[ExI] new job

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:

> On 2024-11-20 08:01, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
>> Well, OK not exactly.  But it occurred to me that a lot of fun new
>> jobs today didn't even exist back in the olden days, such as 2020.
>> 
>> Musk introduced the robotaxi last month, which we talked about here
>> for decades.  In all that discussion, nobody ever realized a new
>> requirement: somebody to write fun wisecracks for the taxi to say.
>> Since it is a computer with voice, you could have it do accents, you
>> could have it guess by the name on the credit card if the passenger is
>> male or female.  Then have it say upon arrival in a female voice: OK
>> Mister, you wanted to come here.  You did.  Now get outta me.
>> 
>> That sorta thing, extra points for funny dual-interpretable sexual
>> innuendo.  Sure you will offend the delicate college student crowd,
>> but the little old ladies will love it.
>
> Joking aside, one more job I can think of that robotaxis wiil create is 
> somebody to clean the vomit and urine out of the robocab after drunks puke or 
> pee in the cab on the way home from barhopping. Used to be the driver's 
> responsibility, now it is Elon's. Elon will probably delegate.

I think you just answered the question of what the displaced human taxi 
drivers will work with, once self-driving becomes the norm!

> Stuart LaForge
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