Increasing the capability raises the noise floor, so you would also need a grooming or discovery mechanism in order for the better ideas to achieve greater adop

Increasing the capability raises the noise floor, so you would also need a grooming or discovery mechanism in order for the better ideas to achieve greater adoption. For instance, if someone comes up with some way for aluminum smelting to use x% less electricity, but no aluminum smelter ever knows about it, no benefit will be realized. Conversely, if all the smelters adopt it, and the inventor is never rewarded, they will simply stop telling people about their ideas, and restrict their thinking to those areas that will benefit them personally. I would argue that the patents and copyrights system is so lacking in additional capacity with respect to promoting good ideas that the overall benefit to humanity from increasing the raw mental capability will be negligible.