The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

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.

try to unpack that so i can see your reasoning

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.

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