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Increasing working lifespans is a partial solution (people aren't fans of this for obvious reasons): Optimistically we do have a lot of work being done in regenerative/SENS medicine (I'm completely unqualified to judge how good that research is, but it is happening); Pessimistically this is just increasing the pension age.

Another solution is automation and robotics. This is further away than the flashy demos from Boston Dynamics and Tesla suggest, but not fundamentally absurd especially as it doesn't really need the robots to be humanoid. Given the power/compute requirements and the difficulty of vision processing, I assume this will be about 5 years behind self-driving cars.




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