@p All of humanity. E.g. in creating superconductors at atmospheric pressure, what's the highest temperature that they can exist at?

@p Or in creating rocket propulsion systems, how much more efficient can the optimum be?

@niplav That is an interesting question!

@niplav That actually raises another question because I was thinking "finding local optima for problems like how to get food" rather than superconductors.

@p I don't know how to answer "finding local optima for problems like how to get food". My question was underspecified but that's okay it's only a fediverse poll.

@niplav Oh, sorry, I wasn't trying to nitpick, I was just not sure what the topic was. I don't know the answer to any of the permutations of any of these questions, but I think they are all interesting to think about.

@p No worries! Nitpicking is good™.