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rkagereryesterday at 8:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

In a nutshell, is this basically "stress the part and it wears out faster"?


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chimpanzeeyesterday at 9:28 PM

No, the article specifically mentions that some parts appeared to experience the opposite of accelerated aging. Presumably that means the “parts wore out more slowly”.

You might be interested in “hormesis”, a vital aspect of Life’s resilience, in which (some) stress improves a system.

rbanffyyesterday at 9:24 PM

It’s more like “stress the part and that part will change its internal maintenance processes, with some ripple effects across multiple parts”. They didn’t even find a consistent stress=aging pattern across multiple tissues.