<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 12:51 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_1162922378569793217WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Mike I read your post word for word twice but didn’t see a single thing in there I would consider the least bit dystopian. Do elaborate if you intended something of that sort, for I missed it twice. It is good stuff: helpful and optimistic. </p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Cool. Thanks for the feedback. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I drew three points and called it a line:</div><div dir="auto">Caring for the elderly because they've lost the capacity to interpolate much less extrapolate; caring for children because they don't know any better; nanny-state treating adult citizens as either of those first two groups. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've been told recently that I have trust issues. Maybe. Yeah, I assume every good thing has the potential to hide the downside until after the buyer's remorse. </div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_1162922378569793217WordSection1"><div dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding your comments on grandma not being too bothered by the “what am I talking to” question, your notion about using the bot as a stand-in for a phone is a marvelous idea. That has my wheels turning. There aughta be some way of making that happen.<br></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Wheels turning... awesome.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_1162922378569793217WordSection1"><div dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> They were kept in a separate area from the other patients. I have thought for over 40 years there should be some way to interact with these patients and make their final years more comfortable.</p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Never experienced that. I can imagine a ever-present occupant of the common-area who is always interested in conversation. It would be a feature of the place, but also would help the staff absorb some of the attention necessary to make time less boring... but again, my intended "customer" would be the family members who wouldn't know (or have time) to ask the right questions. </div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_1162922378569793217WordSection1"><div dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div></div>
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