Re: Yet another Attempt at Disproving the Halting Problem

From: Mitch Harris (harrisq_at_tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:13:28 +0200

Eray Ozkural exa wrote:
> If we assume that the probability one computer scientist has poorer
> understanding of the halting problem than Peter is 0.7, then for 10
> people, it becomes about 0.282, around 3%, for 10 independent
> responses. :) Not a very high probability, but I think in reality it
> is much less than that...

But if all these responses are dependent, which they may
very well be if guided by GroupThink (tm) or appeal to a
single original erroneous original (Turing), then we're all
wrong. 

-- 
Mitch Harris
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