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So for those one and two "required" eye exams that we all
know aren't actually necessary: have an automated apparatus
in a booth that examines you, analyzes your eyeball and
vision and grants you a renewed prescription for contacts
and/or glasses.
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I'm diabetic. The "required" annual eye exams are actually very important, and a robot wouldn't be able to detect the changes in my eyes that cause blindness. |
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There is no way that an algorithm would be unable to
detect differences in changes to your eye. In fact, it could
immediately compare your eye to a billion other eyes and
find trends that a human is simply incapable of finding. |
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This is completely baked - even commonplace. Most
opticians nowadays
have a machine that simultaneously images your
retina and (by
projecting a light into the eye) measures your
refractive error. So,
[marked-for-deletion]: widely known to exist. |
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According to my optician, they could (if necessary)
use this machine
alone to work out your ideal prescription. In China
(he told me) they do
just that - no eye charts needed. The advantage of
eye charts is that
they give the eye a chance to adapt, whereas the
imager just measures
refractive errors at a "neutral" focus. |
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Old joke: A Polish guy is in an eye exam. "Can you
read the third line?"
asks the optician. "Read it??" says the Pole, "I know
him!" |
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I thought it was going to be something like this..
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Optician : What does it say on line 2? |
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Robot: 00001111 00111110 and....that looks like 10101010? |
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or more like smaller and smaller QR codes? |
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These should be coin operated machines on the Subway platform or in the restroom. Someplace where people are killing time. Like just outside the long lines at the department of motor vehicles. |
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Would be a handy aide to pickpockets, unless a door like a phone booth kept others hands out of your pockets while your eyes are covered. |
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Wow, [bammin], you're my neighbor in Escondido ! |
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As for the " that we all know aren't actually necessary " statements like that are usually the beginning to the conclusion that they are. |
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I've had the laser scan, and did not like the glasses produced using it. A couple of years later my optometrist told me it was not popular and he's quit using it. |
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