Yes, but the fact that 98% of human beings are insane doesn't change the fact that 2% are broadly correct and in agreement.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
the two percent that think their are *finally* correct, are insane
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Replying to @averykimball @Alephwyr
thinking mind-uploading is a silver bullet for *fundamental* human problems is not a position i would relish to defend
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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.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
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
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Replying to @averykimball
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.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
risking straw-manning you: the first point is only contingently wrong; *evolution* is a kind of meaning, of which our meaning is an abstract superset [0/2]
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Replying to @averykimball @Alephwyr
the second point: i don't care about perspectivism, meaning is an objective thing in the universe (as abstractions are Real) if meaning is important and good (axiomatically), then having more, not less, is important and good [1/2]
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Replying to @averykimball @Alephwyr
third: we're talking about *fundamentals*, they can look like circularity when you're at the (momentarily arrested) bottom of a critical regress if people can (somehow) know *everything*, and never disagree about *anything*, ever again, are you calling that "people"? [2/2]
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Replying to @averykimball @Alephwyr
(including knowing every better meaning, and never disagreeing about meaning, of course)
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I'm going to have to return to this later but for now it seems our intuitions are irremediably in disagreement.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
i only disagree with "irremediably" it's not like we can't build a better understanding than *either* of our understandings that we can both agree on- or have fun trying
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