Thread by @ErrataRob

I went to the eye doctor today. I shouted (well raised my voice slightly) "you aren't listening to me".

I finally got my eyes diagnosed in ways that should've been done when I was a kid. My eyes have many small problem that have been ignored forever.

I can see the same confirmation bias that I see in my own industry, where evidence is simply pigeon holed into what they already know, so there's terrible inertia if something doesn't quite fit an existing pigeon hole.

I have three separate problems but they are all minor. But they mean that whenever I get glasses, they don't help much, which is why I don't wear glasses.

The doctor seemed happy to have a more interesting case to work with, inviting me back for another appointment for more tests to really narrow things down. This is fun actually getting a thorough understanding of my eyes.

BTW, we all will get cataracts and things like vitreous detachment eventually. I feel like somebody needs to write a guide: your eyes will start to fail as you get older, here's what going to happen, and don't worry, modern medicine will make it better.

By age 80, most people were blind from either cataracts or retinal detachment. Nowadays, they are minor inconveniences. Cataract surgery is the #1 most common type of surgery -- if you are lucky, you'll get it eventually.

(This is humor -- if you are unlucky, you'll die early before you develop cataracts :-)