Comments on: Résumé https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/ We're back on a default theme because comments broke on my custom one and I don't have the energy to figure out why Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:48:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Zekiel https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-563533 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:48:01 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-563533 Bloody hell Tom. Just came across this post while trawling through the archives of your excellent site. I did Maths & Philosophy at Southampton in the year above you. However I haven’t yet made a wildly successful indie computer game sadly.

You didn’t have Giampaolo as your tutor did you?

Your dissertation sounds fun. (Though I’m not sure any dissertations are fun while you’re actually writing them)

]]> By: TheDancingWalrus https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-446326 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 23:10:41 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-446326 I have thought about teleportation being essentially someone dying and another person being created, but -trying not to sound too philosophical- death is essentially just the severing of conciousness, isn’t it? Every time you fall asleep or “lose conciousness” you die? No? You probably had considered that but I’m just wondering what your thought on it are?

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-438663 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:28:09 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-438663 A bit of previous discussion here: http://www.pentadact.com/2008-10-13-deadly-toads-of-death/

]]> By: Gassalasca https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-438651 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:44:09 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-438651 This may sound weird, but to which primary and secondary school did you go to?

]]> By: Sly https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-436089 Mon, 06 May 2013 10:40:35 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-436089 I know this is fairly redundant, but here goes anyway:
Yey Southampton!
I’m in my final year of engineering here and frankly this is the first time I’ve been excited about an alum from here (Aside from possibly Adrian Newey).
We really need to have you come down for a talk – after Gunpoint that is!

]]> By: TychoCelchuuu https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-420678 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:07:53 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-420678 Some people don’t agree that destroying the original is unethical (the writers of Star Trek, for instance). And if it were obviously unethical it wouldn’t have made much of a dissertation topic, right?

]]> By: Shaun https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-415376 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:37:34 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-415376 Chelchuuu, it’s got to be unethical because of the “destroy the original” part of the process. There’s only wiggle room for ethicality if the originals are just stored in stasis until the heat death of the universe or the “teleported” clone happens to die. That’s for one-way trips, though.

With two-way trips there’s a much simpler solution: Put the original in stasis, create a clone where it needs to be, have the clone do whatever it needed to do there, then upload its new memories into the brain of the original and destroy the clone. Actually wait no I just saw the flaw in that.

So yeah guess I’ll agree with Andy about publishing the dissertation because I need to read it now.

]]> By: MrAndyDufresne https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-414875 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:12:30 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-414875 Is there anyway you could publish this dissertation? I think your readership would eat it right up.

]]> By: TychoCelchuuu https://www.pentadact.com/2012-04-13-resume/#comment-414380 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:13:04 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=5259#comment-414380 So, is teleportation ethical? Does the answer just come down to whatever theory of personal identity we accept?

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