> i made some progress on the update function. i'm at a debugging point
> but the bugs still overlap algorithmic logic.
>
> interesting concept: "can completely blind people become surgeons?"
> this is a politically charged question in some spaces, notably some AI
> language models. i'm using bing search right now to feel less scared
> of oppressive profiling, and it gives copilot ai answers that are
> somehow undisabled (i thought i disabled them). copilot gave to this
> search an answer that basically said, yes completely blind people are
> allowed to do this although it is rare and difficult[4 citations].
> however excellent vision is crucial for surgery[1 citation].
>
> i am thinking that basically if you are blind and want to be a
> surgeon, you will have a lot of human prejudice to contend with
> because nobody understands how you can measure and comprehend what you
> are doing in a skilled manner because they use their vision to do so.
> a blind person would use other senses and tools to get feedback on
> what they are doing, and we would require them to become skilled
> enough at that to never harm somebody on a surgery table. --.. {so the
> blind person would be using sound, memory, spacial precision, tools
> and other people at the table to know this --- they would become aware
> of sounds that others are not, and would use more backup checks(of course, as a surgical patient, nobody would want a blind surgeon T_T unless they were blind themselves and had a shared understanding of how that can give you reliable information on the world
