I was thinking more about this.
Why does it matter who the smartest person alive is?
Smart people generally aren’t politicians, and politicians can affect my daily life in ways that, for example, a scientist can’t.
Smart people may be philosophers or researchers or poets or something else, but their effects on life today are miniscule. A philosopher may be brilliant, but the effects of his or her work will take decades to be felt or experienced – if ever.
So why does it matter?