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Cunningham;s Law .

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:33 AM

  

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:40 AM

  Campbell’s Law .

  When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure .

  Occam’s Razor Law .

  So if you saw a woman running towards a bus, you could hypothesise that she has seen the ghost of her dead husband, whom she poisoned, and she’s running as fast as she can away from him, which just so happens to be towards the bus. Or you could hypothesise that she’s trying to get to the bus before it drives away. The former requires a lot of assumptions (ghosts exist; the women was married; she’s a murderer; ghosts are vengeful…) whereas the latter does not. According to Occam’s razor, running to catch the bus is a better explanation..

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:43 AM

  The Peter Principle .

  The Peter Principle, named after Laurence J. Peter, is the idea that “managers always rise to the level of their incompetence.” The idea is that people are promoted based on how well they are doing their current job, not how well they might perform their future job. They stop being promoted once they reach a level where they can no longer do their job well. It can be used more generally in the idea that everything will be used in more challenging circumstances until it fails; for example, you don’t buy a new laptop until after you’ve failed to do something with the old laptop. The Peter Principle, somewhat cynically, argues that the same is true of humans..

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:46 AM

  Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

  "If a headline is phrased as a question, the answer is ‘no’."

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:47 AM

  Clarke's First Law

  "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

  Clarke's Second Law

  "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

  Clarke's Third Law

  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:49 AM

  Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics .

   1. That a robot may not harm a human or allow a human to come to harm through inaction .

  2. That a robot must obey orders unless those orders conflict with the First Law .

  3 - That a robot must protect its own existence unless that conflicts with the First or Second Law.

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:51 AM

  Moore’s Law?

  the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years .

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:53 AM

  And of course there is murphy's law .

  

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 4:56 AM

  

• craigswan 31,897 Posts

  Wed, Jan 18 2023 5:04 AM