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Yes, unfortunately regulating your nervous system is much simpler than you think. All you need is: Abundant energy to tackle problems as they arise without dipping into your reserves. Blood sugar regulation and a relatively healthy immune system. 3-4 stable relationships where you can get support, love, and cover your needs without micromanaging them. Material conditions that are more or less favorable but not so favorable you gain the unmistakable neuroticism of the well-coddled that have nothing to aspire to. The skill of maintaining your composure at the edge of panic that can only be achieved through constant practice and exposure. A potential future that maintains and fulfills all old and new possibilities, its purview aligned with your current trajectory. An environment that doesn't actively try to humiliate, poison, minimize, or oppress your generation, family, and people. The awareness and understanding of the tumultuous and everchanging nature of life - developed enough to gain the capacity to swiftly let go of minor disturbances and open loops. Mind capable of holding things lightly without devaluing their importance at the same time. A strong sense of self, enough that you can contextualize your existence within the larger arrangement of life and the cycles of life. And finally, the admission of notknowing and willingness to fill that space with some notion of divine, even if it means a personal and private divine, as long as it expand the narrow window of your perception so that you can step out of your field of vision and see yourself in others as clearly as you see yourself in the mirror. Magnesium also helps a little.

broke: all value will accrue to the frontier labs joke: the frontier labs go broke because open source models work fine, and value accrues to companies serving specific use cases woke: every single person on earth has their own startup ran by a Gwern-ian ‘guardian angel’. they speedrun the economic tech tree of humanity and eventually spin up their own guardian angels. the cycle repeats