> the losses are bigger this way than if everyone kept a uniform temperature. Pretty sure this is incorrect. Conductive heat flow goes with the temperature dif

> the losses are bigger this way than if everyone kept a uniform temperature. Pretty sure this is incorrect. Conductive heat flow goes with the temperature difference. The higher the temperature difference, the more heat flow. If you kept your room cold versus everyone else, then your room would be leaking heat to the outside less than everyone else's, assuming everything else equal.