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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,

Sturgeon’s law

cobra effect, bikeshedding

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.

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