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If his claim is correct, and 99% of people are NPCs incapable of any meaningful thinking, that makes the 1% that actually does all the thinking of human civilization very valuable.

And that, in turn, makes AI even more valuable if it can produce thinking on demand.

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That is weird claim considering did not reward "highly intelligent" or "knowing stuff" on itself. Super smart people great at whatever jobs they picked have roughly normal salaries.

Researchers specifically were never highly paid. And positions were competitive - there were way more people willing and able to do those positions then positions themselves. Same goes for art btw.

> If his claim is correct, and 99% of people are NPCs incapable of any meaningful thinking, that makes the 1% that actually does all the thinking of human civilization very valuable.

That's like saying if 99% of birds don't have huge colorful tails that makes peacocks very valuable. In each case it may or may not be true but you are just correlating. (i.e. It's possible that intelligence just isn't as valuable as 'intelligent' people think it is)

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