02-16-2018, 05:23 AM | #11 |
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Re: Avoiding Intollerance in a Post-BioEngineering Setting
I'm fairly sure that proposing bio-engineering personality is right out. And possibly a bit beyond our understanding. Now using TL10/11 psych care to minimize the risk of anyone having the equivalent to the Intol disadvantage and treating it if it comes up -- that's doable.
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02-16-2018, 07:57 AM | #12 | |
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Re: Avoiding Intollerance in a Post-BioEngineering Setting
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02-16-2018, 12:28 PM | #13 |
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Re: Avoiding Intollerance in a Post-BioEngineering Setting
I suspect personality traits are like the human body: you can tweak them with fairly low level gene tampering, but it will be much more difficult to leave the human experience, and you can't discount the effects of training.
You can probably tweak folks to be more strong and agile, but if you don't give them exercise and training, they're not going to perform like star athletes. And rebuilding a human be capable of lifting 2,000 pounds and carrying it around will take a large amount of rebuilding: you'll have to do a lot of research, testing, and so forth. You can't pull from simple existing traits: you have to rework a number of body systems. I expect mental traits would behave the same way: you can nudge things, prevent diseases, and select for traits, but it won't replace cultural upbringing and its much more difficult to leave the human experience. I think messing with the "Us and them" instinct runs both into the training caveat and the "re-engineering" caveat. You can probably do a little bending at first, but you're going to hit limits before you want to.
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02-16-2018, 11:13 PM | #14 | |
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"Who would have thought that making people 5% less quick to anger would produce narcolepsy in 30% of the subjects post-age 50?"
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02-17-2018, 04:49 AM | #15 | |
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Re: Avoiding Intollerance in a Post-BioEngineering Setting
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When we left, it was TL9/10, with TL10 medical in many, but not all areas. The big push was for the colony ships (looming disaster was known), so not as much experimentation with anything that might have unintended effects. The folks most likely to implement the bio-engineering are my Doc and the PC geneticist/biologist. I'm pretty sure both would look at personality mod to be far too risky in unintended side effects. |
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02-17-2018, 10:57 AM | #16 | |
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02-17-2018, 08:03 PM | #17 |
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Re: Avoiding Intollerance in a Post-BioEngineering Setting
Is it certain that there is a third power? Just reading the account, I would be highly suspicious of the well-developed psi and gene-engineering race you already know about. Or a faction thereof.
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02-18-2018, 02:00 PM | #18 | ||
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02-18-2018, 05:50 PM | #19 |
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Re: Avoiding Intollerance in a Post-BioEngineering Setting
Blond hair is a recessive. This does not prevent entire populations of people with blond hair.
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(Old world, most Psis lived in big group mind-cities and weren't able to function in small groups -- the psis we got were the oddballs that didn't fit into that structure.) Quote:
It gets a bit weirder -- we also found some black crystals in underground layers, laid down every 500-ish years. If it gets into AI-level circuits, it starts trying to rewire them. So far, nobody's been willing to sacrifice an AI (hard to replace right now) to see what happens if we let it run its course. Powers-that-be sent us out to a glacier to take ice cores to find out more about this dust and pollen-- where we found out that the crystals are volcanic, form one of 8characteristic shapes each 500 yrs in a big eruption cycle, and have combined to form repeating patterns in the ice -- the patterns go back over 60k years. (That was either the first or second weirdest thing we found.) We're pretty sure there's something really old deep in the planet -- possibly an automated terraforming system -- haven't figured out how to talk to it yet. We think the prions and the crystals have the same source, but not 100% sure. Quote:
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