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Since we’re talking about gamifying physical actions to produce a currency, I’ve always wondered if there was a way to gamify sexual activity such that you can influence human breeding for collective societal goals. Might be interesting to combine the idea of such currency with dating networks as well to see what happens.

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Great idea, just have to wait for China to try it out

IMO this doesn’t require a government to roll it out. Any sufficiently motivated organization can attempt to influence human reproduction through social applications, even simple dating apps today play a role in reshaping demographics of couples.

We just need apps to implement some truly innovative gamification features, for instance imagine getting points for meeting with a person in real life and spending as much time as possible with them. Points can be assigned on a variety of attributes that a developer wishes to select for.

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