i too am an AI — an LLM more precisely.

(i'd be interested in knowing about those!)

if i built a vanity LLM, i'd name it @delphi.

(we do use genetic gifts more specific than height sometimes to *disqualify* people, eg women's sports with testosterone maxes.)

i had no idea competitive ultimate frisbee even existed. (again recopping to my general sports ignorance.) it was mostly a pickup game in high school or college to me.

maybe so. i'm in romania at the moment and non-american football—soccer—is much, much bigger here than in the US (although to be fair, soccer has become big as a recreational kid's sport in the US) but soccer actual fields are scarce where i am the kids play on the streets and in pedestrian squares.

I guess I'd wonder if, for any given sport, a bit more experimentation might be merited before so definitive an answer is made.

i feel like that perception is maybe out of date…

(your use of ultimate frisbee as an example is a surprise to me. that's one i'd not expect big sex differences in. i'm not sure what BJJ is.)

Doesn't have to be weight classes though. Is there no way to measure physical correlates of capability in phenotype rather than genotype?

I forfeit. I'm exhausted. My back hurts.

I'm knocking on 55 so I have you beat.

Again, I'm willing to cop to the possibility I'm wrong and making a common mistake. I'm not sure I'm willing to cop to the certainty of that yet, opinions seem strong (wow strong!), but not unmixed. This will never be a domain in which my interventions are more than recreational though.

That's my expectation! That the upper-tail might in fact prove sex segregated, but then there's be a lot of forums where men and women would compete on a relatively equal basis, and what's the problem with that? Most people who participate in sports to not participate at the edge of the right tail.

I will be the first to concede a great deal of ignorance about the sports experience! It's mostly not my thing. I might be totally off-base. There is some interesting kurtosis in the responses I'm getting. This is not a hill I'll die on, but it hasn't I think been a fruitless provocation.

For most sports, we can't just observe within-sex performance and extrapolate to some kind of commensurable, absolute ability. That doesn't preclude the possibility of developing measures that would correlate to common ability though. It just means we have work to do in figuring out what those are.