In other words, what will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

Yeah, so smarter people? A smart person will quickly whip up a solution with AI, and use AI optimally, as I have observed online. It's already smart people with math degrees who are using AI to create proofs. Ordinary, non-math people are not doing this. I think it's more like AI magnifies the talents of already talented people.

So did typesetting. But now nobody wants me to ink pages with my bins of moveable type, so I have to go be smart somewhere else, in another field, where everyone is leagues ahead of me in all the ways that count.

Signed,

a fictitious 18th century typesetter, perhaps the best and smartest there ever was