Eliezer likes it but lesswrong doesn't

can someone explain to me why this is so controversial

What would you say that the main types of power are?

My list (for humans): physical security, financial security, social security, emotional security (this one you can only give yourself though)

In other cases, or for other reasons, they might be instead set up to demand results, and evaluate primarily based on results.

Why might it be set up like that? Seems potentially quite irrational. Veering into motivated reasoning territory here imo

Maybe, but that also requires that the other group members were (irrationally) failing to consider that the “attempt could've been good even if the luck was bad”. 

In human groups, people often do gain (some) reputation for noble failures (is this wrong?)

I got the bidding idea from Kaj, and “if the mind is a group” is my preferred metaphor/simplification of multi-agent models of mind (writing about this soon). This metaphor naturally implies reputation, as I realized yesterday while working with a client. I don't know if there’s a name for the reputation idea; it may be original

Oh! The metaphor I've been using with my clients for the thing I think you're pointing at is reputation.

If the mind is a group (in this case a group of pattern predictors, but please also imagine it as a group of people), then ask yourself: How does a group of people (with no dictator) make a decision? 

Well, they talk. They make bids. 

Can one person use "willpower" and force the group to make a decision a particular way? Yes, if they make a strong enough bid and the rest of the group lets them. Why would the rest of the group let them? Reputation. But if they do that too many times with poor results, they lose their reputation and won't be able to dictate the group anymore. "Willpower" lost.

I suspect this happens in the mind among pattern predictors, too. (I believe @Kaj_Sotala has written about this somewhere wrt Global Workspace Theory? I found this tweet in the meantime.) If a certain part of your mind lose reputation with the others parts, that part will lose reputation and won't be able to make competitive bids anymore. That part's "willpower" has decreased.

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.