Kids who start chess at 3–5 are structurally advantaged over adults who start late, and I don’t think this is about IQ or “talent”.

[m4m313]

Plastic brains are better than hard wires

 

[GonorrhoeaGobbler]

Still deterministic as fuck

 

[m4m313]

Still deterministic as fuck

Yeah it is deterministic just not in the way people pretend it isn’t

 

[GonorrhoeaGobbler]

Yeah it is deterministic just not in the way people pretend it isn’t

I'm no buying it, geniuses aren't made they were already in the top percentile of intelligence

 

[m4m313]

I'm no buying it, geniuses aren't made they were already in the top percentile of intelligence

Yeah I get that geniuses aren’t made they’re born in the top percentile.
But early exposure decides how much of that potential actually shows. Two people can have the same raw intelligence, but the one who wires skills early ends up looking like a prodigy.