Lowy's Law of Acronyms

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Lowy's Law of Acronyms is a variant of Lowy's Law that applies to any acronym. Because one gets to a good answer faster from a bad answer than a good question, picking an acronym that works for marketing or mnemonic needs and assigning it a meaning that can be changed, works better than trying to get it right up front. This has an additional benefit in that one can ambiguate the acronym. The two most important uses of this are:

  • to evade responsibility, e.g. WE in a contract becoming "Western Entrepreneurs" in general rather than the signatories
  • to find a meaning that accomodates the maximum number of trolls, e.g. CLUSTER