I like to think of the movie Limitless and the ideal of what does it mean to really be intellectually better. Limitless presents a idea that being cognitively better makes you a god amongst mortals. I think Lex was striking a more realistic proposition than the film. That being, does having more intelligence really solve more problems or does it create more than it solves? Second, I would add the old adage that ignorance is bless- the more you are aware of problems, would one be consumed with solving them? Also, just because one can reason more, does one reason more nihilistically to the point of frivolously solving said problems, even if they are solvable?