I’m not sure if the following could be already encompassed in Amdahl’s law, but I think it was worth a comment. Very intelligent humans still need to operate through society to reach their goals. An IQ of 140 may be enough for you to discover and employ the best tools society puts at your disposal. An IQ of 180 (just an abstract example) may let you recognize new and more efficient patterns, but you then have to bend society to exploit them, and this usually means convincing people not as smart as you are, that may very well take a long time to grasp your ideas.
As an analogy, think being sent into the stone age. A Swiss knife here is a very useful tool. It’s not a revolutionary concept, it’s just better than stone knives in cutting meat and working with wood. On the other hand, a set of professional electrical tools, while in principle way more powerful, will be completely useless since you will have to find a way to charge their batteries before.
I’m not sure if the following could be already encompassed in Amdahl’s law, but I think it was worth a comment. Very intelligent humans still need to operate through society to reach their goals. An IQ of 140 may be enough for you to discover and employ the best tools society puts at your disposal. An IQ of 180 (just an abstract example) may let you recognize new and more efficient patterns, but you then have to bend society to exploit them, and this usually means convincing people not as smart as you are, that may very well take a long time to grasp your ideas.
As an analogy, think being sent into the stone age. A Swiss knife here is a very useful tool. It’s not a revolutionary concept, it’s just better than stone knives in cutting meat and working with wood. On the other hand, a set of professional electrical tools, while in principle way more powerful, will be completely useless since you will have to find a way to charge their batteries before.