Idk I'm in a mood so I'm commenting the same thing again, but, I think the scaling is messing up your logic here.

So the pats looked pretty close to the top corner, but this chart doesn't actually say how much they were beating the chiefs in defensive EPA or how much they were losing in offensive EPA.

They could have been winning the defensive EPA by 3 points and losing the offensive one by 5, and the chart wouldn't be able to show it, so long as the spread on the defensive axis was much tighter than the spread on the offensive axis.it could go the other way too, I'm just saying this chart doesn't necessarily lead to your conclusion.

I think this is amusing, because basically, to draw the conclusion about who is better in overall EPA in any given week, the pats or the chiefs, you must also consider how bad the lions and bears played (or whoever is setting the 0 that week on each axis).

I think the scaling makes this unclear.

Since the top team is scaled to 1 and the bottom scaled to 0, the axis with the largest spread is being undervalued and the axis with the tightest spread overvalued.

It's possible that the defensive 0-1 axis is only 1 expected point, but the offensive 0-1 is axis 50 expected points.

Could be the opposite, too, or it could be different week to week. Basically, I think this is a terrible chart to answer that exact question (but a very interesting chart in general).

I can totally see why people who would be replaced by the robot would want it, I just can't imagine the person interacting with the robot, wanting it. Maybe if they couldn't tell the difference, but that just seems cruel.

I totally agree, it's difficult, and I'm of the opinion that the burden shouldn't fall solely on the family of the elderly person in question. Seems like it should be more of a social obligation. I just don't see how tech can solve this problem, at least not ethically. And your dad sounds like a good dude.

Social interaction with an object isn't social interaction, imo, so this is a hard sell.

Real question does any one at all want this, I feel we are dramatically overestimating the demand for fake social interaction. Maybe someone so old and senile who couldn't tell the difference (or understand it) would appreciate it, but even that feels cruel. If we can't dedicate any time or effort into providing real social interaction for our elderly then it seems like an us problem not a tech problem. Any use case I'm missing?