Jayson_Virissimo comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, December 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 05 December 2015 09:39:04PM 5 points [-]

Insofar as attention is zero sum, making circus arts mandatory would not make those that are at risk of commiting violence more able to get attention. For that to work, you would have to encourage the relatively violent-prone to learn circus arts and discourage the relatively non-violent-prone.

Comment author: Tem42 06 December 2015 07:14:19PM *  1 point [-]

Attention is not zero sum. I could be giving a lot more attention than I am.

But EDIT: I would not spend significantly more attention on someone who was performing circus arts.