I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care
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I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care
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#3Please stop paying any attention to the Torygraph / Reformgraph. It used to be good decades ago but now it just spews propaganda nowadays.
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#5Is this headline a humblebrag about being able to afford a plane ticket to the US?
Eldercare has been quite dystopian here for quite some time. You don't need robots to be dystopian, rather just the casual indifference of a paperclip-maximizing bureaucracy. I can't read the full article, but it seems like these robots at least move around and interact rather than merely being an automated process that automatically checks off boxes like "patient turned" and "bed cleaned". So they would appear to be a step up from the current absurd staffing ratios.
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#6Facebook can do a pretty good necro-avatar. That's better than flesh. Cheaper than a retirement home too.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-l...
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#7I'm assuming that they've not been to a "normal" UK carehome now.
Its staffed with minimum wage workers who are in perilous conditions, with no support, time or backup. They are cleaning shit a piss all day long, and being shouted at for being foreign by the demented.
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#8Give me the freedom to end my life when I want to end it and you don't have to care about my care and I bet I am not the only one.
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#9I'm assuming that they've not been to a "normal" UK carehome now. Its staffed with minimum wage workers who are in perilous conditions, with no support, time or backup. They are cleaning shit a piss all day long, and being shouted at for being foreign by the demented.
I feel that this is the case in most developed countries unless you can afford to pay $10,000 - $20,000 per month for an upscale nursing home.
Robots might make it a little less terrible.
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#10Personally I feel like it would be less undignified and infantilising to have a machine take care of my basic bodily functions than a human being. There's no feeling of judgement or being shamed in front of someone else, and the machine could even restore a feeling of autonomy since it would feel like you're using a tool instead of being helplessly reliant on another person's help.