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Hairdresser

The highest score on the site. Cutting hair on a living, moving head is a harder robotics problem than almost anything in this list.

84
Resilience Anchored

Anchored by physical presence or by responsibility that cannot be handed over. Tools change; the job does not.

0 rebuilding 100 anchored

Scale, labels and thresholds are provisional. This is open question Q-02.

1 of 20 in the launch set

How the score is made

Four declared inputs, never collapsed into one number. Assistance is kept apart from outright automation, because a tool that makes you faster and a tool that replaces you are not the same event. Physical work counts as shelter only to the extent robotics cannot reach it.

The full method is written out, including what it cannot tell you.

Note on this occupation Placeholder values. This is the clearest single illustration of Moravec's paradox in the launch set, and a useful corrective to the assumption that a score tracks qualification level.

Assisted
18

Higher is generally good news. It means more of the work gets faster without the work going away.

Done outright
6

This is the number most people mean when they say exposure. It is kept separate from assistance on purpose.

Physical
92

Protective only for as long as robotics cannot reach it. Read this one next to the robotics number, never alone.

Robotics reach
10

Low reach turns physical work into shelter. High reach turns it into the main exposure.

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What changes

Tasks moving to machines, in whole or in part.

  • Bookings, reminders and stock ordering.
  • Consultation visualisation and colour matching.
  • Marketing and client follow-up.

What stays human

Tasks that need a person, and why.

  • Working on a person who moves, with results that cannot be undone.
  • Reading what someone wants when they cannot describe it.
  • A relationship measured in years of repeat appointments.

What's new

Work that did not exist in this job ten years ago.

  • Visualising a result before committing to it.
  • Product and technique churn driven by social platforms.
  • Running a small business on thinner margins with better tools.

These three lists are editorial commentary, written against task-level data but not generated from it (OCC-05). Treat them as the author's reading, not as output.

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