<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div>On 2013-10-31 12:15, KPJ wrote:<br>
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</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:35:58 +0000, Anders Sandberg
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|OCD is great for science, as long as it is not extreme enough to
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|you from finishing. Just like Aspergers the right pinch of
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|non-neurotypicalness can be very useful in the right context.
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Explain.
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Yes.<br>
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The classic example is how the systematizing approach of autism
works well with programming - it is a domain where the approach
works well, and traditionally at least, programmers did not have to
interact much socially with co-workers. But I suspect it is great
for plenty of other domains, whether it is taxonomy or mathematics.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Asperger's leads people to reduce their interactions with other people to a bare minimum because other people are hard to understand for them. They bury themselves in their work and focus on it in an obsessive way because it's what they understand.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Great examples of people with probable Asperger's include Sir Isaac Newton, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (to a slightly lesser extent than the other two).</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div></div></div>
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