[nbardy]

There is endless returns to frontier intelligence, just because most people can't make use of it doesn't mean someone can't make a ton of money off of it.

Most software engineers will just need cheap tokens.

But things like physics and drug discovery have no foreseeable upper bound.

[ericd]

Or governance of large organizations... There are a huge number of factors to consider, counterfactuals, studies, lots of non-obvious second and third order effects, etc. We're barely able to get basic governance without creating huge problems (low density zoning rubber stamped across the nation creating a housing crisis, for example), so the bar isn't high.

We pay CEOs an enormous amount because a small improvement in performance of an org because of them can make a massive difference in organizational value.

[haldujai]

The upper bound is limited by market size and cost of intelligence.

Throwing more intelligence at a problem doesn’t necessarily pan out financially otherwise we wouldn’t have single underemployed biology PhD.