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Learning the proper names for these concepts has been a huge benefit of reading HN.

I've been collecting them for the past few years and now have enough for a bingo card.

Absolutely agree. Does anyone have a compiled list of these types of concepts?

My list in reverse chronological order:

baumol's cost disease,

Chesterton's fence,

Berkson's paradox,

goodhart's law/Campbell's law,

Gell-Mann Amnesia affect,

Ship of Theseus,

The Zeigarnik effect,

Conway's law,

selection bias

heffindal index,

Betteridge's law of head lines,

survivorship bias,

bayes theorem

black swan,

Dunbar number,

Anscombe's quartet,

false positive/false negative,

fundamental attribution bias,

type 1 type 2 thinking,

grok,

simpson's paradox,

Hawthorne effect,

dunning kruger,

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon,

flynn effect,

Moving the overton window,

Since you're keeping a list: it's "Herfindahl".

That's what I get for just copy pasting a personal note. Thanks for the fix.

cobra effect, bikeshedding

Sturgeon’s law

Most of the concepts HN members love to use to sound well educated while arguing on the internet are in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases