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To keep the elderly from feeling lonely?


The answer to that is not banning apartments through the vast majorities of our cities, forcing everything to be spread out so that you have to drive a car to participate in society. If the elderly could just walk to where they needed to go or walk around for leisure, they would not age as fast.

I shouldn’t have an old lady approach me to help her across a 2 lane + left turn road in Ann Arbor MI because she is afraid she will get hit again.

Human looking robots would be such a dystopian and sad solution to elderly loneliness. They need a third place and access to such in old age.


> I shouldn’t have an old lady approach me to help her across a 2 lane + left turn road

Where are the Boy Scouts when you need one?




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