I once fell for the fantasy of uploading ourselves. It’s a destructive vision

If you lack the imagination of what an upload could be like, it’s definitely saner not to aim for it. Upload must contain your body as large parts of a „you“ are not in the brain but in the physiology of the body. A full body upload will allow you to transition away from that initial you, like putting on a costume that the brain starts to internalize.

Vernon Vinge's short novella The Cookie Monster comes to mind:

https://www.ida.liu.se/~tompe44/lsff-book/Vernor%20Vinge%20-...

I was kinda disappointed to find no mention of https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

> Their journal, whose contributors were overwhelmingly white and male, nurtured a cult of technology-worshiping immortality seekers.

I, for one, managed to live as a transhumanist without subscribing to Advanced Race Theory, or succumbing to the demon Al Gul. I am sad that this was not the author's experience.