My reply to you is the same as my reply to g_pepper: it’s easier for me to just do my background research, double-check everything, and eventually publish the full formalism than it is to explain all the details in a blog comment.
You are also correct to note that whatever combination of machine, person, input tape, and empirical data I provide, the X Machine can never solve the Halting Problem for the X Machine. The real math involved in my thinking here involves demonstrating the existence of an ordering: there should exist a sense in which some machines are “smaller” than others, and A can solve B’s halting problem when A is “strictly larger” than B, possibly strictly larger by some necessary amount.
(Of course, this already holds if A has an nth-level Turing Oracle, B has an mth-level Turing Oracle, and n > m, but that’s trivial from the definition of an oracle. I’m thinking of something that actually concerns physically realizable machines.)
Like I said: trying to go into extensive detail via blog comment will do nothing but confusingly unpack my intuitions about the problem, increasing net confusion. The proper thing to do is formalize, and that’s going to take a bunch of time.
What is inductive reasoning? Bayesian updating? Or something else?
My reply to you is the same as my reply to g_pepper: it’s easier for me to just do my background research, double-check everything, and eventually publish the full formalism than it is to explain all the details in a blog comment.
You are also correct to note that whatever combination of machine, person, input tape, and empirical data I provide, the X Machine can never solve the Halting Problem for the X Machine. The real math involved in my thinking here involves demonstrating the existence of an ordering: there should exist a sense in which some machines are “smaller” than others, and A can solve B’s halting problem when A is “strictly larger” than B, possibly strictly larger by some necessary amount.
(Of course, this already holds if A has an nth-level Turing Oracle, B has an mth-level Turing Oracle, and n > m, but that’s trivial from the definition of an oracle. I’m thinking of something that actually concerns physically realizable machines.)
Like I said: trying to go into extensive detail via blog comment will do nothing but confusingly unpack my intuitions about the problem, increasing net confusion. The proper thing to do is formalize, and that’s going to take a bunch of time.