I strong upvoted AllAmericanBreakfast’s comment, so the high relative karma is entirely my fault. I basically strong upvoted because it felt right to me, not thinking about how much karma the other comments in the chain had, so I’m sorry that it didn’t match your assumptions about how karma in threads should work. I don’t think that I’m behaving in an arguments-as-soldiers way, but that’s difficult to prove to myself, let alone to another person.
This is the reasoning that I had, but I’m not strongly attached to it: Thinking to the original post about takeoff/air conditioning, the original discussion was about whether an AC unit is useful to the consumer, which means that it achieves the goal of an air conditioned room in a reasonable length of time without being wasteful or expensive. In my experience, AC units generally can achieve their goal of an air conditioned room, so it seems likely that the considerations from the OP ([0], [1]) aren’t helpful and the tests won’t achieve the purpose from the original post. Even if the AC is not able to air condition the room to an arbitrary point (perhaps OP’s room has a lot of glass windows or is poorly insulated), it seems like it will be measuring the wrong things and that OP didn’t fully consider them.
[0]: “I am assuming that the AC runs continuously (as opposed to getting the room down to target temperature easily, at which point it will shut off until the temperature goes back up). If that’s not the case, I will consider the test invalid, and retry on a hotter day.”
[1]: “Equilibrium indoor temperature was the main thing I cared about when using this air conditioner; electricity is relatively cheap”
I strong upvoted AllAmericanBreakfast’s comment, so the high relative karma is entirely my fault. I basically strong upvoted because it felt right to me, not thinking about how much karma the other comments in the chain had, so I’m sorry that it didn’t match your assumptions about how karma in threads should work. I don’t think that I’m behaving in an arguments-as-soldiers way, but that’s difficult to prove to myself, let alone to another person.
This is the reasoning that I had, but I’m not strongly attached to it: Thinking to the original post about takeoff/air conditioning, the original discussion was about whether an AC unit is useful to the consumer, which means that it achieves the goal of an air conditioned room in a reasonable length of time without being wasteful or expensive. In my experience, AC units generally can achieve their goal of an air conditioned room, so it seems likely that the considerations from the OP ([0], [1]) aren’t helpful and the tests won’t achieve the purpose from the original post. Even if the AC is not able to air condition the room to an arbitrary point (perhaps OP’s room has a lot of glass windows or is poorly insulated), it seems like it will be measuring the wrong things and that OP didn’t fully consider them.
[0]: “I am assuming that the AC runs continuously (as opposed to getting the room down to target temperature easily, at which point it will shut off until the temperature goes back up). If that’s not the case, I will consider the test invalid, and retry on a hotter day.”
[1]: “Equilibrium indoor temperature was the main thing I cared about when using this air conditioner; electricity is relatively cheap”