[trvz]

It's implied. Truly smart people manage to become affluent.

[defrost]

The legendary wealth of Paul Erdős was indeed largely of legend alone.

[farfatched]

We've all what a terrible job LLMs do in some problems. But they are doing well at burning down Erdos's list of problems. Perhaps mathematicians aren't a good measure of "truly smart".

[defrost]

If you're seriously taking that angle on comparison .. how well are they doing on generating interesting and challenging Erdős like problems?

[farfatched]

Oh, not that seriously, but it makes me wonder!

[something98]

Why do you assume “truly smart people” care about affluence at all?