Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
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I was going to write a long reply, then I realized that a cure for blindness counts as technology that lets blind people not be dismissed and puts them on par with sighted people, so now you get this shorter but still a bit lengthy one instead. And that's not even splitting hairs, that's literally what it is. As with many of the arguments/"questions" that like to get raised here, you have to somehow logic your way around the elephant in the room.
if blind people were going to develop a society of some sort we already would have. Considering that hypothetical is also pointless. You'd have to go out of the way to make society of the blind happen, or it would have already.
And with the likelihood that the cure for blindness for most of us is a neural implant of some sort going up every day, you may very well be able to turn it off as well. Plus the only way to have a visual cortex that's more shut off than closing your eyes is to have been entirely blind since the day of your birth, and given that it seems to come with all sorts of spatial reasoning issues in addition to needing to spend double digit numbers of years learning to make up for not having vision, "I have migraines, therefore blindness doesn't seem so bad" is kind of...well. As someone who has done this and who has succeeded beyond what most sighted people manage with their lives, I promise you that they'd have to be incredibly debilitating, continuous, daily migraines for that to even be a remotely fair comparison. And it's not about the games or the social stuff, it's about "man it would be nice to walk to place x without having to get someone to show me how first" sorts of things that you're not going to solve short of developing artificial general intelligence, and if we had AGI we'd all be busy living in our science fiction eutopia or something and this wouldn't matter.
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