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I am saying that people don't want elder care and community automated away. Businesses surely do. The elderly surely do not.

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So you are going for a slippery slope or straw man rather than a spectrum right? Automation is useful is very different from we can lock old people in robot communities (well, to be fair, it’s not very far from how we treat the problem today with nursing homes).

Not really. I'm thinking that robots have limited capactiy to help with community, maintaining mental acuity, and strength training which as I understand it are the three most predictive factors in quality-of-life outcomes for the elderly.

I'm not saying that robots can't help care for them, but rather that the proposed uses of robotics are optimizing for problems that are ultimately not the most important problems to those nearing death.

Robots are optimized for the problems people least want to do. Everything else is downstream, important or not.

What exactly is your objection? It seems you are complaining both the robots will take over tasks and that they won't take over the important tasks

Should elderly not have dishwashers because it isnt the most important problem?

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