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."
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
I have a proposal for the inverse of "Poe's Law", which I would like to call "Poppy's Law" after Carrie Poppy, a journalist who has promoted skepticism in her media. Poppy's Law states: "There are sincere posts by fundamentalists so absurd that they are likely to be mistaken for satire."
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.
Wikipedia has a great List of Eponymous Laws too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws
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.
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."
https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
Akin's Laws are another classic set
Ohhh these are good, will add them - thanks for sharing!
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
excellent - Lizard's Law has been added (w/ credit).
Credit’s all you, thank you!
Nice work
I have a proposal for the inverse of "Poe's Law", which I would like to call "Poppy's Law" after Carrie Poppy, a journalist who has promoted skepticism in her media. Poppy's Law states: "There are sincere posts by fundamentalists so absurd that they are likely to be mistaken for satire."
excellent - added w/ credit
Muphry’s Law - if you make a post correcting someone on their grammar or spelling you will make a spelling or grammar mistake in your correction.
Great list!
Great compendium, thanks. One note: you refer to Moore’s Law but don’t actually define it.
Thanks :)
Decided it was too technical for inclusion (and perhaps common enough knowledge that it didn't need to be defined).
Wilthoit’s Law: https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
Quine’s paradox :
“Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation” yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
- as noted in Douglas Hofstader's "Gödel, Escher, Bach", 1979.
Quine’s paradox :
“Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation” yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
- as noted in Douglas Hofstader's "Gödel, Escher, Bach", 1979.
We're missing Akin's 35th Law.
fixed!
What about Gandhi's Law? 'Never back the early kick off.'
there is also Nordell's Hypothesis: "If things were different, things would be different."
Cole’s Law was my favourite 😂