303 | AMA | February 2025

6423.052 - 6444.524 Sean Carroll

I think in the very long term, if everything is virtual and everyone's physical abilities are essentially equal, then I think that—I'm guessing, this is an empirical question you'd have to test, but my guess is that the distribution of basketball talent is kind of uncorrelated. with height and physical speed and things like that, and you get all sorts of people doing very well.