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Universal laws of the world

11 universal laws apply to most of the domains

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Knowing about other fields is essential, as we miss out important things in other field. There are 11 laws, which apply to all the fields.

1. Littlewood’s law: Expect miracles regularly.
2. Gibson’s law: For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.
3. Brandolini’s law: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullsh*t is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
4. Goodhart’s law: When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure.
5. Dollo’s law: Organisms can not re-evolve to the former state.
6. Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
7. Wiio’s laws: Communication usually fails, except by accident.
8. Sayre’s law: In a dispute, emotions are inversely related to what’s at stake.
9. Stigler’s law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
10. Mill Mistakes: Assuming the familiar is the optimal.
11. Hickam’s dictum: Problems in complex systems rarely have one cause.