On the STEM side, yes no doubt he is a lot smarter than me.

But as per the documentary of his life, he is wholly focused on AGI and will remain unfulfilled if he, or indeed anyone else, doesn't achieve it within his lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinking_Game

Why does he scrape other people's works then and turn them into a sausage algorithmically?

Would he not create something directly instead?