> I'd say most people most of the time outsourced actual thinking to someone else.

Someone else being human, until now. That may change. That's the whole point!

But I concur with your general point on the upstream production of thinking and knowledge. Indeed, such elite thinkers are those in economic history referred to as the "upper-tail human capital". Terence Tao being one of them giving license to the kind of thinking that accepts AI as a simple tool that is not fundamentally breaking our relationship with technology is what exactly I am protesting.

> But it's equally true that those people who weren't doing much thinking due to access or language barriers can actually start doing some thinking now with the help of AI.

If only we keep thinking that thinking is a comparative advantage of our species, I suppose!