Heh, I was kinda hoping this study would be about how spending too much time at LessWrong was bad for your mental health- because speaking from experience I have this vague suspicion that it might be- but this is interesting too.

The increasing amount of evidence that autistic spectrum disorders are at least partially about a failure to do automatic "holistic" processing of incoming sensory information, and thus have to do it, for lack of a better term, "in software" is a big deal, both in terms of making people's lives easier and possibly figuring out where this mechanism comes from and what exactly it consists of.