> Cars fail sometimes, so your life can't depend on 100% uptime of your car anyway.
Try using this argument in any engineering context and observe how quickly you become untrusted for any decision making.
Arguing that something doesn’t have 100% reliability and therefore something that makes it less reliable is okay is not real logic that real people use in the real world.
> Try using this argument in any engineering context and observe how quickly you become untrusted for any decision making.
We famously talk about the 'numbers of 9s' of uptime at eg Google. Nothing is 100%.
> Arguing that something doesn’t have 100% reliability and therefore something that makes it less reliable is okay is not real logic that real people use in the real world.
That wasn't my argument at all. What makes you think so?
I'm saying that going for 100% reliability is a fool's errand.
So if the device adds a 1/1,000,000 failure mode, that might be perfectly acceptable.
Especially if it eg halves your insurance payments.
You could also imagine that the devices have an override button, but the button would come with certain consequences.
Try using this argument in any engineering context and observe how quickly you become untrusted for any decision making.
Arguing that something doesn’t have 100% reliability and therefore something that makes it less reliable is okay is not real logic that real people use in the real world.