Timothy Lee: more big theories will come from 1000–3000 AD than 3000–5000 AD
binarybits · x · 2026-10-31
Timothy Lee lays out his core claim in the debate with Boaz Barak: viewed from 10,000 years in the future, the list of important theories will be finite, and more will have been invented between 1000–3000 AD than in 3000–5000 AD. He argues we now know far more, which both means fewer undiscovered theories remain and gives us a better idea of what is left.
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