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by ninetyninenine 402 days ago
I don’t think you realize how universal the halting problem is in the universe.

Like the law governs everything that exists in the universe so it governs humans as well.

If a human can know that a program halts it also means the program is provably haltable. If a human doesn’t know whether a program will halt it likely means that the program is not provably haltable.

The halting problem refers to a general algorithm that can prove any program will halt.