> Can you give an example of an incomprehensible piece of writing (any writing, never mind a proof) that has commercial value commensurate with the costs involved here?

It depends on what exactly you mean by "commercial value commensurate with the costs involved" but I'd volunteer the 3G/4G/5G specifications and the other documentation required to implement the mobile network protocols. 5G is currently sitting at over 50,000 pages and it's one of the reasons Qualcomm/Broadcom/Apple are the only ones who can realistically make a mobile radio.

I don't think there is a single human to whom more than a few thousand pages would be comprehensible at a time except for the occasional genius.

Yeah, how many people do you think understand the Linux kernel in full? What percentage of the people using it to great commercial effect can understand it?

How's your understanding of Schroedingers "An Undulatory Theory of the Mechanics of Atoms and Molecules"? You seem to be using the results of it as applied to semiconductor engineering just fine. And, I promise you, most semiconductor engineers haven't read it in full, they just accepted the results as passed on by several layers of teacher.

I have a paper on routing algorithms, which I have attempted to read to my cat. I don't think my cat retained much, but they seem to be enjoying the cat food that got delivered using the results.

I'd suggest that we're going to be a lot closer to the cat than the author of the paper when AI takes off.

Can you give an example of a 4-wheeled vehicle that could move at tens of miles per hour before the automobile was invented?

I know right? And there’s only a market for maybe 5 computers in the whole world.

Paul Krugman (1998): predicted the internet’s economic impact would be no greater than the fax machine’s.

The 1876 Western Union memo dismissing the telephone as having too many shortcomings, and the banker telling Horace Rackham not to invest in Ford because the automobile was a novelty.

We are in good company!