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Eponymous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet
- rudolfwinestock 5y agoSee also The Official Rules and Explanations, compiled by Paul Dickson. https://www.bookfinder.com/book/The_Official_Rules_and_Explanations-The_Original_Guide_to_Surviving_the/1892859106/ https://www.bookfinder.com/book/The_Official_Rules_and_Expla...
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoIt’s missing Brandolini’s Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."
- BadassFractal 5y agoI'm also a big fan of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma , which I wish had gotten more traction over the years.
- tuatoru 5y agoStigler's law of eponymy[1] rules them all. 1. Wikipedia: "Stigler's law of eponymy ... states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. ... Stigler himself named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law" to show that it follows its own decree, though the phenomenon had previously been noted by others." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy