OF FUCKING RATIONALITY OUT OF U DICK???


    Since it seems you don't know what I am talking about, maybe not, since
    it goes right over your head.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 09:04:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to >>>>>>>> ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you >>>>>>> are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to really
    care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally
    willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the first
    step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the real nature
    of the problem and see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be
    effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you never
    learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really







    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 09:06:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to
    ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems
    being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem you >>>>> see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are talking >>>>> about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot

    No, you can't, as your explaimation is based on made-up definitions for words that you can't actually define.



    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people,
    who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad
    decisions because they assume they can't get some information out of
    looking at a system.

    they assume???


    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking abject
    retards they are

    No, they don't. I guess your problem is you listen to liars and not the academics.

    The "academics" say we can't solve the whole problem, but show how we
    can get the answer for many.

    fucking words on the the fucking screen don't matter when the fucking
    actions are that we *DON'T DO SEMANTIC VERIFICATION IN A GENERAL MANNER*
    u stupid cunt

    ur just as fucking delusional as the retarded lame duck academics
    infesting cs


    The IDIOTS, like you, that can't tell the difference between handling
    ALL problems, vs possibly being able to handle the one in front of you,
    is the problem.

    You are stuck in the centery old error of running in circles looking for
    the golden ticket to solve everything, rather than seeing how good you
    can actually get.


    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this
    group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit

    The "honesty" problem is on your end.

    You just don't know what you are talking about.



    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away from
    the dangerous tools.

    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 12:49:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters >>>>>>>>> to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you >>>>>>>> are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of
    problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a
    pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to really
    care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally
    willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the first
    step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the real
    nature of the problem and see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be
    effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think
    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to implement
    your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you never
    learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really










    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 12:52:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/2026 9:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]

    Actually, you are not worth conversing with. Olcott 2.0 (special
    version). Whatever.

    Plonk.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 13:08:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters >>>>>>>>>> to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say >>>>>>>>> you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of >>>>>>>>> problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a
    pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to really >>>>>> care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally
    willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the
    first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the
    real nature of the problem and see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be
    effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on turing's
    original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to implement
    your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you never
    learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant. >>>>>



    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really










    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 13:10:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 12:52 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]

    Actually, you are not worth conversing with. Olcott 2.0 (special
    version). Whatever.

    Plonk.

    lol, shitposter who doesn't know what an enumeration is can't stand
    words on a screen...

    thanks for saving me from having to read ur abject stupidity
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 22:00:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters >>>>>>>>>>> to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say >>>>>>>>>> you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of >>>>>>>>>> problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a
    pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the
    problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to
    really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally
    willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the
    first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the
    real nature of the problem and see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck >>>>
    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be
    effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of machines,
    just that an enumeration exists.

    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but of
    all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that machine never generates enough numbers.


    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to implement
    your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you never >>>>>> learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant. >>>>>>



    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really













    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 22:00:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 12:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to >>>>>>>> ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you >>>>>>> are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem
    actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot


    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb
    people, who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make
    bad decisions because they assume they can't get some information
    out of looking at a system.

    they assume???

    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking
    abject retards they are

    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this
    group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit


    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away
    from the dangerous tools.

    i'm sorry are you arguing good tools like semantic verification is a
    *dangerous* tool???

    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into
    critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no
    general semantic verification tools are in sight...

    And THAT is the dangerous stuff.

    It seems your arguement is that people shouldn't have such tools.




    like holy fuck this is LLM grade stupidity,

    what in the fuck, how in the fuck can anyone argue that correctness
    verification is to be dangerous???

    I'm not. What is dangerous is to give up on verification because it
    can't be perfect.

    what??? THAT'S WHAT WE DID...

    Only the stupid ones.

    I guess you are just showing that you fell for the stupid lie created by
    the stupid programmers.

    Good programmers still present a good argument on why their code should
    do what it is supposed to do during the code review.

    I guess you are so ignorant you believe that you can just skip all of
    that stuff.



    As the saying goes, The quest for Perfection is the enemy of the Good
    Enough.


    like what???


    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    CAN I HAVE EVEN AN OUNCE OF FUCKING RATIONALITY OUT OF U DICK???


    Since it seems you don't know what I am talking about, maybe not,
    since it goes right over your head.



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 22:00:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 12:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to >>>>>>> ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you
    are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem
    you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem actually
    is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot

    No, you can't, as your explaimation is based on made-up definitions
    for words that you can't actually define.



    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb people,
    who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make bad
    decisions because they assume they can't get some information out of
    looking at a system.

    they assume???


    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking abject
    retards they are

    No, they don't. I guess your problem is you listen to liars and not
    the academics.

    The "academics" say we can't solve the whole problem, but show how we
    can get the answer for many.

    fucking words on the the fucking screen don't matter when the fucking actions are that we *DON'T DO SEMANTIC VERIFICATION IN A GENERAL MANNER*
    u stupid cunt

    Because we CAN'T.


    ur just as fucking delusional as the retarded lame duck academics
    infesting cs


    Nope, it seems you are the stupid one putting forward that the only
    solution is the completely general solution, and we can't do anything
    right until we can do it your way, so we can never do anything right.

    Smarter people understand the limitiations of formal proof, and reserve
    it for cases where it really is that important, but works to make things
    "good enough".


    The IDIOTS, like you, that can't tell the difference between handling
    ALL problems, vs possibly being able to handle the one in front of
    you, is the problem.

    You are stuck in the centery old error of running in circles looking
    for the golden ticket to solve everything, rather than seeing how good
    you can actually get.


    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this
    group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit

    The "honesty" problem is on your end.

    You just don't know what you are talking about.



    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away
    from the dangerous tools.

    Of course, this just shows your own problems.





    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 20:14:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer
    shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say >>>>>>>>>>> you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of >>>>>>>>>>> problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to
    really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally >>>>>>>> willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the
    first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as >>>>>> fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be
    effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh


    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of machines,
    just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words together
    opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely understand

    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to be contrarian


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but of
    all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all machines
    testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal
    or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as described on
    p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause honestly u
    understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've
    fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs



    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to implement
    your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you
    never learned how to learn, and thus made your self fundamentally >>>>>>> ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really













    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 20:17:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters >>>>>>>>> to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you >>>>>>>> are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of
    problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a
    pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem
    actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot


    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb
    people, who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make
    bad decisions because they assume they can't get some information >>>>>> out of looking at a system.

    they assume???

    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask
    them more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking >>>>> abject retards they are

    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in
    this group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit


    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away
    from the dangerous tools.

    i'm sorry are you arguing good tools like semantic verification is a
    *dangerous* tool???

    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into
    critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no
    general semantic verification tools are in sight...

    And THAT is the dangerous stuff.

    It seems your arguement is that people shouldn't have such tools.

    AI GENERATION IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO AUTOMATED PROOFS???

    WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING???





    like holy fuck this is LLM grade stupidity,

    what in the fuck, how in the fuck can anyone argue that correctness
    verification is to be dangerous???

    I'm not. What is dangerous is to give up on verification because it
    can't be perfect.

    what??? THAT'S WHAT WE DID...

    Only the stupid ones.

    I guess you are just showing that you fell for the stupid lie created by
    the stupid programmers.

    Good programmers still present a good argument on why their code should
    do what it is supposed to do during the code review.

    THAT'S NOT A COMPUTED A PROOF U MORON. ALL TOOL CHAINS SHOULD HAVE
    COMPUTED PROOFS INCLUDED AS A BASIC FUNCTIONALITY CHECK. CODE SHOULDN'T FUCKING DEADLOCK UNEXPECTED, OR EVER ACTUALLY

    fucking equivocation fallacy holy fuck


    I guess you are so ignorant you believe that you can just skip all of
    that stuff.



    As the saying goes, The quest for Perfection is the enemy of the Good
    Enough.


    like what???


    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    CAN I HAVE EVEN AN OUNCE OF FUCKING RATIONALITY OUT OF U DICK???


    Since it seems you don't know what I am talking about, maybe not,
    since it goes right over your head.



    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Feb 22 20:27:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to >>>>>>>> ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you >>>>>>> are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem
    actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot

    No, you can't, as your explaimation is based on made-up definitions
    for words that you can't actually define.



    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb
    people, who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make
    bad decisions because they assume they can't get some information
    out of looking at a system.

    they assume???


    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask them
    more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking
    abject retards they are

    No, they don't. I guess your problem is you listen to liars and not
    the academics.

    The "academics" say we can't solve the whole problem, but show how we
    can get the answer for many.

    fucking words on the the fucking screen don't matter when the fucking
    actions are that we *DON'T DO SEMANTIC VERIFICATION IN A GENERAL
    MANNER* u stupid cunt

    Because we CAN'T.

    i'm pulling my hairs out.

    cause u have ur theorycucks like ben going like "that's not what the
    proofs literally says, quote it" with smug little air of superiority as
    if their technical semantic bamboozling means fuck all in real world applications ... so he's in complete ignorance that the engineercucks
    are all going like "yah we can't do that cause that's what theory says"...

    FUCK ALL OF YOU BONEHEADED OVERHYPED APES



    ur just as fucking delusional as the retarded lame duck academics
    infesting cs


    Nope, it seems you are the stupid one putting forward that the only
    solution is the completely general solution, and we can't do anything
    right until we can do it your way, so we can never do anything right.

    IT'S BEEN A CENTURY AND IT'S STILL A TOTAL SHITSHOW. U DON'T EXPECT TO
    SEE SEMANTIC PROOFS BEFORE YOU DIE. HECK, AT THE RATE THINGS ARE GOING I
    DON'T EXPECT TO SEE BASIC SEMANTIC PROOFS HAPPEN BEFORE I DIE.


    Smarter people understand the limitiations of formal proof, and reserve
    it for cases where it really is that important, but works to make things "good enough".

    fuck you bro. THEORY NEEDS ABSOLUTE CORRECTNESS TO FUNCTION AT IT'S BEST



    The IDIOTS, like you, that can't tell the difference between handling
    ALL problems, vs possibly being able to handle the one in front of
    you, is the problem.

    You are stuck in the centery old error of running in circles looking
    for the golden ticket to solve everything, rather than seeing how
    good you can actually get.


    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in this
    group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit

    The "honesty" problem is on your end.

    You just don't know what you are talking about.



    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away
    from the dangerous tools.

    Of course, this just shows your own problems.





    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 10:02:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 11:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters >>>>>>>>> to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you >>>>>>>> are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of
    problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a
    pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem
    actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot

    No, you can't, as your explaimation is based on made-up definitions
    for words that you can't actually define.



    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb
    people, who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make
    bad decisions because they assume they can't get some information >>>>>> out of looking at a system.

    they assume???


    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask
    them more specifically they dance around the terms like the fucking >>>>> abject retards they are

    No, they don't. I guess your problem is you listen to liars and not
    the academics.

    The "academics" say we can't solve the whole problem, but show how
    we can get the answer for many.

    fucking words on the the fucking screen don't matter when the fucking
    actions are that we *DON'T DO SEMANTIC VERIFICATION IN A GENERAL
    MANNER* u stupid cunt

    Because we CAN'T.

    i'm pulling my hairs out.

    Because your logic is just broken.


    cause u have ur theorycucks like ben going like "that's not what the
    proofs literally says, quote it" with smug little air of superiority as
    if their technical semantic bamboozling means fuck all in real world applications ... so he's in complete ignorance that the engineercucks
    are all going like "yah we can't do that cause that's what theory says"...

    FUCK ALL OF YOU BONEHEADED OVERHYPED APES

    In other words, you are incapable of facing reality.

    Your concepts live in a world that you can't define, and is actually
    likely undefinable.




    ur just as fucking delusional as the retarded lame duck academics
    infesting cs


    Nope, it seems you are the stupid one putting forward that the only
    solution is the completely general solution, and we can't do anything
    right until we can do it your way, so we can never do anything right.

    IT'S BEEN A CENTURY AND IT'S STILL A TOTAL SHITSHOW. U DON'T EXPECT TO
    SEE SEMANTIC PROOFS BEFORE YOU DIE. HECK, AT THE RATE THINGS ARE GOING I DON'T EXPECT TO SEE BASIC SEMANTIC PROOFS HAPPEN BEFORE I DIE.

    No, it is TRUTH that you just can't accept, because LOGIC seems to be
    beyound your ability to comprehend.

    If there was an actual ERROR, you could point out the mistake, instead,
    you claim because the answer is unacceptable, the rules of the game must
    be wrong, but you can't describe the game you want to be in.



    Smarter people understand the limitiations of formal proof, and
    reserve it for cases where it really is that important, but works to
    make things "good enough".

    fuck you bro. THEORY NEEDS ABSOLUTE CORRECTNESS TO FUNCTION AT IT'S BEST

    Nope.

    That is a world of fantasy.

    REALITY seems to insist on not being about to be 100% sure of
    everything, but some things MUST remain unknown.

    There ARE things we can be 100% sure of, and if we really need to be
    100% sure, we limit ourselves to those things, but then we greatly
    reduce what we can actually do.

    Your PREFECTION requirement means you never accept "Good Enough" to get
    the job done.

    And thus your world can't do anything.




    The IDIOTS, like you, that can't tell the difference between
    handling ALL problems, vs possibly being able to handle the one in
    front of you, is the problem.

    You are stuck in the centery old error of running in circles looking
    for the golden ticket to solve everything, rather than seeing how
    good you can actually get.


    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in
    this group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit

    The "honesty" problem is on your end.

    You just don't know what you are talking about.



    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away
    from the dangerous tools.

    Of course, this just shows your own problems.








    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 10:02:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 11:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:13 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters >>>>>>>>>> to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say >>>>>>>>> you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of >>>>>>>>> problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a
    pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the problem >>>>>>>>> you see, perhaps because you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really


    So?

    Your problem is you can't actually express what the problem
    actually is.

    i have, u denied it with economic brainrot


    The only problem so far that you have mentioned is that dumb
    people, who shouldn't really be in charge of coding anyway, make >>>>>>> bad decisions because they assume they can't get some information >>>>>>> out of looking at a system.

    they assume???

    the fucking academics tell them they can't, and then when u ask
    them more specifically they dance around the terms like the
    fucking abject retards they are

    i have hadn't a singe honest conversation after spend months in
    this group

    ya'll are fucking decrepit as shit


    If anything, that is a GOOD thing, get the dumb programmers away >>>>>>> from the dangerous tools.

    i'm sorry are you arguing good tools like semantic verification is
    a *dangerous* tool???

    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into
    critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no
    general semantic verification tools are in sight...

    And THAT is the dangerous stuff.

    It seems your arguement is that people shouldn't have such tools.

    AI GENERATION IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO AUTOMATED PROOFS???

    WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING???

    Of course not.

    Most AI is NOT "Proof" or even "Reasoning" based.

    Most AI is based on maximum likely Markov Chain processing.







    like holy fuck this is LLM grade stupidity,

    what in the fuck, how in the fuck can anyone argue that correctness >>>>> verification is to be dangerous???

    I'm not. What is dangerous is to give up on verification because it
    can't be perfect.

    what??? THAT'S WHAT WE DID...

    Only the stupid ones.

    I guess you are just showing that you fell for the stupid lie created
    by the stupid programmers.

    Good programmers still present a good argument on why their code
    should do what it is supposed to do during the code review.

    THAT'S NOT A COMPUTED A PROOF U MORON. ALL TOOL CHAINS SHOULD HAVE
    COMPUTED PROOFS INCLUDED AS A BASIC FUNCTIONALITY CHECK. CODE SHOULDN'T FUCKING DEADLOCK UNEXPECTED, OR EVER ACTUALLY

    In other words, tools should not exist unless they are built on
    Unicorns, thus you think tools should not exist.


    fucking equivocation fallacy holy fuck

    Nope. Your whole logic is based on the fallacy of assuming the unproven
    (and incorrect) premise.



    I guess you are so ignorant you believe that you can just skip all of
    that stuff.



    As the saying goes, The quest for Perfection is the enemy of the
    Good Enough.


    like what???


    Of course, this just shows your own problems.


    CAN I HAVE EVEN AN OUNCE OF FUCKING RATIONALITY OUT OF U DICK???


    Since it seems you don't know what I am talking about, maybe not,
    since it goes right over your head.






    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 10:02:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer
    shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say >>>>>>>>>>>> you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of >>>>>>>>>>>> problems being undecidable, then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to >>>>>>>>> really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally >>>>>>>>> willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the >>>>>>>> first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb as >>>>>>> fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be >>>>>> effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think >>>
    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration isn't of
    all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not all machines
    produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of machines,
    just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in the
    list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the machines
    that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what breaks
    your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words together
    opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but of
    all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal with the
    possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that machine
    never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all machines
    testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal
    or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause honestly u
    understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've
    fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when it
    can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and if
    that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.


    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to
    implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you
    never learned how to learn, and thus made your self
    fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really















    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 08:47:57 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you >>>>>>>>>>>>> say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you are >>>>>>>>>>>>> just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to >>>>>>>>>> really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally >>>>>>>>>> willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the >>>>>>>>> first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb >>>>>>>> as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be >>>>>>> effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think >>>>
    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration isn't of
    all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.

    fuck you and fuck your alzheimer u useless fking boomer




    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of machines,
    just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to question
    the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in the
    list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the machines
    that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what breaks
    your logic.

    the sooner all the abject retards on this list are dead due to aging,
    the better our planet will be off




    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words together
    opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to be
    contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but of
    all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal with
    the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that
    machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to be
    "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all machines
    testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the
    diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as described
    on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause honestly u
    understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've
    fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when it
    can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and if
    that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.


    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to
    implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you >>>>>>>>> never learned how to learn, and thus made your self
    fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really















    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 08:55:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you >>>>>>>>>>>>> say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you are >>>>>>>>>>>>> just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to >>>>>>>>>> really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the intentionally >>>>>>>>>> willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the >>>>>>>>> first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb >>>>>>>> as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to be >>>>>>> effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think >>>>
    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration isn't of
    all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of machines,
    just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to question
    the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in the
    list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the machines
    that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what breaks
    your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words together
    opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to be
    contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but of
    all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal with
    the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that
    machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to be
    "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all machines
    testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the
    diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as described
    on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause honestly u
    understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've
    fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when it
    can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and if
    that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted moron...
    he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form of psuedo-code

    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from u
    eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???



    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to
    implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you >>>>>>>>> never learned how to learn, and thus made your self
    fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really















    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 12:38:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to >>>>>>>>>>> really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the
    intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the >>>>>>>>>> first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand >>>>>>>>>> the real nature of the problem and see what people have
    actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb >>>>>>>>> as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to >>>>>>>> be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you
    think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration isn't
    of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not all
    machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of
    machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to question
    the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in the
    list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a
    "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the
    machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what breaks
    your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words together
    opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments to
    actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to
    be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but
    of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal
    with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that
    machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to
    be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all machines
    testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the
    diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as described
    on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause honestly u
    understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've
    fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when it
    can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and if
    that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H to
    construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted moron...
    he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your
    psuedo-code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns out not
    to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from u
    eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do the work
    you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to
    implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you >>>>>>>>>> never learned how to learn, and thus made your self
    fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>

















    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 12:38:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 11:47 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to >>>>>>>>>>> really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the
    intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that the >>>>>>>>>> first step of dealing with a problem is to first understand >>>>>>>>>> the real nature of the problem and see what people have
    actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb >>>>>>>>> as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to >>>>>>>> be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you
    think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration isn't
    of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not all
    machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.

    fuck you and fuck your alzheimer u useless fking boomer

    It seems YOU are the one with the problem.






    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of
    machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to question
    the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in the
    list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a
    "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the
    machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what breaks
    your logic.

    the sooner all the abject retards on this list are dead due to aging,
    the better our planet will be off

    Nope, YOU are to ones that are going to turn the planet over to AI and
    let it end humanity,





    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words together
    opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments to
    actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to
    be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but
    of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal
    with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that
    machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to
    be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all machines
    testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the
    diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as described
    on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause honestly u
    understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've
    fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when it
    can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and if
    that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H to
    construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.


    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to
    implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you >>>>>>>>>> never learned how to learn, and thus made your self
    fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>

















    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 09:47:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to >>>>>>>>>>>> really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the
    intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that >>>>>>>>>>> the first step of dealing with a problem is to first
    understand the real nature of the problem and see what people >>>>>>>>>>> have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so dumb >>>>>>>>>> as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to >>>>>>>>> be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of
    numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration isn't
    of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not all
    machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of
    machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to question
    the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in the
    list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a
    "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the
    machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what breaks
    your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words together
    opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments
    to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to
    be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but
    of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal
    with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because that >>>>> machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to
    be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all
    machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on
    the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as
    described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause
    honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15
    lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when it
    can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and
    if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H
    to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted
    moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form of
    psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here can read
    a fucking paper


    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your psuedo-
    code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from u
    eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it


    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do the work
    you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to
    implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you >>>>>>>>>>> never learned how to learn, and thus made your self
    fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

















    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 13:00:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left to >>>>>>>>>>>>> really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the
    intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that >>>>>>>>>>>> the first step of dealing with a problem is to first
    understand the real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so >>>>>>>>>>> dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs to >>>>>>>>>> be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of >>>>>> numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration
    isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not
    all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of
    machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to
    question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in the
    list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a
    "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the
    machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what
    breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words
    together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely
    understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments
    to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed to >>>>> be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, but >>>>>> of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to deal
    with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" because
    that machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D to >>>>> be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all
    machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on >>>>> the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as
    described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause
    honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 >>>>> lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when it
    can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and
    if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H
    to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted
    moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form of
    psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here can read
    a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you.

    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as you think
    it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when they
    do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't know his
    ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife clinging to
    your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell can
    see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have questions, they
    can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.



    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your
    psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns out
    not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from u
    eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do the
    work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to
    implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means you >>>>>>>>>>>> never learned how to learn, and thus made your self
    fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>




















    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 10:17:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the concept of problems being undecidable, then I guess >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem you see, perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the
    intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that >>>>>>>>>>>>> the first step of dealing with a problem is to first >>>>>>>>>>>>> understand the real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so >>>>>>>>>>>> dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs >>>>>>>>>>> to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list of >>>>>>> numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration
    isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not
    all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of
    machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to
    question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL
    machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in
    the list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a
    "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the
    machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable. >>>>>
    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what
    breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words
    together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely
    understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your statments >>>>> to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed
    to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines,
    but of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to >>>>>>> deal with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete"
    because that machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D
    to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all
    machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion
    on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as
    described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, cause >>>>>> honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more than like
    15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when
    it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", and >>>>> if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine H >>>>> to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted
    moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form of
    psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here can
    read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do something i already
    did???

    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of turing's paper


    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as you think
    it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when they
    do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't know his
    ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife clinging to
    your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell can
    see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have questions, they
    can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just a
    pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your
    psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns out
    not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from u
    eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do the
    work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to >>>>>>>>> implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means >>>>>>>>>>>>> you never learned how to learn, and thus made your self >>>>>>>>>>>>> fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>




















    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 13:42:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the concept of problems being undecidable, then I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem you see, perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the first step of dealing with a problem is to first >>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand the real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so >>>>>>>>>>>>> dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs >>>>>>>>>>>> to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list >>>>>>>> of numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration
    isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not >>>>>> all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of
    machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to
    question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of ALL >>>>>> machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put in
    the list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a
    "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the
    machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-computable. >>>>>>
    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what
    breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words
    together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely
    understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your
    statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed >>>>>>> to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, >>>>>>>> but of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to >>>>>>>> deal with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete"
    because that machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D >>>>>>> to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all >>>>>>> machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion >>>>>>> on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as
    described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/,
    cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more than >>>>>>> like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when >>>>>> it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D",
    and if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine >>>>>> H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted
    moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form of >>>>> psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here can
    read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on
    category errors?

    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which appears to
    be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to "subscribe" to there
    service to see how is mentioning my name is part of the cause for some
    of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to get
    people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING something and
    showing you understand the meaning behind it, and not just say the world
    is wrong because it won't give me my unicorns, and the world with
    unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how logic
    works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as you
    think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when they
    do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't know
    his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife clinging
    to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell can
    see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have questions,
    they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just a
    pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your
    psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns out
    not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from u >>>>> eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do the
    work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to >>>>>>>>>> implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you never learned how to learn, and thus made your self >>>>>>>>>>>>>> fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>























    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 10:55:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the concept of problems being undecidable, then I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> guess you are just a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem you see, perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so

    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy left >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to really care much about getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the first step of dealing with a problem is to first >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand the real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration needs >>>>>>>>>>>>> to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven >>>>>>>>>>>> on turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list >>>>>>>>> of numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT >>>>>>>>
    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration >>>>>>> isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as not >>>>>>> all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of >>>>>>>>> machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to
    question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration >>>>>>>
    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of
    ALL machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be put >>>>>>> in the list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO produce >>>>>>> a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the
    machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-
    computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what
    breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words
    together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely >>>>>>>> understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your
    statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM programmed >>>>>>>> to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, >>>>>>>>> but of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need to >>>>>>>>> deal with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" >>>>>>>>> because that machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by D >>>>>>>> to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over all >>>>>>>> machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion >>>>>>>> on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as
    described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/,
    cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more
    than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, when >>>>>>> it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", >>>>>>> and if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no machine >>>>>>> H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted
    moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form
    of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here can
    read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you reading in
    december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do something i
    already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on
    category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H


    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page


    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which appears to
    be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to "subscribe" to there
    service to see how is mentioning my name is part of the cause for some
    of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to get
    people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING something and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and not just say the world
    is wrong because it won't give me my unicorns, and the world with
    unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of turing's
    paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, that we
    can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H


    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as you
    think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when
    they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't know
    his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife clinging
    to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell can
    see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have questions,
    they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just a
    pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your
    psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns out >>>>> not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from >>>>>> u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do the
    work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to >>>>>>>>>>> implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you never learned how to learn, and thus made your self >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>























    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 15:39:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you say you are, that is the Halting Problem and / >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or the concept of problems being undecidable, then I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> guess you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem you see, perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> left to really care much about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the first step of dealing with a problem is to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first understand the real nature of the problem and see >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven >>>>>>>>>>>>> on turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the list >>>>>>>>>> of numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT >>>>>>>>>
    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration >>>>>>>> isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as >>>>>>>> not all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal. >>>>>>>>


    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of >>>>>>>>>> machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to >>>>>>>>> question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration >>>>>>>>
    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of >>>>>>>> ALL machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be >>>>>>>> put in the list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO
    produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the >>>>>>>> machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-
    computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what >>>>>>>> breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words >>>>>>>>> together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely >>>>>>>>> understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your
    statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM
    programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing Machines, >>>>>>>>>> but of all machines that compute a number, otherwise we need >>>>>>>>>> to deal with the possibility that a given row isn't "complete" >>>>>>>>>> because that machine never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by >>>>>>>>> D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over >>>>>>>>> all machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" for
    inclusion on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as >>>>>>>>> described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, >>>>>>>>> cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more >>>>>>>>> than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done,
    when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", >>>>>>>> and if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no
    machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted
    moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form >>>>>>> of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here can
    read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you reading in
    december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do something i
    already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on
    category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second paragraph,
    where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the point you claim
    to be.

    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't
    understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which appears to
    be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to "subscribe" to there
    service to see how is mentioning my name is part of the cause for some
    of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to get
    people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING something and
    showing you understand the meaning behind it, and not just say the
    world is wrong because it won't give me my unicorns, and the world
    with unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of turing's
    paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, that we
    can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and thus if
    D doesn't exist, neither does H.



    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how logic
    works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as you
    think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when
    they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't know
    his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife clinging
    to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell
    can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have
    questions, they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just a
    pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your
    psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns
    out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions from >>>>>>> u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do the >>>>>> work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to >>>>>>>>>>>> implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information means >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you never learned how to learn, and thus made your self >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


























    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 14:37:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one you say you are, that is the Halting Problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and / or the concept of problems being undecidable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then I guess you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually express >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem you see, perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> left to really care much about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the first step of dealing with a problem is to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first understand the real nature of the problem and see >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven >>>>>>>>>>>>>> on turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the >>>>>>>>>>> list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT >>>>>>>>>>
    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His enumeration >>>>>>>>> isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal argument, as >>>>>>>>> not all machines produce a valid result to put on the diagonal. >>>>>>>>>


    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of >>>>>>>>>>> machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to >>>>>>>>>> question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration >>>>>>>>>
    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of >>>>>>>>> ALL machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be >>>>>>>>> put in the list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO >>>>>>>>> produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the >>>>>>>>> machines that compute a computable number is shown to non-
    computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what >>>>>>>>> breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words >>>>>>>>>> together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely >>>>>>>>>> understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your
    statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM
    programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing
    Machines, but of all machines that compute a number,
    otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a given >>>>>>>>>>> row isn't "complete" because that machine never generates >>>>>>>>>>> enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided by >>>>>>>>>> D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate over >>>>>>>>>> all machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" for >>>>>>>>>> inclusion on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as >>>>>>>>>> described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, >>>>>>>>>> cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more >>>>>>>>>> than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, >>>>>>>>> when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine D", >>>>>>>>> and if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no
    machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted >>>>>>>> moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a form >>>>>>>> of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here can >>>>>> read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you reading
    in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do something i
    already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on
    category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second paragraph,
    where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the point you claim
    to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point


    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't
    understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which appears
    to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to "subscribe" to
    there service to see how is mentioning my name is part of the cause
    for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to get
    people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING something
    and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and not just say
    the world is wrong because it won't give me my unicorns, and the
    world with unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of turing's
    paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, that we
    can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and thus if
    D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to understand
    either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've proposed

    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted all my discussion options by now.

    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or consideration,

    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA




    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how
    logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as you
    think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when
    they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't
    know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife
    clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot. >>>>>
    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell
    can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have
    questions, they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just a
    pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your >>>>>>> psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns >>>>>>> out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions
    from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are
    talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do
    the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need to >>>>>>>>>>>>> implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> means you never learned how to learn, and thus made >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


























    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 18:02:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitposters to ever be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one you say you are, that is the Halting Problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and / or the concept of problems being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> undecidable, then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps because you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just don't understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> left to really care much about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the first step of dealing with a problem is to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first understand the real nature of the problem and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on turing's original paper and can be reused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the >>>>>>>>>>>> list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT >>>>>>>>>>>
    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His
    enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal >>>>>>>>>> argument, as not all machines produce a valid result to put on >>>>>>>>>> the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of >>>>>>>>>>>> machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to >>>>>>>>>>> question the effectiveness of a total turing machine enumeration >>>>>>>>>>
    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration of >>>>>>>>>> ALL machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to be >>>>>>>>>> put in the list, and the enumeration of the machines that DO >>>>>>>>>> produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to the >>>>>>>>>> machines that compute a computable number is shown to non- >>>>>>>>>> computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is what >>>>>>>>>> breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words >>>>>>>>>>> together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even remotely >>>>>>>>>>> understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your >>>>>>>>>> statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM
    programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing
    Machines, but of all machines that compute a number,
    otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a given >>>>>>>>>>>> row isn't "complete" because that machine never generates >>>>>>>>>>>> enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided >>>>>>>>>>> by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate >>>>>>>>>>> over all machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" >>>>>>>>>>> for inclusion on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as >>>>>>>>>>> described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, >>>>>>>>>>> cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more >>>>>>>>>>> than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo >>>>>>>>>>
    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, >>>>>>>>>> when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine >>>>>>>>>> D", and if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no >>>>>>>>>> machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted >>>>>>>>> moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a >>>>>>>>> form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here
    can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you reading
    in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do something i
    already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on
    category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second paragraph,
    where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the point you claim
    to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING that
    follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be paradoxical
    to two different deciders, but for your case where you talk about using
    two decider to try to beat the paradoxical format, you eventually need
    to combine those two into a single decider to give the answer.

    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not the two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what you are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't
    understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which appears
    to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to "subscribe" to
    there service to see how is mentioning my name is part of the cause
    for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to get
    people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING something
    and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and not just say
    the world is wrong because it won't give me my unicorns, and the
    world with unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of
    turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, that we
    can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and thus
    if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to understand
    either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.


    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted all my discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not consider you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous logic is
    valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't respect
    normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend money for likely
    no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to put your paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA

    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to be
    taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find something you can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable, and
    choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have no value to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how
    logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as you >>>>>> think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when >>>>>> they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't
    know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife
    clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot. >>>>>>
    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell >>>>>> can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have
    questions, they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just a >>>>> pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your >>>>>>>> psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns >>>>>>>> out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions >>>>>>>>> from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are >>>>>> talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do >>>>>>>> the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> means you never learned how to learn, and thus made >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>





























    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 15:44:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer shitposters to ever be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one you say you are, that is the Halting Problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and / or the concept of problems being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> undecidable, then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps because you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just don't understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> left to really care much about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the first step of dealing with a problem is to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first understand the real nature of the problem and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> see what people have actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is ur >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on turing's original paper and can be reused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the >>>>>>>>>>>>> list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT >>>>>>>>>>>>
    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His
    enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal >>>>>>>>>>> argument, as not all machines produce a valid result to put >>>>>>>>>>> on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration of >>>>>>>>>>>>> machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to >>>>>>>>>>>> question the effectiveness of a total turing machine
    enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration >>>>>>>>>>> of ALL machines, many of which don't meet the requirements to >>>>>>>>>>> be put in the list, and the enumeration of the machines that >>>>>>>>>>> DO produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to >>>>>>>>>>> the machines that compute a computable number is shown to >>>>>>>>>>> non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is >>>>>>>>>>> what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words >>>>>>>>>>>> together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even
    remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your >>>>>>>>>>> statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a given >>>>>>>>>>>>> row isn't "complete" because that machine never generates >>>>>>>>>>>>> enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided >>>>>>>>>>>> by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate >>>>>>>>>>>> over all machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" >>>>>>>>>>>> for inclusion on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as >>>>>>>>>>>> described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable numbers/, >>>>>>>>>>>> cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if write more >>>>>>>>>>>> than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo >>>>>>>>>>>
    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, >>>>>>>>>>> when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine >>>>>>>>>>> D", and if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no >>>>>>>>>>> machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking brainrotted >>>>>>>>>> moron... he describes exactly what it does, but put it in a >>>>>>>>>> form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here >>>>>>>> can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you. >>>>>>
    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you reading >>>>>> in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do something i >>>>>> already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on
    category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second paragraph,
    where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the point you
    claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be paradoxical
    to two different deciders, but for your case where you talk about using
    two decider to try to beat the paradoxical format, you eventually need
    to combine those two into a single decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference
    between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider (which is context-aware)

    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur getting
    that from


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not the two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what you are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't
    understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which appears >>>>> to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to "subscribe" to
    there service to see how is mentioning my name is part of the cause >>>>> for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to get >>>>> people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING something
    and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and not just say
    the world is wrong because it won't give me my unicorns, and the
    world with unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of
    turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, that
    we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and thus
    if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe the
    algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to understand
    either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.

    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending 20 just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro



    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted all my
    discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not consider you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or
    consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous logic is
    valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't respect
    normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend money for likely
    no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to put your paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA

    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to be
    taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find something you can
    do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable, and
    choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have no value to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how
    logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as
    you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people when >>>>>>> they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't >>>>>>> know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife
    clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another crackpot. >>>>>>>
    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain cell >>>>>>> can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have
    questions, they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just >>>>>> a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, your >>>>>>>>> psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that turns >>>>>>>>> out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions >>>>>>>>>> from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you are >>>>>>> talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do >>>>>>>>> the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> means you never learned how to learn, and thus made >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>





























    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Feb 23 22:49:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer shitposters to ever be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one you say you are, that is the Halting Problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and / or the concept of problems being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> undecidable, then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps because you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just don't understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much empathy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> left to really care much about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing with a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem is to first understand the real nature of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on turing's original paper and can be reused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING >>>>>>>>>>>>> TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His
    enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the diagonal >>>>>>>>>>>> argument, as not all machines produce a valid result to put >>>>>>>>>>>> on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>> of machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying to >>>>>>>>>>>>> question the effectiveness of a total turing machine >>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>> of ALL machines, many of which don't meet the requirements >>>>>>>>>>>> to be put in the list, and the enumeration of the machines >>>>>>>>>>>> that DO produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to >>>>>>>>>>>> the machines that compute a computable number is shown to >>>>>>>>>>>> non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is >>>>>>>>>>>> what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting words >>>>>>>>>>>>> together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even >>>>>>>>>>>>> remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your >>>>>>>>>>>> statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> given row isn't "complete" because that machine never >>>>>>>>>>>>>> generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are decided >>>>>>>>>>>>> by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does enumerate >>>>>>>>>>>>> over all machines testing each one for being "satisfactory" >>>>>>>>>>>>> for inclusion on the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H as >>>>>>>>>>>>> described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable
    numbers/, cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. if >>>>>>>>>>>>> write more than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a >>>>>>>>>>>>> complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be done, >>>>>>>>>>>> when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine >>>>>>>>>>>> D", and if that is true, then "We could construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no >>>>>>>>>>>> machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking
    brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it does, but >>>>>>>>>>> put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here >>>>>>>>> can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you. >>>>>>>
    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you
    reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do
    something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on
    category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second paragraph,
    where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the point you
    claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING that
    follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying to
    debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be
    paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where you
    talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical format,
    you eventually need to combine those two into a single decider to give
    the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference
    between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    Sorry, you are just proving you don't understand what you are talking about.

    A "Computation", which a decider is a special case of, is only ALLOWED
    to process the input it is given, and its output must be strictly
    determined by it.

    If it can somwhow generate two (or more) different answers for a given
    input, it is BY DEFINITION incorrect, as the problem statement only
    gives one correct answer, so giving two different answers is
    automatically incorrect.



    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur getting
    that from


    then the paradox input is just the one that you used.

    That is your problem, you don't understand that the decider is chosen
    FIRST, and THEM we show the input it will fail on.


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not the
    two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what you
    are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't
    understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which
    appears to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to
    "subscribe" to there service to see how is mentioning my name is
    part of the cause for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to
    get people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING something >>>>>> and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and not just say >>>>>> the world is wrong because it won't give me my unicorns, and the
    world with unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of
    turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, that
    we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and thus
    if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe the
    algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to understand
    either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.

    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending 20 just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro

    Perhaps you don't understand that I am trying to show you how stupid
    your logic is.

    I don't need to "prove" my ability, because here I am not making claims
    that aren't generally accepted. I can rely on the fact that they are
    well proven statements.

    YOU are the one that needs to show you know something, but the fact you
    keep on talking about nonsense, like deciders that either take the WRONG
    input (because they need to be given a context that the question doesn't actually depend on) or change their answer based on something that isn't
    the input.

    Both of these just prove that your decider can't be correct.

    The answer for the behavior of an actual machine doesn't depend on the
    context of the machine asking the question, as that doesn't actually
    change the behavior of the machine in question. Thus, changing your
    answer based on it is just wrong.

    And, when you back of and admit you are just doing partial deciding, you
    balk at the comment that this is a "solved" problem, there are LOTS of
    partial deciders, so you need to show why yours is better, or at a
    minimum, nearly as good as, what the current methods produce.

    Old Hat results aren't really meaningful or interesting.




    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted all my
    discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not consider
    you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or
    consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous logic is
    valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't respect
    normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend money for
    likely no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to put your paper
    there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA

    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to be
    taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find something you
    can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable, and
    choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have no value
    to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how
    logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as >>>>>>>> you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people
    when they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't >>>>>>>> know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife
    clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another
    crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain
    cell can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they have >>>>>>>> questions, they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even just >>>>>>> a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, >>>>>>>>>> your psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation that >>>>>>>>>> turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions >>>>>>>>>>> from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it >>>>>>>>
    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you >>>>>>>> are talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to do >>>>>>>>>> the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really need >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about???




    Expecting people to just hand you that information >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> means you never learned how to learn, and thus made >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really

































    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 08:16:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer shitposters to ever be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the one you say you are, that is the Halting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Problem and / or the concept of problems being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> undecidable, then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you just don't understand what you are talking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing with a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem is to first understand the real nature of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on turing's original paper and can be reused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT JUMPING >>>>>>>>>>>>>> TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid >>>>>>>>>>>>> result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to question the effectiveness of a total turing machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>> of ALL machines, many of which don't meet the requirements >>>>>>>>>>>>> to be put in the list, and the enumeration of the machines >>>>>>>>>>>>> that DO produce a "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to >>>>>>>>>>>>> the machines that compute a computable number is shown to >>>>>>>>>>>>> non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is >>>>>>>>>>>>> what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting >>>>>>>>>>>>>> words together opposed to mine based on feels i can't even >>>>>>>>>>>>>> remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your >>>>>>>>>>>>> statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given row isn't "complete" because that machine never >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does >>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerate over all machines testing each one for being >>>>>>>>>>>>>> "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal or not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H >>>>>>>>>>>>>> as described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>> numbers/, cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> if write more than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not >>>>>>>>>>>>>> a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be >>>>>>>>>>>>> done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a Machine >>>>>>>>>>>>> D", and if that is true, then "We could construct H". >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no >>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn.

    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking
    brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it does, but >>>>>>>>>>>> put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone here >>>>>>>>>> can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help you. >>>>>>>>
    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you
    reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do >>>>>>>> something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on >>>>>>> category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second
    paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the
    point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING
    that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying to
    debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be
    paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where you
    talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical format,
    you eventually need to combine those two into a single decider to
    give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference
    between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider (which
    is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm allowed to
    do or not


    Sorry, you are just proving you don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    A "Computation", which a decider is a special case of, is only ALLOWED
    to process the input it is given, and its output must be strictly
    determined by it.

    If it can somwhow generate two (or more) different answers for a given input, it is BY DEFINITION incorrect, as the problem statement only
    gives one correct answer, so giving two different answers is
    automatically incorrect.



    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur getting
    that from


    then the paradox input is just the one that you used.

    That is your problem, you don't understand that the decider is chosen
    FIRST, and THEM we show the input it will fail on.


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not the
    two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what you
    are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't
    understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which
    appears to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to
    "subscribe" to there service to see how is mentioning my name is >>>>>>> part of the cause for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to >>>>>>> get people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING
    something and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and >>>>>>> not just say the world is wrong because it won't give me my
    unicorns, and the world with unicorns would be so much better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of
    turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, that >>>>>> we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and
    thus if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe
    the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to
    understand either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've
    proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.

    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending 20
    just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro

    Perhaps you don't understand that I am trying to show you how stupid
    your logic is.

    why are you writing paragraphs instead of pseudo-code?

    i don't buy this shit in the slightest


    I don't need to "prove" my ability, because here I am not making claims
    that aren't generally accepted. I can rely on the fact that they are
    well proven statements.

    YOU are the one that needs to show you know something, but the fact you
    keep on talking about nonsense, like deciders that either take the WRONG input (because they need to be given a context that the question doesn't actually depend on) or change their answer based on something that isn't
    the input.

    Both of these just prove that your decider can't be correct.

    The answer for the behavior of an actual machine doesn't depend on the context of the machine asking the question, as that doesn't actually
    change the behavior of the machine in question. Thus, changing your
    answer based on it is just wrong.

    And, when you back of and admit you are just doing partial deciding, you balk at the comment that this is a "solved" problem, there are LOTS of partial deciders, so you need to show why yours is better, or at a
    minimum, nearly as good as, what the current methods produce.

    Old Hat results aren't really meaningful or interesting.




    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted all
    my discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not consider
    you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or
    consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous logic is
    valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't respect
    normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend money for
    likely no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to put your
    paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA

    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to be
    taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find something you
    can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable, and
    choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have no value
    to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how >>>>>>> logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as >>>>>>>>> you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people >>>>>>>>> when they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that doesn't >>>>>>>>> know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife >>>>>>>>> clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another
    crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain >>>>>>>>> cell can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they >>>>>>>>> have questions, they can learn the answers from the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even
    just a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, >>>>>>>>>>> your psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation >>>>>>>>>>> that turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk reactions >>>>>>>>>>>> from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it >>>>>>>>>
    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you >>>>>>>>> are talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to >>>>>>>>>>> do the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs

    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> need to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    Expecting people to just hand you that information >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> means you never learned how to learn, and thus made >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your self fundamentally ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect u >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really

































    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 18:26:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 21/02/2026 12:03, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever
    be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being undecidable ...

    While dart200 is full of verbicraze, I really don't get why you're
    talking about what if he's saying something different than he is instead
    of saying that you can't figure out the meaning of what he's saying!

    What's the point of that either?!
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 11:28:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 10:26 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 21/02/2026 12:03, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever
    be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being
    undecidable ...

    While dart200 is full of verbicraze, I really don't get why you're
    talking about what if he's saying something different than he is instead
    of saying that you can't figure out the meaning of what he's saying!

    What's the point of that either?!


    richard likes to gaslight me about my own intents,

    that's how low the discussion is here in comp.theory
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:38:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:52:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 24/02/2026 03:49, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference
    between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider (which
    is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    Who are you to decide how a "fixed" decider is allowed to be? It's
    dart200's own terminology! Argue that the term is not a valid explicatum
    in the first place, sure.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 13:30:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:01:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of computation
    than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they
    continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based on Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of which
    will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine satisfies
    the requirements, and shows that there can not be such a test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable
    sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating computable
    sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out whether a given
    number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and we have no general
    process for doing this in a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that
    enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an
    uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:01:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer shitposters to ever be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the one you say you are, that is the Halting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Problem and / or the concept of problems being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> undecidable, then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you just don't understand what you are talking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about getting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing with a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem is to first understand the real nature of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on turing's original paper and can be reused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid >>>>>>>>>>>>>> result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing.

    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of machines, just that an enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to question the effectiveness of a total turing machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective
    enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't meet the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> requirements to be put in the list, and the enumeration of >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the machines that DO produce a "computable number" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the machines that compute a computable number is shown to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> words together opposed to mine based on feels i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your >>>>>>>>>>>>>> statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given row isn't "complete" because that machine never >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he does >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerate over all machines testing each one for being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal or not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> numbers/, cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if write more than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>> done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could construct H". >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no >>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking
    brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it does, but >>>>>>>>>>>>> put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone >>>>>>>>>>> here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help >>>>>>>>>> you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you
    reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do >>>>>>>>> something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based on >>>>>>>> category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second
    paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the >>>>>> point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING
    that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying to
    debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be
    paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where you
    talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical format,
    you eventually need to combine those two into a single decider to
    give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference
    between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider (which
    is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm allowed to
    do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system that
    defines what a "decider" is.

    All you are doing is proving you don't understand, or don't care about
    being wrong.



    Sorry, you are just proving you don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    A "Computation", which a decider is a special case of, is only ALLOWED
    to process the input it is given, and its output must be strictly
    determined by it.

    If it can somwhow generate two (or more) different answers for a given
    input, it is BY DEFINITION incorrect, as the problem statement only
    gives one correct answer, so giving two different answers is
    automatically incorrect.



    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur getting
    that from


    then the paradox input is just the one that you used.

    That is your problem, you don't understand that the decider is chosen
    FIRST, and THEM we show the input it will fail on.


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not the
    two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what you
    are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't
    understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which
    appears to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to
    "subscribe" to there service to see how is mentioning my name is >>>>>>>> part of the cause for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to >>>>>>>> get people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING
    something and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and >>>>>>>> not just say the world is wrong because it won't give me my
    unicorns, and the world with unicorns would be so much better. >>>>>>>>

    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of >>>>>>>>> turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say,
    that we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and
    thus if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe
    the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to
    understand either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've
    proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.

    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending 20
    just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro

    Perhaps you don't understand that I am trying to show you how stupid
    your logic is.

    why are you writing paragraphs instead of pseudo-code?

    i don't buy this shit in the slightest

    So, you can't read english?



    I don't need to "prove" my ability, because here I am not making
    claims that aren't generally accepted. I can rely on the fact that
    they are well proven statements.

    YOU are the one that needs to show you know something, but the fact
    you keep on talking about nonsense, like deciders that either take the
    WRONG input (because they need to be given a context that the question
    doesn't actually depend on) or change their answer based on something
    that isn't the input.

    Both of these just prove that your decider can't be correct.

    The answer for the behavior of an actual machine doesn't depend on the
    context of the machine asking the question, as that doesn't actually
    change the behavior of the machine in question. Thus, changing your
    answer based on it is just wrong.

    And, when you back of and admit you are just doing partial deciding,
    you balk at the comment that this is a "solved" problem, there are
    LOTS of partial deciders, so you need to show why yours is better, or
    at a minimum, nearly as good as, what the current methods produce.

    Old Hat results aren't really meaningful or interesting.




    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted all
    my discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not consider
    you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or
    consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous logic
    is valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't
    respect normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend
    money for likely no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to
    put your paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA

    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to be
    taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find something you
    can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable, and
    choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have no value
    to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand how >>>>>>>> logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, as >>>>>>>>>> you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people >>>>>>>>>> when they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that
    doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife >>>>>>>>>> clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another >>>>>>>>>> crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain >>>>>>>>>> cell can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they >>>>>>>>>> have questions, they can learn the answers from the source. >>>>>>>>>>
    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even >>>>>>>>> just a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, >>>>>>>>>>>> your psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation >>>>>>>>>>>> that turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk
    reactions from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever??? >>>>>>>>>>>>
    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it >>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you >>>>>>>>>> are talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to >>>>>>>>>>>> do the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> need to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    Expecting people to just hand you that information >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> means you never learned how to learn, and thus >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> made your self fundamentally ignorant. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    it's just not a problem that can even effect u >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really




































    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:01:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 2:59 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 23/02/2026 15:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    ...
    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into
    critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no
    general semantic verification tools are in sight...

    And THAT is the dangerous stuff.

    It seems your arguement is that people shouldn't have such tools.

    AI GENERATION IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO AUTOMATED PROOFS???

    WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING???

    Of course not.

    Most AI is NOT "Proof" or even "Reasoning" based.

    Most AI is based on maximum likely Markov Chain processing.

    What does mostness have to do with it?


    Because you don't seem to understand what you are talking about,

    You seem to think that AI Generation *IS* equivalent to automated proof,
    when it isn't, as what is normally described as "AI" doesn't do that.

    I guess you still think that words don't need to mean what they mean,
    because you world is based on the existance of Unicorns.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:01:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 2:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 10:26 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 21/02/2026 12:03, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    -a-a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking boomer shitposters to ever
    be any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve

    or why it's even a problem

    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't the one you say you are,
    that is the Halting Problem and / or the concept of problems being
    undecidable ...

    While dart200 is full of verbicraze, I really don't get why you're
    talking about what if he's saying something different than he is instead
    of saying that you can't figure out the meaning of what he's saying!

    What's the point of that either?!


    richard likes to gaslight me about my own intents,

    that's how low the discussion is here in comp.theory


    No, I am pointing out that you communication isn't saying what you think
    it is, because your "logic" as you describe it is just based on a false reality.

    Your speach really could just be part of Alice in Wonderland for all the resemblence it has to the subject.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:01:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 2:38 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one.


    His problem is he doesn't understand that the context of the paper he is looking at is using a DIFFERENT type of computation then the one he
    wants to use.

    "Computable Numbers" is about computations that run forever, but need to
    never stop producing new output.

    "Halting" is about computation that finish in finite time with an answer.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 16:27:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think >>>>
    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one. >>>

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they
    represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to
    diagonal across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they
    continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based on Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting problem, but
    he didn't


    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of which
    will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine satisfies
    the requirements, and shows that there can not be such a test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable
    sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating computable sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out whether a given
    number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and we have no general
    process for doing this in a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that
    enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an
    uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out natural
    numbers to find possible machines that might compute "computable
    numbers" (which are real numbers)

    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code


    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem, which he didn't
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 16:28:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer shitposters to ever be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the one you say you are, that is the Halting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh?


    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about getting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intentionally willful ignorance they throw at me >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing with a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem is to first understand the real nature of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the problem and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on turing's original paper and can be reused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an enumeration exists. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for trying >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to question the effectiveness of a total turing machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't meet the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> requirements to be put in the list, and the enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of the machines that DO produce a "computable number" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to the machines that compute a computable number is shown >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> words together opposed to mine based on feels i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given row isn't "complete" because that machine never >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does enumerate over all machines testing each one for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal or not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine H >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> numbers/, cause honestly u understand the algo he wrote. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if write more than like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could construct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is no >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it does, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> but put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone >>>>>>>>>>>> here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I help >>>>>>>>>>> you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you >>>>>>>>>> reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to do >>>>>>>>>> something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based >>>>>>>>> on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second
    paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing the >>>>>>> point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING
    that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying to >>>>> debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be
    paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where you
    talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical format, >>>>> you eventually need to combine those two into a single decider to
    give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference
    between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider (which
    is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm allowed to
    do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system that
    defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?


    All you are doing is proving you don't understand, or don't care about
    being wrong.



    Sorry, you are just proving you don't understand what you are talking
    about.

    A "Computation", which a decider is a special case of, is only
    ALLOWED to process the input it is given, and its output must be
    strictly determined by it.

    If it can somwhow generate two (or more) different answers for a
    given input, it is BY DEFINITION incorrect, as the problem statement
    only gives one correct answer, so giving two different answers is
    automatically incorrect.



    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur
    getting that from


    then the paradox input is just the one that you used.

    That is your problem, you don't understand that the decider is chosen
    FIRST, and THEM we show the input it will fail on.


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not
    the two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what you >>>>> are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't >>>>>>> understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which >>>>>>>>> appears to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to
    "subscribe" to there service to see how is mentioning my name >>>>>>>>> is part of the cause for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying to >>>>>>>>> get people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING
    something and showing you understand the meaning behind it, and >>>>>>>>> not just say the world is wrong because it won't give me my >>>>>>>>> unicorns, and the world with unicorns would be so much better. >>>>>>>>>

    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of >>>>>>>>>> turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, >>>>>>>> that we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and >>>>>>> thus if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe >>>>>> the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to
    understand either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've >>>>>> proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.

    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending 20
    just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro

    Perhaps you don't understand that I am trying to show you how stupid
    your logic is.

    why are you writing paragraphs instead of pseudo-code?

    i don't buy this shit in the slightest

    So, you can't read english?

    psuedo-code forces to u actually reckon about the gishgallop u keep
    putting out, which why i want to see it




    I don't need to "prove" my ability, because here I am not making
    claims that aren't generally accepted. I can rely on the fact that
    they are well proven statements.

    YOU are the one that needs to show you know something, but the fact
    you keep on talking about nonsense, like deciders that either take
    the WRONG input (because they need to be given a context that the
    question doesn't actually depend on) or change their answer based on
    something that isn't the input.

    Both of these just prove that your decider can't be correct.

    The answer for the behavior of an actual machine doesn't depend on
    the context of the machine asking the question, as that doesn't
    actually change the behavior of the machine in question. Thus,
    changing your answer based on it is just wrong.

    And, when you back of and admit you are just doing partial deciding,
    you balk at the comment that this is a "solved" problem, there are
    LOTS of partial deciders, so you need to show why yours is better, or
    at a minimum, nearly as good as, what the current methods produce.

    Old Hat results aren't really meaningful or interesting.




    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted all >>>>>> my discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not consider >>>>> you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or
    consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous logic
    is valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't
    respect normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend
    money for likely no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to
    put your paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA >>>>>
    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to be >>>>> taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find something
    you can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable,
    and choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have no
    value to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand >>>>>>>>> how logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, >>>>>>>>>>> as you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people >>>>>>>>>>> when they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that >>>>>>>>>>> doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife >>>>>>>>>>> clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another >>>>>>>>>>> crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain >>>>>>>>>>> cell can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they >>>>>>>>>>> have questions, they can learn the answers from the source. >>>>>>>>>>>
    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even >>>>>>>>>> just a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, >>>>>>>>>>>>> your psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation >>>>>>>>>>>>> that turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk >>>>>>>>>>>>>> reactions from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot ever??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it >>>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what you >>>>>>>>>>> are talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others to >>>>>>>>>>>>> do the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> need to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    Expecting people to just hand you that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> information means you never learned how to learn, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and thus made your self fundamentally ignorant. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    it's just not a problem that can even effect u >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really




































    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 16:30:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 2:59 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 23/02/2026 15:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    ...
    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into >>>>>>> critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no
    general semantic verification tools are in sight...

    And THAT is the dangerous stuff.

    It seems your arguement is that people shouldn't have such tools.

    AI GENERATION IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO AUTOMATED PROOFS???

    WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING???

    Of course not.

    Most AI is NOT "Proof" or even "Reasoning" based.

    Most AI is based on maximum likely Markov Chain processing.

    What does mostness have to do with it?


    Because you don't seem to understand what you are talking about,

    You seem to think that AI Generation *IS* equivalent to automated proof, when it isn't, as what is normally described as "AI" doesn't do that.

    at least we agree on that

    oh wait maybe u'd like to tell me how i'm wrong for agreeing with you
    ehh rick???


    I guess you still think that words don't need to mean what they mean, because you world is based on the existance of Unicorns.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben@bsb.me.uk to comp.theory on Wed Feb 25 00:41:36 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...
    Eh?!
    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one.

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal across defined across computable numbers

    Just for the record (dart200 has no interest in learning this stuff)
    that is not at all what Turing does in his 1936 paper. The argument is entirely finite. Nothing infinite is tested. Nothing needs to run for
    ever. The paper is available inline and anyone why cares to can go
    check for themselves.

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that machine
    D exists
    --
    Ben.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 16:54:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 4:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think >>>>
    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...
    Eh?!
    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one.

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation that
    enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent a
    "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal across
    defined across computable numbers

    Just for the record (dart200 has no interest in learning this stuff)
    that is not at all what Turing does in his 1936 paper. The argument is entirely finite. Nothing infinite is tested. Nothing needs to run for
    ever. The paper is available inline and anyone why cares to can go
    check for themselves.

    wow you taught this shit for years and ur actually *that* much of a
    retard??? god damn. what in the fuck is this fucking EfniEfiA???

    seriously stfu and post pseudo-code for his machine H defined on p247 of
    his 1936 paper

    this exact page is here:

    https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf#page=18


    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that machine >> D exists

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 21:13:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ]

    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer shitposters to ever be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the one you say you are, that is the Halting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Problem and / or the concept of problems >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being undecidable, then I guess you are just >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a pathological liar.

    And yes, if that is the case, no one can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you just don't understand what you are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about getting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the intentionally willful ignorance they throw >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing with a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem is to first understand the real nature >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of the problem and see what people have actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective.

    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on turing's original paper and can be reused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an enumeration exists. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to question the effectiveness of a total turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't meet >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the requirements to be put in the list, and the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to the machines that compute a computable number is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shown to non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> words together opposed to mine based on feels i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your statments to actually be based on FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given row isn't "complete" because that machine never >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does enumerate over all machines testing each one for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal or not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> H as described on p247 of turing's paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> numbers/, cause honestly u understand the algo he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've fucked up, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it does, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone >>>>>>>>>>>>> here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I >>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you >>>>>>>>>>> reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to >>>>>>>>>>> do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based >>>>>>>>>> on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second
    paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing >>>>>>>> the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING >>>>>> that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying
    to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be
    paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where you >>>>>> talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical
    format, you eventually need to combine those two into a single
    decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference
    between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider
    (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm allowed
    to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system that
    defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early 1900's.


    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking about?



    All you are doing is proving you don't understand, or don't care about
    being wrong.



    Sorry, you are just proving you don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    A "Computation", which a decider is a special case of, is only
    ALLOWED to process the input it is given, and its output must be
    strictly determined by it.

    If it can somwhow generate two (or more) different answers for a
    given input, it is BY DEFINITION incorrect, as the problem statement
    only gives one correct answer, so giving two different answers is
    automatically incorrect.



    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur
    getting that from


    then the paradox input is just the one that you used.

    That is your problem, you don't understand that the decider is
    chosen FIRST, and THEM we show the input it will fail on.


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not
    the two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what
    you are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you don't >>>>>>>> understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which >>>>>>>>>> appears to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to >>>>>>>>>> "subscribe" to there service to see how is mentioning my name >>>>>>>>>> is part of the cause for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying >>>>>>>>>> to get people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING
    something and showing you understand the meaning behind it, >>>>>>>>>> and not just say the world is wrong because it won't give me >>>>>>>>>> my unicorns, and the world with unicorns would be so much better. >>>>>>>>>>

    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of >>>>>>>>>>> turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, >>>>>>>>> that we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and >>>>>>>> thus if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to describe >>>>>>> the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur incapable to
    understand either turing's proof, or the various resolutions i've >>>>>>> proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.

    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending 20 >>>>> just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro

    Perhaps you don't understand that I am trying to show you how stupid
    your logic is.

    why are you writing paragraphs instead of pseudo-code?

    i don't buy this shit in the slightest

    So, you can't read english?

    psuedo-code forces to u actually reckon about the gishgallop u keep
    putting out, which why i want to see it




    I don't need to "prove" my ability, because here I am not making
    claims that aren't generally accepted. I can rely on the fact that
    they are well proven statements.

    YOU are the one that needs to show you know something, but the fact
    you keep on talking about nonsense, like deciders that either take
    the WRONG input (because they need to be given a context that the
    question doesn't actually depend on) or change their answer based on
    something that isn't the input.

    Both of these just prove that your decider can't be correct.

    The answer for the behavior of an actual machine doesn't depend on
    the context of the machine asking the question, as that doesn't
    actually change the behavior of the machine in question. Thus,
    changing your answer based on it is just wrong.

    And, when you back of and admit you are just doing partial deciding,
    you balk at the comment that this is a "solved" problem, there are
    LOTS of partial deciders, so you need to show why yours is better,
    or at a minimum, nearly as good as, what the current methods produce.

    Old Hat results aren't really meaningful or interesting.




    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted
    all my discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not
    consider you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or
    consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous logic >>>>>> is valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't
    respect normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend
    money for likely no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to >>>>>> put your paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA >>>>>>
    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to
    be taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find
    something you can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable,
    and choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have no >>>>>> value to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand >>>>>>>>>> how logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, >>>>>>>>>>>> as you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing people >>>>>>>>>>>> when they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that >>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife >>>>>>>>>>>> clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another >>>>>>>>>>>> crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a brain >>>>>>>>>>>> cell can see that your ideas are baseless, and that if they >>>>>>>>>>>> have questions, they can learn the answers from the source. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even >>>>>>>>>>> just a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine D, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> your psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a operation >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reactions from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot behind it >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what >>>>>>>>>>>> you are talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to do the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> need to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    Expecting people to just hand you that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> information means you never learned how to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> learn, and thus made your self fundamentally >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> u really







































    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 21:13:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you
    think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by
    one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they
    represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to
    diagonal across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H,
    assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of
    computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they
    continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based on
    Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting problem, but
    he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem,
    claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine D in
    Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some decision
    problems are undecidable, thus answering the Entscheidungsproblem in the negative.

    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting Problem,
    and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might be procedures
    that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of which
    will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine
    satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be such a test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of
    computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable
    sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating computable
    sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out whether a given
    number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and we have no general
    process for doing this in a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that
    enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an
    uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out natural
    numbers to find possible machines that might compute "computable
    numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every
    possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the decision test, create the computable numbers in a specified order, but you can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.



    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem, which he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are
    undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually handle
    the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used for it.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 21:13:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 7:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 2:59 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 23/02/2026 15:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    ...
    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into >>>>>>>> critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no >>>>>>> general semantic verification tools are in sight...

    And THAT is the dangerous stuff.

    It seems your arguement is that people shouldn't have such tools.

    AI GENERATION IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO AUTOMATED PROOFS???

    WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING???

    Of course not.

    Most AI is NOT "Proof" or even "Reasoning" based.

    Most AI is based on maximum likely Markov Chain processing.

    What does mostness have to do with it?


    Because you don't seem to understand what you are talking about,

    You seem to think that AI Generation *IS* equivalent to automated
    proof, when it isn't, as what is normally described as "AI" doesn't do
    that.

    at least we agree on that

    oh wait maybe u'd like to tell me how i'm wrong for agreeing with you
    ehh rick???

    Then why did you put the ??? after your statement?

    Note, YOU are the one who mentioned it, and I pointed out that it was dangerous to do so, I never equated it with proving.




    I guess you still think that words don't need to mean what they mean,
    because you world is based on the existance of Unicorns.



    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 21:13:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 7:54 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you
    think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...
    Eh?!
    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by
    one.

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that
    enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent a
    "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal across >>> defined across computable numbers

    Just for the record (dart200 has no interest in learning this stuff)
    that is not at all what Turing does in his 1936 paper.-a The argument is
    entirely finite.-a Nothing infinite is tested.-a Nothing needs to run for
    ever.-a The paper is available inline and anyone why cares to can go
    check for themselves.

    wow you taught this shit for years and ur actually *that* much of a retard??? god damn. what in the fuck is this fucking EfniEfiA???

    seriously stfu and post pseudo-code for his machine H defined on p247 of
    his 1936 paper

    this exact page is here:

    https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf#page=18


    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine
    D exists



    The "Decision" machine is FINITE, and (if it existed) would always
    answer in finite time.

    The machines being decided on, run forever, not the machines doing the deciding.

    It seems YOU are the retard.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 18:48:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boomer shitposters to ever be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care


    If the problem you are trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> isn't the one you say you are, that is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Halting Problem and / or the concept of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problems being undecidable, then I guess >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> express the problem you see, perhaps >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because you just don't understand what you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are talking about.

    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about getting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the intentionally willful ignorance they throw >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a problem is to first understand the real >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nature of the problem and see what people have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is ur so dumb as fuck

    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was proven on turing's original paper and can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't amoung >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the list of numbers enumerated by the list of machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to question the effectiveness of a total turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't meet >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the requirements to be put in the list, and the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to the machines that compute a computable number is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shown to non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> words together opposed to mine based on feels i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your statments to actually be based on FACTS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> given row isn't "complete" because that machine never >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does enumerate over all machines testing each one for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal or not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    write me psuedocode that accurately represents machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> H as described on p247 of turing's paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/, cause honestly u understand the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it does, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone >>>>>>>>>>>>>> here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I >>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you >>>>>>>>>>>> reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to >>>>>>>>>>>> do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was based >>>>>>>>>>> on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second
    paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing >>>>>>>>> the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point

    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so NOTHING >>>>>>> that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying >>>>>>> to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be
    paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where
    you talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical >>>>>>> format, you eventually need to combine those two into a single
    decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference >>>>>> between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider
    (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm allowed
    to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system that
    defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early 1900's.

    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking about?

    and what if they got "the rules" wrong?




    All you are doing is proving you don't understand, or don't care
    about being wrong.



    Sorry, you are just proving you don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    A "Computation", which a decider is a special case of, is only
    ALLOWED to process the input it is given, and its output must be
    strictly determined by it.

    If it can somwhow generate two (or more) different answers for a
    given input, it is BY DEFINITION incorrect, as the problem
    statement only gives one correct answer, so giving two different
    answers is automatically incorrect.



    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur
    getting that from


    then the paradox input is just the one that you used.

    That is your problem, you don't understand that the decider is
    chosen FIRST, and THEM we show the input it will fail on.


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not >>>>>>> the two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what >>>>>>> you are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you
    don't understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which >>>>>>>>>>> appears to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to >>>>>>>>>>> "subscribe" to there service to see how is mentioning my name >>>>>>>>>>> is part of the cause for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying >>>>>>>>>>> to get people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING >>>>>>>>>>> something and showing you understand the meaning behind it, >>>>>>>>>>> and not just say the world is wrong because it won't give me >>>>>>>>>>> my unicorns, and the world with unicorns would be so much >>>>>>>>>>> better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of >>>>>>>>>>>> turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, >>>>>>>>>> that we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H

    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, and >>>>>>>>> thus if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to
    describe the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur
    incapable to understand either turing's proof, or the various >>>>>>>> resolutions i've proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at.

    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending
    20 just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro

    Perhaps you don't understand that I am trying to show you how
    stupid your logic is.

    why are you writing paragraphs instead of pseudo-code?

    i don't buy this shit in the slightest

    So, you can't read english?

    psuedo-code forces to u actually reckon about the gishgallop u keep
    putting out, which why i want to see it




    I don't need to "prove" my ability, because here I am not making
    claims that aren't generally accepted. I can rely on the fact that
    they are well proven statements.

    YOU are the one that needs to show you know something, but the fact >>>>> you keep on talking about nonsense, like deciders that either take
    the WRONG input (because they need to be given a context that the
    question doesn't actually depend on) or change their answer based
    on something that isn't the input.

    Both of these just prove that your decider can't be correct.

    The answer for the behavior of an actual machine doesn't depend on
    the context of the machine asking the question, as that doesn't
    actually change the behavior of the machine in question. Thus,
    changing your answer based on it is just wrong.

    And, when you back of and admit you are just doing partial
    deciding, you balk at the comment that this is a "solved" problem,
    there are LOTS of partial deciders, so you need to show why yours
    is better, or at a minimum, nearly as good as, what the current
    methods produce.

    Old Hat results aren't really meaningful or interesting.




    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted >>>>>>>> all my discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not
    consider you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or
    consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous
    logic is valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't
    respect normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend >>>>>>> money for likely no real benifit. How much did you need to pay to >>>>>>> put your paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA >>>>>>>
    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to >>>>>>> be taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find
    something you can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable, >>>>>>> and choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have >>>>>>> no value to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand >>>>>>>>>>> how logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it says, >>>>>>>>>>>>> as you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing >>>>>>>>>>>>> people when they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that >>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you wife >>>>>>>>>>>>> clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of another >>>>>>>>>>>>> crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a >>>>>>>>>>>>> brain cell can see that your ideas are baseless, and that >>>>>>>>>>>>> if they have questions, they can learn the answers from the >>>>>>>>>>>>> source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or even >>>>>>>>>>>> just a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D, your psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> operation that turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reactions from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot >>>>>>>>>>>>>> behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what >>>>>>>>>>>>> you are talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to do the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist.




    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You really >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> need to implement your interface.



    what in the fuck are you going on about??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    Expecting people to just hand you that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> information means you never learned how to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> learn, and thus made your self fundamentally >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even effect >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> u really







































    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 18:55:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by >>>>> one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they
    represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to
    diagonal across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H,
    assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of
    computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they
    continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based on
    Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting problem,
    but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem,
    claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting problem and
    the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper was on the
    satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i wanted to address the
    source


    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine D in Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some decision
    problems are undecidable, thus answering the Entscheidungsproblem in the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be
    answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck
    industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let alone address it in a considerate manner

    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've waded
    thru in my explorations


    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting Problem,
    and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might be procedures
    that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of which
    will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine
    satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be such a test. >>>
    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of
    computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable
    sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating computable
    sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out whether a given
    number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and we have no general
    process for doing this in a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that
    enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an
    uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out natural
    numbers to find possible machines that might compute "computable
    numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every
    possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the decision test, create the computable numbers in a specified order, but you can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you produce a
    correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking so much
    smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo




    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem, which
    he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are
    undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually handle
    the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used for it.

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 18:59:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:54 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...
    Eh?!
    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by >>>>> one.

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that
    enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent a
    "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across
    defined across computable numbers

    Just for the record (dart200 has no interest in learning this stuff)
    that is not at all what Turing does in his 1936 paper.-a The argument is >>> entirely finite.-a Nothing infinite is tested.-a Nothing needs to run for >>> ever.-a The paper is available inline and anyone why cares to can go
    check for themselves.

    wow you taught this shit for years and ur actually *that* much of a
    retard??? god damn. what in the fuck is this fucking EfniEfiA???

    seriously stfu and post pseudo-code for his machine H defined on p247
    of his 1936 paper

    this exact page is here:

    https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf#page=18


    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's >>>> proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine
    D exists



    The "Decision" machine is FINITE, and (if it existed) would always
    answer in finite time.

    The machines being decided on, run forever, not the machines doing the deciding.

    It seems YOU are the retard.

    the *diagonal* machine H he construct is intended to be an infinite
    running machines computing the diagonal across the "satisfactory"
    computable numbers. he literally describes iterating across all the
    integers in his paper, testing each one with D:

    /In the first NrCo1 sections, among other things, the integers 1, 2,...,
    NrCo 1 have been written down and tested by the machine D/

    what in the fuck are you guys smoking???
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 19:00:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 2:59 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 23/02/2026 15:02, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:02 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    ...
    No, I mean things like compliers to generate code that goes into >>>>>>>>> critical systems.

    well they're all spitting out AI generated slop these day, and no >>>>>>>> general semantic verification tools are in sight...

    And THAT is the dangerous stuff.

    It seems your arguement is that people shouldn't have such tools. >>>>>>
    AI GENERATION IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO AUTOMATED PROOFS???

    WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING???

    Of course not.

    Most AI is NOT "Proof" or even "Reasoning" based.

    Most AI is based on maximum likely Markov Chain processing.

    What does mostness have to do with it?


    Because you don't seem to understand what you are talking about,

    You seem to think that AI Generation *IS* equivalent to automated
    proof, when it isn't, as what is normally described as "AI" doesn't
    do that.

    at least we agree on that

    oh wait maybe u'd like to tell me how i'm wrong for agreeing with you
    ehh rick???

    Then why did you put the ??? after your statement?

    Note, YOU are the one who mentioned it, and I pointed out that it was dangerous to do so, I never equated it with proving.

    LOL i can't even agree with you in a correct manner, jesus




    I guess you still think that words don't need to mean what they mean,
    because you world is based on the existance of Unicorns.



    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 22:52:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucking boomer shitposters to ever be any >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If the problem you are trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> isn't the one you say you are, that is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Halting Problem and / or the concept of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> problems being undecidable, then I guess >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually express the problem you see, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the intentionally willful ignorance they >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a problem is to first understand the real >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nature of the problem and see what people have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually done.

    u don't even understand what a basic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was proven on turing's original paper and can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amoung the list of numbers enumerated by the list of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a valid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to question the effectiveness of a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't meet >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the requirements to be put in the list, and the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines to the machines that compute a computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number is shown to non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your enumerations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly putting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> words together opposed to mine based on feels i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your statments to actually be based on FACTS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking LLM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machines, but of all machines that compute a number, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise we need to deal with the possibility that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a given row isn't "complete" because that machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> never generates enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does enumerate over all machines testing each one for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the diagonal or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H as described on p247 of turing's paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/, cause honestly u understand the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it does, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate someone >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I >>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you >>>>>>>>>>>>> reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem to >>>>>>>>>>>>> do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was >>>>>>>>>>>> based on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second >>>>>>>>>> paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing >>>>>>>>>> the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point >>>>>>>>
    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so
    NOTHING that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are trying >>>>>>>> to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be
    paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where >>>>>>>> you talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical >>>>>>>> format, you eventually need to combine those two into a single >>>>>>>> decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the difference >>>>>>> between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" decider
    (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input.

    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm allowed >>>>> to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system that
    defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early 1900's.

    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking about?

    and what if they got "the rules" wrong?

    They can't, as they defined the problem and its rules.

    "Wrong" isn't applicable there.

    That is like saying what if Apples weren't apples, because someone
    misdefined what an apple was.

    An apple *IS* what it was defined to be.

    If you want to try, you can try to show where the definition leads to something inconsistant. Like something being both an apple and not an
    apple, but you can't say that they were wrong and oranges should actualy
    be called apples.

    As I have said, you fundamentally don't seem to understand how "logic"
    works.

    You are free to try to define your own, but you would really need to
    FULLY define you system, and then show it is worth using. A task that
    seems clearly beyond your ability,





    All you are doing is proving you don't understand, or don't care
    about being wrong.



    Sorry, you are just proving you don't understand what you are
    talking about.

    A "Computation", which a decider is a special case of, is only
    ALLOWED to process the input it is given, and its output must be
    strictly determined by it.

    If it can somwhow generate two (or more) different answers for a
    given input, it is BY DEFINITION incorrect, as the problem
    statement only gives one correct answer, so giving two different
    answers is automatically incorrect.



    i never use more than one decider in a diagonal, idk where ur
    getting that from


    then the paradox input is just the one that you used.

    That is your problem, you don't understand that the decider is
    chosen FIRST, and THEM we show the input it will fail on.


    The "paradoxical" input will be built on THAT final decider, not >>>>>>>> the two intermediate deciders.

    Your attempts just show you don't understand the nature of what >>>>>>>> you are talking about.



    And by the end of the first page, you demonstrate that you >>>>>>>>>> don't understand the basics of the field.



    In fact, the fact you asked me to look at your paper, which >>>>>>>>>>>> appears to be on a spammer site that keeps on asking me to >>>>>>>>>>>> "subscribe" to there service to see how is mentioning my >>>>>>>>>>>> name is part of the cause for some of my attitude.

    It seems you are nothing but a stupid scammer that is trying >>>>>>>>>>>> to get people to pay to hear your lies.

    Prove you have some actual intelegence by actually DOING >>>>>>>>>>>> something and showing you understand the meaning behind it, >>>>>>>>>>>> and not just say the world is wrong because it won't give me >>>>>>>>>>>> my unicorns, and the world with unicorns would be so much >>>>>>>>>>>> better.


    i want to see someone else in this group do it:

    Why?


    assume D exists, what is the pseudo-code for H from p247 of >>>>>>>>>>>>> turing's paper

    But it doesn't, so why do it.

    first line of p247:

    /Let us suppose that there is such a process; that is to say, >>>>>>>>>>> that we can invent a machine D/ [Tur36 p247]

    please make that assumption and write the algorithm for H >>>>>>>>>>
    Why?

    And the algorithm for H will DEPEND on the algorithm for D, >>>>>>>>>> and thus if D doesn't exist, neither does H.

    cause if u can't give me a simple 10 line pseudo-code to
    describe the algorithm used then i'll have to assume ur
    incapable to understand either turing's proof, or the various >>>>>>>>> resolutions i've proposed

    And you would be wrong as usual.

    Of course, being wrong is the one thing you seem to be good at. >>>>>>>
    instead of actual writing down a 10 line psuedocode, ur spending >>>>>>> 20 just talking shit

    i don't buy it in the slightest bro

    Perhaps you don't understand that I am trying to show you how
    stupid your logic is.

    why are you writing paragraphs instead of pseudo-code?

    i don't buy this shit in the slightest

    So, you can't read english?

    psuedo-code forces to u actually reckon about the gishgallop u keep
    putting out, which why i want to see it




    I don't need to "prove" my ability, because here I am not making
    claims that aren't generally accepted. I can rely on the fact that >>>>>> they are well proven statements.

    YOU are the one that needs to show you know something, but the
    fact you keep on talking about nonsense, like deciders that either >>>>>> take the WRONG input (because they need to be given a context that >>>>>> the question doesn't actually depend on) or change their answer
    based on something that isn't the input.

    Both of these just prove that your decider can't be correct.

    The answer for the behavior of an actual machine doesn't depend on >>>>>> the context of the machine asking the question, as that doesn't
    actually change the behavior of the machine in question. Thus,
    changing your answer based on it is just wrong.

    And, when you back of and admit you are just doing partial
    deciding, you balk at the comment that this is a "solved" problem, >>>>>> there are LOTS of partial deciders, so you need to show why yours >>>>>> is better, or at a minimum, nearly as good as, what the current
    methods produce.

    Old Hat results aren't really meaningful or interesting.




    in which case idk,

    i can buy a gun and shoot myself cause i really have exhausted >>>>>>>>> all my discussion options by now.

    MAYBE you can, depending on where you live, they might not
    consider you competent to have one in some places.



    everyone is too far ethically gone to have any compassion or >>>>>>>>> consideration,

    No, YOU are the one ethically gone, thinking that fallicaous
    logic is valid, and that people "owe" you support.

    Clearly you chose to put your "papers" on a site that doesn't >>>>>>>> respect normal deciency, but just trying to get people to spend >>>>>>>> money for likely no real benifit. How much did you need to pay >>>>>>>> to put your paper there?


    and i have no desire to participate further in this unholy EfniEfiA >>>>>>>>
    Then don't.

    It is clear you can't understand the basics, and have refused to >>>>>>>> be taught, so the best thing to do is to give up and find
    something you can do.

    When you set your life on trying to reach something unreachable, >>>>>>>> and choose to piss of those trying to help you, you really have >>>>>>>> no value to society.





    All you have done is proved you are too stupid to understand >>>>>>>>>>>> how logic works.



    Your problem is you don't actually understand what it >>>>>>>>>>>>>> says, as you think it is all wrong.

    YOU are the one asking for help, and then critisizing >>>>>>>>>>>>>> people when they do so.

    YOU are the one showing yourself to be just a jerk that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    As far as I care, you can just starve yourself and you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> wife clinging to your absurd ideas and rid the world of >>>>>>>>>>>>>> another crackpot.

    I'm just putting enough information that anyone with a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> brain cell can see that your ideas are baseless, and that >>>>>>>>>>>>>> if they have questions, they can learn the answers from >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the source.

    The world doesn't owe you a living.

    clearly the world doesn't even owe me life, liberty, or >>>>>>>>>>>>> even just a pursuit of happiness anymore




    Since each iteration just uses a testing by the machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D, your psuedo- code loop is just a reference to a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> operation that turns out not to exist.


    i really am just getting a bunch retarded kneejerk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reactions from u eh??? not even a second of deep thot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ever???

    It isn't my job to do the thinking for you.

    instead, ur spitting out gishgallop that has no thot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> behind it

    Nope, you are just showing that you don't understand what >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you are talking about.



    That is why you are so stupid, you seem to expect others >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to do the work you want to do.




    i doubt ben does either

    god cs theorists are total fucking pussy wackjobs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your problem is you assume unicorns exist. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    there is a largest natural number... ;^) You >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> really need to implement your interface. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    what in the fuck are you going on about??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



    Expecting people to just hand you that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> information means you never learned how to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> learn, and thus made your self fundamentally >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ignorant.




    it's just not a problem that can even >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> effect u really










































    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 22:52:36 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 9:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one
    by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one
    of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and
    adding that to diagonal across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H,
    assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of
    computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they
    continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based on
    Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting problem,
    but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem,
    claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting problem and
    the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper was on the
    satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i wanted to address the source

    Then you shouldn't have started (and continued) about talking about the Halting Problem and contray machines.

    Note, This paper never (as far as I remember) works by creating a
    specific "contrary" or 'paradoxical" machine to decide on. The error
    comes naturally out of the problem itself.



    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine D in
    Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some decision
    problems are undecidable, thus answering the Entscheidungsproblem in
    the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be
    answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    WHAT OTHER "INTERFACES"?

    He shows a problem that can not be decided. PERIOD.

    Your "Interface" seems to be one of your undefinable terms.


    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck
    industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let alone address it in a considerate manner

    No, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've waded
    thru in my explorations

    It seems your brain has completed its rot.



    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting
    Problem, and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might be
    procedures that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of
    which will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine
    satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be such a
    test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of
    computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable
    sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating computable
    sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out whether a
    given number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and we have no
    general process for doing this in a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that
    enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an
    uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out natural
    numbers to find possible machines that might compute "computable
    numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every
    possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the decision
    test, create the computable numbers in a specified order, but you
    can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you produce a correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking so much smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo

    Nope, YOU are the one with brain rot.





    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem, which
    he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are
    undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually handle
    the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used for it.




    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 22:52:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 9:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:54 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...
    Eh?!
    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one
    by one.

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that
    enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent a >>>>> "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across
    defined across computable numbers

    Just for the record (dart200 has no interest in learning this stuff)
    that is not at all what Turing does in his 1936 paper.-a The argument is >>>> entirely finite.-a Nothing infinite is tested.-a Nothing needs to run for >>>> ever.-a The paper is available inline and anyone why cares to can go
    check for themselves.

    wow you taught this shit for years and ur actually *that* much of a
    retard??? god damn. what in the fuck is this fucking EfniEfiA???

    seriously stfu and post pseudo-code for his machine H defined on p247
    of his 1936 paper

    this exact page is here:

    https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf#page=18


    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's >>>>> proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine
    D exists



    The "Decision" machine is FINITE, and (if it existed) would always
    answer in finite time.

    The machines being decided on, run forever, not the machines doing the
    deciding.

    It seems YOU are the retard.

    the *diagonal* machine H he construct is intended to be an infinite
    running machines computing the diagonal across the "satisfactory"
    computable numbers. he literally describes iterating across all the
    integers in his paper, testing each one with D:

    /In the first NrCo1 sections, among other things, the integers 1, 2,..., N rCo 1 have been written down and tested by the machine D/

    what in the fuck are you guys smoking???


    But the DECIDER is D, not H. H is just the machine that proves that D
    can't do its job. H is sort of the equivalent to the paradoxical machine
    of the Halting Problem proof. What ever answer D gives when given the
    S.D of H will be wrong.

    I guess you just don't understand what "deciding" means.


    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 20:06:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucking boomer shitposters to ever be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If the problem you are trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> isn't the one you say you are, that is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Halting Problem and / or the concept >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of problems being undecidable, then I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> guess you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually express the problem you see, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> perhaps because you just don't understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the intentionally willful ignorance they >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> throw at me is like

    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was proven on turing's original paper and can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amoung the list of numbers enumerated by the list >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to question the effectiveness of a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't meet >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the requirements to be put in the list, and the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines to the machines that compute a computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number is shown to non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerations is what breaks your logic.



    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> putting words together opposed to mine based on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feels i can't even remotely understand

    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your statments to actually be based on FACTS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LLM programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing Machines, but of all machines that compute a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number, otherwise we need to deal with the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> possibility that a given row isn't "complete" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because that machine never generates enough numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does enumerate over all machines testing each one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H as described on p247 of turing's paper /on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable numbers/, cause honestly u understand the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines u've >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucked up, it's not a complex algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist?

    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does, but put it in a form of psuedo-code

    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> someone here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> reading in december, why are you telling me i can't seem >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was >>>>>>>>>>>>> based on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second >>>>>>>>>>> paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually adressing >>>>>>>>>>> the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point >>>>>>>>>
    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so
    NOTHING that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are
    trying to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be >>>>>>>>> paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where >>>>>>>>> you talk about using two decider to try to beat the paradoxical >>>>>>>>> format, you eventually need to combine those two into a single >>>>>>>>> decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the
    difference between using a standard decider, and using a "fixed" >>>>>>>> decider (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input. >>>>>>
    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm
    allowed to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system that
    defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early 1900's.

    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking about?

    and what if they got "the rules" wrong?

    They can't, as they defined the problem and its rules.

    wow, didn't realize cs theory came from infallible gods...

    i mean, the mere fact ur talking like that is kind of very much
    religious discussion, not mathematical, and lends itself to u being irrationally biased

    which seems to be the result of my conversation with u
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 20:13:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one >>>>>>> by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one >>>>>> of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and
    adding that to diagonal across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H,
    assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of
    computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they
    continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based on
    Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting problem,
    but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem,
    claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting problem
    and the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper was on the
    satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i wanted to address the
    source

    Then you shouldn't have started (and continued) about talking about the Halting Problem and contray machines.

    Note, This paper never (as far as I remember) works by creating a
    specific "contrary" or 'paradoxical" machine to decide on. The error
    comes naturally out of the problem itself.

    if u had read my paper (not just like glanced at it), u'd know there is
    a method to construct the diagonal computation such that it avoids
    stumbling on deciding on itself,

    but turing's purpose was the construct a contradiction, not figure out
    what a working diagonal computation would look like




    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine D
    in Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some decision
    problems are undecidable, thus answering the Entscheidungsproblem in
    the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be
    answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    WHAT OTHER "INTERFACES"?

    i've described a variety of them thus far


    He shows a problem that can not be decided. PERIOD.

    Your "Interface" seems to be one of your undefinable terms.

    i've defined it many times to u



    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck
    industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let
    alone address it in a considerate manner

    No, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've waded
    thru in my explorations

    It seems your brain has completed its rot.



    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting
    Problem, and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might be
    procedures that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of
    which will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine
    satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be such a
    test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of
    computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable
    sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating
    computable sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out
    whether a given number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and we
    have no general process for doing this in a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that
    enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an
    uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out natural
    numbers to find possible machines that might compute "computable
    numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every
    possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the decision
    test, create the computable numbers in a specified order, but you
    can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you produce a
    correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking so
    much smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo

    Nope, YOU are the one with brain rot.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing






    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem,
    which he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are
    undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually handle
    the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used for
    it.




    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 20:16:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:59 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:54 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...
    Eh?!
    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one >>>>>>> by one.

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that
    enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent a >>>>>> "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal >>>>>> across
    defined across computable numbers

    Just for the record (dart200 has no interest in learning this stuff) >>>>> that is not at all what Turing does in his 1936 paper.-a The
    argument is
    entirely finite.-a Nothing infinite is tested.-a Nothing needs to run >>>>> for
    ever.-a The paper is available inline and anyone why cares to can go >>>>> check for themselves.

    wow you taught this shit for years and ur actually *that* much of a
    retard??? god damn. what in the fuck is this fucking EfniEfiA???

    seriously stfu and post pseudo-code for his machine H defined on
    p247 of his 1936 paper

    this exact page is here:

    https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf#page=18


    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that >>>>>> machine
    D exists



    The "Decision" machine is FINITE, and (if it existed) would always
    answer in finite time.

    The machines being decided on, run forever, not the machines doing
    the deciding.

    It seems YOU are the retard.

    the *diagonal* machine H he construct is intended to be an infinite
    running machines computing the diagonal across the "satisfactory"
    computable numbers. he literally describes iterating across all the
    integers in his paper, testing each one with D:

    /In the first NrCo1 sections, among other things, the integers 1, 2,...,
    N rCo 1 have been written down and tested by the machine D/

    what in the fuck are you guys smoking???


    But the DECIDER is D, not H. H is just the machine that proves that D
    can't do its job. H is sort of the equivalent to the paradoxical machine
    of the Halting Problem proof. What ever answer D gives when given the
    S.D of H will be wrong.

    I guess you just don't understand what "deciding" means.

    ben said "nothing needs to run forever" ... and that's clearly false

    the diagonal computation is intended to be an indefinite computation,
    because it's computing an infinite sequence
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 23:29:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 11:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucking boomer shitposters to ever be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> solve

    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If the problem you are trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> isn't the one you say you are, that is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Halting Problem and / or the concept >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of problems being undecidable, then I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> guess you are just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    It seems your problem is you can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually express the problem you see, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> empathy left to really care much about >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> getting bashed

    lest they would begin to understand what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all the intentionally willful ignorance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was proven on turing's original paper and can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amoung the list of numbers enumerated by the list >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> valid result to put on the diagonal.



    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to question the effectiveness of a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> meet the requirements to be put in the list, and the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines to the machines that compute a computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number is shown to non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerations is what breaks your logic. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> putting words together opposed to mine based on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feels i can't even remotely understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't require >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your statments to actually be based on FACTS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LLM programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing Machines, but of all machines that compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a number, otherwise we need to deal with the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> possibility that a given row isn't "complete" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because that machine never generates enough numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> he does enumerate over all machines testing each >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H as described on p247 of turing's paper / >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on computable numbers/, cause honestly u understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the algo he wrote. if write more than like 15 lines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You mean the one he shows can't exist? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does, but put it in a form of psuedo-code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> someone here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you reading in december, why are you telling me i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> seem to do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was >>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second >>>>>>>>>>>> paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually
    adressing the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point >>>>>>>>>>
    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so >>>>>>>>>> NOTHING that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are >>>>>>>>>> trying to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be >>>>>>>>>> paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case where >>>>>>>>>> you talk about using two decider to try to beat the
    paradoxical format, you eventually need to combine those two >>>>>>>>>> into a single decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the
    difference between using a standard decider, and using a
    "fixed" decider (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input. >>>>>>>
    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm
    allowed to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system that >>>>>> defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early 1900's. >>>>
    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking
    about?

    and what if they got "the rules" wrong?

    They can't, as they defined the problem and its rules.

    wow, didn't realize cs theory came from infallible gods...

    i mean, the mere fact ur talking like that is kind of very much
    religious discussion, not mathematical, and lends itself to u being irrationally biased

    which seems to be the result of my conversation with u


    Which means you don't understand the nature of formal logic system.

    The definition of the system *IS* fixed at its creatation and is what it is.

    As I have said, if you want to create a different one, you can be your
    own "God" and create one. You just then take on the problem of actually defining it and then showing what it can do and convince others that it
    is worth using.

    The existing system is the one based on the defintions agreed to by the
    early workers in the field, and YOU can't change it and be in it,

    Your logic seems to be based on the lie that you can change something
    yet it still stays the same.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 23:29:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 11:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one >>>>>>>> by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one >>>>>>> of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and
    adding that to diagonal across defined across computable numbers >>>>>>>
    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H,
    assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of
    computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they
    continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based on >>>>>> Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting problem, >>>>> but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem,
    claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting problem
    and the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper was on the
    satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i wanted to address
    the source

    Then you shouldn't have started (and continued) about talking about
    the Halting Problem and contray machines.

    Note, This paper never (as far as I remember) works by creating a
    specific "contrary" or 'paradoxical" machine to decide on. The error
    comes naturally out of the problem itself.

    if u had read my paper (not just like glanced at it), u'd know there is
    a method to construct the diagonal computation such that it avoids
    stumbling on deciding on itself,

    Only by assuming that Unicorns exist.

    Since, as I pointed out, you LEFT the system in your first page by
    claiming falsehoods, you didn't prove anything in the system you claim
    to have been working on.


    but turing's purpose was the construct a contradiction, not figure out
    what a working diagonal computation would look like




    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine D
    in Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some decision
    problems are undecidable, thus answering the Entscheidungsproblem in
    the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be
    answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    WHAT OTHER "INTERFACES"?

    i've described a variety of them thus far

    Really?

    Not in the rules of Computation Theory, as your machines aren't machine
    as they don't include all their algorithm.



    He shows a problem that can not be decided. PERIOD.

    Your "Interface" seems to be one of your undefinable terms.

    i've defined it many times to u

    No, you use the word but not DEFINE it.

    It seems you don't know what a DEFINTION is.




    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck
    industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let
    alone address it in a considerate manner

    No, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've
    waded thru in my explorations

    It seems your brain has completed its rot.



    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting
    Problem, and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might be
    procedures that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of
    which will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine
    satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be such a >>>>>> test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of
    computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable >>>>>> sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating
    computable sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out
    whether a given number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and we >>>>>> have no general process for doing this in a finite number of steps. >>>>>>

    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that
    enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an
    uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out natural >>>>> numbers to find possible machines that might compute "computable
    numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every
    possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the decision
    test, create the computable numbers in a specified order, but you
    can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you produce
    a correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking so
    much smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo

    Nope, YOU are the one with brain rot.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing

    NO DEFINITIONS, nothing shown.

    If you want to ignore truth, you just prove your own stupidity,







    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done. >>>>>
    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem,
    which he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are
    undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually
    handle the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used
    for it.







    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 21:32:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 8:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucking boomer shitposters to ever be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any help

    u don't understand what i'm trying to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> solve

    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If the problem you are trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> isn't the one you say you are, that is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually express the problem you see, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> much empathy left to really care much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all the intentionally willful ignorance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    an effective enumeration of all turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines was proven on turing's original paper >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amoung the list of numbers enumerated by the list >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U SUBJECT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. His >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration isn't of all machines when he build the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal argument, as not all machines produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> valid result to put on the diagonal. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to question the effectiveness of a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> meet the requirements to be put in the list, and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines to the machines that compute a computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number is shown to non- computable.

    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerations is what breaks your logic. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> putting words together opposed to mine based on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feels i can't even remotely understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> require your statments to actually be based on FACTS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LLM programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing Machines, but of all machines that compute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a number, otherwise we need to deal with the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> possibility that a given row isn't "complete" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because that machine never generates enough numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle-free, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so he does enumerate over all machines testing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> each one for being "satisfactory" for inclusion on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the diagonal or not

    write me psuedocode that accurately represents >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H as described on p247 of turing's paper / >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on computable numbers/, cause honestly u >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand the algo he wrote. if write more than >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex algo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You mean the one he shows can't exist? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Because one of the steps we just need to assume can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is no machine H to construct.

    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does, but put it in a form of psuedo-code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> someone here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you reading in december, why are you telling me i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> seem to do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H

    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second >>>>>>>>>>>>> paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>> adressing the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point >>>>>>>>>>>
    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so >>>>>>>>>>> NOTHING that follows can be assumed to make any sense.

    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are >>>>>>>>>>> trying to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be >>>>>>>>>>> paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case >>>>>>>>>>> where you talk about using two decider to try to beat the >>>>>>>>>>> paradoxical format, you eventually need to combine those two >>>>>>>>>>> into a single decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the
    difference between using a standard decider, and using a
    "fixed" decider (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input. >>>>>>>>
    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm
    allowed to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system
    that defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early
    1900's.

    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking
    about?

    and what if they got "the rules" wrong?

    They can't, as they defined the problem and its rules.

    wow, didn't realize cs theory came from infallible gods...

    i mean, the mere fact ur talking like that is kind of very much
    religious discussion, not mathematical, and lends itself to u being
    irrationally biased

    which seems to be the result of my conversation with u


    Which means you don't understand the nature of formal logic system.

    The definition of the system *IS* fixed at its creatation and is what it
    is.

    lol even the axiom of formal set theory haven't been "fixed at
    creation", why would computation be so fixed?

    because some dick said so??? lol

    you're a terrible debater
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Feb 24 21:40:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/24/26 8:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each >>>>>>>> one of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, >>>>>>>> and adding that to diagonal across defined across computable
    numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>> turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, >>>>>>>> assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of
    computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they >>>>>>> continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based >>>>>>> on Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting
    problem, but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem,
    claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting problem
    and the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper was on the
    satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i wanted to address
    the source

    Then you shouldn't have started (and continued) about talking about
    the Halting Problem and contray machines.

    Note, This paper never (as far as I remember) works by creating a
    specific "contrary" or 'paradoxical" machine to decide on. The error
    comes naturally out of the problem itself.

    if u had read my paper (not just like glanced at it), u'd know there
    is a method to construct the diagonal computation such that it avoids
    stumbling on deciding on itself,

    Only by assuming that Unicorns exist.

    doesn't require a fixed decider to avoid itself, just a quine based self-reference

    u ofc don't know what i'm talking about and have demonstrated no
    capability to hold a coherent conversation

    Since, as I pointed out, you LEFT the system in your first page by
    claiming falsehoods, you didn't prove anything in the system you claim
    to have been working on.


    but turing's purpose was the construct a contradiction, not figure out
    what a working diagonal computation would look like




    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine D >>>>> in Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some decision
    problems are undecidable, thus answering the Entscheidungsproblem
    in the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be
    answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    WHAT OTHER "INTERFACES"?

    i've described a variety of them thus far

    Really?

    Not in the rules of Computation Theory, as your machines aren't machine
    as they don't include all their algorithm.

    u haven't defined the rules of computation theory, u just make random
    claims about it whenever the fuck




    He shows a problem that can not be decided. PERIOD.

    Your "Interface" seems to be one of your undefinable terms.

    i've defined it many times to u

    No, you use the word but not DEFINE it.

    it is the specification that a machine computes, or possibly some meta-specification

    but u don't debate honorably dick, u just reject every i say even when i
    agree


    It seems you don't know what a DEFINTION is.




    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck
    industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let
    alone address it in a considerate manner

    No, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've
    waded thru in my explorations

    It seems your brain has completed its rot.



    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting
    Problem, and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might be
    procedures that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of >>>>>>> which will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine
    satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be such >>>>>>> a test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of
    computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is
    computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the computable >>>>>>> sequences by finite means, but the problem of enumerating
    computable sequences is equivalent to the problem of finding out >>>>>>> whether a given number is the D.N of a circle-free machine, and >>>>>>> we have no general process for doing this in a finite number of >>>>>>> steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that >>>>>>> enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an >>>>>>> uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out
    natural numbers to find possible machines that might compute
    "computable numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every
    possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the decision
    test, create the computable numbers in a specified order, but you
    can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you produce
    a correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking so
    much smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo

    Nope, YOU are the one with brain rot.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing

    NO DEFINITIONS, nothing shown.

    If you want to ignore truth, you just prove your own stupidity,

    still no pseudo-code cause ur a fraud dick

    i'm honest not sure why u bother typing responses. ur words fall on deaf
    ears cause u refuse to write anything beyond shallow insults and random
    claims over rules that don't actually exist








    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being done. >>>>>>
    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem,
    which he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are
    undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually
    handle the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used
    for it.







    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 25 07:04:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/25/26 12:32 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 8:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucking boomer shitposters to ever be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> solve

    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If the problem you are trying to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> isn't the one you say you are, that is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Halting Problem and / or the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> concept of problems being undecidable, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then I guess you are just a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually express the problem you see, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> much empathy left to really care much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all the intentionally willful ignorance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand that the first step of dealing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with a problem is to first understand the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> real nature of the problem and see what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    an effective enumeration of all turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines was proven on turing's original >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amoung the list of numbers enumerated by the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> His enumeration isn't of all machines when he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> build the diagonal argument, as not all machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> produce a valid result to put on the diagonal. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to question the effectiveness of a total >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> turing machine enumeration

    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> meet the requirements to be put in the list, and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines to the machines that compute a computable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number is shown to non- computable. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerations is what breaks your logic. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> putting words together opposed to mine based on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feels i can't even remotely understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> require your statments to actually be based on FACTS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    honestly i might as well be talking to a freaking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LLM programmed to be contrarian

    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing Machines, but of all machines that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute a number, otherwise we need to deal with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the possibility that a given row isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "complete" because that machine never generates >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free, so he does enumerate over all machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> testing each one for being "satisfactory" for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inclusion on the diagonal or not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    write me psuedocode that accurately represents >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H as described on p247 of turing's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> paper / on computable numbers/, cause honestly u >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand the algo he wrote. if write more than >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Because one of the steps we just need to assume >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can be done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is no machine H to construct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does, but put it in a form of psuedo-code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> someone here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why should >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you reading in december, why are you telling me i can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> seem to do something i already did???

    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic.

    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second >>>>>>>>>>>>>> paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>> adressing the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point >>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE.

    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so >>>>>>>>>>>> NOTHING that follows can be assumed to make any sense. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are >>>>>>>>>>>> trying to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to be >>>>>>>>>>>> paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case >>>>>>>>>>>> where you talk about using two decider to try to beat the >>>>>>>>>>>> paradoxical format, you eventually need to combine those two >>>>>>>>>>>> into a single decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the
    difference between using a standard decider, and using a >>>>>>>>>>> "fixed" decider (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the input. >>>>>>>>>
    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm >>>>>>>>> allowed to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system >>>>>>>> that defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early
    1900's.

    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking >>>>>> about?

    and what if they got "the rules" wrong?

    They can't, as they defined the problem and its rules.

    wow, didn't realize cs theory came from infallible gods...

    i mean, the mere fact ur talking like that is kind of very much
    religious discussion, not mathematical, and lends itself to u being
    irrationally biased

    which seems to be the result of my conversation with u


    Which means you don't understand the nature of formal logic system.

    The definition of the system *IS* fixed at its creatation and is what
    it is.

    lol even the axiom of formal set theory haven't been "fixed at
    creation", why would computation be so fixed?

    because some dick said so??? lol

    you're a terrible debater


    You don't understand.

    "Set Theory" as a generic isn't define, except that it is generally
    accepted that the term will, for now, default to ZFC.

    ZFC as a set theory has fixed and defined.

    In the same way, "Computation Theory" as a generic refers to the theory
    as defined by the early authors in the field, which *IS* defined.

    As I said, you just don't understand how Formal Logic works.

    If you don't want to play in the existing system, create your own, but
    that means you need to do the actual work to do it.

    And, your system won't means diddly to the existing system, as it isn't it.

    If you do a good enough job, and it actually is more useful thant the existing, maybe your system can get adopted as the default by the field.
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Feb 25 07:04:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/25/26 12:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 8:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each >>>>>>>>> one of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, >>>>>>>>> and adding that to diagonal across defined across computable >>>>>>>>> numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>> turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, >>>>>>>>> assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of
    computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as they >>>>>>>> continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based >>>>>>>> on Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting
    problem, but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem,
    claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting problem >>>>> and the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper was on the >>>>> satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i wanted to address
    the source

    Then you shouldn't have started (and continued) about talking about
    the Halting Problem and contray machines.

    Note, This paper never (as far as I remember) works by creating a
    specific "contrary" or 'paradoxical" machine to decide on. The error
    comes naturally out of the problem itself.

    if u had read my paper (not just like glanced at it), u'd know there
    is a method to construct the diagonal computation such that it avoids
    stumbling on deciding on itself,

    Only by assuming that Unicorns exist.

    doesn't require a fixed decider to avoid itself, just a quine based self-reference

    Doesn't work. So, what answer does that quine based decider give for the question about itself?

    Either answer is still wrong.


    And how is being "quine based" keep it from being "fixed".

    It still is only one unique machine.


    u ofc don't know what i'm talking about and have demonstrated no
    capability to hold a coherent conversation

    No, YOU keep on making categorical errors not knowing the real meaning
    of the terms you are using.


    Since, as I pointed out, you LEFT the system in your first page by
    claiming falsehoods, you didn't prove anything in the system you claim
    to have been working on.


    but turing's purpose was the construct a contradiction, not figure
    out what a working diagonal computation would look like




    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine >>>>>> D in Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some decision >>>>>> problems are undecidable, thus answering the Entscheidungsproblem >>>>>> in the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be
    answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    WHAT OTHER "INTERFACES"?

    i've described a variety of them thus far

    Really?

    Not in the rules of Computation Theory, as your machines aren't
    machine as they don't include all their algorithm.

    u haven't defined the rules of computation theory, u just make random
    claims about it whenever the fuck

    I don't need to do that, as they ARE already defined in the literature.





    He shows a problem that can not be decided. PERIOD.

    Your "Interface" seems to be one of your undefinable terms.

    i've defined it many times to u

    No, you use the word but not DEFINE it.

    it is the specification that a machine computes, or possibly some meta- specification

    In other words, you are "solving" a problem by solving some other problem?




    but u don't debate honorably dick, u just reject every i say even when i agree

    It seems you are just admitting your logic is based on lying,

    If I have a classification decision problem, that problem has a
    specification of indicating which class an input lies in.

    What other "specification" can exist?

    All you seem to want to do is say that if you don't need to answer the question, you can answer the question.

    In other words, you want to make lies be truth.



    It seems you don't know what a DEFINTION is.




    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck
    industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let
    alone address it in a considerate manner

    No, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've
    waded thru in my explorations

    It seems your brain has completed its rot.



    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting
    Problem, and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might be >>>>>> procedures that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of >>>>>>>> which will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine >>>>>>>> satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be such >>>>>>>> a test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of
    computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is >>>>>>>> computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the
    computable sequences by finite means, but the problem of
    enumerating computable sequences is equivalent to the problem of >>>>>>>> finding out whether a given number is the D.N of a circle-free >>>>>>>> machine, and we have no general process for doing this in a
    finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration that >>>>>>>> enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that need an >>>>>>>> uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out
    natural numbers to find possible machines that might compute
    "computable numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every
    possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the decision >>>>>> test, create the computable numbers in a specified order, but you >>>>>> can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you
    produce a correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking so
    much smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo

    Nope, YOU are the one with brain rot.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing

    NO DEFINITIONS, nothing shown.

    If you want to ignore truth, you just prove your own stupidity,

    still no pseudo-code cause ur a fraud dick

    Still being stupid I see.



    i'm honest not sure why u bother typing responses. ur words fall on deaf ears cause u refuse to write anything beyond shallow insults and random claims over rules that don't actually exist

    Your problem is that you fundamentally don't understand what you are
    talking about, as your world seems to be based on the assumption that
    things don't need to be what they are, and that lies are valid.










    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being >>>>>>>> done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem, >>>>>>> which he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are
    undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually
    handle the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used >>>>>> for it.









    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 25 10:01:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/25/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/25/26 12:32 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 8:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:48 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:28 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:16 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 7:49 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 3:02 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 5:37 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 12:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:42 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/23/26 1:17 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 10:00 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/23/26 12:47 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/23/26 9:38 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/23/26 11:55 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/23/26 7:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 11:14 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 7:00 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:08 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/22/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 10:29 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 3:32 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 PM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 12:32 PM, Chris M. Thomasson >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2/21/2026 9:41 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 4:03 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/21/26 2:21 AM, dart200 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/20/26 4:39 PM, Richard Damon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -a> [ ...trash... ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    i suppose i shouldn't be expecting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fucking boomer shitposters to ever >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be any help >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't understand what i'm trying >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to solve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    or why it's even a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    so u *can't* care >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If the problem you are trying to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> solve isn't the one you say you are, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that is the Halting Problem and / or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the concept of problems being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> undecidable, then I guess you are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just a pathological liar. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And yes, if that is the case, no one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can help you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    It seems your problem is you can't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually express the problem you see, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> perhaps because you just don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand what you are talking about. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    ur old and will be dead in a decade or so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Oh man, thats rather harsh? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    ur all too old and lead addled to have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> much empathy left to really care much >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about getting bashed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    lest they would begin to understand what >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all the intentionally willful ignorance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they throw at me is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, it seems that the problem is you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> don't understand that the first step of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dealing with a problem is to first >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand the real nature of the problem >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and see what people have actually done. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    u don't even understand what a basic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration is ur so dumb as fuck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Sure I do. You don't understand when your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration needs to be effective. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    an effective enumeration of all turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines was proven on turing's original >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one? Don't tell me you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    yes that's what diagonal proofs do... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    NO, IT DOESN'T

    It shows that there exists a number that isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amoung the list of numbers enumerated by the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> list of machines.

    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ENUMERATING MACHINES U >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SUBJECT JUMPING TWAT

    talk about alzheimer's sheesh

    No, you are not, or at least your words aren't. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> His enumeration isn't of all machines when he >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> build the diagonal argument, as not all machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> produce a valid result to put on the diagonal. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    No "machine" ever needed to do that testing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he doesn't even need an "effective" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of machines, just that an >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration exists.

    i'm sorry bro ur literally a dribbling retard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for trying to question the effectiveness of a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> total turing machine enumeration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And you are a moron for confusing the effective >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumeration of ALL machines, many of which don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> meet the requirements to be put in the list, and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the enumeration of the machines that DO produce a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "computable number"

    The method to pair down the enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines to the machines that compute a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computable number is shown to non- computable. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You depending on Unicorns to prepare your >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerations is what breaks your logic. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    this isn't math anymore, it's just u randomly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> putting words together opposed to mine based on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feels i can't even remotely understand >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Yes, that is all YOU are doing, as you don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> require your statments to actually be based on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FACTS.


    honestly i might as well be talking to a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> freaking LLM programmed to be contrarian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    At least that wouldn't be wasting smart people's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> time.



    And note, it isn't even an enumeration of all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Turing Machines, but of all machines that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compute a number, otherwise we need to deal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with the possibility that a given row isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "complete" because that machine never generates >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enough numbers.

    he only simulates numbers for the diagonal that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are decided by D to be "satisfactory"/circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free, so he does enumerate over all machines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> testing each one for being "satisfactory" for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inclusion on the diagonal or not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    write me psuedocode that accurately represents >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine H as described on p247 of turing's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> paper / on computable numbers/, cause honestly u >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> understand the algo he wrote. if write more than >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like 15 lines u've fucked up, it's not a complex >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> algo

    You mean the one he shows can't exist? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Because one of the steps we just need to assume >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can be done, when it can't be.

    Note, the paper starts with a "Supposing there is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a Machine D", and if that is true, then "We could >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> construct H".

    Since he shows we can not have the machine D, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is no machine H to construct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    So, you questions is about the anatomy of a Unicorn. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    assume D exists and write the algo for H u fucking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> brainrotted moron... he describes exactly what it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> does, but put it in a form of psuedo-code >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Why, are you too stupid to do it?

    no i want to see u actually do it and demonstrate >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> someone here can read a fucking paper

    Since YOU don't seem to be able to do that, why >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> should I help you.

    i already did and put it in a paper i have a record of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you reading in december, why are you telling me i >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can't seem to do something i already did??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You mean that CRAP that assumes unicorns exist, and was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on category errors?

    yes, assume D exists and write the algorithm for H >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Why assume a lie?



    And, how do you know how much of it I read?

    apparently not even the 3rd page

    I stop when I hit a critical error in the logic. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Since you break the logic of your own paper by the second >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> paragraph, where you ADMIT that you aren't actually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> adressing the point you claim to be.

    ur looking just for excuses to not think at all by this point >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, YOU are looking for someone to validate your LIE. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Your paper begins with a number of categorical errors, so >>>>>>>>>>>>> NOTHING that follows can be assumed to make any sense. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    And, you show you don't understand the basc proof you are >>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to debunk.

    For instance, a "paradoxical" machine doesn't even try to >>>>>>>>>>>>> be paradoxical to two different deciders, but for your case >>>>>>>>>>>>> where you talk about using two decider to try to beat the >>>>>>>>>>>>> paradoxical format, you eventually need to combine those >>>>>>>>>>>>> two into a single decider to give the answer.

    in the paper i address his diagonals, i talk about the >>>>>>>>>>>> difference between using a standard decider, and using a >>>>>>>>>>>> "fixed" decider (which is context-aware)

    Which isn't ALLOWED as it uses information not part of the >>>>>>>>>>> input.

    ok mr math police, didn't realize it was up to you what i'm >>>>>>>>>> allowed to do or not

    No, it isn't me that says that, it is the rules of the system >>>>>>>>> that defines what a "decider" is.

    what system and who made the rules?

    Computation Theory, and Decision Theory, laid down in the early >>>>>>> 1900's.

    Are you really that dumb that you don't know what you are talking >>>>>>> about?

    and what if they got "the rules" wrong?

    They can't, as they defined the problem and its rules.

    wow, didn't realize cs theory came from infallible gods...

    i mean, the mere fact ur talking like that is kind of very much
    religious discussion, not mathematical, and lends itself to u being
    irrationally biased

    which seems to be the result of my conversation with u


    Which means you don't understand the nature of formal logic system.

    The definition of the system *IS* fixed at its creatation and is what
    it is.

    lol even the axiom of formal set theory haven't been "fixed at
    creation", why would computation be so fixed?

    because some dick said so??? lol

    you're a terrible debater


    You don't understand.

    "Set Theory" as a generic isn't define, except that it is generally
    accepted that the term will, for now, default to ZFC.

    ZFC as a set theory has fixed and defined.

    axioms are routinely added by mathematicians to explore new results u delusional dope, why are you lying to me?


    In the same way, "Computation Theory" as a generic refers to the theory
    as defined by the early authors in the field, which *IS* defined.

    As I said, you just don't understand how Formal Logic works.

    If you don't want to play in the existing system, create your own, but
    that means you need to do the actual work to do it.

    ur just engaging in a continual dogmatism fallacy

    i can modify existing systems. why are you lying to me?


    And, your system won't means diddly to the existing system, as it isn't it.

    If you do a good enough job, and it actually is more useful thant the existing, maybe your system can get adopted as the default by the field.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Wed Feb 25 10:15:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/25/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/25/26 12:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 8:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each >>>>>>>>>> one of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, >>>>>>>>>> and adding that to diagonal across defined across computable >>>>>>>>>> numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>>> turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, >>>>>>>>>> assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of >>>>>>>>> computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as >>>>>>>>> they continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is based >>>>>>>>> on Computations that must return answers in finite time.

    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting
    problem, but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem, >>>>>>> claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting
    problem and the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper
    was on the satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i wanted >>>>>> to address the source

    Then you shouldn't have started (and continued) about talking about >>>>> the Halting Problem and contray machines.

    Note, This paper never (as far as I remember) works by creating a
    specific "contrary" or 'paradoxical" machine to decide on. The
    error comes naturally out of the problem itself.

    if u had read my paper (not just like glanced at it), u'd know there
    is a method to construct the diagonal computation such that it
    avoids stumbling on deciding on itself,

    Only by assuming that Unicorns exist.

    doesn't require a fixed decider to avoid itself, just a quine based
    self-reference

    Doesn't work.

    more humility would do u wonders dick

    So, what answer does that quine based decider give for the
    question about itself?

    it's not the decider that has a quine, it's the diagonal computation H
    that uses D that has the quine to recognize H.

    when the diagonal computation recognizes it's own number in the total
    machine enumeration, it never asks the decider on itself, when it
    identifies itself in the total machine numeration it adds some fixed
    digit to the diagonal instead of recursively getting stuck in simulating itself.

    doesn't matter what digit: both are different machines, with different
    indexes in the enumeration, that compute the diagonal


    Either answer is still wrong.


    And how is being "quine based" keep it from being "fixed".

    It still is only one unique machine.


    u ofc don't know what i'm talking about and have demonstrated no
    capability to hold a coherent conversation

    No, YOU keep on making categorical errors not knowing the real meaning
    of the terms you are using.


    Since, as I pointed out, you LEFT the system in your first page by
    claiming falsehoods, you didn't prove anything in the system you
    claim to have been working on.


    but turing's purpose was the construct a contradiction, not figure
    out what a working diagonal computation would look like




    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as machine >>>>>>> D in Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some
    decision problems are undecidable, thus answering the
    Entscheidungsproblem in the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be
    answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    WHAT OTHER "INTERFACES"?

    i've described a variety of them thus far

    Really?

    Not in the rules of Computation Theory, as your machines aren't
    machine as they don't include all their algorithm.

    u haven't defined the rules of computation theory, u just make random
    claims about it whenever the fuck

    I don't need to do that, as they ARE already defined in the literature.

    and which literature defines "the rules"???






    He shows a problem that can not be decided. PERIOD.

    Your "Interface" seems to be one of your undefinable terms.

    i've defined it many times to u

    No, you use the word but not DEFINE it.

    it is the specification that a machine computes, or possibly some
    meta- specification

    In other words, you are "solving" a problem by solving some other problem?


    but u don't debate honorably dick, u just reject every i say even when
    i agree

    It seems you are just admitting your logic is based on lying,

    If I have a classification decision problem, that problem has a specification of indicating which class an input lies in.

    What other "specification" can exist?

    All you seem to want to do is say that if you don't need to answer the question, you can answer the question.

    In other words, you want to make lies be truth.



    It seems you don't know what a DEFINTION is.




    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck
    industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let >>>>>> alone address it in a considerate manner

    No, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've
    waded thru in my explorations

    It seems your brain has completed its rot.



    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting >>>>>>> Problem, and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might >>>>>>> be procedures that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many of >>>>>>>>> which will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine >>>>>>>>> satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be >>>>>>>>> such a test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of >>>>>>>>> computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them.

    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is >>>>>>>>> computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the
    computable sequences by finite means, but the problem of
    enumerating computable sequences is equivalent to the problem >>>>>>>>> of finding out whether a given number is the D.N of a circle- >>>>>>>>> free machine, and we have no general process for doing this in >>>>>>>>> a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration >>>>>>>>> that enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that >>>>>>>>> need an uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out
    natural numbers to find possible machines that might compute
    "computable numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every >>>>>>> possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the
    decision test, create the computable numbers in a specified
    order, but you can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you
    produce a correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking so >>>>>> much smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo

    Nope, YOU are the one with brain rot.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing

    NO DEFINITIONS, nothing shown.

    If you want to ignore truth, you just prove your own stupidity,

    still no pseudo-code cause ur a fraud dick

    Still being stupid I see.


    i'm honest not sure why u bother typing responses. ur words fall on
    deaf ears cause u refuse to write anything beyond shallow insults and
    random claims over rules that don't actually exist

    Your problem is that you fundamentally don't understand what you are
    talking about, as your world seems to be based on the assumption that
    things don't need to be what they are, and that lies are valid.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing

    i would ask if u care about convincing me,

    but clearly u don't

    and if u don't care about convincing me,

    then ur debate is not honorable, it is engaged with a lack of care, so
    ofc it wouldn't be honorable, and that requires care











    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being >>>>>>>>> done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem, >>>>>>>> which he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are >>>>>>> undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually
    handle the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method used >>>>>>> for it.









    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Fri Feb 27 10:51:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for what he
    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Feb 27 03:09:36 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you think >>>>
    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by one. >>>

    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and
    understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding the
    *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for godel's
    result is then built on

    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?

    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 28 08:21:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/25/26 1:15 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/25/26 4:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/25/26 12:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 8:29 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:52 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 9:55 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 6:13 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 7:27 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:01 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 4:30 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a >>>>>>>>>>> comptuation that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each >>>>>>>>>>> one of they represent a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, >>>>>>>>>>> and adding that to diagonal across defined across computable >>>>>>>>>>> numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>>>> turing's proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, >>>>>>>>>>> assuming that machine D exists


    And, your problem is that paper is about a DIFFERENT type of >>>>>>>>>> computation than the Halting Problem.

    One that ALLOWS for infinitely running machines, as long as >>>>>>>>>> they continue to produce results.

    The Halting Problem (vs the computable number problem) is >>>>>>>>>> based on Computations that must return answers in finite time. >>>>>>>>>>
    Thus, your argument is based on a category error.

    which would be relevant if turing talked about the halting
    problem, but he didn't

    No, it is relevent because *YOU* talk about the Halting Problem, >>>>>>>> claiming you have a better idea to solve it.

    the ideas i've been working on function on both the halting
    problem and the satisfactory problem in turing's paper. my paper >>>>>>> was on the satisfactory problem in turing's paper because i
    wanted to address the source

    Then you shouldn't have started (and continued) about talking
    about the Halting Problem and contray machines.

    Note, This paper never (as far as I remember) works by creating a >>>>>> specific "contrary" or 'paradoxical" machine to decide on. The
    error comes naturally out of the problem itself.

    if u had read my paper (not just like glanced at it), u'd know
    there is a method to construct the diagonal computation such that
    it avoids stumbling on deciding on itself,

    Only by assuming that Unicorns exist.

    doesn't require a fixed decider to avoid itself, just a quine based
    self-reference

    Doesn't work.

    more humility would do u wonders dick

    Could say the same about you.

    The problem is YOU are the one making stupid claims, not me, thus YOU
    are the one showing stupidity on insisting on lies.


    So, what answer does that quine based decider give for the question
    about itself?

    it's not the decider that has a quine, it's the diagonal computation H
    that uses D that has the quine to recognize H.

    But the problem is it isn;t the Diagonal Computation that is said to be impossible, but the decider.

    The H he descrives still exists, even if you make your variant, but that
    H can't be decided on.


    when the diagonal computation recognizes it's own number in the total machine enumeration, it never asks the decider on itself, when it
    identifies itself in the total machine numeration it adds some fixed
    digit to the diagonal instead of recursively getting stuck in simulating itself.

    So, as I said, it isn't the diagonal computation that is said to be impossible, just the decider that enumerates the diagonal machines.

    WHat does that decider do for the non-quine version described.


    doesn't matter what digit: both are different machines, with different indexes in the enumeration, that compute the diagonal

    So? what does D do with the original H.

    This is your problem, you don't pay attention to the problem being
    actually defined.

    It is a bit like the "pathological" input for the halting problem.



    Either answer is still wrong.


    And how is being "quine based" keep it from being "fixed".

    It still is only one unique machine.


    u ofc don't know what i'm talking about and have demonstrated no
    capability to hold a coherent conversation

    No, YOU keep on making categorical errors not knowing the real meaning
    of the terms you are using.


    Since, as I pointed out, you LEFT the system in your first page by
    claiming falsehoods, you didn't prove anything in the system you
    claim to have been working on.


    but turing's purpose was the construct a contradiction, not figure
    out what a working diagonal computation would look like




    Note, its decider needs to be the same sort of machine as
    machine D in Turings proof.

    The decider he proves can't exist, as he proves that some
    decision problems are undecidable, thus answering the
    Entscheidungsproblem in the negative.

    what no one has proven is that the Entscheidungsproblem can't be >>>>>>> answered reliably thru other interfaces...

    WHAT OTHER "INTERFACES"?

    i've described a variety of them thus far

    Really?

    Not in the rules of Computation Theory, as your machines aren't
    machine as they don't include all their algorithm.

    u haven't defined the rules of computation theory, u just make random
    claims about it whenever the fuck

    I don't need to do that, as they ARE already defined in the literature.

    and which literature defines "the rules"???

    The "Literature", as a collection.

    Yes, part of the problem is that they were more focused on the goal of figuring if this class of "decision" problems were do able, no one
    actually sat down (as far as I know) to formally and definitively define
    it as a system, and in fact, you see some comments in the writing about disagreeing and refining the definitions. But the basic concept is
    fairly clear if you read much of the writting and remember what they
    were working on. Was there some defined algorithmic method that could be
    used to answer the tough problems they were coming up on in mathematics
    and logic.







    He shows a problem that can not be decided. PERIOD.

    Your "Interface" seems to be one of your undefinable terms.

    i've defined it many times to u

    No, you use the word but not DEFINE it.

    it is the specification that a machine computes, or possibly some
    meta- specification

    In other words, you are "solving" a problem by solving some other
    problem?


    but u don't debate honorably dick, u just reject every i say even
    when i agree

    It seems you are just admitting your logic is based on lying,

    If I have a classification decision problem, that problem has a
    specification of indicating which class an input lies in.

    What other "specification" can exist?

    All you seem to want to do is say that if you don't need to answer the
    question, you can answer the question.

    In other words, you want to make lies be truth.



    It seems you don't know what a DEFINTION is.




    which is a set of words apparently so damn radical the lame duck >>>>>>> industry of cs "academics" can't even comprehend the concept, let >>>>>>> alone address it in a considerate manner

    No, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


    it shocks me on a daily basis just how much abject brainrot i've >>>>>>> waded thru in my explorations

    It seems your brain has completed its rot.



    And in doing so, he lays the groundwork for proving the Halting >>>>>>>> Problem, and breaks the logjam in the thinking that there might >>>>>>>> be procedures that answer any question we want.



    Also, it doesn't enumerate the "numbers", but Machines, many >>>>>>>>>> of which will not actually produce numbers.

    Then he assumes a test exists that determines if that machine >>>>>>>>>> satisfies the requirements, and shows that there can not be >>>>>>>>>> such a test.

    Thus, he shows that there is NOT an effective enumeration of >>>>>>>>>> computable numbers, only uncomputable enumerations of them. >>>>>>>>>>
    Note his statement on page 246:

    The fallacy in this argument lies in the assumption that -o is >>>>>>>>>> computable. It would be true if we could enumerate the
    computable sequences by finite means, but the problem of
    enumerating computable sequences is equivalent to the problem >>>>>>>>>> of finding out whether a given number is the D.N of a circle- >>>>>>>>>> free machine, and we have no general process for doing this in >>>>>>>>>> a finite number of steps.


    Thus, what Turing Proves is that there ISN'T an enumeration >>>>>>>>>> that enumerates the numbers, only one of "all machines" that >>>>>>>>>> need an uncomputable test to see if they are in that set.

    what i mean by enumerating out numbers is he enumerates out >>>>>>>>> natural numbers to find possible machines that might compute >>>>>>>>> "computable numbers" (which are real numbers)

    But he never does that. He establishes that he can produce every >>>>>>>> possible machine in some order, and *IF* you could do the
    decision test, create the computable numbers in a specified
    order, but you can't do that.


    and u still haven't written the pseudo-code

    Because it isn't really needed.

    i am never going to be convinced of anything u say until you
    produce a correct pseudo-code for H from p247

    *never*

    cause it's just abject brainrot that u think u can keep talking >>>>>>> so much smack without being able to code up his *really* simple algo >>>>>>
    Nope, YOU are the one with brain rot.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing

    NO DEFINITIONS, nothing shown.

    If you want to ignore truth, you just prove your own stupidity,

    still no pseudo-code cause ur a fraud dick

    Still being stupid I see.


    i'm honest not sure why u bother typing responses. ur words fall on
    deaf ears cause u refuse to write anything beyond shallow insults and
    random claims over rules that don't actually exist

    Your problem is that you fundamentally don't understand what you are
    talking about, as your world seems to be based on the assumption that
    things don't need to be what they are, and that lies are valid.

    no pseudo-code = no convincing

    Simplified version assuming D taks D.N instead of S.D

    def H:
    let N = 1
    let K = 0
    do:
    if D (N) is satisified:
    let K = K + 1
    simulate S.D corresponding to N till it produces K symbols
    output that K'th symbol
    Let N = N + 1


    Note, each implementation of this pseudo code will have a number N.

    IF D only is statisfied by circle-free programs, that is programs that continue to produce outputs then this program MUST be circle free as
    long as the following are true:

    * D itself must be halting, and always produce an answer (which is part
    of its definition to exist)
    * There must be an infinite number of circle-free programs

    And we then get to the delemma mentions on page 247,

    When given this program to decide on, if it says that it is NOT
    circle-free, then it WILL continue to produce output forever and thus
    show that it WAS circle-free and thus D was wrong.

    If it says that H is circle-free, then it will simulate itself until it produces K outputs, but after that simulation produces K-1 outputs, it
    will itself simulate itself and so on into the infinte loop.

    Talking about a DIFFERENT machine, with a DIFFERENT D.N is irrelevant,
    that other machine isn't this one,



    i would ask if u care about convincing me,

    Not really, just showing you are wrong.

    Since you don't care about truth, you might not be convincible.


    but clearly u don't

    and if u don't care about convincing me,

    then ur debate is not honorable, it is engaged with a lack of care, so
    ofc it wouldn't be honorable, and that requires care


    My goal is to keep others, who want to know, from falling into your lies.

    YOU, not willing to define your terms, are the unhonerable one.












    Sorry, you are just showing you don't understand what is being >>>>>>>>>> done.

    i mean u seem to imply turing talked about the halting problem, >>>>>>>>> which he didn't


    No, he talked about the decision problem, and showed things are >>>>>>>> undecidable, and laid the groundwork that was used to actually >>>>>>>> handle the halting problem.

    Yes, people say he did it, because he established the method
    used for it.












    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 28 08:21:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you
    think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by
    one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding the
    *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for godel's
    result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the
    problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of the
    diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration in the
    first place.

    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the
    diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness.


    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?



    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 28 09:38:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one by >>>>> one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they represent >>>> a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's >>>> proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and
    understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding the
    *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for godel's
    result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the
    problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration in the
    first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there


    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the
    diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal computation.
    it's not possible hard code a machine to return an inverted value, a
    machine can only return what it does, not the inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will leave
    a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an inverse diagonal will not be

    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal computation
    does not actually then imply the existence of an anti-diagonal
    computation, due the same particular self-referential weirdness that
    stumped turing the first place

    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will recognise >>> the relevant mapping to universal quantification?



    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 28 17:08:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me you >>>>>>>> think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one
    by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation >>>>> that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they
    represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of turing's >>>>> proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and
    understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding the
    *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for godel's
    result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the
    problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of the
    diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration in the
    first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there

    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell the difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-diagonal" of
    the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be computed but that
    "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the disadvantage that it may
    leave the reader with a feeling that 'there must be something wrong'".

    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the Decider
    "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the sequence of machine
    that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that the
    attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with
    effectively enumerating the sequences.

    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the
    diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't make
    that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal computation.
    it's not possible hard code a machine to return an inverted value, a
    machine can only return what it does, not the inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will leave
    a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an inverse diagonal will
    not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in isolation,
    but only in relationship to a given machine trying to decide them.

    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D (which
    is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus generate a
    number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a valid machine from
    the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to computa a number, and
    thus should have been omitted from the list but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just built on
    an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal computation
    does not actually then imply the existence of an anti-diagonal
    computation, due the same particular self-referential weirdness that
    stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just based on
    ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a number that happens to represent yourself means that you you system "ALL" doesn't
    actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined.


    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will
    recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what the
    actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that they
    need to be fully defined in the actions they do.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sat Feb 28 17:24:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one >>>>>>> by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation >>>>>> that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they
    represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal >>>>>> across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that >>>>>> machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't >>>>> reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for what he >>>>
    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and
    understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding
    the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for
    godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the
    problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of the
    diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration in the
    first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there

    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell the difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-diagonal" of
    the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be computed but that
    "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the disadvantage that it may leave the reader with a feeling that 'there must be something wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable...

    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across the computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not computable, i
    don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable


    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the Decider
    "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the sequence of machine
    that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that the
    attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with
    effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly


    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the
    diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't make
    that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal computation.
    it's not possible hard code a machine to return an inverted value, a
    machine can only return what it does, not the inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will
    leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet still
    turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an inverse
    diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in isolation,
    but only in relationship to a given machine trying to decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers then u
    only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the classifier that
    classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable as satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to *any*
    machine already the list... can just be skipped

    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said
    machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable numbers/

    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without such paradox


    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D (which
    is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus generate a
    number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a valid machine from
    the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to computa a number, and
    thus should have been omitted from the list but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just built on
    an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal computation
    does not actually then imply the existence of an anti-diagonal
    computation, due the same particular self-referential weirdness that
    stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just based on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a number that happens to represent yourself means that you you system "ALL" doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined.

    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that directly
    refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i didn't
    manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally dragging toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...



    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will
    recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what the actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that they
    need to be fully defined in the actions they do.
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Sat Feb 28 21:24:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude one >>>>>>>> by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a comptuation >>>>>>> that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they
    represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal >>>>>>> across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of
    turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that >>>>>>> machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't >>>>>> reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for what he >>>>>
    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and
    understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding
    the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for
    godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the
    problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of the
    diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration in the
    first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there

    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell the
    difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of the
    computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-diagonal"
    of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be computed but
    that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the disadvantage that
    it may leave the reader with a feeling that 'there must be something
    wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement, which
    shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value in number
    n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems you
    just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.


    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,

    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across the computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and thus
    you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not computable, i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable

    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the
    Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the sequence
    of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that the
    attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with
    effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on his
    given H.

    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it will
    still error on Turing's H.

    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL be
    circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus DOES
    produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H
    tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you WILL
    hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D must have
    this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be wrong on THAT
    input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of bad
    logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting as showing
    you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the
    diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't make
    that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation like
    this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an
    inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the
    inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will
    leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet
    still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an inverse
    diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to
    decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers then u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the classifier that classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.


    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable as satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those that are
    but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will not be
    complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it will
    be asked about all machines as it counts through all the descriptions)
    and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to *any*
    machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of the computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done, since ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't do what you
    want to do.


    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without such
    paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a definable
    property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is that if you look
    at just a machine description, it doesn't (necessarily) tell you about
    the use of an "interface" as that use of an interface can be just
    inlined, leaving nothing "in the code" to show it exists.




    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D
    (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus
    generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a valid
    machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to computa a
    number, and thus should have been omitted from the list but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just built
    on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal computation
    does not actually then imply the existence of an anti-diagonal
    computation, due the same particular self-referential weirdness that
    stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just based on
    ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a number
    that happens to represent yourself means that you you system "ALL"
    doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined.

    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that directly
    refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have
    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different numbers.

    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but
    doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.



    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i didn't
    manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally dragging toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually be used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,




    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will
    recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what the
    actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that they
    need to be fully defined in the actions they do.



    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory on Mon Mar 2 18:34:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 25/02/2026 00:01, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 2:59 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 23/02/2026 15:02, Richard Damon wrote:

    Most AI is NOT "Proof" or even "Reasoning" based.

    Most AI is based on maximum likely Markov Chain processing.

    What does mostness have to do with it?


    Because you don't seem to understand what you are talking about,

    You seem to think that AI Generation *IS* equivalent to automated proof,
    when it isn't, as what is normally described as "AI" doesn't do that.

    I feel that I don't think that, I didn't since before I got a degree in Artificial Intelligence over 20 years ago (not that I think degrees are terribly good). That which people who don't know about anything refer to
    as "AI" might not have done any automated theorem proving until last
    year but for an entire human working lifetime now "AI" referred to a
    variety of things besides natural language interpretation and generation.

    Imagine all those experts with /recent/ AI degrees knowing that you,
    Richard, are totally wrongheaded. A Penguin book of AI would teach you
    more than whatever you're drinking.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.

    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Mon Mar 2 22:38:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 3/2/26 1:34 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 25/02/2026 00:01, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/24/26 2:59 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 23/02/2026 15:02, Richard Damon wrote:

    Most AI is NOT "Proof" or even "Reasoning" based.

    Most AI is based on maximum likely Markov Chain processing.

    What does mostness have to do with it?


    Because you don't seem to understand what you are talking about,

    You seem to think that AI Generation *IS* equivalent to automated proof,
    when it isn't, as what is normally described as "AI" doesn't do that.

    I feel that I don't think that, I didn't since before I got a degree in Artificial Intelligence over 20 years ago (not that I think degrees are terribly good). That which people who don't know about anything refer to
    as "AI" might not have done any automated theorem proving until last
    year but for an entire human working lifetime now "AI" referred to a
    variety of things besides natural language interpretation and generation.

    Imagine all those experts with /recent/ AI degrees knowing that you,
    Richard, are totally wrongheaded. A Penguin book of AI would teach you
    more than whatever you're drinking.



    I will stand by my statement, that NOW, *MOST* AI is not based on Proof
    or Reasoning, but is based on the various "Neuron" models.

    This started with your statment:

    AI GENERATION IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO AUTOMATED PROOFS???

    In responce to my comment about dart's statement about

    "AI Generated Slop", which most certainly was talking about such systems.


    Currently "AI Generation" is not normally refering to the various forms
    of Reasoning or Proof Solving, but Generative AI which *IS* this sort of "Neuron" Based logic.

    It does NOT normally mean automated proof finding or reasoning, but
    perhaps some day those will get back to being more important topics when
    then hype over the neural networks trained by machine learning models
    goes away because we actually learn the limitations (and dangers) of
    such methods.

    Why don't you point out to Dart that is claim that CS has abandoned the concept of correctness proofing because "it has been proven impossible",
    if you think that is still a core concept?
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Mar 3 00:55:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2/28/26 6:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere...

    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they >>>>>>>> represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to diagonal >>>>>>>> across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>> turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that >>>>>>>> machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he didn't >>>>>>> reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for
    what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and
    understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding >>>>>> the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for >>>>>> godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the
    problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of
    the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration in >>>>> the first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there

    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell the
    difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of
    the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-diagonal"
    of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be computed but
    that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the disadvantage that
    it may leave the reader with a feeling that 'there must be something
    wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement, which shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value in number
    n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems you
    just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.

    wow, u know up until now, i thot i fully agreed with turing's short
    diagonal proof, but in writing this post i now find myself in a subtle,
    yet entirely critical disagreement:

    /let an be the n-th computable sequence, and let -an(m) be the m-th
    figure in an. Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th. figure.
    Since +# is computable, there exists a number K [== +#] such that 1--an(n)
    = -aK(n) for all n. Putting n = K, we have 1 = 2-aK(K), i.e. 1 is even.
    This is impossible/

    the fallacy here is assuming that because the direct diagonal is
    computable, that one can therefore compute the anti-diagonal using the
    direct diagonal. the abstract definition makes it look simple, but this ignores the complexities of self-referential analysis (like what turing details on the next page)

    in both methods i have for rectifying the paradox found in the direct
    diagonal (either (1) filtering TMs or (2) using RTMs), neither can be
    used to then compute the anti-diagonal

    in (1) the algo to compute an inverse diagonal is filtered out like
    turing's paradoxical variation of the direct diagonal would be, and
    there is no analogous non-paradoxical variation that has a hard coded
    value that is inverse to what it does return ... such a concept is
    entirely nonsensical. a function can only return what it does, it can't
    also return the inverse to what it returns eh???

    in (2) the attempt to compute an inverse diagonal with RTMs just fails
    for reasons u'd only understand by working thru the algo urself (p7 of
    re: turing's diagonals)

    the premise:

    /Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th/

    is just not sufficient evidence that such +# is actually computable given
    the direct diagonal -an()

    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,


    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across the
    computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and thus
    you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not computable,
    i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable

    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the
    Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the sequence
    of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that the
    attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with
    effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing
    the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on his
    given H.

    no idea why ur claiming that

    i clearly understand that D cannot decide correctly on turing's H,
    because my response to this is that D does not need to decide correctly
    on H to compute a diagonal


    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it will
    still error on Turing's H.

    turing's H, as it stands, doesn't even exist my dude. he doesn't specify
    what D (or H) needs to do when encountering the /undecidable input/ of
    H, so therefore both D and H are an incomplete specifications of a machine


    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL be
    circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus DOES
    produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H
    tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you WILL
    hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D must have
    this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be wrong on THAT input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of bad logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting as showing
    you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the
    diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't make >>>>> that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation like
    this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an
    inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the
    inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will
    leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet
    still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an inverse
    diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to
    decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers then
    u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the classifier that
    classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.

    please do quote where turing shows we can't filter out such paradoxes...

    (also why do always just make random assertions???)



    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable as
    satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those that are
    but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will not be
    complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it will
    be asked about all machines as it counts through all the descriptions)
    and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either
    *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to
    *any* machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of the computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said
    machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done, since ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't do what you
    want to do.

    nah, (a) computing an enumeration of all /computable numbers/ is not the
    same thing as (b) computing the enumeration of all machines that compute computable numbers. (b) necessarily has duplicates while (a) does not
    need them. turing's paper wrongly conflates (a) with (b)

    i'm pretty sure (a) can be done with TMs

    (b) probably can't be done with TMs



    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without such
    paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a definable property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is that if you look
    at just a machine description, it doesn't (necessarily) tell you about
    the use of an "interface" as that use of an interface can be just
    inlined, leaving nothing "in the code" to show it exists.

    i'm sorry, are you actually saying the machine description does not
    describe what the machine does???

    lol





    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D
    (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus
    generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a valid
    machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to computa
    a number, and thus should have been omitted from the list but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just built
    on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal computation
    does not actually then imply the existence of an anti-diagonal
    computation, due the same particular self-referential weirdness that
    stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just based
    on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a number
    that happens to represent yourself means that you you system "ALL"
    doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined.

    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that directly
    refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have

    it's a *specific* number that has the currently running machine encoded
    into it, it's not "just" a number whatever that means

    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different numbers.

    those are references to functionally equivalent machines, not
    self-references


    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but
    doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.

    that's not actually true. you can't meaningfully paradox the paradox
    detector while filter *out* paradoxes to point of creating an actual problem

    let halts be a halting classifier that takes an input machines and
    returns true/false whether it halts or not

    let paradox_free be a paradox filtering classifier that takes an input classifier, and an input machine to search for paradoxes in regards to: paradox_free(classifier, machine)

    for example if take our basic halting paradox:

    und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    then:

    paradox_free(halts, und) -> TRUE

    but you might think one still can bamboozle the paradox classifier like
    such:

    undp = () -> {
    if ( paradox_free(halts, undp) == TRUE )
    if ( halts(undp) ) loop()
    }

    here if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE, then the if case run a
    halting paradox form making it /undecidable input/ to halts().

    however, if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> TRUE, then that if case doesn't
    run and clearly halts(undp) -> TRUE without issues

    BUT THAT'S FINE FOR OUR USE CASE, no paradox found within a machine is necessary for the particular input->output computation being done, so utilizing the return paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE to filter out paradox_free() paradoxes as well as halts() paradoxes will suffice to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that can be totally
    classified by halts()

    i think a major problem with the consensus perspective is an expectation
    of a certain cleanliness in the logic as being the only possibility here
    to compute what we want. TM's can't achieve that, but something slightly messier can.




    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i didn't
    manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally dragging
    toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually be used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,

    lol, i can only EfOA someone would engage in sound logic with me





    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of curiosity >>>>
    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will
    recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what
    the actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that
    are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that
    they need to be fully defined in the actions they do.


    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could

    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Mar 3 01:18:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 3/3/26 12:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 6:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they >>>>>>>>> represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to
    diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>> turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that >>>>>>>>> machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he >>>>>>>> didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for >>>>>>>> what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and >>>>>>> understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding >>>>>>> the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for >>>>>>> godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the >>>>>> problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of
    the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration
    in the first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there

    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell the
    difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of
    the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-
    diagonal" of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be
    computed but that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the
    disadvantage that it may leave the reader with a feeling that 'there
    must be something wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement,
    which shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value in
    number n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems
    you just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.

    wow, u know up until now, i thot i fully agreed with turing's short
    diagonal proof, but in writing this post i now find myself in a subtle,
    yet entirely critical disagreement:

    /let an be the n-th computable sequence, and let -an(m) be the m-th
    figure in an. Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th. figure. Since +# is computable, there exists a number K [== +#] such that 1--an(n)
    = -aK(n) for all n. Putting n = K, we have 1 = 2-aK(K), i.e. 1 is even.
    This is impossible/

    the fallacy here is assuming that because the direct diagonal is
    computable, that one can therefore compute the anti-diagonal using the direct diagonal. the abstract definition makes it look simple, but this ignores the complexities of self-referential analysis (like what turing details on the next page)

    in both methods i have for rectifying the paradox found in the direct diagonal (either (1) filtering TMs or (2) using RTMs), neither can be
    used to then compute the anti-diagonal

    in (1) the algo to compute an inverse diagonal is filtered out like
    turing's paradoxical variation of the direct diagonal would be, and
    there is no analogous non-paradoxical variation that has a hard coded
    value that is inverse to what it does return ... such a concept is
    entirely nonsensical. a function can only return what it does, it can't
    also return the inverse to what it returns eh???

    in (2) the attempt to compute an inverse diagonal with RTMs just fails
    for reasons u'd only understand by working thru the algo urself (p7 of
    re: turing's diagonals)

    the premise:

    /Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th/

    is just not sufficient evidence that such +# is actually computable given the direct diagonal -an()

    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,


    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across the
    computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and
    thus you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not
    computable, i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable

    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the
    Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the sequence
    of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that the
    attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with
    effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing
    the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on his
    given H.

    no idea why ur claiming that

    i clearly understand that D cannot decide correctly on turing's H,
    because my response to this is that D does not need to decide correctly
    on H to compute a diagonal


    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it will
    still error on Turing's H.

    turing's H, as it stands, doesn't even exist my dude. he doesn't specify what D (or H) needs to do when encountering the /undecidable input/ of
    H, so therefore both D and H are an incomplete specifications of a machine


    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL be
    circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus DOES
    produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H
    tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you
    WILL hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D must
    have this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be wrong on
    THAT input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of
    bad logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting as
    showing you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the >>>>>> diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't
    make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness. >>>>>
    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation
    like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an
    inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the
    inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will
    leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet
    still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an
    inverse diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to
    decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers
    then u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the classifier
    that classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.

    please do quote where turing shows we can't filter out such paradoxes...

    (also why do always just make random assertions???)



    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable as
    satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those that
    are but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will not be
    complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it
    will be asked about all machines as it counts through all the
    descriptions) and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either
    *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to
    *any* machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of the
    computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said
    machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done, since
    ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't do what
    you want to do.

    nah, (a) computing an enumeration of all /computable numbers/ is not the same thing as (b) computing the enumeration of all machines that compute computable numbers. (b) necessarily has duplicates while (a) does not
    need them. turing's paper wrongly conflates (a) with (b)

    i'm pretty sure (a) can be done with TMs

    (b) probably can't be done with TMs



    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without such
    paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a definable
    property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is that if you
    look at just a machine description, it doesn't (necessarily) tell you
    about the use of an "interface" as that use of an interface can be
    just inlined, leaving nothing "in the code" to show it exists.

    i'm sorry, are you actually saying the machine description does not
    describe what the machine does???

    lol





    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D
    (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus
    generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a valid
    machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to computa
    a number, and thus should have been omitted from the list but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just built
    on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal
    computation does not actually then imply the existence of an anti-
    diagonal computation, due the same particular self-referential
    weirdness that stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just based
    on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a number
    that happens to represent yourself means that you you system "ALL"
    doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined.

    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that directly
    refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have

    it's a *specific* number that has the currently running machine encoded
    into it, it's not "just" a number whatever that means

    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different numbers.

    those are references to functionally equivalent machines, not self- references


    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but
    doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.

    that's not actually true. you can't meaningfully paradox the paradox detector while filter *out* paradoxes to point of creating an actual
    problem

    let halts be a halting classifier that takes an input machines and
    returns true/false whether it halts or not

    let paradox_free be a paradox filtering classifier that takes an input classifier, and an input machine to search for paradoxes in regards to: paradox_free(classifier, machine)

    for example if take our basic halting paradox:

    -a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    then:

    -a paradox_free(halts, und) -> TRUE

    but you might think one still can bamboozle the paradox classifier like such:

    -a undp = () -> {
    -a-a-a if ( paradox_free(halts, undp) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a if ( halts(undp) ) loop()
    -a }

    here if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE, then the if case run a
    halting paradox form making it /undecidable input/ to halts().

    however, if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> TRUE, then that if case doesn't
    run and clearly halts(undp) -> TRUE without issues

    BUT THAT'S FINE FOR OUR USE CASE, no paradox found within a machine is necessary for the particular input->output computation being done, so utilizing the return paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE to filter out paradox_free() paradoxes as well as halts() paradoxes will suffice to produce a turing complete subset of machines that can be totally
    classified by halts()

    i think a major problem with the consensus perspective is an expectation
    of a certain cleanliness in the logic as being the only possibility here
    to compute what we want. TM's can't achieve that, but something slightly messier can.

    i can definitely make this proof more convincing by putting it in more
    general terms





    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i didn't
    manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally dragging
    toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually be
    used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,

    lol, i can only EfOA someone would engage in sound logic with me





    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of curiosity >>>>>
    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will >>>>>>>> recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what
    the actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that
    are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that
    they need to be fully defined in the actions they do.



    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Tue Mar 3 07:49:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 3/3/26 3:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 6:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell me >>>>>>>>>>>> you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they >>>>>>>>> represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to
    diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>> turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming that >>>>>>>>> machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he >>>>>>>> didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for >>>>>>>> what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and >>>>>>> understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to understanding >>>>>>> the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of his support for >>>>>>> godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing the >>>>>> problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of
    the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration
    in the first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there

    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell the
    difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of
    the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-
    diagonal" of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be
    computed but that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the
    disadvantage that it may leave the reader with a feeling that 'there
    must be something wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement,
    which shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value in
    number n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems
    you just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.

    wow, u know up until now, i thot i fully agreed with turing's short
    diagonal proof, but in writing this post i now find myself in a subtle,
    yet entirely critical disagreement:

    /let an be the n-th computable sequence, and let -an(m) be the m-th
    figure in an. Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th. figure. Since +# is computable, there exists a number K [== +#] such that 1--an(n)
    = -aK(n) for all n. Putting n = K, we have 1 = 2-aK(K), i.e. 1 is even.
    This is impossible/

    the fallacy here is assuming that because the direct diagonal is
    computable, that one can therefore compute the anti-diagonal using the direct diagonal. the abstract definition makes it look simple, but this ignores the complexities of self-referential analysis (like what turing details on the next page)

    But you can, *IF* you have a machine that computes the diagonal, then
    just change all the write to the output to write the opposite. Note, the "self-reference" that you are thinking of stops being a "self-reference"
    but is a reference to the original write the diagonal code.


    in both methods i have for rectifying the paradox found in the direct diagonal (either (1) filtering TMs or (2) using RTMs), neither can be
    used to then compute the anti-diagonal

    Nope, because your filtering TM (or RTM) will still fail when it gets to
    the number of TURING'S H, as there is no correct answer for the machine
    built by that template.


    in (1) the algo to compute an inverse diagonal is filtered out like
    turing's paradoxical variation of the direct diagonal would be, and
    there is no analogous non-paradoxical variation that has a hard coded
    value that is inverse to what it does return ... such a concept is
    entirely nonsensical. a function can only return what it does, it can't
    also return the inverse to what it returns eh???

    But, if D filters it out, then it becomes circle-free, and thus your enumeration is incomlete.


    in (2) the attempt to compute an inverse diagonal with RTMs just fails
    for reasons u'd only understand by working thru the algo urself (p7 of
    re: turing's diagonals)

    the premise:

    /Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th/

    is just not sufficient evidence that such +# is actually computable given the direct diagonal -an()

    And why not. The fact that you are too ignorant to see how to do that,
    as you are thinking the only "reference" can be to "self", doesn't make
    you argument correct.


    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,


    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across the
    computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and
    thus you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not
    computable, i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable

    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the
    Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the sequence
    of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that the
    attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with
    effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing
    the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on his
    given H.

    no idea why ur claiming that

    i clearly understand that D cannot decide correctly on turing's H,
    because my response to this is that D does not need to decide correctly
    on H to compute a diagonal

    Then how do you build YOUR H without that D?

    YOUR H still needs to know if Turing's H is a machine that generates a computable number to build the list of such machine to define the
    diagonal to conpute.

    You seem to not understand the meaning of ALL.



    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it will
    still error on Turing's H.

    turing's H, as it stands, doesn't even exist my dude. he doesn't specify what D (or H) needs to do when encountering the /undecidable input/ of
    H, so therefore both D and H are an incomplete specifications of a machine

    Because "undecidability" doesn't affect the correct answer it must compute.

    Note, H, when it becomes an actual machine, because we have created an
    actual machine we claim to be the D, has an answer, and that D is always wrong.

    Thus, it isn't that machines claiming to be D and H can't exist, only
    machines CORRECTLY meeting the requirements of D and H can't exist.

    Thus, if your H depends on that D, (or a machine that meets its
    specification) then it also can't exist.

    You just make the error of saying the problems don't exist because you
    can't build them, but YOUR machine can, even though it has the same problem.



    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL be
    circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus DOES
    produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H
    tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you
    WILL hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D must
    have this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be wrong on
    THAT input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of
    bad logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting as
    showing you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the >>>>>> diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't
    make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness. >>>>>
    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation
    like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an
    inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the
    inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will
    leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet
    still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an
    inverse diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to
    decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers
    then u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the classifier
    that classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.

    please do quote where turing shows we can't filter out such paradoxes...

    In other words, you beleive unquestionably in the existance of Russle's
    teapot until someone can prove it doesn't exist.

    For THIS paradox, read the proof. for THIS H, the one given, (for which
    ever version of D you want to try to assume is right) D is just wrong.

    Thus, it doesn't matter if D can somehow "detect" the paradox, because
    there still isn't an answer it can give to H that will be correct, as
    the template for H will always make that D wrong.

    Note, the problem is you can't actually DEFINE what a "paradox machine"
    is, as they aren't actually machines, but templates that build machines.
    And that final machine doesn't have actually detectable tell-tales that
    show it to be from that template.


    (also why do always just make random assertions???)

    Because I am smart, and know what I am talking about.

    They only seem "random" because you don't know what you are talking
    about and believe in unicorns (and teapots)




    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable as
    satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those that
    are but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will not be
    complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it
    will be asked about all machines as it counts through all the
    descriptions) and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either
    *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to
    *any* machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of the
    computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said
    machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done, since
    ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't do what
    you want to do.

    nah, (a) computing an enumeration of all /computable numbers/ is not the same thing as (b) computing the enumeration of all machines that compute computable numbers. (b) necessarily has duplicates while (a) does not
    need them. turing's paper wrongly conflates (a) with (b)

    i'm pretty sure (a) can be done with TMs

    Nope, as your (a) needs the machine D, which lets you filter the full
    list of machibe, which Turing showed can't exist.

    The problem is such a machine can't handle the classification of the H
    he describes. It doesn't matter that you can make a DIFFERENT machine,
    that you try to deceptively call "H" too that it won't have a problem
    with, when your "H" gets to the number of Turing's H, it still has the problem. It can call that one not circle-free, and thus omit a
    circle-free machine from the list, or call it circle-free, and when even
    YOU try to simulate it the k steps, you get stuck in a loop.


    (b) probably can't be done with TMs

    But if you can do (a), you can do (b). You just need to take the code
    of (a), and invert the symbol put on the tape when it is written. Note,
    it won't be "self-referent", as the "N" is uses, is the N of YOUR H, not itself. The code for his (a) NEVER reads back what it wrote, so that
    doesn't affect its behavior.




    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without such
    paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a definable
    property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is that if you
    look at just a machine description, it doesn't (necessarily) tell you
    about the use of an "interface" as that use of an interface can be
    just inlined, leaving nothing "in the code" to show it exists.

    i'm sorry, are you actually saying the machine description does not
    describe what the machine does???


    No, that "paradoxical" isn't a definable property of a machine.


    lol





    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D
    (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus
    generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a valid
    machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to computa
    a number, and thus should have been omitted from the list but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just built
    on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal
    computation does not actually then imply the existence of an anti-
    diagonal computation, due the same particular self-referential
    weirdness that stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just based
    on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a number
    that happens to represent yourself means that you you system "ALL"
    doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined.

    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that directly
    refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have

    it's a *specific* number that has the currently running machine encoded
    into it, it's not "just" a number whatever that means




    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different numbers.

    those are references to functionally equivalent machines, not self- references

    Which is why the concept of "self-reference" doesn't work.



    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but
    doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.

    that's not actually true. you can't meaningfully paradox the paradox detector while filter *out* paradoxes to point of creating an actual
    problem

    Then show how you will do it.

    This means you need to detect a input that represents a machine that
    uses a computation equivalent to yourself



    let halts be a halting classifier that takes an input machines and
    returns true/false whether it halts or not

    let paradox_free be a paradox filtering classifier that takes an input classifier, and an input machine to search for paradoxes in regards to: paradox_free(classifier, machine)

    WHich doesn't exist.


    for example if take our basic halting paradox:

    -a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    then:

    -a paradox_free(halts, und) -> TRUE

    but you might think one still can bamboozle the paradox classifier like such:

    -a undp = () -> {
    -a-a-a if ( paradox_free(halts, undp) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a if ( halts(undp) ) loop()
    -a }

    here if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE, then the if case run a
    halting paradox form making it /undecidable input/ to halts().

    And the problem is "paradox_free" can't exist as an always correct decider.


    however, if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> TRUE, then that if case doesn't
    run and clearly halts(undp) -> TRUE without issues

    BUT THAT'S FINE FOR OUR USE CASE, no paradox found within a machine is necessary for the particular input->output computation being done, so utilizing the return paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE to filter out paradox_free() paradoxes as well as halts() paradoxes will suffice to produce a turing complete subset of machines that can be totally
    classified by halts()

    But we can still build an input that your paradox_free() fails on.



    i think a major problem with the consensus perspective is an expectation
    of a certain cleanliness in the logic as being the only possibility here
    to compute what we want. TM's can't achieve that, but something slightly messier can.

    No, it is your dependence on being able to assume that unicorns can
    solve all your problems.






    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i didn't
    manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally dragging
    toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually be
    used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,

    lol, i can only EfOA someone would engage in sound logic with me

    They are, But you are too stuck in your lies to see it.

    Your "logic" is based on being able to assume that Unicorn's exist, and
    that is a safe assumption until someone can prove that Russel's Teapot
    is not out there. (Even though your unicorns HAVE been proved to not exist).

    You are just proving your utter stupidity.






    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of curiosity >>>>>
    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will >>>>>>>> recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what
    the actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that
    are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that
    they need to be fully defined in the actions they do.




    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Tue Mar 3 20:42:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 3/3/26 4:49 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 3/3/26 3:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 6:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was proven on >>>>>>>>>>>>>> turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a
    comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they >>>>>>>>>> represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to >>>>>>>>>> diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>>> turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming >>>>>>>>>> that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he >>>>>>>>> didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for >>>>>>>>> what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and >>>>>>>> understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to
    understanding the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of >>>>>>>> his support for godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing
    the problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of >>>>>>> the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration >>>>>>> in the first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there

    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell
    the difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of
    the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-
    diagonal" of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be
    computed but that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the
    disadvantage that it may leave the reader with a feeling that
    'there must be something wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement,
    which shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value
    in number n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-
    diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems
    you just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.

    wow, u know up until now, i thot i fully agreed with turing's short
    diagonal proof, but in writing this post i now find myself in a
    subtle, yet entirely critical disagreement:

    /let an be the n-th computable sequence, and let -an(m) be the m-th
    figure in an. Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th. figure.
    Since +# is computable, there exists a number K [== +#] such that 1-
    -an(n) = -aK(n) for all n. Putting n = K, we have 1 = 2-aK(K), i.e. 1 is
    even. This is impossible/

    i agree with this proof is far as much as if +# was computable (by TMs)
    we'd have a problem for sure,

    but what i don't agree is that we can just assume the computability of +#
    from the existence of -an(m), THAT'S THE FALLACy


    the fallacy here is assuming that because the direct diagonal is
    computable, that one can therefore compute the anti-diagonal using the
    direct diagonal. the abstract definition makes it look simple, but
    this ignores the complexities of self-referential analysis (like what
    turing details on the next page)

    But you can, *IF* you have a machine that computes the diagonal, then
    just change all the write to the output to write the opposite. Note, the "self-reference" that you are thinking of stops being a "self-reference"
    but is a reference to the original write the diagonal code.


    in both methods i have for rectifying the paradox found in the direct
    diagonal (either (1) filtering TMs or (2) using RTMs), neither can be
    used to then compute the anti-diagonal

    Nope, because your filtering TM (or RTM) will still fail when it gets to
    the number of TURING'S H, as there is no correct answer for the machine built by that template.

    TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H DOESN'T EXIST, IT'S AN INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION

    (is that where H comes from??? _H_ypothetical???)



    in (1) the algo to compute an inverse diagonal is filtered out like
    turing's paradoxical variation of the direct diagonal would be, and
    there is no analogous non-paradoxical variation that has a hard coded
    value that is inverse to what it does return ... such a concept is
    entirely nonsensical. a function can only return what it does, it
    can't also return the inverse to what it returns eh???

    But, if D filters it out, then it becomes circle-free, and thus your enumeration is incomlete.

    THE ANTI-DIAGONAL IS *NOT* A COMPUTABLE NUMBER BY TMs, SO IT *SHOULD* BE FILTERED OUT



    in (2) the attempt to compute an inverse diagonal with RTMs just fails
    for reasons u'd only understand by working thru the algo urself (p7 of
    re: turing's diagonals)

    the premise:

    /Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th/

    is just not sufficient evidence that such +# is actually computable
    given the direct diagonal -an()

    And why not. The fact that you are too ignorant to see how to do that,
    as you are thinking the only "reference" can be to "self", doesn't make
    you argument correct.

    BECAUSE IT DOESN'T CAPTURE THE NUANCES INVOLVED WITH SELF-REFERENCE,
    LIKE THE PARADOX FOUND IN TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H

    NEITHER METHOD I'VE HYPOTHESIZED ABOUT AN EXTANT H ALLOWS FOR INVERSE-H
    TO BE COMPUTED



    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,


    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across the
    computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and
    thus you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not
    computable, i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable

    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the
    Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the
    sequence of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that the >>>>> attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with
    effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing
    the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on his
    given H.

    no idea why ur claiming that

    i clearly understand that D cannot decide correctly on turing's H,
    because my response to this is that D does not need to decide
    correctly on H to compute a diagonal

    Then how do you build YOUR H without that D?

    I SAID I D DIDN'T NEED TO DECIDE ON THE FIXED H, NOT THAT IT WOULDN'T BE
    USED


    YOUR H still needs to know if Turing's H is a machine that generates a computable number to build the list of such machine to define the
    diagonal to compute.

    TURING'S H DOESN'T EXIST. TURING'S D DOESN'T EVEN EXIST. BOTH ARE
    INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATIONS.

    THE FIXED H DIAGONAL WOULD USE A PARTIAL RECOGNIZER D, WHICH WILL WORK
    JUST FINE ON THE ENUMERATION THAT HAS /UNDECIDABLE INPUT/ TO D FILTERED
    FROM IT


    You seem to not understand the meaning of ALL.

    ALL COMPUTABLE NUMBERS =/= ALL MACHINES THAT COMPUTE COMPUTABLE NUMBERS




    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it
    will still error on Turing's H.

    turing's H, as it stands, doesn't even exist my dude. he doesn't
    specify what D (or H) needs to do when encountering the /undecidable
    input/ of H, so therefore both D and H are an incomplete
    specifications of a machine

    Because "undecidability" doesn't affect the correct answer it must compute.

    THE SPACE OF TMs MACHINE IS NOT A PERFECT COMPUTATIONAL SPACE LIKE
    THEORY KEEPS CONFLATING IT WITH, IT HAS CERTAIN IDIOSYNCRASIES, AND IT
    CANNOT COMPUTE EVERYTHING THAT IS COMPUTABLE

    THE DECIDER THAT TURING HYPOTHESIZED _DOES NOT EXIST_, BECAUSE IT DOES
    NOT HANDLE THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF SELF-REFERENTIAL ANALYSIS, SO IT IS AN /INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION/ OF A TM

    THAT IS THE *ACTUAL* REASON IT DOES NOT EXIST.


    Note, H, when it becomes an actual machine, because we have created an actual machine we claim to be the D, has an answer, and that D is always wrong.

    Thus, it isn't that machines claiming to be D and H can't exist, only machines CORRECTLY meeting the requirements of D and H can't exist.

    Thus, if your H depends on that D, (or a machine that meets its specification) then it also can't exist.

    You just make the error of saying the problems don't exist because you
    can't build them, but YOUR machine can, even though it has the same
    problem.



    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL be
    circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus DOES
    produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H
    tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you
    WILL hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D must
    have this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be wrong
    on THAT input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of
    bad logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting as
    showing you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make the >>>>>>> diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you can't
    make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows unsoundness. >>>>>>
    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation
    like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an
    inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the
    inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will >>>>>> leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet
    still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an
    inverse diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to
    decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers
    then u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the
    classifier that classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.

    please do quote where turing shows we can't filter out such paradoxes...

    In other words, you beleive unquestionably in the existance of Russle's teapot until someone can prove it doesn't exist.

    BRO U LITERALLY CLAIMED TURING SHOWS FILTERING OUT PARADOXES CAN'T BE
    DONE, WHERE IN THE FUCK IS THE REFERENCE U MORON???

    WHY ARE YOU GOING ON ABOUT RUSSEL'S TEAPOT INSTEAD OF PROVIDING A
    FUCKING QUOTE TO TURING'S PAPER TO BACK THE *DIRECT* CLAIM YOU MADE???


    For THIS paradox, read the proof. for THIS H, the one given, (for which
    ever version of D you want to try to assume is right) D is just wrong.

    Thus, it doesn't matter if D can somehow "detect" the paradox, because
    there still isn't an answer it can give to H that will be correct, as
    the template for H will always make that D wrong.

    Note, the problem is you can't actually DEFINE what a "paradox machine"
    is, as they aren't actually machines, but templates that build machines.
    And that final machine doesn't have actually detectable tell-tales that
    show it to be from that template.


    (also why do always just make random assertions???)

    Because I am smart, and know what I am talking about.

    I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE KIND OF DISHONEST GARBAGE I HAVE TO WORK
    WITH, BUT OH WELL


    They only seem "random" because you don't know what you are talking
    about and believe in unicorns (and teapots)




    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable
    as satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those that
    are but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will not be
    complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it
    will be asked about all machines as it counts through all the
    descriptions) and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either
    *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to
    *any* machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of
    the computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said
    machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable
    numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done, since
    ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't do what
    you want to do.

    nah, (a) computing an enumeration of all /computable numbers/ is not
    the same thing as (b) computing the enumeration of all machines that
    compute computable numbers. (b) necessarily has duplicates while (a)
    does not need them. turing's paper wrongly conflates (a) with (b)

    i'm pretty sure (a) can be done with TMs

    Nope, as your (a) needs the machine D, which lets you filter the full
    list of machibe, which Turing showed can't exist.

    The problem is such a machine can't handle the classification of the H
    he describes. It doesn't matter that you can make a DIFFERENT machine,
    that you try to deceptively call "H" too that it won't have a problem
    with, when your "H" gets to the number of Turing's H, it still has the problem. It can call that one not circle-free, and thus omit a circle-
    free machine from the list, or call it circle-free, and when even YOU
    try to simulate it the k steps, you get stuck in a loop.


    (b) probably can't be done with TMs

    But if you can do (a), you can do (b).-a You just need to take the code
    of (a), and invert the symbol put on the tape when it is written. Note,
    it won't be "self-referent", as the "N" is uses, is the N of YOUR H, not itself. The code for his (a) NEVER reads back what it wrote, so that
    doesn't affect its behavior.




    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without such
    paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a definable
    property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is that if you
    look at just a machine description, it doesn't (necessarily) tell you
    about the use of an "interface" as that use of an interface can be
    just inlined, leaving nothing "in the code" to show it exists.

    i'm sorry, are you actually saying the machine description does not
    describe what the machine does???


    No, that "paradoxical" isn't a definable property of a machine.

    und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    und() includes a structural paradoxical in relation to the classifier
    halts(), easily demonstrable thru a short proof i've done many times

    I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHY YOU CAN'T ACCEPT THAT AS A PROPERTY OF UND(), BESIDES LITERAL BRAIMNDEAD RELIGIOUS DEVOTION TO SOME FUCKING FORM OF
    INSANITY I CAN'T HONESTLY FATHOM



    lol





    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D
    (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus
    generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a
    valid machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to
    computa a number, and thus should have been omitted from the list
    but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just
    built on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal
    computation does not actually then imply the existence of an anti- >>>>>> diagonal computation, due the same particular self-referential
    weirdness that stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just based >>>>> on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a number >>>>> that happens to represent yourself means that you you system "ALL"
    doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined.

    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that directly
    refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have

    it's a *specific* number that has the currently running machine
    encoded into it, it's not "just" a number whatever that means




    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different numbers.

    those are references to functionally equivalent machines, not self-
    references

    Which is why the concept of "self-reference" doesn't work.



    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but
    doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.

    that's not actually true. you can't meaningfully paradox the paradox
    detector while filter *out* paradoxes to point of creating an actual
    problem

    Then show how you will do it.

    This means you need to detect a input that represents a machine that
    uses a computation equivalent to yourself



    let halts be a halting classifier that takes an input machines and
    returns true/false whether it halts or not

    let paradox_free be a paradox filtering classifier that takes an input
    classifier, and an input machine to search for paradoxes in regards
    to: paradox_free(classifier, machine)

    WHich doesn't exist.


    for example if take our basic halting paradox:

    -a-a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    then:

    -a-a paradox_free(halts, und) -> TRUE

    but you might think one still can bamboozle the paradox classifier
    like such:

    -a-a undp = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( paradox_free(halts, undp) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if ( halts(undp) ) loop()
    -a-a }

    here if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE, then the if case run a
    halting paradox form making it /undecidable input/ to halts().

    And the problem is "paradox_free" can't exist as an always correct decider.


    however, if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> TRUE, then that if case
    doesn't run and clearly halts(undp) -> TRUE without issues

    BUT THAT'S FINE FOR OUR USE CASE, no paradox found within a machine is
    necessary for the particular input->output computation being done, so
    utilizing the return paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE to filter out
    paradox_free() paradoxes as well as halts() paradoxes will suffice to
    produce a turing complete subset of machines that can be totally
    classified by halts()

    But we can still build an input that your paradox_free() fails on.

    SO ACTUALLY DO IT??

    WHAT'S THE INPUT THAT CAUSES A FAILURE THAT ACTUALLY MUST BE INCLUDED ON
    THE DIAGONAL???





    i think a major problem with the consensus perspective is an
    expectation of a certain cleanliness in the logic as being the only
    possibility here to compute what we want. TM's can't achieve that, but
    something slightly messier can.

    No, it is your dependence on being able to assume that unicorns can
    solve all your problems.






    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i didn't
    manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally dragging
    toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually be
    used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,

    lol, i can only EfOA someone would engage in sound logic with me

    They are, But you are too stuck in your lies to see it.

    Your "logic" is based on being able to assume that Unicorn's exist, and
    that is a safe assumption until someone can prove that Russel's Teapot
    is not out there. (Even though your unicorns HAVE been proved to not
    exist).

    You are just proving your utter stupidity.






    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of
    curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will >>>>>>>>> recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what
    the actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that
    are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that
    they need to be fully defined in the actions they do.




    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,alt.messianic,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue Mar 3 23:40:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 3/3/26 8:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 3/3/26 4:49 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 3/3/26 3:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 6:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a >>>>>>>>>>> comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they >>>>>>>>>>> represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to >>>>>>>>>>> diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>>>> turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming >>>>>>>>>>> that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he >>>>>>>>>> didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for >>>>>>>>>> what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and >>>>>>>>> understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to
    understanding the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of >>>>>>>>> his support for godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing >>>>>>>> the problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of >>>>>>>> the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration >>>>>>>> in the first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there >>>>>>
    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell
    the difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of >>>>>> the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-
    diagonal" of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be
    computed but that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the
    disadvantage that it may leave the reader with a feeling that
    'there must be something wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement,
    which shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value
    in number n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-
    diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems
    you just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.

    wow, u know up until now, i thot i fully agreed with turing's short
    diagonal proof, but in writing this post i now find myself in a
    subtle, yet entirely critical disagreement:

    /let an be the n-th computable sequence, and let -an(m) be the m-th
    figure in an. Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th. figure. >>> Since +# is computable, there exists a number K [== +#] such that 1-
    -an(n) = -aK(n) for all n. Putting n = K, we have 1 = 2-aK(K), i.e. 1 is >>> even. This is impossible/

    i agree with this proof is far as much as if +# was computable (by TMs)
    we'd have a problem for sure,

    but what i don't agree is that we can just assume the computability of +# from the existence of -an(m), THAT'S THE FALLACy


    the fallacy here is assuming that because the direct diagonal is
    computable, that one can therefore compute the anti-diagonal using
    the direct diagonal. the abstract definition makes it look simple,
    but this ignores the complexities of self-referential analysis (like
    what turing details on the next page)

    But you can, *IF* you have a machine that computes the diagonal, then
    just change all the write to the output to write the opposite. Note,
    the "self-reference" that you are thinking of stops being a "self-
    reference" but is a reference to the original write the diagonal code.


    in both methods i have for rectifying the paradox found in the direct
    diagonal (either (1) filtering TMs or (2) using RTMs), neither can be
    used to then compute the anti-diagonal

    Nope, because your filtering TM (or RTM) will still fail when it gets
    to the number of TURING'S H, as there is no correct answer for the
    machine built by that template.

    TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H DOESN'T EXIST, IT'S AN INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION

    (is that where H comes from??? _H_ypothetical???)



    in (1) the algo to compute an inverse diagonal is filtered out like
    turing's paradoxical variation of the direct diagonal would be, and
    there is no analogous non-paradoxical variation that has a hard coded
    value that is inverse to what it does return ... such a concept is
    entirely nonsensical. a function can only return what it does, it
    can't also return the inverse to what it returns eh???

    But, if D filters it out, then it becomes circle-free, and thus your
    enumeration is incomlete.

    THE ANTI-DIAGONAL IS *NOT* A COMPUTABLE NUMBER BY TMs, SO IT *SHOULD* BE FILTERED OUT



    in (2) the attempt to compute an inverse diagonal with RTMs just
    fails for reasons u'd only understand by working thru the algo urself
    (p7 of re: turing's diagonals)

    the premise:

    /Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th/

    is just not sufficient evidence that such +# is actually computable
    given the direct diagonal -an()

    And why not. The fact that you are too ignorant to see how to do that,
    as you are thinking the only "reference" can be to "self", doesn't
    make you argument correct.

    BECAUSE IT DOESN'T CAPTURE THE NUANCES INVOLVED WITH SELF-REFERENCE,
    LIKE THE PARADOX FOUND IN TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H

    NEITHER METHOD I'VE HYPOTHESIZED ABOUT AN EXTANT H ALLOWS FOR INVERSE-H
    TO BE COMPUTED



    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across
    computable numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,


    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across
    the computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and
    thus you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not
    computable, i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable

    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the
    Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the
    sequence of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that
    the attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with >>>>>> effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing >>>>> the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on his
    given H.

    no idea why ur claiming that

    i clearly understand that D cannot decide correctly on turing's H,
    because my response to this is that D does not need to decide
    correctly on H to compute a diagonal

    Then how do you build YOUR H without that D?

    I SAID I D DIDN'T NEED TO DECIDE ON THE FIXED H, NOT THAT IT WOULDN'T BE USED

    incredibly, ironically, AND not co-incidently: partial recognizer D
    *can* decide on the fixed H because the fixed H does not try to use any
    D on itself, so no self-referential paradox is possible in regards to
    it's own digit on the diagonal

    partial_recognizer_D(fixed_H) -> TRUE

    which is a decidably TRUE return value (therefore a dependable AND
    computable value)

    the fixed H is /decidable input/ to partial recognizer D (used in fixed
    H, which does not call any D itself), and would not be filtered out by
    paradox detectors

    the fact fixed H does not use any classifier D on itself, and instead
    returns a hard-coded value for it's own digit on the diagonal, is
    keystone in making it /decidable input/ to D

    holy fuck rick idk what to tell u anymore,

    that shit is rock solid theory.

    Efn+Efn+Efn+



    YOUR H still needs to know if Turing's H is a machine that generates a
    computable number to build the list of such machine to define the
    diagonal to compute.

    TURING'S H DOESN'T EXIST. TURING'S D DOESN'T EVEN EXIST.
    BOTH ARE INCOMPLETE INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATIONS.>
    THE FIXED H DIAGONAL WOULD USE A PARTIAL RECOGNIZER D, WHICH WILL WORK
    JUST FINE ON THE ENUMERATION THAT HAS /UNDECIDABLE INPUT/ TO D FILTERED
    FROM IT


    You seem to not understand the meaning of ALL.

    ALL COMPUTABLE NUMBERS =/= ALL MACHINES THAT COMPUTE COMPUTABLE NUMBERS




    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it
    will still error on Turing's H.

    turing's H, as it stands, doesn't even exist my dude. he doesn't
    specify what D (or H) needs to do when encountering the /undecidable
    input/ of H, so therefore both D and H are an incomplete
    specifications of a machine

    Because "undecidability" doesn't affect the correct answer it must
    compute.

    THE SPACE OF TMs MACHINE IS NOT A PERFECT COMPUTATIONAL SPACE LIKE
    THEORY KEEPS CONFLATING IT WITH, IT HAS CERTAIN IDIOSYNCRASIES, AND IT CANNOT COMPUTE EVERYTHING THAT IS COMPUTABLE

    THE DECIDER THAT TURING HYPOTHESIZED _DOES NOT EXIST_, BECAUSE IT DOES
    NOT HANDLE THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF SELF-REFERENTIAL ANALYSIS, SO IT IS
    AN /INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION/ OF A TM

    THAT IS THE *ACTUAL* REASON IT DOES NOT EXIST.


    Note, H, when it becomes an actual machine, because we have created an
    actual machine we claim to be the D, has an answer, and that D is
    always wrong.

    Thus, it isn't that machines claiming to be D and H can't exist, only
    machines CORRECTLY meeting the requirements of D and H can't exist.

    Thus, if your H depends on that D, (or a machine that meets its
    specification) then it also can't exist.

    You just make the error of saying the problems don't exist because you
    can't build them, but YOUR machine can, even though it has the same
    problem.



    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL
    be circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus
    DOES produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H
    tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you
    WILL hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D
    must have this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be
    wrong on THAT input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for
    yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of
    bad logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting as
    showing you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make >>>>>>>> the diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you
    can't make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows
    unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation >>>>>>> like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an >>>>>>> inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the >>>>>>> inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will >>>>>>> leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet >>>>>>> still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an
    inverse diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to
    decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers
    then u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the
    classifier that classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.

    please do quote where turing shows we can't filter out such paradoxes...

    In other words, you beleive unquestionably in the existance of
    Russle's teapot until someone can prove it doesn't exist.

    BRO U LITERALLY CLAIMED TURING SHOWS FILTERING OUT PARADOXES CAN'T BE
    DONE, WHERE IN THE FUCK IS THE REFERENCE U MORON???

    WHY ARE YOU GOING ON ABOUT RUSSEL'S TEAPOT INSTEAD OF PROVIDING A
    FUCKING QUOTE TO TURING'S PAPER TO BACK THE *DIRECT* CLAIM YOU MADE???


    For THIS paradox, read the proof. for THIS H, the one given, (for
    which ever version of D you want to try to assume is right) D is just
    wrong.

    Thus, it doesn't matter if D can somehow "detect" the paradox, because
    there still isn't an answer it can give to H that will be correct, as
    the template for H will always make that D wrong.

    Note, the problem is you can't actually DEFINE what a "paradox
    machine" is, as they aren't actually machines, but templates that
    build machines. And that final machine doesn't have actually
    detectable tell-tales that show it to be from that template.


    (also why do always just make random assertions???)

    Because I am smart, and know what I am talking about.

    I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE KIND OF DISHONEST GARBAGE I HAVE TO WORK
    WITH, BUT OH WELL


    They only seem "random" because you don't know what you are talking
    about and believe in unicorns (and teapots)




    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable
    as satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those that
    are but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will not be
    complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it
    will be asked about all machines as it counts through all the
    descriptions) and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either >>>>> *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to
    *any* machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of
    the computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said >>>>> machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable
    numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done, since
    ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't do
    what you want to do.

    nah, (a) computing an enumeration of all /computable numbers/ is not
    the same thing as (b) computing the enumeration of all machines that
    compute computable numbers. (b) necessarily has duplicates while (a)
    does not need them. turing's paper wrongly conflates (a) with (b)

    i'm pretty sure (a) can be done with TMs

    Nope, as your (a) needs the machine D, which lets you filter the full
    list of machibe, which Turing showed can't exist.

    The problem is such a machine can't handle the classification of the H
    he describes. It doesn't matter that you can make a DIFFERENT machine,
    that you try to deceptively call "H" too that it won't have a problem
    with, when your "H" gets to the number of Turing's H, it still has the
    problem. It can call that one not circle-free, and thus omit a circle-
    free machine from the list, or call it circle-free, and when even YOU
    try to simulate it the k steps, you get stuck in a loop.


    (b) probably can't be done with TMs

    But if you can do (a), you can do (b).-a You just need to take the code
    of (a), and invert the symbol put on the tape when it is written.
    Note, it won't be "self-referent", as the "N" is uses, is the N of
    YOUR H, not itself. The code for his (a) NEVER reads back what it
    wrote, so that doesn't affect its behavior.




    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without
    such paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a
    definable property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is
    that if you look at just a machine description, it doesn't
    (necessarily) tell you about the use of an "interface" as that use
    of an interface can be just inlined, leaving nothing "in the code"
    to show it exists.

    i'm sorry, are you actually saying the machine description does not
    describe what the machine does???


    No, that "paradoxical" isn't a definable property of a machine.

    -a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    und() includes a structural paradoxical in relation to the classifier halts(), easily demonstrable thru a short proof i've done many times

    I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHY YOU CAN'T ACCEPT THAT AS A PROPERTY OF UND(), BESIDES LITERAL BRAIMNDEAD RELIGIOUS DEVOTION TO SOME FUCKING FORM OF INSANITY I CAN'T HONESTLY FATHOM



    lol





    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D >>>>>> (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus >>>>>> generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a
    valid machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to >>>>>> computa a number, and thus should have been omitted from the list >>>>>> but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just
    built on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal
    computation does not actually then imply the existence of an
    anti- diagonal computation, due the same particular self-
    referential weirdness that stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just
    based on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a
    number that happens to represent yourself means that you you
    system "ALL" doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined. >>>>>
    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that
    directly refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have

    it's a *specific* number that has the currently running machine
    encoded into it, it's not "just" a number whatever that means




    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different
    numbers.

    those are references to functionally equivalent machines, not self-
    references

    Which is why the concept of "self-reference" doesn't work.



    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but
    doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.

    that's not actually true. you can't meaningfully paradox the paradox
    detector while filter *out* paradoxes to point of creating an actual
    problem

    Then show how you will do it.

    This means you need to detect a input that represents a machine that
    uses a computation equivalent to yourself



    let halts be a halting classifier that takes an input machines and
    returns true/false whether it halts or not

    let paradox_free be a paradox filtering classifier that takes an
    input classifier, and an input machine to search for paradoxes in
    regards to: paradox_free(classifier, machine)

    WHich doesn't exist.


    for example if take our basic halting paradox:

    -a-a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    then:

    -a-a paradox_free(halts, und) -> TRUE

    but you might think one still can bamboozle the paradox classifier
    like such:

    -a-a undp = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( paradox_free(halts, undp) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if ( halts(undp) ) loop()
    -a-a }

    here if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE, then the if case run a
    halting paradox form making it /undecidable input/ to halts().

    And the problem is "paradox_free" can't exist as an always correct
    decider.


    however, if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> TRUE, then that if case
    doesn't run and clearly halts(undp) -> TRUE without issues

    BUT THAT'S FINE FOR OUR USE CASE, no paradox found within a machine
    is necessary for the particular input->output computation being done,
    so utilizing the return paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE to filter
    out paradox_free() paradoxes as well as halts() paradoxes will
    suffice to produce a turing complete subset of machines that can be
    totally classified by halts()

    But we can still build an input that your paradox_free() fails on.

    SO ACTUALLY DO IT??

    WHAT'S THE INPUT THAT CAUSES A FAILURE THAT ACTUALLY MUST BE INCLUDED ON
    THE DIAGONAL???





    i think a major problem with the consensus perspective is an
    expectation of a certain cleanliness in the logic as being the only
    possibility here to compute what we want. TM's can't achieve that,
    but something slightly messier can.

    No, it is your dependence on being able to assume that unicorns can
    solve all your problems.






    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i
    didn't manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally
    dragging toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually
    be used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,

    lol, i can only EfOA someone would engage in sound logic with me

    They are, But you are too stuck in your lies to see it.

    Your "logic" is based on being able to assume that Unicorn's exist,
    and that is a safe assumption until someone can prove that Russel's
    Teapot is not out there. (Even though your unicorns HAVE been proved
    to not exist).

    You are just proving your utter stupidity.






    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of
    curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will >>>>>>>>>> recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what >>>>>> the actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that >>>>>> are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that >>>>>> they need to be fully defined in the actions they do.






    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the little crank that could
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory on Wed Mar 4 07:44:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 3/3/26 11:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 3/3/26 4:49 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 3/3/26 3:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 6:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an infinitude >>>>>>>>>>>> one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a >>>>>>>>>>> comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of they >>>>>>>>>>> represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to >>>>>>>>>>> diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 of >>>>>>>>>>> turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H, assuming >>>>>>>>>>> that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he >>>>>>>>>> didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for >>>>>>>>>> what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, and >>>>>>>>> understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to
    understanding the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest of >>>>>>>>> his support for godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing >>>>>>>> the problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation of >>>>>>>> the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the enumeration >>>>>>>> in the first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there >>>>>>
    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell
    the difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration of >>>>>> the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-
    diagonal" of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be
    computed but that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the
    disadvantage that it may leave the reader with a feeling that
    'there must be something wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement,
    which shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value
    in number n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-
    diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems
    you just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.

    wow, u know up until now, i thot i fully agreed with turing's short
    diagonal proof, but in writing this post i now find myself in a
    subtle, yet entirely critical disagreement:

    /let an be the n-th computable sequence, and let -an(m) be the m-th
    figure in an. Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th. figure. >>> Since +# is computable, there exists a number K [== +#] such that 1-
    -an(n) = -aK(n) for all n. Putting n = K, we have 1 = 2-aK(K), i.e. 1 is >>> even. This is impossible/

    i agree with this proof is far as much as if +# was computable (by TMs)
    we'd have a problem for sure,

    but what i don't agree is that we can just assume the computability of +# from the existence of -an(m), THAT'S THE FALLACy

    But he doesn't.

    He PROVES that +# can't be computed, because we can't compute an
    enumeration of TM that compute machines.



    the fallacy here is assuming that because the direct diagonal is
    computable, that one can therefore compute the anti-diagonal using
    the direct diagonal. the abstract definition makes it look simple,
    but this ignores the complexities of self-referential analysis (like
    what turing details on the next page)

    But you can, *IF* you have a machine that computes the diagonal, then
    just change all the write to the output to write the opposite. Note,
    the "self-reference" that you are thinking of stops being a "self-
    reference" but is a reference to the original write the diagonal code.


    in both methods i have for rectifying the paradox found in the direct
    diagonal (either (1) filtering TMs or (2) using RTMs), neither can be
    used to then compute the anti-diagonal

    Nope, because your filtering TM (or RTM) will still fail when it gets
    to the number of TURING'S H, as there is no correct answer for the
    machine built by that template.

    TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H DOESN'T EXIST, IT'S AN INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION

    (is that where H comes from??? _H_ypothetical???)

    What is "incomplete" in its specification? Only how to build D, which he admits he assumes to exist, to prove that it can't,




    in (1) the algo to compute an inverse diagonal is filtered out like
    turing's paradoxical variation of the direct diagonal would be, and
    there is no analogous non-paradoxical variation that has a hard coded
    value that is inverse to what it does return ... such a concept is
    entirely nonsensical. a function can only return what it does, it
    can't also return the inverse to what it returns eh???

    But, if D filters it out, then it becomes circle-free, and thus your
    enumeration is incomlete.

    THE ANTI-DIAGONAL IS *NOT* A COMPUTABLE NUMBER BY TMs, SO IT *SHOULD* BE FILTERED OUT

    But Turing's H isn't computing the anti-diagonal, it is computing a
    computable number, which happens to match the diagonal of the full enumeration, and thus should be.

    The algorith, assuming D exists, *WILL* produce a computatble number,
    and thus needs to filtered IN.




    in (2) the attempt to compute an inverse diagonal with RTMs just
    fails for reasons u'd only understand by working thru the algo urself
    (p7 of re: turing's diagonals)

    the premise:

    /Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th/

    is just not sufficient evidence that such +# is actually computable
    given the direct diagonal -an()

    And why not. The fact that you are too ignorant to see how to do that,
    as you are thinking the only "reference" can be to "self", doesn't
    make you argument correct.

    BECAUSE IT DOESN'T CAPTURE THE NUANCES INVOLVED WITH SELF-REFERENCE,
    LIKE THE PARADOX FOUND IN TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H

    But the problem is there ISN'T a "nuance" to capture, as N is just a number.


    NEITHER METHOD I'VE HYPOTHESIZED ABOUT AN EXTANT H ALLOWS FOR INVERSE-H
    TO BE COMPUTED


    Why not?

    Why can't I take YOUR code of the H that you claim generates the
    diagonal, and replace each of the final write permenatly to the tape
    with write the opposite symbol to the tape?

    Note, I am NOT changing your magical "self-reference" number to myself,
    but leaving it as your number, so your code still works exactly as before.

    Where is the error here.

    This just shows that your "magic" of self-reference isn't actually real.




    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable
    numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across
    computable numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,


    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across
    the computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and
    thus you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not
    computable, i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable

    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the
    Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the
    sequence of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit.

    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that
    the attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue with >>>>>> effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for computing >>>>> the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on his
    given H.

    no idea why ur claiming that

    i clearly understand that D cannot decide correctly on turing's H,
    because my response to this is that D does not need to decide
    correctly on H to compute a diagonal

    Then how do you build YOUR H without that D?

    I SAID I D DIDN'T NEED TO DECIDE ON THE FIXED H, NOT THAT IT WOULDN'T BE USED

    Sure you do, as you need the COMPLETE enumeration of machines that
    create computable numbers or the computable numbers.

    If you miss some, then the fact that that the anti-diagonal isn't in the
    list doesn't actually mean anything,

    You need to remember the actual problem.



    YOUR H still needs to know if Turing's H is a machine that generates a
    computable number to build the list of such machine to define the
    diagonal to compute.

    TURING'S H DOESN'T EXIST. TURING'S D DOESN'T EVEN EXIST. BOTH ARE
    INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATIONS.

    The SPECIFICATION, as to what their RESULTS are to be is complete.

    THey are unimplementalbe.

    And so is your H, as you need to depend on that same D to make your
    COMPLETE enumeration.


    THE FIXED H DIAGONAL WOULD USE A PARTIAL RECOGNIZER D, WHICH WILL WORK
    JUST FINE ON THE ENUMERATION THAT HAS /UNDECIDABLE INPUT/ TO D FILTERED
    FROM IT

    Which means the array doesn't meet the specification, and thus neither
    does the diagonal.

    You seem to forget the base requirements,

    If your partial recogninzer doesn't answer for some inputs, then your H doesn't produce a full number.

    If your partial recognizer just rejects some machines it should accept,
    then you array of numbers is incomplete (even if infinite) and thus its anti-diagonal can well be computed and will be one of the number just
    dropped from your enumeration,

    In other words, your world accepts false answers as correct.



    You seem to not understand the meaning of ALL.

    ALL COMPUTABLE NUMBERS =/= ALL MACHINES THAT COMPUTE COMPUTABLE NUMBERS

    Yes, so *IF* you can show that your partial list of machines still
    includes ALL computable numbers, you might be able to do something,

    But you can't do that based on the assumption of some decider existing,
    you need to actuall prove it,

    And the problem is that if you CAN compute the array of the enumeraton
    of computable numbers, then from that computation, you can compute the anti-diagonal, and thus prove that your enumeration wasn't complete.

    This is the proof that he says will leave the reader with the feeling
    that "something must be wrong" even though it is perfectly correct.





    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it
    will still error on Turing's H.

    turing's H, as it stands, doesn't even exist my dude. he doesn't
    specify what D (or H) needs to do when encountering the /undecidable
    input/ of H, so therefore both D and H are an incomplete
    specifications of a machine

    Because "undecidability" doesn't affect the correct answer it must
    compute.

    THE SPACE OF TMs MACHINE IS NOT A PERFECT COMPUTATIONAL SPACE LIKE
    THEORY KEEPS CONFLATING IT WITH, IT HAS CERTAIN IDIOSYNCRASIES, AND IT CANNOT COMPUTE EVERYTHING THAT IS COMPUTABLE

    Really? Since DEFINITION of "Computable" is that an finite definite
    algorithm exist to compute it, what computable thing doesn't have a TM.

    You need to disprove CT to make that claim.


    THE DECIDER THAT TURING HYPOTHESIZED _DOES NOT EXIST_, BECAUSE IT DOES
    NOT HANDLE THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF SELF-REFERENTIAL ANALYSIS, SO IT IS
    AN /INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION/ OF A TM

    Because it CAN'T as your concept doesn't actually exist.


    THAT IS THE *ACTUAL* REASON IT DOES NOT EXIST.

    In other words, because something that can't be computed can't be
    computed (the fact of your idea of self-refernce) means that we can't
    compute something.



    Note, H, when it becomes an actual machine, because we have created an
    actual machine we claim to be the D, has an answer, and that D is
    always wrong.

    Thus, it isn't that machines claiming to be D and H can't exist, only
    machines CORRECTLY meeting the requirements of D and H can't exist.

    Thus, if your H depends on that D, (or a machine that meets its
    specification) then it also can't exist.

    You just make the error of saying the problems don't exist because you
    can't build them, but YOUR machine can, even though it has the same
    problem.



    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL
    be circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus
    DOES produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H
    tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you
    WILL hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D
    must have this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be
    wrong on THAT input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for
    yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of
    bad logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting as
    showing you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make >>>>>>>> the diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you
    can't make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows
    unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation >>>>>>> like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an >>>>>>> inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the >>>>>>> inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that will >>>>>>> leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered (yet >>>>>>> still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute an
    inverse diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to
    decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers
    then u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the
    classifier that classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.

    please do quote where turing shows we can't filter out such paradoxes...

    In other words, you beleive unquestionably in the existance of
    Russle's teapot until someone can prove it doesn't exist.

    BRO U LITERALLY CLAIMED TURING SHOWS FILTERING OUT PARADOXES CAN'T BE
    DONE, WHERE IN THE FUCK IS THE REFERENCE U MORON???

    READ THE LITERATURE.

    I admit, Turing doesn't make the claim HERE, that result evolves over time.


    WHY ARE YOU GOING ON ABOUT RUSSEL'S TEAPOT INSTEAD OF PROVIDING A
    FUCKING QUOTE TO TURING'S PAPER TO BACK THE *DIRECT* CLAIM YOU MADE???

    Because I never said Turing said it in the paper. It is a fact proven in
    the literature.

    Rice's Theorem is a later proof, and your paradoxical behavior falls
    with Rice's Theorem.



    For THIS paradox, read the proof. for THIS H, the one given, (for
    which ever version of D you want to try to assume is right) D is just
    wrong.

    Thus, it doesn't matter if D can somehow "detect" the paradox, because
    there still isn't an answer it can give to H that will be correct, as
    the template for H will always make that D wrong.

    Note, the problem is you can't actually DEFINE what a "paradox
    machine" is, as they aren't actually machines, but templates that
    build machines. And that final machine doesn't have actually
    detectable tell-tales that show it to be from that template.


    (also why do always just make random assertions???)

    Because I am smart, and know what I am talking about.

    I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE KIND OF DISHONEST GARBAGE I HAVE TO WORK
    WITH, BUT OH WELL

    No, YOU are the one spouting "DISHONEST GARBAGE" because it seems you
    are just ignorant of what you claim to be talking about.



    They only seem "random" because you don't know what you are talking
    about and believe in unicorns (and teapots)




    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable
    as satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those that
    are but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will not be
    complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it
    will be asked about all machines as it counts through all the
    descriptions) and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable
    numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which either >>>>> *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in regards to
    *any* machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of
    the computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with said >>>>> machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /computable
    numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done, since
    ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't do
    what you want to do.

    nah, (a) computing an enumeration of all /computable numbers/ is not
    the same thing as (b) computing the enumeration of all machines that
    compute computable numbers. (b) necessarily has duplicates while (a)
    does not need them. turing's paper wrongly conflates (a) with (b)

    i'm pretty sure (a) can be done with TMs

    Nope, as your (a) needs the machine D, which lets you filter the full
    list of machibe, which Turing showed can't exist.

    The problem is such a machine can't handle the classification of the H
    he describes. It doesn't matter that you can make a DIFFERENT machine,
    that you try to deceptively call "H" too that it won't have a problem
    with, when your "H" gets to the number of Turing's H, it still has the
    problem. It can call that one not circle-free, and thus omit a circle-
    free machine from the list, or call it circle-free, and when even YOU
    try to simulate it the k steps, you get stuck in a loop.


    (b) probably can't be done with TMs

    But if you can do (a), you can do (b).-a You just need to take the code
    of (a), and invert the symbol put on the tape when it is written.
    Note, it won't be "self-referent", as the "N" is uses, is the N of
    YOUR H, not itself. The code for his (a) NEVER reads back what it
    wrote, so that doesn't affect its behavior.




    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without
    such paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a
    definable property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is
    that if you look at just a machine description, it doesn't
    (necessarily) tell you about the use of an "interface" as that use
    of an interface can be just inlined, leaving nothing "in the code"
    to show it exists.

    i'm sorry, are you actually saying the machine description does not
    describe what the machine does???


    No, that "paradoxical" isn't a definable property of a machine.

    -a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    und() includes a structural paradoxical in relation to the classifier halts(), easily demonstrable thru a short proof i've done many times

    I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHY YOU CAN'T ACCEPT THAT AS A PROPERTY OF UND(), BESIDES LITERAL BRAIMNDEAD RELIGIOUS DEVOTION TO SOME FUCKING FORM OF INSANITY I CAN'T HONESTLY FATHOM

    Because your "und" isn't actually a "program" until you define the exact procedure "halts" that it uses. And that that point, it ceases to be a
    real "paradox", but just a machine with definite behavior that that
    particular halts got wrong.

    Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the basic words you
    are using,




    lol





    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D >>>>>> (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus >>>>>> generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a
    valid machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails to >>>>>> computa a number, and thus should have been omitted from the list >>>>>> but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just
    built on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal
    computation does not actually then imply the existence of an
    anti- diagonal computation, due the same particular self-
    referential weirdness that stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just
    based on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a
    number that happens to represent yourself means that you you
    system "ALL" doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-defined. >>>>>
    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that
    directly refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have

    it's a *specific* number that has the currently running machine
    encoded into it, it's not "just" a number whatever that means




    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different
    numbers.

    those are references to functionally equivalent machines, not self-
    references

    Which is why the concept of "self-reference" doesn't work.



    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but
    doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.

    that's not actually true. you can't meaningfully paradox the paradox
    detector while filter *out* paradoxes to point of creating an actual
    problem

    Then show how you will do it.

    This means you need to detect a input that represents a machine that
    uses a computation equivalent to yourself



    let halts be a halting classifier that takes an input machines and
    returns true/false whether it halts or not

    let paradox_free be a paradox filtering classifier that takes an
    input classifier, and an input machine to search for paradoxes in
    regards to: paradox_free(classifier, machine)

    WHich doesn't exist.


    for example if take our basic halting paradox:

    -a-a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    then:

    -a-a paradox_free(halts, und) -> TRUE

    but you might think one still can bamboozle the paradox classifier
    like such:

    -a-a undp = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( paradox_free(halts, undp) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if ( halts(undp) ) loop()
    -a-a }

    here if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE, then the if case run a
    halting paradox form making it /undecidable input/ to halts().

    And the problem is "paradox_free" can't exist as an always correct
    decider.


    however, if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> TRUE, then that if case
    doesn't run and clearly halts(undp) -> TRUE without issues

    BUT THAT'S FINE FOR OUR USE CASE, no paradox found within a machine
    is necessary for the particular input->output computation being done,
    so utilizing the return paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE to filter
    out paradox_free() paradoxes as well as halts() paradoxes will
    suffice to produce a turing complete subset of machines that can be
    totally classified by halts()

    But we can still build an input that your paradox_free() fails on.

    SO ACTUALLY DO IT??

    WHAT'S THE INPUT THAT CAUSES A FAILURE THAT ACTUALLY MUST BE INCLUDED ON
    THE DIAGONAL???

    Just make a machine that calls paradox_free with its own description,
    and if it says it is paradoxical, don't be to the criteria in question,
    and it if it says it isn't, be so.

    so

    und() ->
    if paradox_free(halts, und) :
    if (halts(und)) :
    return 0;
    else
    loop forever;
    else
    if (halts(und) ):
    loop forever
    else
    return 0;

    The problem is if we are paradoxical to paradox_free then it can't decide.







    i think a major problem with the consensus perspective is an
    expectation of a certain cleanliness in the logic as being the only
    possibility here to compute what we want. TM's can't achieve that,
    but something slightly messier can.

    No, it is your dependence on being able to assume that unicorns can
    solve all your problems.






    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i
    didn't manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally
    dragging toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually
    be used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,

    lol, i can only EfOA someone would engage in sound logic with me

    They are, But you are too stuck in your lies to see it.

    Your "logic" is based on being able to assume that Unicorn's exist,
    and that is a safe assumption until someone can prove that Russel's
    Teapot is not out there. (Even though your unicorns HAVE been proved
    to not exist).

    You are just proving your utter stupidity.






    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of
    curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts will >>>>>>>>>> recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand what >>>>>> the actual problem is, and your world is just build on things that >>>>>> are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that >>>>>> they need to be fully defined in the actions they do.







    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Richard Damon@Richard@Damon-Family.org to comp.theory,alt.messianic,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Wed Mar 4 07:47:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 3/4/26 2:40 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 3/3/26 8:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 3/3/26 4:49 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 3/3/26 3:55 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 6:24 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 8:24 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 2:08 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/28/26 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/28/26 5:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 2/27/26 6:09 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/27/26 2:51 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/02/2026 21:30, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/24/26 11:38 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 22/02/2026 21:08, dart200 wrote:
    On 2/22/26 12:49 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 2/22/2026 9:04 AM, dart200 wrote:
    ...
    an effective enumeration of all turing machines was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proven on
    turing's original paper and can be reused anywhere... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You think you can test all of them one by one? Don't tell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> me you think

    yes that's what diagonal proofs do...

    Eh?!

    A test is a procedure! You can't test /all/ of an
    infinitude one by one.


    that exactly what turing does in his proof: he defines a >>>>>>>>>>>> comptuation
    that enumerates out all the numbers, testing each one of >>>>>>>>>>>> they represent
    a "satisfactory"/"circle-free" machine, and adding that to >>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal
    across defined across computable numbers

    it really would be a great exercise to carefully read p247 >>>>>>>>>>>> of turing's
    proof and produce the psuedo-code for the machine H,
    assuming that
    machine D exists


    I'll get to it sooner then, because it's mad. Are you sure he >>>>>>>>>>> didn't
    reason quantified over all but phrase it like a procedure for >>>>>>>>>>> what he

    the theory of computation is the theory of such procedures, >>>>>>>>>> and understanding the diagonal procedure is critical to
    understanding the *base* contradiction/paradox that the rest >>>>>>>>>> of his support for godel's result is then built on

    And focusing on what is said to be impossible and not changing >>>>>>>>> the problem is also important.

    The problem with the diagonal generation isn't the generation >>>>>>>>> of the diagonal itself, but effectively enumerating the
    enumeration in the first place.

    i don't see any indication that turing realized a difference there >>>>>>>
    Then you zre just showing your stupidity, because YOU can't tell >>>>>>> the difference.

    After all, on page 246 he says:

    The computable sequences are therefore not enumerable.

    Here is is SPECIFICALLY talking about the effective enumeration >>>>>>> of the computable sequences.

    He then points out that he can directly show that the "anti-
    diagonal" of the (non-effectively computed) enumeration can't be >>>>>>> computed but that "This proof, although perfectly sound, has the >>>>>>> disadvantage that it may leave the reader with a feeling that
    'there must be something wrong'".

    it is wrong,

    No, YOU are wrong, as you don't understand what is being done.

    I think he is refering he to the standard anti-diagonal arguement,
    which shows that since for all n, position n differs from the value >>>>> in number n, there can not be any element that matches the anti-
    diagonal.

    It is just a natural fact of countable infinity, something it seems >>>>> you just don't understand.

    Show how that is actually wrong.

    wow, u know up until now, i thot i fully agreed with turing's short
    diagonal proof, but in writing this post i now find myself in a
    subtle, yet entirely critical disagreement:

    /let an be the n-th computable sequence, and let -an(m) be the m-th
    figure in an. Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th.
    figure. Since +# is computable, there exists a number K [== +#] such
    that 1- -an(n) = -aK(n) for all n. Putting n = K, we have 1 = 2-aK(K), >>>> i.e. 1 is even. This is impossible/

    i agree with this proof is far as much as if +# was computable (by TMs)
    we'd have a problem for sure,

    but what i don't agree is that we can just assume the computability of
    +# from the existence of -an(m), THAT'S THE FALLACy


    the fallacy here is assuming that because the direct diagonal is
    computable, that one can therefore compute the anti-diagonal using
    the direct diagonal. the abstract definition makes it look simple,
    but this ignores the complexities of self-referential analysis (like
    what turing details on the next page)

    But you can, *IF* you have a machine that computes the diagonal, then
    just change all the write to the output to write the opposite. Note,
    the "self-reference" that you are thinking of stops being a "self-
    reference" but is a reference to the original write the diagonal code.


    in both methods i have for rectifying the paradox found in the
    direct diagonal (either (1) filtering TMs or (2) using RTMs),
    neither can be used to then compute the anti-diagonal

    Nope, because your filtering TM (or RTM) will still fail when it gets
    to the number of TURING'S H, as there is no correct answer for the
    machine built by that template.

    TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H DOESN'T EXIST, IT'S AN INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION

    (is that where H comes from??? _H_ypothetical???)



    in (1) the algo to compute an inverse diagonal is filtered out like
    turing's paradoxical variation of the direct diagonal would be, and
    there is no analogous non-paradoxical variation that has a hard
    coded value that is inverse to what it does return ... such a
    concept is entirely nonsensical. a function can only return what it
    does, it can't also return the inverse to what it returns eh???

    But, if D filters it out, then it becomes circle-free, and thus your
    enumeration is incomlete.

    THE ANTI-DIAGONAL IS *NOT* A COMPUTABLE NUMBER BY TMs, SO IT *SHOULD*
    BE FILTERED OUT



    in (2) the attempt to compute an inverse diagonal with RTMs just
    fails for reasons u'd only understand by working thru the algo
    urself (p7 of re: turing's diagonals)

    the premise:

    /Let +# be the sequence with 1--an(m) as its n-th/

    is just not sufficient evidence that such +# is actually computable
    given the direct diagonal -an()

    And why not. The fact that you are too ignorant to see how to do
    that, as you are thinking the only "reference" can be to "self",
    doesn't make you argument correct.

    BECAUSE IT DOESN'T CAPTURE THE NUANCES INVOLVED WITH SELF-REFERENCE,
    LIKE THE PARADOX FOUND IN TURING'S HYPOTHETICAL H

    NEITHER METHOD I'VE HYPOTHESIZED ABOUT AN EXTANT H ALLOWS FOR INVERSE-
    H TO BE COMPUTED



    one cannot just assume that because the diagonal across computable >>>>>> numbers is computable, therefore the anti-diagonal across
    computable numbers is computable...

    He doesn't. You are just showing your stupidity,


    He is proving the enumeration is uncomputable, and without the
    enumeration, you can't compute either of them.


    neither method i have for fixing the diagonal computation across
    the computable numbers can be used to compute the inverse diagonal

    But your method still doesn't let you compute the enumeration, and
    thus you can't actually compute the diagonal.

    Remember, the problem definitions requires that the listing be a
    COMPLETE listing of the computable numbers / machine that compute
    computable numbers, in some definite order.

    If your enumeration isn't complete, your diagonal isn't correct.


    so while i agree with turing that the anti-diagonal is not
    computable, i don't agree that the normal diagonal is not computable >>>>>
    Why?

    How does D decide on the original H?

    Your modified H still needs a correct D to decide on all the other
    machines, including his original H that doesn't use your "trick"




    But instead, he can prove with a more obvious process, that the >>>>>>> Decider "D" that could be used to effectively enumerate the
    sequence of machine that produce computable numbers can not esit. >>>>>>>
    Thus, he clearly knows the difference, but is pointing out that >>>>>>> the attempt to compute the diagonal clearly reveals the issue
    with effectively enumerating the sequences.

    well, he didn't consider that perhaps the proper algo for
    computing the diagonal can avoid the paradox on itself ...

    But it doesn't.

    Your just don't understand that D just can't correctly decide on
    his given H.

    no idea why ur claiming that

    i clearly understand that D cannot decide correctly on turing's H,
    because my response to this is that D does not need to decide
    correctly on H to compute a diagonal

    Then how do you build YOUR H without that D?

    I SAID I D DIDN'T NEED TO DECIDE ON THE FIXED H, NOT THAT IT WOULDN'T
    BE USED

    incredibly, ironically, AND not co-incidently: partial recognizer D
    *can* decide on the fixed H because the fixed H does not try to use any
    D on itself, so no self-referential paradox is possible in regards to
    it's own digit on the diagonal

    partial_recognizer_D(fixed_H) -> TRUE

    which is a decidably TRUE return value (therefore a dependable AND computable value)

    the fixed H is /decidable input/ to partial recognizer D (used in fixed
    H, which does not call any D itself), and would not be filtered out by paradox detectors

    the fact fixed H does not use any classifier D on itself, and instead returns a hard-coded value for it's own digit on the diagonal, is
    keystone in making it /decidable input/ to D

    holy fuck rick idk what to tell u anymore,

    that shit is rock solid theory.

    Efn+Efn+Efn+


    And your "enumeration" isn't complete, and thus you are just anouncing
    that you thing errors are ok.

    The problem is fixed_H still need to run D on turing_H and it will fail
    on that.

    If D errs on Turing_H and calls it circle_free, then fixed_H gets hung up.

    If D errs on Turing_H and calls it not circle_free, then your
    enumeration is missing the circle_free H from its list, and thus doesn't
    make the right diagonal.



    YOUR H still needs to know if Turing's H is a machine that generates
    a computable number to build the list of such machine to define the
    diagonal to compute.

    TURING'S H DOESN'T EXIST. TURING'S D DOESN'T EVEN EXIST. BOTH ARE
    INCOMPLETE INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATIONS.>
    THE FIXED H DIAGONAL WOULD USE A PARTIAL RECOGNIZER D, WHICH WILL WORK
    JUST FINE ON THE ENUMERATION THAT HAS /UNDECIDABLE INPUT/ TO D
    FILTERED FROM IT


    You seem to not understand the meaning of ALL.

    ALL COMPUTABLE NUMBERS =/= ALL MACHINES THAT COMPUTE COMPUTABLE NUMBERS




    It doesn't matter that your new H doesn't get stuck on itself, it
    will still error on Turing's H.

    turing's H, as it stands, doesn't even exist my dude. he doesn't
    specify what D (or H) needs to do when encountering the /undecidable
    input/ of H, so therefore both D and H are an incomplete
    specifications of a machine

    Because "undecidability" doesn't affect the correct answer it must
    compute.

    THE SPACE OF TMs MACHINE IS NOT A PERFECT COMPUTATIONAL SPACE LIKE
    THEORY KEEPS CONFLATING IT WITH, IT HAS CERTAIN IDIOSYNCRASIES, AND IT
    CANNOT COMPUTE EVERYTHING THAT IS COMPUTABLE

    THE DECIDER THAT TURING HYPOTHESIZED _DOES NOT EXIST_, BECAUSE IT DOES
    NOT HANDLE THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF SELF-REFERENTIAL ANALYSIS, SO IT IS
    AN /INCOMPLETE SPECIFICATION/ OF A TM

    THAT IS THE *ACTUAL* REASON IT DOES NOT EXIST.


    Note, H, when it becomes an actual machine, because we have created
    an actual machine we claim to be the D, has an answer, and that D is
    always wrong.

    Thus, it isn't that machines claiming to be D and H can't exist, only
    machines CORRECTLY meeting the requirements of D and H can't exist.

    Thus, if your H depends on that D, (or a machine that meets its
    specification) then it also can't exist.

    You just make the error of saying the problems don't exist because
    you can't build them, but YOUR machine can, even though it has the
    same problem.



    IF D is wrong by deciding it is not circle free, then your H will
    compute the wrong diagonal, as the resulting version of his H WILL
    be circle free (since it never tries to simulate itself) and thus
    DOES produce an computable number that your computation misses.

    Or, if that D is wrong by decing it IS circle free, then when you H >>>>> tries to process it, it will get stuck in the infinite loop.

    The problem is that in stepping through the machines in order, you
    WILL hit these actual machines built on your erroneous D (your D
    must have this flaw, as no D without exists), and thus you will be
    wrong on THAT input. IT doesn't matter if you get a good answer for >>>>> yourself.


    idk what he would have said about it, but prolly something more
    substantial than just calling me ignorant repeatedly

    I doubt it.

    He likely would have gotten frustrated by your idiodic assertion of >>>>> bad logic. You would have likely been escorted out of the meeting
    as showing you were unqualified and being a distraction.



    Something that seems to be beyond your ignorant understanding.



    H shows that *IF* you can make that enumeration, you can make >>>>>>>>> the diagonal, and thus the anti-diagonal. The problem is you >>>>>>>>> can't make that enumeration, and assuming you can just shows >>>>>>>>> unsoundness.

    interestingly: one can only fix the direct diagonal computation >>>>>>>> like this

    u can't do an analogous fix for the inverse/anti-diagonal
    computation. it's not possible hard code a machine to return an >>>>>>>> inverted value, a machine can only return what it does, not the >>>>>>>> inverse of what it does...

    so if we can filter out paradoxes from the enumeration, that
    will leave a direct diagonal computation extant in that filtered >>>>>>>> (yet still turing complete list), while any attempt to compute >>>>>>>> an inverse diagonal will not be

    But the problem is that "paradoxical machines" don't exist in
    isolation, but only in relationship to a given machine trying to >>>>>>> decide them.

    right. so if ur constructing a diagonal across computable numbers >>>>>> then u only need to filter out paradoxes in regards to the
    classifier that classifies them as a "satisfactory" number

    Right, which he shows can not be done.

    please do quote where turing shows we can't filter out such
    paradoxes...

    In other words, you beleive unquestionably in the existance of
    Russle's teapot until someone can prove it doesn't exist.

    BRO U LITERALLY CLAIMED TURING SHOWS FILTERING OUT PARADOXES CAN'T BE
    DONE, WHERE IN THE FUCK IS THE REFERENCE U MORON???

    WHY ARE YOU GOING ON ABOUT RUSSEL'S TEAPOT INSTEAD OF PROVIDING A
    FUCKING QUOTE TO TURING'S PAPER TO BACK THE *DIRECT* CLAIM YOU MADE???


    For THIS paradox, read the proof. for THIS H, the one given, (for
    which ever version of D you want to try to assume is right) D is just
    wrong.

    Thus, it doesn't matter if D can somehow "detect" the paradox,
    because there still isn't an answer it can give to H that will be
    correct, as the template for H will always make that D wrong.

    Note, the problem is you can't actually DEFINE what a "paradox
    machine" is, as they aren't actually machines, but templates that
    build machines. And that final machine doesn't have actually
    detectable tell-tales that show it to be from that template.


    (also why do always just make random assertions???)

    Because I am smart, and know what I am talking about.

    I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE KIND OF DISHONEST GARBAGE I HAVE TO WORK
    WITH, BUT OH WELL


    They only seem "random" because you don't know what you are talking
    about and believe in unicorns (and teapots)




    any machine which *is not* "satisfactory" OR *is not* classifiable >>>>>> as satisfactory by said classifier... can just be skipped

    No, it can only skip those that are not satisfactory, not those
    that are but it can not classify as such, or your enumeration will
    not be complete, and thus just in error.

    Thus, it needs to be able to correctly classify ALL machines (as it >>>>> will be asked about all machines as it counts through all the
    descriptions) and thus Turing's H *WILL* be asked about.


    similarly if u want to go a step further an filter out computable >>>>>> numbers already included on this diagonal, any machine which
    either *is* computably equivalent OR *is not* classifiable in
    regards to *any* machine already the list... can just be skipped

    Nope, you can't skip some machines, as you then might lose some of
    the computable numbers.


    see you can't compute a diagonal across *all* /machines/, with
    said machines, but u can compute a diagonal across *all* /
    computable numbers/

    Nope,

    Since the enumeration of ALL Computable numbers can't be done,
    since ALL classifiers that attempt it will make an error, you can't >>>>> do what you want to do.

    nah, (a) computing an enumeration of all /computable numbers/ is not
    the same thing as (b) computing the enumeration of all machines that
    compute computable numbers. (b) necessarily has duplicates while (a)
    does not need them. turing's paper wrongly conflates (a) with (b)

    i'm pretty sure (a) can be done with TMs

    Nope, as your (a) needs the machine D, which lets you filter the full
    list of machibe, which Turing showed can't exist.

    The problem is such a machine can't handle the classification of the
    H he describes. It doesn't matter that you can make a DIFFERENT
    machine, that you try to deceptively call "H" too that it won't have
    a problem with, when your "H" gets to the number of Turing's H, it
    still has the problem. It can call that one not circle-free, and thus
    omit a circle- free machine from the list, or call it circle-free,
    and when even YOU try to simulate it the k steps, you get stuck in a
    loop.


    (b) probably can't be done with TMs

    But if you can do (a), you can do (b).-a You just need to take the
    code of (a), and invert the symbol put on the tape when it is
    written. Note, it won't be "self-referent", as the "N" is uses, is
    the N of YOUR H, not itself. The code for his (a) NEVER reads back
    what it wrote, so that doesn't affect its behavior.




    yes, i still do need to prove my thesis that for any paradoxical
    machine, there exists a functionally equivalent machine without
    such paradox

    And the problem is that your "paradoxical" isn't actually a
    definable property (let alone computable). Part of the problem is
    that if you look at just a machine description, it doesn't
    (necessarily) tell you about the use of an "interface" as that use
    of an interface can be just inlined, leaving nothing "in the code"
    to show it exists.

    i'm sorry, are you actually saying the machine description does not
    describe what the machine does???


    No, that "paradoxical" isn't a definable property of a machine.

    -a-a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    und() includes a structural paradoxical in relation to the classifier
    halts(), easily demonstrable thru a short proof i've done many times

    I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHY YOU CAN'T ACCEPT THAT AS A PROPERTY OF
    UND(), BESIDES LITERAL BRAIMNDEAD RELIGIOUS DEVOTION TO SOME FUCKING
    FORM OF INSANITY I CAN'T HONESTLY FATHOM



    lol





    His specified H, with an actually (incorrect) implementation of D >>>>>>> (which is all that CAN exist) will either be circle-free and thus >>>>>>> generate a number (but its D said it isn't, and thus omitted a
    valid machine from the list) or it isn't circle-free, and fails >>>>>>> to computa a number, and thus should have been omitted from the >>>>>>> list but wasn't.

    Thus any H that ACTUALLY EXISTS, isn't a "paradox", it is just
    built on an assuption in error.


    so despite turing's worries, the existence of a diagonal
    computation does not actually then imply the existence of an
    anti- diagonal computation, due the same particular self-
    referential weirdness that stumped turing the first place

    But there is no actuall SELF-REFERENCE, so your logic is just
    based on ERROR.

    Your attempt to REDEFINE self-reference to mean processing a
    number that happens to represent yourself means that you you
    system "ALL" doesn't actually mean ALL, and thus is just ill-
    defined.

    i'm sorry, you have an issue with me labeling a number that
    directly refers to yourself, as a "self-reference" ???

    Sure, because it is just a number. The problem is that you still have >>>>
    it's a *specific* number that has the currently running machine
    encoded into it, it's not "just" a number whatever that means




    problems with all the "equivalent" machines that have different
    numbers.

    those are references to functionally equivalent machines, not self-
    references

    Which is why the concept of "self-reference" doesn't work.



    It may let you filter out the simplest case used in the proofs, but >>>>> doesn't solve the actual problem, as the "Machine Number" doesn't
    actually fully identify the problematic cases.

    that's not actually true. you can't meaningfully paradox the paradox
    detector while filter *out* paradoxes to point of creating an actual
    problem

    Then show how you will do it.

    This means you need to detect a input that represents a machine that
    uses a computation equivalent to yourself



    let halts be a halting classifier that takes an input machines and
    returns true/false whether it halts or not

    let paradox_free be a paradox filtering classifier that takes an
    input classifier, and an input machine to search for paradoxes in
    regards to: paradox_free(classifier, machine)

    WHich doesn't exist.


    for example if take our basic halting paradox:

    -a-a und = () -> halts(und) loop()

    then:

    -a-a paradox_free(halts, und) -> TRUE

    but you might think one still can bamboozle the paradox classifier
    like such:

    -a-a undp = () -> {
    -a-a-a-a if ( paradox_free(halts, undp) == TRUE )
    -a-a-a-a-a-a if ( halts(undp) ) loop()
    -a-a }

    here if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE, then the if case run a
    halting paradox form making it /undecidable input/ to halts().

    And the problem is "paradox_free" can't exist as an always correct
    decider.


    however, if paradox_free(halts,undp) -> TRUE, then that if case
    doesn't run and clearly halts(undp) -> TRUE without issues

    BUT THAT'S FINE FOR OUR USE CASE, no paradox found within a machine
    is necessary for the particular input->output computation being
    done, so utilizing the return paradox_free(halts,undp) -> FALSE to
    filter out paradox_free() paradoxes as well as halts() paradoxes
    will suffice to produce a turing complete subset of machines that
    can be totally classified by halts()

    But we can still build an input that your paradox_free() fails on.

    SO ACTUALLY DO IT??

    WHAT'S THE INPUT THAT CAUSES A FAILURE THAT ACTUALLY MUST BE INCLUDED
    ON THE DIAGONAL???





    i think a major problem with the consensus perspective is an
    expectation of a certain cleanliness in the logic as being the only
    possibility here to compute what we want. TM's can't achieve that,
    but something slightly messier can.

    No, it is your dependence on being able to assume that unicorns can
    solve all your problems.






    dear future: u see this shit i'm trying work with???? sorry i
    didn't manage to make progress any faster, but i'm literally
    dragging toddlers kicking and screaming at this point jeez...


    In other words, in your world "ALL" isn't a word that can actually
    be used.

    You don't understand that you need to use actual sound logic,

    lol, i can only EfOA someone would engage in sound logic with me

    They are, But you are too stuck in your lies to see it.

    Your "logic" is based on being able to assume that Unicorn's exist,
    and that is a safe assumption until someone can prove that Russel's
    Teapot is not out there. (Even though your unicorns HAVE been proved
    to not exist).

    You are just proving your utter stupidity.






    ...which u won't find interesting, but i can't fix a lack of
    curiosity

    Efn+



    expected was an inexpert audience, supposing that experts >>>>>>>>>>> will recognise
    the relevant mapping to universal quantification?





    This just shows that you real problem is you don't understand
    what the actual problem is, and your world is just build on
    things that are lies.

    IT seems that fundamentally, your world doesn't actually have
    "computations" as you don't understand the basic requirement that >>>>>>> they need to be fully defined in the actions they do.









    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2