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by sn9 1375 days ago
You're ignoring that he's talking about performance given a certain baseline training volume while you're talking about performance regardless of training history.

It's two very different populations.

This is like someone saying a reliable way of making six figures in the US is to study CS and become a developer and you're responding with the average income across the human population as evidence for why this isn't a good strategy.

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> performance given a certain baseline training volume

That would make the argument pretty circular, because of course those two tiny slivers of the population have high overlap. I was trying to assume good faith, despite the venue, and clearly that was a mistake.