The point about using 0 elo as a stand in for dumb human doesn’t seem to be germane to our actual disagreements, so I wouldn’t address it.
Fine with me, but I just want to note again that I am not using 0 Elo as a “stand-in” nor saying you were doing that, I’m estimating roughly where a dumb human happens to end up on the scale, and for the case of FIDE chess ratings I think it turns out to be near zero. To be clear, I’m not trying to reopen any discussion about whether that’s right (since I agree it isn’t particularly important for our actual disagreement), it’s just that it seems like you’re being quite insistent about describing something I did in a way that doesn’t match what I think I was actually doing, and I would prefer the last thing about it in the discussion not to misrepresent my intentions.
(I notice that that sounds more annoyed than I actually am. Not annoyed, just wanting to avoid future misunderstandings.)
Fine with me, but I just want to note again that I am not using 0 Elo as a “stand-in” nor saying you were doing that, I’m estimating roughly where a dumb human happens to end up on the scale, and for the case of FIDE chess ratings I think it turns out to be near zero. To be clear, I’m not trying to reopen any discussion about whether that’s right (since I agree it isn’t particularly important for our actual disagreement), it’s just that it seems like you’re being quite insistent about describing something I did in a way that doesn’t match what I think I was actually doing, and I would prefer the last thing about it in the discussion not to misrepresent my intentions.
(I notice that that sounds more annoyed than I actually am. Not annoyed, just wanting to avoid future misunderstandings.)
Fair enough.
The remainder of the post you’re replying too defends my claim that the Carlsen—median gap is 10x − 1000x the median—dumb gap.
I’m more interested in addressing that as it might be an important disagreement.