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Matrix's law

The Matrix's law works in the same way than godwin's law. Whenever an online discussion about artificial intelligence progresses, it becomes inevitable that someone or something will eventually be compared to Terminator or any movie with an evil AI.
"Have you seen the last progress of Google's deepmind ?"

"Yeah, we're one step closer from an AI revolution"

"Ah yes, the Matrix's law"
by Ixefen April 12, 2021
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Kelly's Law of Committees

None of us are as dumb as all of us.
A counter to the older, pro-teamwork adage "None of us are as smart as all of us."
Speaks to the risk of lower-level workers' input being useless if upper management gives its own opinion first, due to the tendency of workers to fall in line once the position of the leader (who could fire them for dissent) is known.
The wording above was written on a wall at NASA's Houston complex after the Challenger disaster, as reported by astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Although the concept has long been known of, once it took the form of an aphorism, it acquired a viral quality.
Niels Bohr and son Aage asked low-level engineer Richard Feynman their questions before asking higher-ups like Oppenheimer, partly to avoid taking up important administrators' time, but also to avoid Kelly's law of committees. Asking the higher-ups first, with lower-level workers present, would have a chilling effect on the latter's offering their own ideas and concerns.
by WhatwasIsaying December 24, 2024
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street law

1. DIY revenge law.
2. Inquisitorial law, finding someone guilty before you punish them, forcing them to have to prove their innocence for the punishment to stop.
3. When official police officers, prosecutors, and lawyers use subterfuge to attack someone with charge in the penal code to really punish you based on status (race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, political view)
1. Under street law, for talking to the police you would get at least 2 black eyes and a broken leg or arm, up to death.

2. Those prosecutors are using street law to accuse you of criminal trespass, to get at you for being black. Don't trust them!
3. When someone applies street law, you need to think about the reason you're getting iced. No one's gonna tell you why.
by Joey2dope May 20, 2023
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co-sister-in-law

Spouse's sibling's wife.
co-sister-in-law.
by Simaduria July 26, 2024
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great-great-granduncle-in-law

1- Great-great-grandaunt's husband.
2- Spouse's great-great-granduncle.
My great-great-granduncle-in-law is a good person.
by JAMP12 September 21, 2021
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Touhou's Law

An instance in which someone states they hate the Touhou Project series, only to later on out themselves as a category of degenerates, most commonly being hentai addicts
Alternatively usable if they out themselves as a degenerate before stating that they hate the Touhou Project series
"He admitted to having an unhealthy addiction to pornography, his hate for Touhou Project started making sense considering Touhou's Law"
by RadishInDefeat November 22, 2023
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fourth-cousin-in-law

1- Fourth-cousin's spouse.
2- Spouse's fourth-cousin.
My fourth-cousin-in-law is a good person.
by JAMP12 September 21, 2021
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