[ExI] Is China racing to AGI?

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat
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And after I've read the following article I'm beginning to think he might be right, the US certainly has a huge advantage over China in the amount of computing power it has available: 

 

 <https://www.chinatalk.media/p/is-china-agi-pilled?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> Is China Racing to AGI?

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So what if… our EVs have the option of a high-power GPU as a cabin heater, replacing the nichrome coil?  Then if we had some computing task requiring enormous resources, such as Bitcoin mining, then every time we turn on the car heater in our EVs, that cranks up and starts calculating.

 

A Bitcoin miner is “worth” about 11 cents a KWH as I understand it.  Running that on power that would ordinarily go into resistance heating means it is free calculation.  A typical prole in a cold environment would accumulate about a 6 to 10% chance he will discover a Bitcoin, which is at about 91k this morning.  This means the car will give back about 5 to 9k in mathematical expectation over its lifetime.  Most EVs would never discover one of course, but about one in 10 to perhaps 1 in 16 will find a Bitcoin at some point, which would be an excellent sales feature.

 

Granted it might add that much cost to the product, but this is what I don’t know: an EV heater has an adjustment.  My intuition tells me there should be a way to rig a variable clock on the processor, so that the speed of the processor produces more heat (almost linearly.)  Processor hipsters, it is possible and practical to have a variable clock to adjust the amount of heat pouring off of a processor?

 

spike

 

 

 

 

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