I’m pretty surprised by the position that “intelligence is [not] incredibly useful for, well, anything”. This seems much more extreme than the position that “intelligence won’t solve literally everything”, and like it requires an alternative explanation of the success of homo sapiens.
I guess it depends on how many “intelligence-driven issues” are yet to solve and how important they are, my intuition is that the answer is “not many” but I have very low trust in that intuition. It might also be just the fact that “useful” is fuzzy and my “not super useful” might be your “very useful”, and quantifying useful gets into the thorny issue of quantifying intuitions about progress.
I guess it depends on how many “intelligence-driven issues” are yet to solve and how important they are, my intuition is that the answer is “not many” but I have very low trust in that intuition. It might also be just the fact that “useful” is fuzzy and my “not super useful” might be your “very useful”, and quantifying useful gets into the thorny issue of quantifying intuitions about progress.