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What it's like to go blind (2015)
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Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#12Definitely not as bad as the author, but slowly losing quality of vision is a nightmare for me. I'm very sensitive to any kind of changes and ~4 years ago my eyesight began to rapidly decline. It's still in very low numbers, but it already affected the comfort of how I live. Without glasses everything is blurry and gives me nausea, with glasses I can see, but it's not the same as having perfect vision. Myopia + Presb…
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Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#13I recently had a thought about LLMs and vision models. Unlike ever before, the blind can now listen to a description of the world around them, with no other person required. The computer can just tell them what is around them. I don't know if that's worth anything or would have too much hallucinated information, but it does seem worth exploring.
Be My Eyes [1] recently announced a partnership with OpenAI. For years, they have operated a peer-to-peer platform that is staffed by highly-vetted volunteers. Now they will be able to offer audio descriptions using AI.
Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#14Definitely not as bad as the author, but slowly losing quality of vision is a nightmare for me. I'm very sensitive to any kind of changes and ~4 years ago my eyesight began to rapidly decline. It's still in very low numbers, but it already affected the comfort of how I live. Without glasses everything is blurry and gives me nausea, with glasses I can see, but it's not the same as having perfect vision. Myopia + Presb…
Do you sometimes have less pain right when you wake up in the morning? Sometimes worse pain in the middle of the night? Permanent redness / new blood vessels? VERY dry? Have they changed shape (more pointy than round, prominent cone like outline against your lower eye lid when you look down)? Yellowing?
Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#15I'm partially blind in one eye from cornea scarring from contact lenses, and it really sucks. The light sensitivity is the worst part.
Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#16Two comedians went deaf and blind for 50 hours as a challenge. The blind one did not have a very good time.
Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
New monetization strategy, I presume ... I'm expecting a great deal of chatbot-style generated content to start flooding in and the timeframe for cashing in on it is pretty low.
The article is from 2015, so, not this article. Perhaps I have been lucky, but I have seen far more accusations of using AI to generate writing than I have seen of obviously generated writing.
Yep, it is the same thinking that runs heavily in the conspiracy theory crowd. Anything that they even vaguely suspect as evidence is proof of the theory.
It is a shame that we are now in the position of having to think like this but that is the new world we are in now.
Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#18If this interests you theres a great book called "Touching the Rock" by John Hull which has a similar real-life account of going blind. There is also a virtual experience based on the same book for the Meta Quest which is pretty interesting.
Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article is from 2015, so, not this article. Perhaps I have been lucky, but I have seen far more accusations of using AI to generate writing than I have seen of obviously generated writing.
Yep, it is the same thinking that runs heavily in the conspiracy theory crowd. Anything that they even vaguely suspect as evidence is proof of the theory. It is a shame that we are now in the position of having to think like this but that is the new world we are in now.
I remember several years back there was what I can only describe as a moral panic about "machine intelligence-driven", "automated" YouTube videos for children. The idea was that there were myriad channels using AI to pump out low-quality content, and that much of this content was bizarre and completely inappropriate for children.
I was interested in the process of how someone could use AI to create content and, as is probably obvious with the perspective of hindsight, I could find no real examples of channels exploiting automated, machine-learning production.
This is the article that seems to have kicked off the trend but does not actually have any examples of automation: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
Re: What it's like to go blind (2015)
#20Definitely not as bad as the author, but slowly losing quality of vision is a nightmare for me. I'm very sensitive to any kind of changes and ~4 years ago my eyesight began to rapidly decline. It's still in very low numbers, but it already affected the comfort of how I live. Without glasses everything is blurry and gives me nausea, with glasses I can see, but it's not the same as having perfect vision. Myopia + Presb…
I had an eye doctor assure me that my discomfort with my new glasses was normal and that I'd just have to get used to it. After several months of nausea and discomfort, I finally went to a new eye doctor that fixed the problem immediately with a different frame and fit. It turned out that the prescription was correct, but the fit was wrong.
Before accepting daily discomfort and nausea as a new norm, you may want to try having more than one eye doctor look at it, if you haven't already, for alternate opinions for tests and on all the parameters of fit. There's alot that goes into getting your vision corrected and a few tiny adjustments off can end up causing persistent nausea and discomfort similar to what you are describing.