Sunday, 17 January 2010

Machine Stopping and Self-Reference

Just watching BBC Dangerous Minds and it seems obvious that the issue not covered is that of self-reference.

Turing's halting problem is on two levels: there are the problems to process and there is the problem of working out which will halt or not. That itself may halt and provide and answer or not. If we assume that all such things are processes then we have self-reference since the halting problems applies to all.

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US displaying its Imperialist credentials... yet again

Wanted to know the pattern of UN votes over Venezuela and then got into seeing if ChatGPT could see the obvious pattern of Imperialism here....