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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by jacobion on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:59AM (#25832569)
The Law of Large Numbers is an actual math theorem. The Law of Averages is a non-technical name for various informal reasoning strategies, some fallacious (like the gamblers fallacy), but mostly just types of estimation that are justified by more formal probability theory.
Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by pfdietz on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:29AM (#25833222)
More generally, see "concentration of measure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_measure