The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

software is terrible, I do not want to be made of software. Can you imagine if your survival depended on a kludgy legacy Java codebase originally written by a bunch of interns under crunch? christ

It also wouldn't keep you alive. If your mind got uploaded the continuity of consciousness that is you would still perish.

It's effectively cloning yourself. Additionally under capitalism you wouldn't see mind uploading technology produced rigorously for humanistic purposes, you'd see it produced to make profit.

The mind-person would still be subject to decay, probably would still suffer, but it'd ultimately be better for them, sure. But them isn't you, this isn't a self serving move

I know and don't care.

You aren't solving suffering though, as I said. You're killing yourself so your clone baby can live on in a computer, and their existence probably won't be perfect unless you hook them up to cyber heroine or teach them buddhism

Even for you it isn't a zero sum game, really you've identified problems with inherent to biological existence and sought to change them, this is a fair enough negativistic stance

You're talking about a praxis for the reduction of suffering, specific kinds in this case. You ought to put more into that then hoping that Daddy Elon will figure it out