It's interesting to me that you think mind uploading is impossible but brain emulation could be possible. I was using those words to refer to the same thing! I assume what you think here is that moving a mind from a biological to digital substrate is impossible but copying one is not? To be honest, I'm confused about how consciousness works and don't really have much of a solid opinion about this.

Anyway, I agree that we need a system which protects existing biological life if we're going to make lots of digital minds which we ought to grant rights. We also need those minds to respect that system, which requires solving technical alignment at least in the case of nonhuman artifical intelligences. I don't agree that all entities which can self-copy and have moral value should be destroyed, which what I thought your inital claim was, but given your clarification I don't think we have quite that much of a disagreement on this topic.