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Feral Finster's avatar

Finster's Laws:

1. No matter how cynical you think you are, you are not nearly as cynical as the people who run things are.

2. There is no such thing as law. There is only context.

3. Legalism breeds lawyers.

4. All games eventually degenerate into sociopath games, because cheating is the only way to beat a cheater.

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niplav's avatar

Wikipedia has a great List of Eponymous Laws too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws

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sean s's avatar

Gresham's Law: bad money drives out good money.

One I heard I the Navy: the acceptance of every new idea goes through three steps:

Someone thinks it up.

Someone makes it widely known.

We wait for all the old men to die.

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Roger’s Bacon's avatar

Gresham's law felt a little too niche/technical to warrant inclusion.

Your second "law" is basically Planck's Principle which I had failed to include but just edited in.

Planck’s principle: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

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DAL59's avatar

https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

Akin's Laws are another classic set

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Roger’s Bacon's avatar

Ohhh these are good, will add them - thanks for sharing!

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Sinatana's avatar

Virgil’s Law or Proverb? Optima dies prima fugit; the best days are the first to flee. Lizards Law, you know: people fuck everything. Similar to Troll’s Anonymous Eponymous Law; people troll everything. Like when I’m enjoying anonymous music from the 1100’s and there are people who actually have the time to thumbs down and criticize w vitriol.<3

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