To be fair an absolute amount already does that. $6k less is nice for a Mercedes CLA (~$55k), but there's a reason you can't buy a Hyundai Inster ($20k) and get it within a year.
But if I called you in the middle of the night to offer you something that will make every 9th sneeze on every second tuesday of March in a leap year less irritating your first reaction wouldn't be to thank me.
If I were making a product to try to eliminate sneezes, and someone said "I noticed an issue with it, and after I looked into your manufacturing process, I think I figured out what's causing it, so I double checked using an AI tool and it added further evidence that the defect I found is legitimate and would be solved by the solution I had come up with", it would be bizarre for me to say "I would have accepted this if you didn't spend the extra time at the end to verify your existing findings with an AI"
Sure. But getting something free for something you'd have done anyway?
There's many ways to nudge people/yourself into specific behaviors even though the rewards are not worth it when thinking it through
You can't AC your way out of climate change anyway: they make heat. In sparsely populated areas that might be okay, but in density, you're never far from the hot exhaust of an AC unit; they exacerbate the problem.
Why would the limit of T1 devices matter when there are ones that already can do hotter? Thermodynamics make things harder to remove heat but not sure how they forbid it (you need the hot side to be hotter than outside to pump heat). Might need stages, for example. We can cool things 200K and more below ambient.
> What we're going to do when that tech will cease to cool us?
Move. This is already happening, with water shortages forcing people to move. Climate change will (likely) cause famines and many deaths, but the bigger effect will be mass migration.
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