• MIT Professor Michael Sipser validates the notion of a simulating halt

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    XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, comp.lang.c++

    <Sipser approved abstract>
    MIT Professor Michael Sipser has agreed that the following verbatim
    paragraph is correct (he has not agreed to anything else in this paper):

    If simulating halt decider H correctly simulates its input D until H
    correctly determines that its simulated D would never stop running
    unless aborted then H can abort its simulation of D and correctly report
    that D specifies a non-halting sequence of configurations.
    </Sipser approved abstract>

    to this paper:

    *Rebutting the Sipser Halting Problem Proof* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364302709_Rebutting_the_Sipser_Halting_Problem_Proof

    The proof that the simulation of D by H is correct and that this
    correctly simulated D would never stop running unless aborted is on page
    3 of the above paper. People that fail to comprehend the technical
    details of page 3 are unqualified to assess the correctness of page 3.

    The technical prerequisites for page 3 are expert knowledge of the C programming language, knowledge of x86 assembly language and how the C
    calling conventions are implemented in x86 assembly language.

    Page 4 shows the application of a simulating halt decider to the Peter
    Linz proof proving that the "impossible" input ⟨Ĥ⟩ ⟨Ĥ⟩ to the embedded
    copy of Linz H contained within Linz Ĥ is correctly construed as
    specifying non-halting sequence of configurations.

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    Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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