Our top goal should be to solve the human problem of death

That problem is so gargantually immense that it would absorb all human creativity and economic potential. This would prevent other dangerous technology from being developed. That makes it the basis of my solution for the so-called "Alignment Problem".

I've been writing about this concept online since 2011, to zero effect. No idea how to change this. People don't seem to care, or they're in denial. Another thirty years before then, I started thinking about it. Some science fiction writers thought of it much earlier, and in greater detail. The best one is probably Rudy Rucker. So this is the purpose of my life.

It appears that most people don't want to die. That's why taxpayers spend trillions keeping incontinent oldsters alive for a few months longer.
Religions like Scientology offer worthless false solutions to the problem of death. They're worse than worthless, because they're all lies. Deliberate lies, to benefit the founders of the various religions. Strange, that until now no one has tried to find a real solution to this problem.

The simplest solution to the problem of human death is not to stop or reverse the effects of aging. That technology remains unimaginably distant.
It would be "much easier" to find a way to convert a human mind into software. Electronic data can be sustained and extended forever. This could be done even without brain scanning.

After you die, you would become an ever-improving and expanding computer program. That is the basis for my proposed solution to the problem of death. It's also worked out in the works of Ray Kurzweil.
Even that solution is fantastically difficult with our current 2026 knowledge. At least we can see how it might be started.

The first step is to record as much as possible of whatever is going on in your life. Mostly diary and text entries, also pictures. From that, some incredibly crude copy of your personality might already be created.

The basic idea is that the vast quantity of data that can be accumulated over a lifetime, would make up for the intense quality of awareness that you experience every moment of your life.
You might object that such a diffusely altered "software mind" wouldn't really be "you" anymore. That is reasonable, but then there are many things wrong with human awareness and perception anyway. Humans are too focused in the moment, forced to maintain a specific location in the universe to survive. The price for this predicament is that life often causes intense pain.

Since all religions are self-evidently false (at least about their core claims), it makes sense to approach the immense problem of death in a new and rational way. In this particular case, some words by L. Ron Hubbard are correct: "the wrong thing to do is nothing."