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Comment author: CAE_Jones 07 February 2013 11:28:47PM 0 points [-]

I started with the problem: improve the economy consisting of people with visual impairments.

I ended with a far-from-exhaustive list of problems related to visual impairment. More specifically, there are 14 entries. Probably only half of them fit the criterion "impossible (but not really)". The rest are just difficult. These seem like subproblems of the economy problem.

Should I post these? Or more accurately, Is posting likely to get useful feedback with a better than 0.001 probability of leading to a viable solution to one or more of the problems? I'm wondering the same thing about both posting them here (seeking the use of people with better rationality skills than me) and at an audio games forum (visually impaired people with a wider variety of life experience and independence, etc than me).

I'll add that there is cynicism from the portion of the VI community with which I am familiar toward the major assistive organizations and companies, and this feels justified enough that solutions to any of the as-yet-unposted problems that don't require going through such organizations would likely be favored over those that do.