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*
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Replying to @averykimball
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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Replying to @averykimball
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 @averykimball
1. Everyone accuses anything reductionist of being nihilistic. But reductionism is a matter of degrees. Believing in one less "thing" than someone else doesn't make you a full blown nihilist any more than believing in one less god than someone else makes you an atheist.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
i'm not doing that (or at least, i'm not making the charge without warrant- you are simply straw-manning me), so this doesn't land you are reducing *ultimately* the things on which we reason about meaning- "solving" these fundamentals by making them not problems *is* nihilism
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Ok. Well, that seems silly to me. I think meaning is compatible with materialism. But if your metaphysics labels me a nihilist I don't care. It's not my metaphysics.
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