It's kind of the opposite.

Highly intelligent people are most productive when they are tackling problems they enjoy. You cannot just order them around and tell them to go tackle climate change or whatever.

As long as they enjoy tackling crypto shaped problems, they will keep jumping in until enough crypto shaped problems are solved that only really frustrating ones are left.

If you want to change how things work, you have to change the environment for problem solving. Make it more or less enjoyable.