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Martian Colonists Could Be Genetically Engineered for Democracy (nautil.us)
5 points by JumpCrisscross on July 24, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Upvoted for super-controversial and entertaining idea.

This would be the ultimate case of "When your model don't fit your population make your population fit your model".

Genetically engineered traits that discourage rebellion and foster cooperation sounds scary to me. Outliers could get even more power in that kind of society. I can see the headline "Scientists combine Swedish consensus seeking genes, Japanese Wa-genes and Labrador retriever genes to create new super cooperative Goofy-Lagom-Harmony Sapient race in Mars."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japanese_culture)


Then it's a good thing evolution and culture doesn't work as mechanistically as given in that piece.




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