[extropy-chat] Fwd: CNN features amazing user with autism

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Anne Corwin wrote:
> Some people's real lives really are so outside what 
> most people would expect that all attempts to apply the usual 
> person-appraisal heuristics fail miserably.  It doesn't make those lives 
> any less real -- it just means that reality is bigger and more 
> complicated than a lot of people give it credit for most of the time.

Hear, hear.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence