Sounds like you're not a Scrooge after all.
96 karma · joined August 8, 2022
I get your point, but with the pace of AI, there's a good chance this statement is not true in 5 years!
One of my favorite learnings in school was about the "Endurance limit".
Some materials, like aluminum, will eventually fail under cyclic loading even at tiny, tiny loads. This was a big problem when they built the first passenger jets. Other materials, like steel, have a threshold at which they can be cycled indefinitely without issue.
For something like a pacemaker, I like to imagine they dialed the materials and forces to be within such a threshold so you can keep on ticking!