> > > 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
>
> i left out temperature here, i've found small temperature gradients
> can give a ton of information while blindfolded
> i imagine there are other senses i don't know about too, since i've
> practiced being blindfolded and blind people certainly still notice
> things i don't
>
> >
> > (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 worldperson missing property A who became skilled at property B because they had 3-4x as much brain volume to dedicate to it: "
