1. What other fields except finance have a tradition of reading weekly/daily news? Surely not chemistry, drug development, petroleum, fracking, …
2. Maybe there actually is a Matt Levine of petroleum but we don't know? 

I think it's true that people who have more power (whether emotional security or social status etc) generally have less muscle tension yea. 

But that reminds me that I should check with my clients if they accidentally experience much less muscle tension

This reminds me… maybe muscle tension is a frequent solution to this problem?

Some context: Lately I've been wondering, Why do we often experience feelings as things in the body? For example, why do I feel anxiety in my chest rather than just “knowing” I'm anxious? 

For example, my previous chronic neck pain seemed to be related to information that manifested in my neck: 

I suspect the feeling in my neck represented the information "I have the choice to leave the social situation I'm in right now" and/or "I am disliking/suppressing myself."

Why might this feeling have manifested in my neck?

What if feelings use the body as a screen to communicate information with others? If you have a certain feeling in your chest, maybe others can see that. 

BUT: What if a feeling represents information that your system doesn't want other people to know? Hostile telepaths problem.

Im my case:

The feeling represented the awareness that I was insecure, and there were probably situations (probably social situations) in which it partially benefited me to be partially unaware of the fact that I was insecure. 

Well, in that case, your system could create muscle tension to "jam the signal"…

If the muscles are stiff, maybe they can't be used as a screen anymore.

I'm very glad you wrote this

I've come to think of it in terms of inferential distances

yeah probably something like that. I also wrote a little more about this in my blog post today.

People are experts on themselves. Given enough space and gentle enough questions from an active listener, they often have the capacity to solve their own problems.

yeah

it's much higher bandwidth and more efficient too

process the information where it is

oh cool!! i'm glad :-)

If anything, I suspect mental health is more tractable, with quicker feedback loops, and with more of a possibility of directly helping alignment^[1] compared to physical health.

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   Why? I'll have to write a full post on this eventually, but the gist is: I suspect many social conflicts, such as those around AI, could dissolve if the underlying ego conflicts dissolved. Decision-makers who become more emotionally secure also become better at coordination. Improving physical health has much less of this effect imo.

Have you thought much about mental health?^[1] Mental health seems to meet all of your same criteria. I say this because I'm currently working on this (and for alignment-like reasons).

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   Maybe "healthcare" includes mental health to you, but https://healthcareagents.com/ doesn't seem to mention it.

Plus some need to be loaded quite heavy, risking injury.

To be clear, by isometrics i mean pushing against immovable objects. (also see)

Do you have any thoughts on isometrics? They seem even quicker if so