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going to mars doesn’t conflict with science either, but it’s not an answer to fundamental problems uploading minds/colonizing mars just doesn’t solve either of those conflicts, they are solutions to narrow problem-descriptions

further, it doesn’t actually seem all that trivial to “solve” “known ignorance” if you look at the world, people disagree on what ignorance even *is*

Yes, but the fact that 98% of human beings are insane doesn't change the fact that 2% are broadly correct and in agreement.

the two percent that think their are *finally* correct, are insane

thinking mind-uploading is a silver bullet for *fundamental* human problems is not a position i would relish to defend

Not by itself obviously. But it would make everything necessary to resolve the fundamental human problems (IE, the excising of the tumor of human nature) much much easier. It is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

human nature is the source of all meaning in the universe excising it, to better conform to your conception of good, is paradoxically nihilistic and authoritarian you are a person, these fundamental problems are intrinsic to people

This is not tightly reasoned. First assertion wrong, second assertion pointless (almost everything is "nihilistic" from some vantage point, authorianism is a bullet I'm willing to bite in this context), last assertion depends on a circular definition of personhood.