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 @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 @averykimball
2. Human nature contains whatever the source of meaning is but not everything in human nature is necessary to whatever the source of meaning is
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Replying to @Alephwyr
you're asserting your authorial prerogative to a final understanding of human nature and meaning, and from where it is derived you don't want to inhabit this tactical position
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Look. Every second I exist is coercion. My existence is coercion. I don't care that my only consistent position is to answer back in the same terms as my enemies. It doesn't matter.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
the schmittian stance isn't the only coherent political stance if all you will *ever* have is what you have, then it makes sense but if, through creation, there is a better for all in a conflict, then it becomes absurd
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Replying to @averykimball
I'm literally trying to instate post scarcity according to the most liberal stable scheme I can conceive of.
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