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There's some factors aren't numerically quantifiable: Respect for elders? How does one metric that? Time donated to charitable services for the elders?

What this will create is real life level grinding, and a glut of half-assing a lot of socially desirable "traits". This could get very ugly, very fast if this article is accurate, creating a society where corners are cut in the interest of upping their score. It's like profit motive but for every day interactions.




It's something I have pointed out in other threads as well: extrinsic rewards destroy the intrinsic motivation. "Why should I do something that doesn't raise my score?" This is very clear in traditional schools: few students go beyond the assigned tasks and readings, popular kids mock the ones who study for their own benefit and cheating is rampant.




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