Imagine a perfect Jeeves-the-Butler persona robot whose actual work is done by a changing team of just-in-time backend turning workers, downloading via telepresence into the body as necessary
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Depending on your price level, the workers are either in 3rd world countries or SF
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You are describing the service model in the "young lady's primer" in Stephenson's Diamond Age. In that book, the author noted that you ended up needing the same Turk to provide the service because a continuous situational understanding was required to infer the user's needs.
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When you’re on the phone, as you move from one geographic cell to another, the network transfers your signal from one base station to the next. The handoff is so seamless, you never notice a thing. The same is true for your consciousness. Impeccable service, 99.99% uptime
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Seconds before your shift is up on a Friday night... "please wait while Windows installs updates." You end up getting stuck in the thing all weekend because the sys admins couldn't be bothered to stick around. This is the hell of being a Jeeves Butler gig worker.
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Or it's running on the blockchain and you end up getting shifted to an inaccessible wallet and stuck in infinite Jeevs hell.





